March 15, 2019
This week, a cohort of YOF administrators and lay leaders traveled to Atlanta, Georgia to attend the Prizmah Conference, whose aims are to construct and imagine new possibilities for Jewish education. During the conference, Director of Informational & Instructional Technology Dr. Christine Coleman and Director of Educational Technology E.S. Rabbi Yonah Krainess gave a hands-on presentation on the ST2EM Framework - Integrating Torah and STEM for K-8! Our Middle Division Principal Rabbi Dr. David Hertzberg also gave a lecture in which he shared an innovative approach to teaching Tanach using Behavioral Economics, and ways to increase the applicability of Tanach in students' lives.