Lower Elementary Boys
Developing Systems:
Empowering Educators and Students to Reach Their Classroom Goals
Rabbi Yosef Shalom Horowitz
Systems help create clarity and procedures to achieve goals. By implementing effective systems, teachers can better support students who need more assistance, enhancing overall class success.
Upper Elementary Boys
Empowering Educators:
Teaching Healthy Boundaries to Children and Teens
Rabbi Shmuel Tenenbaum, MSMFT
Explore the tools and strategies to teach children and teens the importance of setting and respecting boundaries.
Mesivta
Contemporary Challenges Facing Our Talmidim:
A Panel Discussion
Rabbi Simcha Cook & Rabbi Chanoch Posy
Discover the tools educators and parents need to address the most pressing challenges facing high school students today, offering tips and strategies to support their emotional, social, and academic well-being.
Leadership (Men)
How the Perception of Our Talmidim (and Faculty!) Impacts Their Performance
Rabbi Meir Simcha Stein
Explore how educators’ perceptions and expectations influence student motivation and performance. Provide strategies for fostering a more empowering and supportive learning environment.
Early Childhood
The Preschool Experience: Part 2
Tried and True Tips and Tricks for Running a Successful Early Childhood Classroom
Mrs. Rivka Dear, Mrs. Chani Silverstein
This interactive workshop will keep participants involved and engaged throughout the experience. From practical tips to elevate daily preschool activities and routines to understanding and shifting challenging behaviors, this workshop will allow participants to fill their Teacher Toolbox with new tools through a child’s lens and a teacher’s lens.
Lower Elementary Girls
Is it Chutzpa?
Understanding Children with Anxiety, Autism, ADHD, and Defiant Behaviors
Dr. Leah Dembitzer
Even in a well-run classroom, teachers can encounter children who act out defiantly. In this workshop, participants will learn some possibilities of what may be behind the defiance. Anxiety, Autism, ADHD, and defiance can look similar but may need different approaches. Participants will learn practical strategies for addressing the needs of these students within the flow of the classroom.
Upper Elementary Girls
My Student Can’t Focus. Now What?:
Managing Attention Disorders in the Classroom
Mrs. Zahava Deutsch
Participants will gain insights into student behaviors and learn to implement strategies that work to help them stay focused effective classroom strategies and tools for managing attention disorders, which will help students stay focused, engaged, and successful.
Girls High School
A Mental Health Panel - Bilvavi Mishkan Evneh:
The Power of a Teacher’s Mindset, Words, and Attitude
Mrs. Esther Gendelman, Dr. Marcy Forta, Mrs. Cheryl Epstein
Participants will explore the power of teacher mindset language and reactions to the shaping of their motivation, resilience, and levels of anxiety.
Leadership (Women)
Team Genius:
Using Working Genius to Take Your Team to the Next Level
Rabbi Elie Tuchman, Ed.D.
This session will focus on enhancing team communication and creating a positive interdependence among the members of your team. You will learn to ensure that the right people are at every meeting and to make meetings more targeted and effective. Through interactive exercises, you’ll acquire practical tools to nurture each of the Geniuses and increase your team members’ engagement and productivity. This session assumes familiarity with the Working Genius™ Model. It is recommended that participants have a formal Working Genius profile. For those that do not yet have one, the assessment takes approximately 10 minutes and is available at workinggenius.com for a nominal fee ($25).
General Studies (Women)
Brains On / Thinking Classrooms
Strategies to Develop Higher Thinking
Mrs. Leah G. Lefkowitz
In this workshop, participants will be introduced to the teacher mindsets and strategies that build higher levels of thinking in the classroom, opportunities will be given for participants to apply the strategies in the subject area they currently teach.
Lower Elementary Boys
Ten Ways to Empower Your Students by Reducing Their Stress
Rabbi Moshe Weinberg
Learn practical strategies to help students manage stress, boost resilience, and improve their overall well-being for academic and personal success.
Upper Elementary Boys
Ready, Set, Grow:
Navigating Social and Emotional Changes from Child to Teen
Rabbi Shmuel Tenenbaum, MSMFT
Understand and support the critical social and emotional transitions that children experience as they move into adolescence.
Mesivta
Identifying the Emotional Struggles of Today’s High School Students
Rabbi Chaim Kolodny, LCSW
Learn to identify the emotional struggles of today’s high school students and explore ideas that can help, even with challenges we don’t recognize or discuss.
Leadership (Men)
Girsa d’Yankusa and the Elementary Kodesh Curriculum Goals
Rabbi Aryeh Sherwinter
The things learned when a child is very young have a deep quality that later knowledge cannot match. Learn how to help your students meet their educational goals.
Early Childhood
The Preschool Experience: Part 1
Tried and True Tips and Tricks for Running a Successful Early Childhood Classroom
Mrs. Rivka Dear, Mrs. Chani Silverstein
This interactive workshop will keep participants involved and engaged throughout the experience. From practical tips to elevate daily preschool activities and routines to understanding and shifting challenging behaviors, this workshop will allow participants to fill their Teacher Toolbox with new tools through a child’s lens and a teacher’s lens.
Lower Elementary Girls
My Student Can’t Focus. Now What?:
Managing Attention Disorders in the Classroom
Mrs. Zahava Deutsch
Participants will gain insights into student behaviors and learn to implement strategies that work to help them stay focused effective classroom strategies and tools for managing attention disorders, which will help students stay focused, engaged, and successful.
Upper Elementary Girls
Is it Chutzpa?
Understanding Children with Anxiety, Autism, ADHD, and Defiant Behaviors
Dr. Leah Dembitzer
Even in a well-run classroom, teachers can encounter children who act out defiantly. In this workshop, participants will learn some possibilities of what may be behind the defiance. Anxiety, Autism, ADHD, and defiance can look similar but may need different approaches. Participants will learn practical strategies for addressing the needs of these students within the flow of the classroom.
Girls High School
Until the Light Ascends of Itself:
Pathways to Fueling Students Engagement and Motivation
Dr. Oshra Cohen, Ph.D.
Explore strategies and techniques to create a classroom culture that fosters student engagement, motivation, and active participation in learning.
Leadership (Women)
K’mayim Hapanim El Panim
The Transformative Power of Leadership Intention
Rabbi Meir Simcha Stein
Journey through the five transformative education principles. The late Rabbi Shlomo Hoffman articulated and practiced these principles with unprecedented success, captured in the newly published book KMAYIM.
General Studies (Women)
Tackling the PM Classroom Challenge:
Shift Afternoon Antsiness into Peak Engagement
Mrs. Ruti Hertz
Afternoon classes often bring fidgety, tired, unfocused students with dwindling attention. Discover actionable strategies to shift waning focus into dynamic participation. Unleash the power of your afternoon class.