May 2016: Welcome to our New Newsletter! 

New Layout, New Navigation, Same Stellar

ISJL ​Education Team Enthusiasm! 

Welcome to our new Education Newsletter! We're excited to now be able to include excerpts and alerts via email, along with full articles available online. Check out the headlines and teaser-information on each article below, and click Read More to get the whole story... and, of course, if you love the new look or have any issues with the new navigation, or any other comments, email Rabbi Matt Dreffin anytime to share your feedback. 

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​Education Conference 2016 - GET READY! 

What are you doing June 26-28? Nothing? Great! We have plans for you!

​About 175 of your closest friends will be gathering in Jackson, Mississippi for the annual ISJL Education Conference and YOU ARE INVITED!!! ​Read More...

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What You Said!

Rather than tell you how great the ISJL Education Conference is... we decided we'd just let past conference attendees do it for us. So, in the words of your peers (or maybe your own words!), here's what you have to look forward to when we convene in Jackson this summer. Read More... 

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Let's Get Wild: Wild Card Sessions

We offer a set of Wild Card sessions at every Education Conference. For these sessions, we give our speakers, presenters, vendors, and entertainers full reign. The Wild Card sessions are a chance for conference attendees to learn about a wide range of topics from passionate experts. Read More...

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Beyond The Official Sessions

Do you remember the times in elementary school when your class would line up and go from the main classroom to a special area in the school? A time to schmooze and catch up with friends before returning to our regularly scheduled programming. Well, we've got something like that at the conference. Read More...

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Experimental Min'yanim

What do these nine things have in common: Broadway musicals, nature walks, jazzercise, improv comedy, laughter yoga; reality TV, blockbuster hits, and world geography. Stumped? I’ll help you out: all of them have been themes for the experimental min’yanim showcased at the ISJL’s Education Conference in the past few years. Read More... 

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Study Hall

Study Hall has gotten way cooler since high school. At the conference study halls, Fellows run engaging and informative workshops through which participants receive concrete and practical tips to best use the ISJL resources and set their schools up for success during the upcoming year of religious school. Read More...

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Meet Our Keynote Speaker...

​Ron Wolfson, Evie Rotstein, Sam Joseph, Jonathan Krasner, Kerry Olitzky, Jeff Kress, Harlene Winnick Appelman. What do all of these names have in common besides being among the leaders in the Jewish educational world? They have all been the guest keynote speakers at the annual ISJL Education Conference. Who will this year's speaker be? Read More...