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Chinuch Today episodes

August 30, 2023 2.1 Rabbi Dr. Maury Grebenau – JNTP
ABOUT THIS EPISODE
For 20 years, Jewish New Teacher Project of New Teacher Center helps Jewish day schools and yeshivas achieve instructional excellence by increasing teacher and school leader effectiveness, teacher retention, and student achievement and by bringing professional development into school culture.

JNTP improves teacher and administrator skills through intensive mentoring and coaching, shared cohort learning, and job-embedded instruction through our two signature programs:
· Teacher Induction Program: JNTP trains veteran teachers in schools to intensively mentor beginning teachers in their schools, in both general and Judaic studies, grades ECE-12, accelerating teacher effectiveness and long-term commitment to the field.
· Administrator Support Program: JNTP offers cohort-based learning and individual coaching for administrators and school leaders who are new to their roles and who have teacher supervisory responsibilities. Areas of focus include leadership, culture, and supervision.
JNTP has worked with over 230 schools across North America. Over 40,000 Jewish day school and yeshiva students per year have a teacher trained by JNTP.

Rabbi Dr. Maury Grebenau is Senior Program Consultant for JNTP’s Administrator Support Program.

For more information and to learn more about our impact on the field of day school education, please visit www.jntp.org,
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ABOUT THIS PODCAST
Chinuch Today
Featuring Tools for Schools A Fascinating Look at Innovative Programs and the People Behind Them.
The host Rabbi Yerachmiel Garfield Ed.D. is the Head of School of the rapidly growing Yeshiva Torat Emet in Houston Texas. He has previously served as a mesivta rebbe, assistant menahel, school counselor and adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University. In addition, he has written on chinuch topics for national publications, educational journals, and has presented multiple workshops. He is the founder of the Yeshiva Leadership Group which provides networking and growth opportunities to Yeshiva school leadership.
For more information or to suggest a guest, please email [email protected]
56 min
July 12, 2023 20. Inaugural Season Reflections
ABOUT THIS EPISODE
This concludes our inaugural season, encompassing all 20 episodes!
Thank you to the numerous individuals who have contributed to making this journey an immensely enjoyable experience. As we bid farewell to Season One, we eagerly anticipate the arrival of Season Two, where we will continue to explore the great people and innovative ideas in Chinch Today!

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ABOUT THIS PODCAST
Chinuch Today
Featuring Tools for Schools A Fascinating Look at Innovative Programs and the People Behind Them.
The host Rabbi Yerachmiel Garfield Ed.D. is the Head of School of the rapidly growing Yeshiva Torat Emet in Houston Texas. He has previously served as a mesivta rebbe, assistant menahel, school counselor and adjunct professor at Johns Hopkin University. In addition, he has written on chinuch topics for national publications, educational journals, and has presented multiple workshops. He is the founder of the Yeshiva Leadership Group which provides networking and growth opportunities to Yeshiva school leadership.
For more information or to suggest a guest, please email ⁠[email protected]⁠
5 min
June 21, 2023 19. Rabbi Shlomo Odze – Mesila
ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Mesila is an international organization dedicated to strengthening financial stability in Jewish communities around the world.
How?
Mesila coaches help families get a handle on their finances and build a long-term plan
to maintain financial stability
Mesila promotes correct financial attitudes and habits through education programs in
schools and through workshops/ seminars in the community.
Mesila helps people get their businesses started on the right foot.

