2021-05-15T22:42:54-07:00 2020-06-30 990EZ 2019-07-01 731685391 JEWISH SPIRITUAL LITERACY INC JEWI 4104009820 3700 Menlo Drive Baltimore MD 21215 Alexander Seinfeld Chairman 4104009820 2021-05-15 2019 2022-09-23 18:48:47Z X www.jsli.org X X 116458 X 100906 15353 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 199 12 187 0 116446 1050 0 89700 47 4443 190 12489 107919 8527 9364 0 17891 X 3941 13053 0 0 5812 5322 9753 18375 389 484 9364 17891 Educational products and services, including seminars, printed materials, electronic materials, audio and visual materials. EDUCATING EDUCATORS - We increased the amount 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 10 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. 2000 115 JTI - The Jewish Teachers Institute - In its third year, this project to train and mentor teachers for Jewish day schools again trained 20 teachers serving approximately 500 students. While the largest schools sometimes have the resources to conduct in-house training and mentoring, the smaller schools typically do not. The JTI "New Teacher Boot Camp" included: 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. When the Pandemic began, we added training modules for distance-teaching skills. 7200 400 E-LEARNING - Our weekly "Table Talk" entered its thirteenth year, bringing food for thought and discussion to thousands of Friday night dinner tables worldwide. Our video Torah classes continued uninterrupted as the Pandemic began. 15000 45 MEDIA DISTRIBUTION - Our worldwide book distribution continued steadily, 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! - This program 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 expanded our marketing to Jewish summer camps with great success. 500 50 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 ran a pilot of this new program in order to test its efficacy. 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