One Book, One Jewish Community Launches its Eighth Year!
By Elana Rivel, Associate Director / This Sunday marks the official Kick-Off of our eighth year of One Book, One Jewish Community (OBOJC) – a community-wide Jewish literacy initiative designed to connect institutions and their members to quality, meaningful Jewish literature through conversations and programs based on themes and concepts presented in the featured selection.
Sensory Integration in Early Childhood Classrooms
By Ellen Walters, Director, Learning Initiatives in Early Childhood Education / This week, early childhood teachers from four schools gathered at Jewish Learning Venture for a workshop with Aviva Weiss, O.T., who spoke about Sensory Integration.
What I enjoy most about working with children with learning differences/special needs is…
Bennett Decker TAP Teen- Beth Sholom Congregation For the last four years, I have had the pleasure of assistant coaching a special needs soccer team "Keith’s Kids" (part of the Kehillah Soccer League). This entry could easily be about the skills that I’ve learned from these kids, but that would be too easy. Over the period of time I have coached them, I have developed a personal relationship with many of the kids. This is what I want to talk about. Now, I’m not particularly good at soccer. I love watching it (Come on you Spurs!) and I’m very enthusiastic [...]