Teachers & Educators

OLC Talk: What Educators are Saying

For two years the Online Learning Center has been providing extra Hebrew practice to over 11,000 students and 2,000 teachers and educators. Hear why educators are finding it useful.   Marla Wolf, Director of the religious school at Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple, is using Ready, Set...Go Alef Bet! with the second graders because it provides a great set of tools to prepare them for third grade. 

Join Jewish Rock Radio in New Music Curriculum

Join singer-songwriter Rick Recht as he shows your teen students how music, media, and technology impact their lives and Jewish identities with the new five-module downloadable curriculum "Jews, Technology, and Rock!".  In this 26-page curriculum teens will be able to: 

Explore Ancient Wisdom, Wild Animals, and More with the Newest Volume of Israel21c

Your students saved the fish population in volume 11, judged an olive pit spit contest in volume 12, and will dig deeper into Israeli culture with the newest lesson plan from ISRAEL21c.

It's Time to Make the Switch to Golem Express

Many used the Golem Plan to review innovative materials but made the switch to Golem Express, a streamlined plan that brings new materials directly to your door with no budget surprises, no added shipping charges, and just one invoice for the full year. After making the switch many found the Golem Express to be not just convenient, but cost efficient. 

Seder Activity Book Available with Haggadah Promotion

Author and illustrator Ann Koffsky tracked down songwriter Shirley Cohen Steinberg, who created the perennial Passover favorite “One Morning, (The Frog Song).” The result is Frogs in the Bed: My Passover Seder Activity Book.

An Easier Way to Plan Next Year's OLC Classes

We've Made it Easier to Add Students to the Online Learning Center We’ve improved access, and made the whole system run faster for this falls school year. Our goal is continuous improvement of the OLC so you can focus on your role as Jewish mentor and role model.

New Israel Lesson Plans for Grades 4-7 Features Geography, Social Action, Culture, and Connection with Israel.

You want new ways to connect your students with Israel today. We have 14 new lesson plans that will help.

Resources to Help Plan Your Curriculum

Planning Curriculum for Next Fall? We Have Resources to Help. Time flies by. Even as students and teachers are immersed right now in the most productive part of the school year, soon it will be time to plan for the fall. We want to make sure you have tools at your fingertips when you want to begin.

16 Pinterest Tips For Educators

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Coming Soon: Student Journals to Explore Jewish Values through Holidays, or Judaism and the Environment

New format uses journaling techniques to let students investigate how Jewish teachings can guide everyday decisions. This spring Behrman House will introduce two student journals, Jewish Holidays, Jewish Values  and Our Place in the Universe, together with matching lesson plan manuals, that will help students construct their learning in new ways. 

Golem Express: The Easy Choice.

The Golem Plan has long been the best way to review innovative materials for Jewish education as soon as they are published. With the new Golem Express now available, many are finding the switch to Golem Express to be a no brainer. “This was the easiest decision I ever made!  To pay one flat fee and be assured that I am receiving all the new materials that you produce makes my life easier.” Cathy Swerdlow, Congregational Life Coordinator of Temple Israel said.

Try Explorer's Bible and Get the Matching Animated Series Free or the Rest of this School Year

Add animation to text study to help guide students to apply biblical values to their daily lives.   Now your students can take Bible exploration even further with an animated companion to Explorer’s Bible and earn badges in an interactive quest that features Jewish values. The series offers five interactive animated episodes help students delve more deeply into the text and values from Explorer’s Bible Volume 1.   

Meet with Terry Kaye at the JEA Conference on January 26-29, 2014

Will you be attending the JEA conference in Atlanta January 26-29, 2014?  Behrman House will be and we're looking forward to seeing you! Join Terry Kaye for her workshop on Tuesday, Jan 28 at 4:30 pm: FROM VISION TO NITTY GRITTY: Putting Technology to Work to Achieve Your Goals of Educational Transformation.

Introducing Golem Express, A Simple, Predictable Way to Try the Newest Materials in Jewish Education

The Golem Plan has long been the best way to review innovative materials Jewish education as soon as they are published. Now we have made it simpler and more predictable. The result is Golem Express, a streamlined plan that brings new materials directly to your door with no budget surprises, no added shipping charges, and just one invoice for the full year. How It Works:

Now Students Can Earn Badges for their Online Hebrew Work

We've added another cool tool for students to the Online Learning Center Students now will be able to track their progress by earning and collecting new Hebrew and Bible badges. As students complete each lesson in Ready, Set… Go Alef Bet, Alef Bet Quest, and Kol Yisrael Volumes 1-3, as well each of the five elements of the Lamed Vavnik Quest in The Explorers Bible, they will earn a new badge, which will become aprt of their permanent record in the OLC.

Connect Students to Israel with ISRAEL21c Teacher's Edition

Enrich your students’ exploration of Israel with articles and videos developed by professional journalists. Behrman House has teamed up with ISRAEL21c to adapt selected ISRAEL21c content for use in Jewish religious schools as a series of downloadable lesson plans for grades 4-7 focusing on modern Israel.  Nine installments, a total of 45 indiviudal lessons, of the ISRAEL21c Teacher's Edition are now available in the Behrman House Resource Libraries.

Creative Jewish Educators Series: An Interview with Artist Julie Wohl

Julie Wohl is a Jewish educator as well as a professional artist.  She is the education director at Congregation Brit Shalom in State College, PA, as well as the creator of Jewish Learning Thru Art, a traveling creative arts beit midrash. 

Hummus is the Official Dip of the NFL!

Move over salsa—The National Football League has chosen Israel's Sabra hummus as their official dip sponsors! Soon football fans across the country will taste the delicious Middle Eastern chickpea spread, a healthier (and arguably more delicious) alternative to traditional American snack dips. Get the whole scoop from ISRAEL21c.

Free Tech Tool: Illustrate Judaism's Great Debates with DebateGraph

Do you want to enhance your classes or engage students through the Online Learning Center with free tech tools? The resource sharing blog Free Technology for Teachers is a great place to find free tools and ideas for teachers.

Welcome Students Back to the Community with a Lesson About Kehillah

When students return to the religious school classroom in the fall, they will be taking part in the deeply rooted Jewish tradition of kehillah, or community.  It all began at Mt. Sinai when three million former slaves from 12 separate tribes united in their commitment to each other and to God.  The descendants of that kehillah at Mt.

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