October 15, 2003

How to Reach All Children in the Classroom is Theme of Orthodox Union’s NJ Association of Jewish Day Schools Election Day Conference

Tuesday, November 4, 2003
8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy
Livingston, NJ

How to motivate and reach all children in the classroom will be this year’s theme as the New Jersey Association of Jewish Day Schools (an affiliate of the Orthodox Union’s National Jewish Council for Disabilities) brings together hundreds of educators from Jewish day schools throughout New Jersey for its annual election day conference. The conference will be held on Tuesday, November 4, from 8:00 a.m.- 4:30 p.m. at the Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy in Livingston.

The National Jewish Council for Disabilities (NJCD) includes the Yachad program, providing unique social, educational and recreational mainstreamed programs for individuals with developmental disabilities; and the Our Way program, providing mainstreamed and self-contained educational and recreational activities for the hearing-impaired and deaf.

The conference organizers have brought together an impressive team of specialists in order to explore Instructional Strategies and Techniques in Motivating, Teaching and Reaching ALL Children in the Classroom, including children with learning, physical or developmental disabilities. The keynote speaker will be Rick Lavoie, a noted expert in the field of Special Education. In addition, the conference will have an exhibit area for educational publishers and vendors to display their materials.

Sharon Kolb, the Director of the New Jersey Association of Jewish Day Schools, expressed the importance of this year’s conference, calling it “a pivotal forum through which the most urgent issues in education today will be brought to the forefront. We are fortunate to have gathered together the education elite and I am confident that no one will walk away from the conference without having added something new to their professional skills,” she said.

The conference is open to all teachers, not only those in the field of Special Education, she added.

Teachers and administrators from various schools will make presentations. Other speakers include the following:

• Dr. Aryeh Wohl, an educational rarity, as an expert in both Jewish and secular studies programs;
• Rabbi Scott Goldberg, of the Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration of Yeshiva University;
• Lewis Adams, Executive Director of the Yatzkan Center in New York;
• Dr. Andrew Eisen, Associate Professor and Director at the Fairleigh Dickinson University Child Anxiety and Disorders Clinic;
• Dr. Linda Reddy, Director of Child and Adolescent ADD/ADHD Clinic, Center for Psychological Services, Fairleigh Dickinson University;
• Susan Conners, Tourette Syndrome Association of Bayside, NY;
• Peggy Dragonetti, Statewide Parent Advocacy Network (New Jersey);
• Susan Schwartz, clinical coordinator of the Institute for Learning and Academic Achievement, NYU Child Study Center, and clinical instructor of psychiatry at the NYU School of Medicine;
• Mark Ledford, Clinic Director of Lindamood Bell, a specialized program for reading and language processing;
• Ruth Yaacoby, of the Occupational Therapy Center of Cliffside Park, NJ;
• Shoshana Glatzer, former Director of the Teachers Center of the Board of Jewish Education of Greater New York;
• Dr. Mark Silk, Director of Professional and Leadership Development at the Jewish Education Association of Metrowest;
• Miriam Skydell, pediatric occupational therapist, Paramus, NJ;
• Dr. Lydia Soifer, Director of the Soifer Center for Learning and Child Development, an interdisciplinary private practice of speech and language pathologists in White Plains, NY;
• Rabbi Dr. Jeremiah Unterman, Director of the Association of Modern Orthodox Day Schools and Yeshiva High Schools.

Pre-registration is required to participate in the conference. For information on the cost of registration and other details, call Sharon Kolb at 212-613-8156, or 201-836-4181.

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