Curriculum, Actually
By Dr. Gloria Becker, Director, Learning Initiatives in Jewish Education Curriculum. Everyone talks about it. Very few people actually know what it is or how it actually works. To me and to the Education Directors who gathered last week for the first of a series of curriculum "clinics," curriculum is everything, intended or unintended, that happens in the learning environment. It is at the nexus of what we learn, how we learn, who is learning, and where we learn. It is HUGE and it is NEVER finished - it always needs to evolve to take the changing needs of the [...]
Youth Summit: Listen for Change
By Elana Rivel, Associate Director / This past September, Jewish Learning Venture and Gratz College began collaborating on a grant, from the Center for Jewish Life and Learning, Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia, to explore, create and implement meaningful changes in Supplementary Jewish Education in our community.