Mesila believes that every individual, family, business, and organization can improve their financial situation and achieve economic
self-sufficiency if they have the right information, motivation, and attitude. As we know, the highest form of tzedakah is to give people the gift of
financial independence. Mesila’s vision is to strengthen the financial stability of Jewish communities everywhere, and we are constantly expanding and
creating new programs to make this vision a reality.
For more information, please visit https://www.mesila.org/
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ABOUT THIS PODCAST
Chinuch Today
Featuring Tools for Schools
A Fascinating Look at Innovative Programs and the People Behind Them.
The host Rabbi Yerachmiel Garfield Ed.D. is the Head of School of the rapidly growing Yeshiva Torat Emet in Houston Texas. He has previously served as a mesivta rebbe, assistant menahel, school counselor and adjunct professor at Johns Hopkin University. In addition, he has written on chinuch topics for national publications, educational journals, and has presented multiple workshops. He is the founder of the Yeshiva Leadership Group which provides networking and growth opportunities to Yeshiva school leadership.
For more information or to suggest a guest, please email [email protected]
36 min
June 07, 2023 18. Mrs. Miriam Gettinger and Mrs. Sara Chaiya Feinstein – Oze L’malko Navi Curriculum
ABOUT THIS EPISODE
The Oze L’malko Navi Curriculum is a dream come true for any teacher who wishes to teach נביא in a meaningful, engaging and practical way, fostering
real-life connections and creative and critical thinking skills.
Drawing upon authentic תורה sources and years of classroom experience, the עוז למלכו Curriculum Guide is an extensive lesson plan template featuring פסוק-by-פסוק explanations, relevant questions and answers, classroom tips and ideas, life lessons, connections to תפילה and תהלים, stories, משלים, charts and more. It is brilliantly formatted in a user-friendly style. All sources are included as footnotes for easy reference.
The accompanying student workbook offers an array of corresponding questions and review activities- including maps and flashcards- all presented in a visually appealing manner.
To order or see sample pages visit: https://www.cojds.org/product-category/navi/sefer-shmuel/
Mrs. Miriam Gettinger – Senior Curriculum Advisor for CoJDS and principal at Hasten Hebrew Academy
Mrs. Sara Chaiya Feinstein –CoJDS Curriculum Writer - Oze L’malko Navi Curriculum and Morah at Yeshiva Day School of Las Vegas.
For questions or feedback: [email protected]
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ABOUT THIS PODCAST
Chinuch Today
Featuring Tools for Schools
A Fascinating Look at Innovative Programs and the People Behind Them.
The host Rabbi Yerachmiel Garfield Ed.D. is the Head of School of the rapidly growing Yeshiva Torat Emet in Houston Texas. He has previously served as a mesivta rebbe, assistant menahel, school counselor and adjunct professor at Johns Hopkin University. In addition, he has written on chinuch topics for national publications, educational journals, and has presented multiple workshops. He is the founder of the Yeshiva Leadership Group, which provides networking and growth opportunities to Yeshiva school leadership.
For more information or to suggest a guest, please email [email protected]
50 min
May 24, 2023 17. Rabbi Shraga Freedman – Living Kiddush Hashem
ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Developing Our Students Into True Mekadshei Hashem
Living Kiddush Hashem was founded with the goal of imbuing every Jew with a powerful sense of mission — the mission to be mekadeish sheim shomayim in his or her own unique way.
We accomplish this by raising awareness of the paramount importance of the mitzvah of Kiddush Hashem and its centrality in everything we do.
Rabbi Shraga Freedman, influenced by his Mashgiach Harav Matisyahu Solomon Shlita, authored Living Kiddush Hashem - a guide to the mitzvah and mission of Kiddush Hashem published by ArtScroll/ Mesorah - and the Hebrew sefer Mekadshei Shemecha, a comprehensive work on the hashkafos of Kiddush Hashem. Rabbi Freedman has made spreading Kiddush Hashem awareness his life goal and authored a biweekly column in Yated Ne’eman for several years and developed an extensive Living Kiddush Hashem curriculum. Rabbi Freedman has been in education and school administration for the last 20 years in both high school and elementary levels.
Email [email protected] for a free file of sefer Mekadsehi Shemecha. Visit LivingKiddushHashem.org for more
resources.
For more information, please visit www.livingkiddushhashem.org
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ABOUT THIS PODCAST
Chinuch Today
Featuring Tools for Schools
A Fascinating Look at Innovative Programs and the People Behind Them.
The host Rabbi Yerachmiel Garfield Ed.D. is the Head of School of the rapidly growing Yeshiva Torat Emet in Houston Texas. He has previously served as a mesivta rebbe, assistant menahel, school counselor and adjunct professor at Johns Hopkin University. In addition, he has written on chinuch topics for national publications, educational journals, and has presented multiple workshops. He is the founder of the Yeshiva Leadership Group which provides networking and growth opportunities to Yeshiva school leadership.
For more information or to suggest a guest, please email [email protected]
52 min
May 10, 2023 16. Mrs. Debbie Fox – Magen Yeladim
ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Magen Yeladim Child Safety Institute is a 501(c)3 charitable organization founded in 2013 by ⁠Debbie Fox, LCSW⁠, to meet the need for culturally sensitive child abuse prevention materials in the Orthodox Jewish community in Los Angeles and around the world.
Ms. Fox first developed MY Child Safety Institute’s ⁠Safety Kid child abuse prevention program⁠ in 2006 for the Aleinu Family Resource Center (Aleinu) of Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles (JFSLA) in response to a series of heinous incidents of child abuse that occurred in LA’s Orthodox Jewish community around that time.
Over the years, the need for child abuse prevention education programs became increasingly apparent as not only more accounts of abuse emerged but an increasing number of Jewish communities in the United States and around the world inquired about and requested the culturally appropriate and sensitive Safety Kid programs for their communities.
For more information, please visit www. mychildsafetyinstitute.org

