Tell Your Teens: Sukkot Photo Project This Summer & Early Fall

Citizen Film and the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival are looking for educators, teens and young adults to investigate their surroundings by creating images that reinterpret the guidelines for building a Sukkah.  For example, teens will take photos of buildings in their neighborhood and caption those photographs with one or more rules for building a Sukkah, such as ”The eye should be drawn to the roof and the sky beyond.”

Participants will look for manifestations of rules like this in their immediate environments, then create images and captions to be shared on Facebook, Twitter and other social media platforms.  Citizen Film will also custom-design new media assignments to fit with your pre-existing curriculum, activities and events!

The best results will be presented by the Contemporary Jewish Museum and the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival during Sukkot 2012.

If you are interested in collaborating on this project or finding out more please contact: Emma emma@citizenfilm.org

DATE CHANGE: Friday June 1: Annual Teen Educator Network Visioning Meeting

DATE CHANGE: Friday June 1:  Annual Teen Educator Network Visioning Meeting

10 am-12 pm at the BJE.

All are invited to reflect on this year’s offerings and plan for our themes, format and offerings for next year.

Questions?   Contact Julie Emden at jemden@bjesf.org, 415-751-6983, ext. 125

Drinks and snacks provided.

RSVP to: rsmith@bjesf.org

Transforming Education Through Technology

Join us! The Bureau of Jewish Education is partnering with the Jewish High Tech Community of Silicon Valley and featuring the voice of Jewish educator Evan Wolkenstein to explore the impact technology is having in the classroom.

DATE: Tuesday May 8th TIME: 6:30pm – 8:30pm

LOCATION: Fenwick & West, 801 California Street, Mountain View Together

BJE and JHTC assembled a panel to explore how to pair an investment in technology pedagogies, best practices and creative employment of these new technological advances, in order to really harness the potential they promise. It is imperative that investment in technology not be about the technology itself, but about enabling students to learn more dynamically and teachers to teach more creatively. How are personalization, social networks, learning analytics and other trends transforming education and learning? BJE’s Debby Jacoby will open the show, along with JHTC’s Tanya Okmyansky. Participating on the panel is Evan Wolkenstein, the Director of Experiential Education at Jewish Community High School of the Bay. The moderator is Martin Griss, Director of Carnegie Mellon of Silicon Valley. Also participating on the panel are Isaac Segal, President and CEO of Tegrity, a division of McGraw-Hill Higher Education and David Strauss, a Vice President at Kno, Inc. Click here to register, see the program and bios of the panelists. Click here to read more about Evan and his “paperless” class. JHTC and their President Tanya Okmyansky were prominently featured in the J Weekly this past week. Hope you can join us!

Apply by May 1st for the Kevah Teaching Fellowship!

If you are a current or aspiring Jewish educator in your twenties or thirties, we invite you to apply to the Kevah Teaching Fellowship to learn how to facilitate small group Jewish learning for your peers.
Kevah, a Bay Area-based organization that engages Jewish identity and builds Jewish community through study of classical Jewish texts, is proud to announce the inaugural year of the Kevah Teaching Fellowship. Made possible by a generous grant from the Jim Joseph Foundation, this prestigious opportunity will provide participants with a fully-funded professional development opportunity in facilitating Jewish small group learning for young adults. Preference will be given to applicants in the Bay Area, Los Angeles and the Denver/Boulder area, but outstanding candidates from around the country are encouraged to apply.
It includes:

• Three in-person workshops over the course of the year
• Ongoing meetings with a supervising mentor
• Opportunities for part-time paid work teaching Torah to young adults
• Personalized guidance in curriculum development on topics that interest you
• Participation in ongoing Jewish learning with other Kevah Fellows
• Access to carefully selected curricular resources
• Stipend for travel and lodging for non-Bay Area participants
• Future teaching opportunities through Kevah’s rapidly expanding network of Torah study groups

Young adults from across the religious spectrum are invited to apply to this pluralistic program.

If you are interested in applying, please click here.
For more information contact Noa Silver: nsilver@kevah.org, 510-280-5656.

Please forward to friends, family members and other potential candidates!

Application materials are due May 1, 2012.

J-SERVE is coming up on April 22, 2012: Spread the Word

J-Serve is the annual national day of teen community service.  Here in SF our goal is to engage over 200 teens in a morning of service followed by an afternoon of fun and interactive programs at the Contemporary Jewish Museum. This is a community-wide event planned by a committee of teen leaders from BBYO, Diller Teen Fellows, CJM, and USY. Registration opens Thursday, March 15^th. Tell your teens to come out and make a difference!

Click here for more information.

To register CLICK HERE!

You can also find more J Serve on Facebook and Twitter.

Resources from Tuesday’s Network Meeting

Here are the handouts from Tuesday’s Network meeting:

Youth Empowerment Text study

Youth Empowerment Definition

Adultism Definition

Principles for Allies of Young People

Step Into the Circle

Parents: Registration for Remaining Three Classes Still Available!

Parenting Your Teen . . . The Conversation Continues

With Rabbi Howard Ruben and Rick Concoff, MA

March 20, April 30, May 14

Tuesday, March 20 – Rick Concoff, MA
Media, Social Networking and Cyberspace:  Your Role in your Teens Virtual Life

We will discuss ways to mentor, support, guide and keep your teens safe in their ongoing virtual life.  Whether things are already in balance or out of control, learn new ways to help them to carry the values from their “real” life into those spaces as well.

Registration for the 3 remaining classes still open!

Questions? Please call Julie Emden at 415-751-6983, x125.

Jewish Community High School of the Bay

1835 Ellis Street, San Francisco

7:30 – 9:00 pm

 

Click here to register and to see detailed information on the classes.

Presented by the Bureau of Jewish Education’s Jewish Teen Alliance and Jewish Community High School of the Bay.