Ruth Schapira
Selling Tomorrow Today to Parents of Jewish Teens
Long-term or Short-term: Pick one Marketing and Selling. Terms that were not very much used in the Jewish community just a few short...
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Parents of Teens: Do You Miss Those Parent-Teacher Conferences?
I just read a quick blog about how elementary school parents should prepare for Parent-Teacher conferences. For parents of teenagers:...
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Jewish Parents: Choose your teen’s activities wisely
Make sure the activity gives back! Soccer teams. Dance classes. School activities. SAT prep classes. After-school jobs. Volunteer work....
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One minute, three reasons why Jewish education helps teens focus on what’s important
One minute. Three reasons. Why just three reasons? Simple. Your time is valuable. Plus everyone’s way too busy getting ready for the...
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Learn these four leadership skills at a Hebrew High
Ronald A. Heifetz: “Leadership in times of crisis” How can you make this connection for #Jteens? A blog I read in the Harvard Business...
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How Would You Market to Jewish Teens?
Needed: Marketing pizzazz for Jewish Teens This post is more about marketing than it is about Jewish education. It’s a subject I have...
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Jewish Education: How to add value for Jewish Teens
Are we selling the right “product”? It used to be that you couldn’t use words like “sell”, “product” or “market” easily when talking...
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Changing some paradigms for Jewish teens
let’s change some paradigms for the sake of JTeens What would it take for the Jewish community to join in efforts to motivate Jewish...
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Let’s hope Jewish parents are smarter than this
Are we just being stupid or stubborn? There are some obvious signs that parents might not be as smart as we’d like them to be. Do you...
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From Jewish Camp to Synagogue: Five No-brainers
The more things change, the more …..well, you can fill in the blank here. This is on my mind as we approach the summer and thousands of...
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Hiring Jewish teen aides? Five things to know
The title of this post offers you some tips, however first, I’d like to ask you for some advice…..to a student named Rachel. Here are...
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Why some teens ‘get it’ but their parents don’t
I just came back from visiting a synagogue with an enviable number of teens in their Confirmation Program. What number, you ask, counts...
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World-Wide WordPress
Why didn’t you tell me that people in Malaysia read your blog? That’s what someone recently said to me who was poopooing the very idea of...
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Jewish Teens Need Us to Work as a Team
Secretly, I hope they’ll do something about what I’m telling them, but that hasn’t happened yet. So, here I am, blogging to you. At...
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Talking Tech With Jewish Teens
By now, I think most educators have figured out that technology is not something that can be isolated from educational endeavors, but...
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what Jewish teens taught me about family values
Last week I was figuring out a way to teach eighth graders the value of Shalom Bayit (Family Harmony–Peace in the Home). With teens...
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Judging Jewish Education by Fun
Jewish communal organizations have been in consumer mode for some time. As individuals progressively decrease their involvement in...
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Guiding teens without a moral compass. Hint: they cheat!
Image via Wikipedia Picture this: a class of freshly minted teenagers, not even a year after becoming b’nei mitzvah, who attend an...
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The Twitter Connection
Image via Wikipedia The world-wide web (wow, I actually enjoy writing those words as it makes me focus on this mini miracle machine that...
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Jewish Teens:The Young and (thankfully) Restless
Image via Wikipedia With a nod to the TV show, I recently encountered a unique version of the restless young; amazing and energetic young...
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