High School Educators Workshop

The Sacks-Herenstein Center for Values and Leadership of Yeshiva University, in partnership with Azrieli Graduate School, invites educators teaching in Jewish High Schools to a virtual workshop series: Learning and Teaching the Thought of Rabbi Sacks.

The 4-session series is intended to prepare and equip high school educators with the intellectual and pedagogical resources to teach values-based lessons, informed by the thought of R. Sacks and other influential Jewish thinkers, within their formal Jewish Studies curriculum.

Each of the four sessions, co-taught by Dr Erica Brown and Dr Shira Weiss, will include textual study followed by an opportunity to brainstorm and workshop the integration of the texts into Judaic Studies curricula. Participants will emerge from each session with a plan for implementation of the ideas.

Each session will be devoted to one of the following topics:

· Happiness and Loneliness

· Faith and Doubt

· Confronting anti-Semitism

· Morality

Sessions will be held on zoom from 7-9pm EST on June 15, 16, 22, 23.

The 25 educators accepted into the cohort will receive a $500 stipend upon successfully fulfilling their commitment to participate in all workshop sessions and complete the final project.

Application deadline: May 2, 2022

Please contact Dr Shira Weiss with questions: sweiss2@yu.edu