Where What WhenArticles about SchoolsHelping Our Children Realize Their Potential Summer vacation is drawing to a close, and families are beginning to prepare for school. Students and their parents hope that this is the year they will finally be able to realize their potential. Yet, there are concerns. Yanky* is still unable to .......... ............Read More By Chavi Barenbaum Volume: September 2010 The Hot School Lunch Program Expands in Baltimore "What's for lunch?" The next time your school-aged child asks you that question, you can answer, "How about pizza, falafel, baked ziti, mac and cheese, scrambled eggs, baked potatoes (with the works), bagels, tuna, cream cheese, apples, oranges, .......... ............Read More By WWW Volume: September 2010 Taking the Middle Road - A Look at Carpools It was a sweltering afternoon, the last day of school. Pulling into the TA parking lot, I heard the unmistakable noise of a shredded tire. The lot was teeming with cars filled with boys. I knocked on the window of a big white van next to me. The .......... ............Read More By Devorah Schor Volume: August 2010 Moving Beyond Fear - An Accurate Look at Home Education As a home educator for the last 10 years, I've been approached a number of times by parents in the community with questions and concerns about home education ............Read More By Avivah Werner Volume: June 2010 What is the Day School Initiative, and why are we talking about it? Once complete, with $10 million from the Weinberg Foundation and $5 million from community donors, the Baltimore Jewish community will have one of the largest day school scholarship funds in North America. ............Read More By Maayan Jaffe Volume: April 2010 Parents and Teachers - Some Thoughts on the New School Year If you realize that this is the real world and your child has to be held accountable for his or her own homework, class work, and behavior - and cannot blame the teacher for his or her lack of effort - hang up and have a nice day ............Read More By Devorah Schor Volume: October 2009 The Arrowsmith Program, Feuerstein Instrumental Enrichment (FIE), LearningRx, BrainSkills, CogMedTwo months ago, the Where What When published "Yossi's Story: Hope for Children with Learning Difficulties." The article described the Arrowsmith Program for students with learning disabilities. It also mentioned the effort to bring Arrowsmith to Baltimore ............Read More By Paula Guttman Sharfman Volume: June 2009 Meyer has given workshops in many different schools for the past nine years. Entitled "A Look into the World of Disabilities; The Educational Workshops of Meyer Greenberger," the session opens the eyes of the children and adults he speaks to. Participants realize that individuals with disabilities are first and foremost individuals - with feelings and thoughts, desires and aspirations. ............Read More By Yael Zelinger Volume: June 2009 Back-to-School! From the Other Side of the Desk As a teacher, though, I learned that first days can sometimes turn out to be a little too exciting. What do I mean by that? Allow me to share with you a few of my more “exciting” back-to-school memories.We tend to think about the first day of school in terms of the children. But what about the teachers – those starched people standing on the other side of the desk? Do they also get excited to begin the same thing all over again? After all, a teacher can spend 20 years and never even graduate third grade! ............Read More By Naomi Wolf Volume: August 2008 Looking at our Schools - Battle Cry of a New Generation Frank discussion with the best of our students, from the finest yeshivos, will reveal that most can relate to, if not identify with, their rebellious peers.Let us understand this: the primary restraint on the potential dropout is not cognitive. Rather, his emotional attachments to family and friends (and hopefully, to his rebbeim and teachers) keep him within the Torah community. When this connection is strong and resilient, defying the Torah is unthinkable, but when this link is severed, children begin to look elsewhere. ............Read More By Rabbi Heshy Grossman Volume: Rosh Hashana September 2007 Helping Our Children Realize their Potential As the new school year commences, students and their parents hope that this is the year they will finally be able to realize their potential. Yet, there are concerns. “Yanky” is still unable to read, ............Read More By Chavi Barenbaum Volume: Rosh Hashanah September 2006 Words of Wisdom from a Mother Who’s Been There (and Back)One day, around six years ago, my walking partner was literally flying around the school track! I could hardly keep up with her. She told me her abundance of energy stemmed from the fact that her youngest son had graduated high school the day before and she realized she had no more carpools to drive! ............Read More By Rebecca Feldbaum Volume: Rosh Hashanah September 2006 Master Kriah SkillsIn this age of access to vast quantities of information and instant communication via the internet, it’s easy to forget that the foundation of it all is the ability to read. The alphabet – the alef-bais, in our case – is the oldest communication instrument of all. ............Read More By Stephanie Savir Volume: February 2006 Memories of My RebbeWho can forget the beautiful, meaningful, and moving delivery of Rabbi Boruch Milikowsky’s holy words of mussar. It was a real zechus to have him as a rebbe. How I cherish his kind, soft words of encouragement. When he gave his talmid mussar, the talmid went away with a good feeling. He made you feel very special, even when you did something wrong. ............Read More By Eli W. Schlossberg Volume: January 2006 An Educational ExtravaganzaIt’s one thing to study math, science, history, and the arts from a textbook. It’s quite another to bring these subjects to life through one’s own research and creativity. It’s like taking a class trip to a museum versus using one’s imagination to actually build the museum. The students of Bais Yaakov’s Eva Winer High School in Baltimore have been doing just that. ............Read More By Margie Pensak Volume: November 2005 Back To SchoolIf only summer could last forever. Who doesn’t love the carefree mornings, the leisurely days, the relaxing evenings? How refreshing to go to the park, work on puzzles, bake, draw, swim, and string beads – with no homework to complete and no deadlines to meet. Yet all too soon those sweet summer days ebb away, and the school bell begins to ring. ............Read More By Shira Cohen Volume: Rosh Hashanah September 2005 Baltimore's New Bais MedrashBaltimore will be enriched this fall by the opening of a new Bais Medrash, giving local parents yet another option for their sons’ education. Talmudical Academy Yeshivas Chofetz Chaim, Baltimore’s oldest day school, is expanding its program to include post-high school learning for the first time in its history. ............Read More By WWW Volume: Rosh Hashanah September 2005 |
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