2022-05-16T23:13:39-07:00 2021-06-30 990EZ 2020-07-01 731685391 JEWISH SPIRITUAL LITERACY INC JEWI 4104009820 3700 Menlo Drive Baltimore MD 21215 Alexander Seinfeld Chairman 4104009820 2022-05-16 1 11 1 AAL2 2020 2022-09-23 18:48:47Z X www.jsli.org X X 158771 X 139717 18986 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 68 0 68 0 158771 400 0 0 110781 4484 289 22105 138059 20712 17891 0 38603 X 13053 38904 0 0 5322 5921 18375 44825 484 6222 17891 38603 Educational products and services, including seminars, printed materials, electronic materials, audio and visual materials. EDUCATING EDUCATORS - We continued to expand the quantity and quality of the J-IDEA teacher training program's 10 major content categories: Jewish Holidays, Art of Amazement, Esoteric, Marriage, Ritual, Ethics, Meditation & Prayer, Texts, History and Miscellaneous. In addition, we directly trained and mentored another cohort of 8 educators, increasing their skills at implementing experiential learning, and their thousands of students. JSL pedagogy provided them with fresh and innovative ways to motivate students in learning and develop their respect and love of Judaism. Participants register for free at jewishspirituality.net. 0 2000 JTI - The Jewish Teachers Institute - In its fourth year, the Pandemic slowed but did not stop this project to train and mentor teachers for Jewish day schools. We Zoom-trained 10 teachers serving approximately 250 students, with added modules on distance-teaching. The JTI "New Teacher Boot Camp" includes: model and practice a Harry Wong-informed classroom management method, simple concrete indicators of successful teaching (following Thomas Sergiovanni's and Elliot Eisner's models of professional standards), lesson planning and assessments, principles of visual and differentiated instruction and hands-on engagement, effective use of textbooks A/V resources and other technologies; with specific curricular support as well. All participants increased their knowledge and skills in one or more of the above categories. JTI-trained teachers increased their classroom effectiveness and were more likely to continue teaching. 700 2000 E-LEARNING - Our daily video Torah classes continued uninterrupted throughout the Pandemic. Our weekly "Table Talk" entered its fourteenth year, bringing food for thought and discussion to thousands of Friday night dinner tables worldwide. 18080 25000 MEDIA DISTRIBUTION - Our worldwide book distribution slowed but did not stop during the Pandemic, including the best-selling "Art of Amazement: Discover Judaism's Forgotten Spirituality" in two languages, the "Art of Amazement Haggada" and the Bar Mitzvah Album, found at barmitzvahalbum.com. Thousands of visitors found quality books and toys via our searchable site, bestjewishkidsbooks.com. 0 0 AMAZING NATURE FOR TEACHERS - NIFLA'OT - MA RABU! - The Pandemic significantly slowed this innovative program that empowers teachers across the curriculum with the wonders of nature in order to increase their students' joy of learning and sense of connectedness to the classroom and to life. The three versions enable the materials to be used in any classroom across the curriculum. This year we devoted our marketing exclusively to Jewish summer camps. 1000 1000 TORAH HEALTH AND FITNESS - Torah Health and Fitness is a response to a growing awareness that the Jewish community has not paid enough attention to this mitzvah. We have the same health stats as the general public including tragic levels of preventable conditions such as diabetes and cardio-vascular disease. Our mission as the Jewish People is greatly handicapped because we are not meeting this challenge. Yet we have tremendous Torah wisdom and medical knowledge on how to improve this situation! We have 3,000 years of wisdom on this subject, but until now it has been scattered across many books, most of which have never been translated. In partnership with doctors and dietitians, the program includes current medical information (with references to medical literature) on what is known about nutrition, exercise, weight loss and longevity. We hope that this combination of Torah wisdom and medical knowledge will increase awareness of how vital and easy it is to eat and exercise (etc.) healthfully and to increase the holiness with which we treat our bodies, and thereby keep Jews out of the hospital, nursing homes, and wheelchairs for preventable reasons. While Jewishly-focused, our long-term goal is to help anyone of any background achieve improvements in health, wellbeing and longevity. This year we continued to revise and pilot the materials with various audiences across the Jewish spectrum with a goal of launching in 2022. 7156 3360 GADLUS HA-ADAM - This after-school program for elementary and middle-school children uses music and other arts to engage them Jewishly. 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