Texts for Hopes and Dreams for Your Child
This text study includes modern and medieval texts about parents’ hopes for their children, including a letter from President Obama to his daughters, an excerpt from Sholom Aleichem’s […]
Why Change
Addresses motivations for change, and provides a vision of education as it could be. Includes articles, speeches, and other materials.
Texts Articulating Hopes and Dreams for Our Children
This text study includes several texts articulating hopes and dreams for future generations, including Hannah Senesh’s poem “Walk to Caesaria,” Pirkei Avot 4:1, and excerpts from several ethical […]
Service Learning-Centered Text Study
This text study includes two stories, “The Challahs in the Ark” and “The Miser of the Town.” Both stories address the themes of helping the needy and recognition […]
Guidelines for Preparing Text Study
This handout describes the purpose of including text study in every RE-IMAGINE task force meeting and outlines how facilitators should prepare the text study, including identifying the purpose […]
Aligning Initiatives to Vision
This exercise asks participants to match various congregations’ visions for children’s education with initiatives that grew out of the visions. The activity illustrates how programs should be aligned […]
Leadership Institute RE-IMAGINE iMAP
The Leadership Institute was a joint program of the New York School of Education at Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) and the William Davidson […]