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ABOUT THIS PODCAST
Chinuch Today
Featuring Tools for Schools
A Fascinating Look at Innovative Programs and the People Behind Them.
The host
Rabbi Yerachmiel Garfield Ed.D. is the Head of School of the rapidly growing Yeshiva Torat Emet in Houston Texas. He has previously served as a mesivta rebbe, assistant menahel, school counselor and adjunct professor at Johns Hopkin University. In addition, he has written on chinuch topics for national publications, educational journals, and has presented multiple workshops. He is the founder of the Yeshiva Leadership Group which provides networking and
growth opportunities to Yeshiva school leadership.
For more information or to suggest a guest, please email [email protected]
57 min
April 26, 2023 15. Trigon 5990 Israeli Robotics Team - Kiddush Hashem
ABOUT THIS EPISODE
In this episode, we have the privilege of hearing from Ori Shriqui, the Team Captain, Nate Kovo, the Head of Mechanics, Ofer Bar-on, the Head of CAD (Computer Assist Design), Kenny Green, a dedicated Parent Volunteer, and Rabbi Lior Chakotai, the Menahel of AMIT Modiin High School for Boys. Together, they make up the Trigon 5990 team that competed in an international robotics competition in Houston, Texas.
Despite the fierce competition, the Trigon 5990 team remained true to their values and beliefs. When the final stage of the competition fell on Shabbos, they chose not to compromise their observance of the day of rest. Instead, they wrote a letter explaining their decision and handed it to the announcer.
To their surprise, students from all over the world stood up and applauded their decision. The announcer then addressed the crowd and said,
"Thank you for the reminder that there are other things outside the world of robotics that are also important."
This inspiring story of commitment and dedication to one's values will leave you feeling empowered and motivated to stay true to your own beliefs, no matter the circumstances.
To support Team Trigon 5990, please visit https://trigon5990.com/our-sponsors/
For more information please see -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gz2ldH1ihdQ
https://trigon5990.com/
https://frc-events.firstinspires.org/team/5990
https://www.firstinspires.org/robotics/frc

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ABOUT THIS PODCAST
Chinuch Today
Featuring Tools for Schools
A Fascinating Look at Innovative Programs and the People Behind Them.
The host Rabbi Yerachmiel Garfield Ed.D. is the Head of School of the rapidly growing Yeshiva Torat Emet in Houston Texas. He has previously served as a mesivta rebbe, assistant menahel, school counselor and adjunct professor at Johns Hopkin University. In addition, he has written on chinuch topics for national publications, educational journals, and has presented multiple workshops. He is the founder of the Yeshiva Leadership Group which provides networking and growth opportunities to Yeshiva school leadership.
For more information or to suggest a guest, please email [email protected]
38 min
April 19, 2023 14. Rabbi Yosef Zvi Rimon - Sulamot
ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Rav Yosef Zvi Rimon is an internationally acclaimed posek as well as an author, educator, lecturer, and social innovator. Individuals and communities from around the globe turn to Rav Rimon regarding complex questions in Halacha. His responses and works on Halacha are shaping the contemporary Jewish world. For Rav Rimon, innovation in Torah and Chessed come hand in hand.
Sulamot, under the leadership of Rav Yosef Zvi Rimon, reimagines the way that Jewish education is taught and studied, making it accessible, inspiring, and empowering to children and adults alike. In Israel, Sulamot has revolutionized the study of Halacha and Mishnah providing materials
to Misrad Hachinuch’s schools. The English department at Sulamot has successfully adapted and customized these materials to Jewish education all over
the English-speaking world.
For more information about Sulamot please visit www.sulamot.org

