by Jonah Spitzer from Temple Beth Hillel-Beth El As an educator in the Jewish community, I believe that the TAP program was very beneficial to me. It provided insight on a lot of things I was confused about, as well as gave me better ways to help my students and become a better educator. My experience in the TAP program consisted of many virtual zoom meetings, each focused on a different topic. The one that spoke most to me, and ended up helping me in a professional environment was the “All Behavior is Communication” lesson. This lesson taught [...]

by Talia Wine from Beth Tikveh B'nai Jeshurun As someone who is very involved and cares about kids and teaching, I was excited to start the TAP program. That first day at Or Hadash completely changed my view of what the program was, originally I thought we were going to be learning how to be the teacher but really we were learning how to help all kids enjoy their time at Hebrew school. My big takeaway from the whole program is that all behavior is communication. Once we went over this lesson I quickly applied it to my [...]

by Peter Fisher from the Germantown Jewish Centre I have worked with the same kids for the past 3 years. I started with them when they were in third grade. Now they are in fifth grade. I have worked one-on-one with one of the students for the last two years teaching him Hebrew. The lessons are on Mondays and are online. Both of those are hard things to ask a little kid to do. Because of my TAP lessons over the past year, to make it easier I have worked on building a good relationship with him. He [...]