The Av and the Rav: A Timely and Timeless Lens on the Home/School Partnership With a weekly session with individual students, a biweekly meeting with the parents and a monthly conference with both parents and teachers, I spent the 1995-96 academic year participating in what was then known in the Teaneck Public School District as the Columbia Teaneck Collaboration Project. Created by my advisor at Columbia, this initiative was one where the school social worker, or in my case the social work intern, worked to facilitate a model where each voice in the life of the child contributed to presenting the broadest picture of the student’s daily experience and challenges. This collaborative team strategized and implemented plans for school and life success. The foundation of this approach is no secret. All school professionals know that the partnership of parents and teachers is critical to identifying and maximizing a student’s potential. Each knows a truth about the child that the o
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Mishnaic Lessons and the Land Masses: Amos Oz, Rabbi Bechaya and a School Geography Bee This week, here in school we held our annual KDS Geography Bee. Our students awed me as they displayed amazing GPS-like knowledge of the world in which we live. Truth be told, I, as a student, would never succeed in a geography bee. My sense of direction and maps is certainly not my strength to say the least. But as I witnessed these amazing kids, it brought to mind some or the more spiritual lessons I have learned from geographical metaphors that can help to guide our spiritual lives. From the Islands - Both John Donne and Simon and Garfunkel shared the view that no one can live a fulfilled life fully alone. From S and G’s angry, injured subject who strove to be an island who “never cries” to the famous “No man is an island” poem, islands have always symbolized a fierce, but unrealistic independence. It is an independence that waits for or relies on no one. And while it may be a v