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LEARNBAIS YAAKOV EIGHTH GRADERS
SOME
SPECIAL
LESSONS
Spring/Summer Line W hen Mrs. Yael Zelinger came to speak to Bais
Arriving Daily Yaakov’s eighth-grade girls, last January, she sur-
prised them with her “bag of tricks.” Although
Call for the girls’ teacher, Mrs. Rochelle Goldberg, has
Pre-Yom Tov been teaching an annual unit on disabilities for
15 years, this is the first time she enlisted Mrs.
Hours. Zelinger, an associate for Disability and Inclusion
Services at the Macks Center for Jewish
6502 PIMLICO ROAD WE CARRY Education to give one of her tailor-made “B’More Inclusive”
PLUS SIZES disability awareness “experiences” to the girls.
BALTIMORE 21209
To kick off the month-long unit, the 70 students in the
BRACHI RETTER three parallel English classes read “Flowers for Algernon,” a
short story about a mentally-challenged man, and The
410.764.5649 Miracle Worker, the story of Helen Keller. At the same time,
WED. NIGHT 8-10 PM they were paired up to research a disability or disease of their
OR BY APPOINTMENT choice from an approved list. The girls spent about two-and-
a-half weeks on research, including the biology of the disabil-
OLIAN • RIPE • MATERNAL AMERICAN ity and possible future cures. They then put it all together in
JAPANESE WEEKEND • BELLYSIMA a PowerPoint presentation, which they shared with their
classmates.
CRAVINGS RIKKI SHER • COTTON GLAM
Prior to Mrs. Zelinger’s visit, Mrs. Goldberg asked the stu-
dents to fill out the B’More Inclusive survey. They had to
answer “agree,’ “disagree,” or “undecided” to such questions
as 1) If I had a sibling with Down syndrome, I would not tell
anyone; 2) I would invite a person with a disability to a
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SOME
SPECIAL
LESSONS
Spring/Summer Line W hen Mrs. Yael Zelinger came to speak to Bais
Arriving Daily Yaakov’s eighth-grade girls, last January, she sur-
prised them with her “bag of tricks.” Although
Call for the girls’ teacher, Mrs. Rochelle Goldberg, has
Pre-Yom Tov been teaching an annual unit on disabilities for
15 years, this is the first time she enlisted Mrs.
Hours. Zelinger, an associate for Disability and Inclusion
Services at the Macks Center for Jewish
6502 PIMLICO ROAD WE CARRY Education to give one of her tailor-made “B’More Inclusive”
PLUS SIZES disability awareness “experiences” to the girls.
BALTIMORE 21209
To kick off the month-long unit, the 70 students in the
BRACHI RETTER three parallel English classes read “Flowers for Algernon,” a
short story about a mentally-challenged man, and The
410.764.5649 Miracle Worker, the story of Helen Keller. At the same time,
WED. NIGHT 8-10 PM they were paired up to research a disability or disease of their
OR BY APPOINTMENT choice from an approved list. The girls spent about two-and-
a-half weeks on research, including the biology of the disabil-
OLIAN • RIPE • MATERNAL AMERICAN ity and possible future cures. They then put it all together in
JAPANESE WEEKEND • BELLYSIMA a PowerPoint presentation, which they shared with their
classmates.
CRAVINGS RIKKI SHER • COTTON GLAM
Prior to Mrs. Zelinger’s visit, Mrs. Goldberg asked the stu-
dents to fill out the B’More Inclusive survey. They had to
answer “agree,’ “disagree,” or “undecided” to such questions
as 1) If I had a sibling with Down syndrome, I would not tell
anyone; 2) I would invite a person with a disability to a
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