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The Inclusion Specialists Network

We are thrilled to introduce Whole Community Inclusion’s newest initiative to support disability inclusion in our congregational schools: The Inclusion Specialists Network. Made possible by a generous grant from the Janet and Alvin Schwartz Fund for Special Education, the Inclusion Specialists Network is for professionals working in congregational schools to support students who need extra learning, behavioral and/or emotional support. Well-trained, special needs experts in our schools can dramatically improve the experience for these students as well as parents’ satisfaction with the program. With this new initiative, we will bring these specialists together to learn from each other, share resources [...]

By |August 6th, 2019|Categories: Empowering Institutions|0 Comments

December Reflections From An Interfaith Mom

by Virginia Glatzer I’ve been an Interfaith Mom for 21 ½ years. There’s not much that I do half-way. So, I embraced the challenge I had given myself to raise my children Jewish. I sent my children to a Jewish preschool. I drove them to/from religious school. I even moderated a “How to Plan a Bar/Bat Mitzvah” discussion at the synagogue. However, I never imagined that I’d be writing to you as a professional in a Jewish agency! When I was asked to write about raising kids in an interfaith family in December, my mind went back to the Christmas [...]

By |November 29th, 2018|Categories: Engaging Families|Tags: , , , |0 Comments

Seeing the World In A Unique Way…

by Leah Stein Tiferet Bet Israel The biggest thing I’ve learned working with kids with learning disabilities over this past year is that they see the world in the most wonderfully unique way. I sometimes wish I could dive into their minds and discover the world the way they do. I’ve had a student who couldn’t tell Hebrew letters apart, or put them together to sound them out, but was great at recognizing patterns within the words. Once you told him what the word said, and what it meant, he remembered it forever. Other kids had to sound out the [...]

By |June 25th, 2018|Categories: TAP|0 Comments