October 25, 2004
Focus of Election Day
Conference will be
Motivating and Reaching all
Children
Elementary/Middle School Conference
Tuesday, November 2
8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy
Livingston
How to motivate and reach all children in the
classroom will be this year’s theme for the Elementary/Middle School
Conference organized by the New Jersey Association of Jewish Day Schools
(an affiliate of the Orthodox Union’s National Jewish Council for
Disabilities). The conference will be held on Tuesday, November 2, from
8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. at the Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy in
Livingston.
Sharon Kolb, the Director of the New Jersey Association of Jewish Day
Schools, explained 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.”
The conference is open to all teachers, not only those in the field of
Special Education, and to teachers in both public and private schools,
she added.
The National Jewish Council for Disabilities (NJCD) includes Yachad,
providing unique social, educational and recreational mainstreamed
programs for individuals with developmental disabilities; and Our Way,
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 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 Dr. Edward Hallowell, founder of the
Hallowell Center for Cognitive and Emotional Research. He has been on
the faculty of Harvard Medical School for more than 20 years. Dr.
Hallowell is the author of “Driven to Distraction” and “Answers to
Distraction,” both national best-sellers. He has appeared on such
national TV shows as 20/20, The Today Show, Dateline, Oprah, Good
Morning America, and The View.
Teachers and administrators from various schools will make
presentations. Other speakers include:
- 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;
- Dvora Mann, Director of Educational
Programs, Raab Holocaust Education Center at Michlalah Jerusalem
College;
- Rabbi Menachem Liebtag, well-known Bible
scholar and teacher at Yeshivat Har Etzion and Midreshet Lindenbaum in
Israel;
- Kristi Hansen, Pacer’s Simon Technology
Center;
- Greg Hamilton, Assistant Professor of
English Education at Teachers College, Columbia University;
- Anna McTigue, Education Development
Center, Massachusetts;
- Penny Petchers, school psychologist in
Bergen County;
- Ronald Lamb, CSW consultant, Board of
Jewish Education of Greater New York.
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