The Kohelet Prize Database

Bamidbar Values Letter

In what may have been the most rewarding experience of my career, students chose three values learned from Sefer Bamidbar and wrote letters of gratitude to their parents for already helping them learn these values throughout their lives. Simultaneously, parents wrote value letters to their daughters. Parents and daughters exchanged letters on the same day in what ended up being a meaningful and emotional expression of what we hold dearest.

By: Mrs. Shira Greenspan from Ramaz Upper School

Grade(s): 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, Elementary school, Middle school, High school

Subject(s) of entry: History, Ivrit, Literature, Mishnah, Tanach

Pedagogy: PBL - project based learning, UBD - understanding by design, 21st Century Skills

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“Privileged Partner” – A Character Development (Midot) Curriculum

Using traditional Jewish texts, select video clips, case studies, stories and interactive projects "A Privileged Partner" is rooted in 3 over-arching "Big Ideas":

1. Character development (Midot) is not a subject, it is a way of life.

2. The power to change myself and the world is in MY hands.

3. The greater one’s potential, the greater one’s responsibility.

By: Rabbi Elazar Bloom from Brauser Maimonides Academy

Grade(s): 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, Elementary school, Middle school

Subject(s) of entry: Character Development

Pedagogy: UBD - understanding by design

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