24 ready-to-use lesson plans of approximately 50 minutes each make teacher preparation for usingÔøΩThe Jewish Holiday Treasure TrailÔøΩquick and easy.

Teachers can enrich their use of The Jewish Holiday Treasure Trail with:Techniques that introduce students to the Jewish calendarOpen-ended questions to stimulate critical thinking and class discussionHands-on activities, such as making up a song to remember the Hebrew monthsFamily activities, such as encouraging students to sketch different kinds of trees in their neighborhood, bring in leaves, and share their findings in the next classEnrichment opportunities that use the games and resources at www.ElijahRocks.net.

Help your students build character throughout the year by finding new meaning in holiday stories and traditions pursuing hands-on activities and journaling their thoughts in theÔøΩJewish Holidays Jewish Values Journal.

The matchingÔøΩLesson Plan ManualÔøΩfor Volumes 3 and 4 of theÔøΩBuilding Jewish IdentityÔøΩseriesÔøΩprovides step-by step guidelines for each class meeting plus experiential and project based learning ideas instructions for complementary family education programs assessments and reviews plus ideas for teaching holidays through the building blocks of Jewish identity.

Your young students will join Daniel and his Israeli cousin Rivkah as they learn together about the Jewish holidays.

"This 64-page workbook will help principals and supervisors train teenagers to become effective madrichim--to lead by example, to help the teacher manage the classroom, and to treat each child in the class with respect and compassion. The manual is divided into six training sessions, called workshops, each devoted to a separate topic such as facilitating small groups and tutoring individual students, adjusting lessons to individual learning styles, and assisting students with learning disabilities and other special needs. The manual gives teenagers practical techniques and hands-on opportunities to create lessons, lead games, motivate students to participate, and handle discipline problems"--

34 ready-to-use lesson plans.

36 ready-to-use lesson plans.

Strengthen programs of family and community engagement to promote equity and increase student success! When schools, families, and communities collaborate and share responsibility for students′ education, more students succeed in school. Based on 30 years of research and fieldwork, the fourth edition of the bestseller School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Your Handbook for Action, presents tools and guidelines to help develop more effective and more equitable programs of family and community engagement. Written by a team of well-known experts, it provides a theory and framework of six types of involvement for action; up-to-date research on school, family, and community collaboration; and new materials for professional development and on-going technical assistance. Readers also will find: Examples of best practices on the six types of involvement from preschools, and elementary, middle, and high schools Checklists, templates, and evaluations to plan goal-linked partnership programs and assess progress CD-ROM with slides and notes for two presentations: A new awareness session to orient colleagues on the major components of a research-based partnership program, and a full One-Day Team Training Workshop to prepare school teams to develop their partnership programs. As a foundational text, this handbook demonstrates a proven approach to implement and sustain inclusive, goal-linked programs of partnership. It shows how a good partnership program is an essential component of good school organization and school improvement for student success. This book will help every district and all schools strengthen and continually improve their programs of family and community engagement.

With truly startling statistics and a wealth of anecdotes, Silbiger reveals the cultural principles that form the bedrock of Jewish success in America.