Keystones Podcast Series

Keystones: Delving into Black Narratives with Lonnie Firestone

Lonnie Firestone, Founder and Director for Exploring Black Narratives, shares a framework for exploring identity through the lens of storytelling.

Keystones: Learning Torah through Gardening with Sara Just-Michael

Sara Just-Michael, Executive Director for Grow Torah, shares an approach to Torah learning and integrates gardening that aims for students to have fun and fall in love with learning (Grow Torah).

Keystones: Engaging in Productive Argument with Robbie Gringras

Robbie Gringas, Director of For the Sake of Argument, shares a framework for Israel education, focused on better understanding arguments and how to have arguments that help us grow (For the Sake of Argument).

Keystones: Celebrating Hebrew Instruction with Rabbi Andrew Ergas

Rabbi Andrew Ergas, Chief Executive Officer for Hebrew at the Center, shares a focus on success stories for Hebrew language instruction and learning in order to promote future successes.

Keystones: Supporting Student Mental Health with Olivia Friedman

Olivia Friedman, teacher and facilitator for Erica's Lighthouse at Ida Crown in Chicago, shares an opportunity and approach to providing resources for mental health to students (Erica's Lighthouse).

Keystones: Slowing Things Down and Looking Inside with Yehuda Chanales

Yehuda Chanales, North American director of Lifnai Vlifnim, shares an approach and foundation for learning that focuses on personal and religious growth that starts with teachers (Lifnai Vlifnim).

Keystones: Cultivating Dispositions of Respect with Bat Sheva Miller and Dana Keil

Keystones: Bringing Jewish Law and Practice to Life with Jason Feld

Jason Feld, former Head of School at Northwest Yeshiva high school in Seattle and incoming Head of School at Akiba Yavneh in Dallas, shares an experiential approach to teaching rabbinics, making the learning authentic and connecting it to real life (XBM - Experiential Beit Midrash).

Keystones: Rethinking Tanach Pedagogy with Amira Soleimani and Laura Pasek

Sharing an approach to teaching Torah, based on research-based practices in literacy instruction, that aims to cultivate a love of Torah and seeing the Torah as a guide for life.

Keystones: Re-Envisioning Tefillah Education through Virtual Reality with Oren Kaunfer

Oren Kaunfer, Madrich Ruchani at JCDS Boston, shares an approach to engaging students in tefilah through the use of virtual reality, exploring the question of how where you pray affects how you pray.