Words to Live By: Matan’s Divrei Torah Initiative
A former Matan Board member and accomplished self-advocate, Jason Lieberman, believes that contained within EVERY Torah portion is a message of inclusion. We have have published several of [...]
Teach Your Children to Be Accepting of Disabilities
Written by Lisa Friedman, Matan’s Manager of Social Media and Alumni Networks. It’s not hard to teach our children to be accepting of disabilities. Children are naturally eager and excited to [...]
Parashat Va-et’nachan – Teach These Words Diligently To Your Children
During the month of February (Jewish Disability Awareness Month) Matan shares a weekly d’var torah linking inclusion to the upcoming Torah portion. We say often that JDAM may only be one month, [...]
What We All Lose When We Don’t Include
Written by Shira Hochheimer, a version of this post appeared on the blog of Yeshiva University and the author’s personal blog, Chinuch ENERGY! As a child, I was fortunate to attend a day [...]
Teaching Diversity AND Inclusion: The Egg Activity
There’s a terrific image on Pinterest for teaching diversity: photo credit: KidsActivitiesBlog.com It speaks for itself, right? Here is an activity based on the above image that will not only [...]
Building Trust in a Classroom
How can we build this kind of trust in our classrooms? Rarely use the word “wrong” Students need to know that you won’t press a buzzer every time they make a comment or ask a question, no matter [...]
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