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...

I just read a quick blog about how elementary school parents should prepare for Parent-Teacher conferences. For parents of teenagers:...

Make sure the activity gives back! Soccer teams. Dance classes. School activities. SAT prep classes. After-school jobs. Volunteer work....

One minute. Three reasons. Why just three reasons? Simple. Your time is valuable. Plus everyone’s way too busy getting ready for the...

Ronald A. Heifetz: “Leadership in times of crisis”   How can you make this connection for #Jteens? A blog I read in the Harvard Business...

Needed: Marketing pizzazz for Jewish Teens This post is more about marketing than it is about Jewish education. It’s a subject I have...

Are we selling the right “product”? It used to be that you couldn’t use words like “sell”, “product” or “market” easily when talking...

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...

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...

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...

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...

I just came back from visiting a synagogue with an enviable number of teens in their Confirmation Program. What number, you ask, counts...

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...

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...

By now, I think most educators have figured out that technology is not something that can be isolated from educational endeavors, but...

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...

Jewish communal organizations have been in consumer mode for some time.  As individuals progressively decrease their involvement in...

Image via Wikipedia Picture this: a class of freshly minted teenagers, not even a year after becoming b’nei mitzvah, who attend an...

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...

Image via Wikipedia With a nod to the TV show, I recently encountered a unique version of the restless young; amazing and energetic young...