Contact Joel Snyder, Bay Area Jewish Service Learning Project Director at 415.751.6983 x 126, to learn more.

In collaboration with the Spark Center for Jewish Service Learning at Jewish Funds for Justice, funded by the Richard & Rhoda Goldman Fund.

BJE Special Education Consultant Flora Kupferman is available to assist you in working successfully with all the children in your classroom.

If you are teaching a typical group of children, you might be interacting with students who pose behavioral challenges or who have a variety of learning disabilities, Attention Deficit Disorder, Asperger's Syndrome, or something without a specific description.

The Special Education Consultant is also available to come to schools to provide professional development workshops or courses on Sensitivity to Special Needs, Learning Styles and Multiple Intelligences, Teaching Hebrew to Children with Learning Disabilities, and other topics according to your needs.

Contact Flora Kupferman, 415.751.6983 x 122 for a consultation. You will receive resources, strategies, teaching tips, and a shoulder to cry on.

• Special Education Handbook
  The "Handbook for Special Education Programs in the Synagogue Schools" is designed for rabbis, educators, chairpersons of education committees, and other people who care about providing a meaningful Jewish educational experience to all children regardless of their abilities. Whether you want to start a dialog about special education, put a clear policy in place, or improve an existing program, you will find this handbook to be a valuable tool. It contains both general guidelines and specific forms.
  

  Click to download a pdf of the Handbook
  Click to download a word doc of Special Needs useful forms and reports

• Special Education Useful Links:
  LD Online Informative site about learning disabilities, filled with articles, news, research, ideas for teachers

  Specialed.about.com Large collection of articles about special education

  Schwablearning.org A Parents' Guide to Helping Kids with Learning Difficulties

  National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities

  Information Center on Disabilities and Gifted Education

  Battat Educational Resource Center catalog contains many special education books and resources.

Bay Area Jewish Educators Listserv (Edulist)
This discussion group allows educators throughout the Bay Area to share their queries, comments, and announcements about issues and events in Jewish education. It works only when there is active participation, so please don't be shy!

To subscribe to Edulist, send your e-mail requests to edulist2-request@npogroups.org.

More information about Edulist can be found at http://npogroups.org/lists/info/edulist2.

Association of Jewish Libraries, Jewish Values

Jewish Heritage online magazine (topic of the month)

Lehrhaus Judaica

Babaganewz provides lesson plans to accompany articles.

The Coalition for the Advancement of Jewish Education (CAJE) maintains an excellent curriculum bank.

E-Chinuch features a searchable database of thousands of copyright-free, educator-created materials in various areas of Jewish studies.

DataJem is a database of Jewish educational materials, searchable by subject, material type, age group, language, keywords, title, author, and publisher.

The Lookstein Center provides lesson plans on several topics, divided by grade levels.

Melton Arts is all about learning about Judaism through the Arts. Contains teaching units on Holidays, Bible, Israel, Prayer, Life Cycle and more.

Morim is a resource center with many programs and activities for community professionals.

The Jewish Education Service of North America's Sosland Resource Center contains an extensive searchable curriculum database.

Planitjewish.com Community event calendar.