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ABOUT THIS PODCAST
Chinuch Today
Featuring Tools for Schools
A Fascinating Look at Innovative Programs and the People Behind Them.
The host Rabbi Yerachmiel Garfield Ed.D. is the Head of School of the rapidly growing Yeshiva Torat Emet in Houston Texas. He has previously served as a mesivta rebbe, assistant menahel, school counselor and adjunct professor at Johns Hopkin University. In addition, he has written on chinuch topics for national publications, educational journals, and has presented multiple workshops. He is the founder of the Yeshiva Leadership Group which provides networking and growth opportunities to Yeshiva school leadership.
For more information or to suggest a guest, please email [email protected]
41 min
April 03, 2023 13. Micro Episode - The Seder Reveals 21st-Century Learning Techniques
ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Consider these characteristics of learning that contrast 20th and 21st-century approaches to education.

1) Do we work better alone or in collaboration?
2) Should learning be one-size-fits-all or differentiated?
3) Does time define learning or does learning define time?
4) Is learning for a test or for life?
5) Should it be structured or open and flexible?
6) Should we focus on content or process?

Interestingly, these same "newly discovered" characteristics of learning are
embedded in the Sederim developed many years ago by our chachomim. Join us as
we delve into the timeless lessons of the Seder and discover how it reveals
valuable techniques for 21st-century learning.

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ABOUT THIS PODCAST
Chinuch Today
Featuring Tools for Schools
A Fascinating Look at Innovative Programs and the People Behind Them.
The host Rabbi Yerachmiel Garfield Ed.D. is the Head of School of the rapidly growing Yeshiva Torat Emet in Houston Texas. He has previously served as a mesivta rebbe, assistant menahel, school counselor and adjunct professor at Johns Hopkin University. In addition, he has written on chinuch topics for national publications, educational journals, and has presented multiple workshops. He is the founder of the Yeshiva Leadership Group which provides networking and growth opportunities to Yeshiva school leadership.
For more information or to suggest a guest, please email [email protected]
11 min
March 22, 2023 12. Rabbi Dr. Gil Perl – Jewish Leadership Academy
ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Rabbi Dr. Gil S. Perl is the CEO of the Gisela and Daniel Ades Foundation and the
Founding Head of School of the Jewish Leadership Academy.
With a BA from the University of Pennsylvania, an MA and PhD from Harvard University,
rabbinical ordination from Yeshiva University, and fifteen years of experience
leading highly regarded college preparatory K-12 Jewish Day Schools, Rabbi Dr.
Perl is a nationally recognized leader in Jewish education.
In his previous role as Head of School of Kohelet Yeshiva and Chief Academic Officer
of the Kohelet Foundation, Rabbi Perl led the team that designed and launched
Yeshiva Lab School, a highly innovative elementary and middle school in
suburban Philadelphia intended to re-imagine what Jewish Day School can and
ought to be. Under his leadership, Yeshiva Lab School merged with Kohelet
Yeshiva High School to create the Philadelphia area’s only Modern Orthodox K-12
Jewish day school.
He is now in Maimi, Florida and the leader of the Jewish Leadership Academy which is
a new Middle and High School under Modern Orthodox auspices aimed at Miami’s
most academically able and ambitious students. Its mission is to provide a world-class education in an atmosphere that
connects students to their Jewish heritage while inspiring and empowering them
to live lives of service to others. More information can be found at www.jlamiami.org
Follow Rabbi Perl on his blog gilperl.com and on Twitter @gperl
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ABOUT THIS PODCAST
Chinuch Today
Featuring Tools for Schools
A Fascinating Look at Innovative Programs and the People Behind Them.
The host
Rabbi Yerachmiel Garfield Ed.D. is the Head of School of the rapidly growing
Yeshiva Torat Emet in Houston Texas. He has previously served as a mesivta
rebbe, assistant menahel, school counselor and adjunct professor at Johns
Hopkin University. In addition, he has written on chinuch topics for national
publications, educational journals, and has presented multiple workshops. He is
the founder of the Yeshiva Leadership Group which provides networking and
growth opportunities to Yeshiva school leadership.
For more
information or to suggest a guest, please email [email protected]
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