Addresses motivations for change, and provides a vision of education as it could be. Includes articles, speeches, and other materials.
Jack Wertheimer
After more than a decade of new initiatives aimed at strengthening programs geared towards Jewish identity, Jack Wertheimer, Provost and Professor of American Jewish History at the Jewish […]
Fred Kofman and Peter M. Senge
Building learning organizations requires basic changes in how we think and interact on the most essential levels, as well as the development of a committed community. Fred Kofman, […]
Experiment in Congregational Education
This exercise is meant for task force members to complete before they meet. Members are asked to consider the metaphor of deciding to buy a new home and […]
Experiment in Congregational Education
These documents gives a short explanation of why Jewish education needs to work within a meaning-making framework, and describes the various influences on the learner that need to […]
Experiment in Congregational Education
These handouts include a diagram and several texts about the flaws in using secular education/instruction as the model for religious education, arguing instead for a process of “enculturation” […]
Cyd B. Weissman
This speech was delivered by Cyd Weissman at NATE’s 50th anniversary conference in 2004. She emphasizes that Jewish educators have the ability to shape the future by looking […]