Note that the original recording was edited at the beginning, so the chat timing will be off. If a chat-question is asked in the video, you may need to scroll to find the responses, below. The baseline time (14:10:12) represents 2:10 pm Eastern. 14:10:12 From Temple Menorah : Prayer literacy 14:10:12 From Stacy Rigler she/her : Familiarity with the prayer service 14:10:21 From Rachel Opatowsky she/her : Competence and confidence in leading prayer 14:10:23 From Hazzan Diana Brewer : My primary driver is for understanding the content 14:10:27 From Lisa Goldstein : Community 14:10:27 From Sarah Lauing : Confidence when entering adult prayer spaces later in life 14:10:28 From Zoie Utterback : Community 14:10:29 From Temple Menorah : Comfort with leading prayers in front of a congregation 14:10:31 From hearts4julie : we want the students to be familiar with the prayers that all Jews 14:10:32 From mcohen : Goals: understanding general meaning, connection to the words, how does it mean something to "me" 14:10:35 From susancosden : Sacred dialogues with self, others, Jews around the world, and with God 14:10:37 From hearts4julie : COmfort 14:10:39 From Jacob Glickman : How to pray, what prayer is, context for each individual prayer 14:10:40 From Temple Menorah : FUN 14:10:46 From Hazzan Diana Brewer : Finding personal connection 14:10:53 From Barbara Fink : comfort leading and participating 14:10:59 From hearts4julie : meaning to me and how to share it with others 14:11:06 From Stefanie Heller : Being able to participate fully in services and also being able to connect personally - to learn how to think about prayer, understanding that it is (can be) a journey 14:15:00 From Jewish Education Center of Cleveland : https://torahaura.com/stories-we-pray 14:15:31 From mcohen : how are you making sure they internalize the words? 14:16:35 From Leslie Bright : we taught our students to 'sign' the Sh'ma…. 14:17:11 From Hazzan Diana Brewer : Students write their own versions of tefillot 14:17:32 From Hazzan Diana Brewer : Also make artwork 14:17:41 From Temple Menorah : Students add their own gratitude statements for Nisim b'Chol Yom/Birkot haShachar 14:17:51 From Lisa Goldstein : I choose one prayer each week to discuss, read/tell a story about, do a project on, etc. 14:17:57 From mcohen : I had the kids in the choir, 3-6 grade write a sidduer with intro's to the prayers 14:18:30 From Stacy Rigler she/her : Kids siddurim are a great example! As are stories/projects 14:21:07 From Hazzan Diana Brewer : Monthly shabbat services where kids participate in leadership 14:21:31 From Temple Menorah : Student and their parents take turns giving a mini-dvar Torah 14:21:39 From Sarah Lauing : Focused check in at the beginning for our small weekday group 14:21:49 From susancosden : We have divided the students into four houses to build relationships between students of various grades. We do specific activities during the Tefillah session. 14:21:49 From hearts4julie : buddy system with younger and older students 14:21:52 From Zoie Utterback : We have created “T’filah teams” for our midweek Hebrew sessions where older and younger students are grouped together to pray and discuss 14:22:23 From mcohen : We have 400 kids in a room......this is not always so easy :) 14:22:40 From mcohen : we do both 14:23:18 From mcohen : we often have 6th graders lead to practice for BM and we include choir kids in leading 14:24:38 From Lisa Goldstein : We have a total of 15 kids when everyone shows up so everything we do is community building! I’m really concerned and hoping that will continue when we do it virtually this week! 14:26:05 From hearts4julie : Also concerned about how to keep this community feeling and t’fillah virtually 14:27:52 From Leslie Bright : How many days/week do Conservative schools meet for Hebrew school? 14:28:35 From Stacy Rigler she/her : ours is two days 14:30:24 From mcohen : our Head of school has a letter for the week and on the visual T'fillah that letter is highlighted 14:30:30 From mcohen : in every prayer 14:30:46 From Nicki Greninger : i like that! 14:30:58 From Zoie Utterback : That’s a really neat idea! Thanks for sharing 14:31:28 From hearts4julie : love the visual t’fillah and letter of the week 14:32:09 From mcohen : she also makes an adorable video every week that's maybe 10 seconds, cartoon video, of a Hebrew phrase and the teachers practice it throughout their day. If "nun" is the letter of the week, the phrase is "N'siah Tova" 14:32:40 From hearts4julie : are any of those videos shareable 14:33:31 From Jewish Education Center of Cleveland : I really encourage everyone to use HTM to help children learn key words in t'fillot. Some places stop at the Foundational and/or Holiday lessons, but there's great power in using HTM for prayers/blessings. 14:34:04 From mcohen : what is HTM 14:34:16 From Stacy Rigler she/her : HTM = Hebrew through ovement 14:34:16 From mcohen : hebrew through movement? 14:34:18 From mcohen : :) 14:34:28 From Barbara Fink : how long are your tfilah experiences? 14:34:59 From Leslie Bright : How does HTM work when lacking teachers who 'know' Hebrew? 14:35:57 From Jewish Education Center of Cleveland : Hebrew Through Movement - if you want more info, contact me offline - nmoskowitz@jecc.org 14:36:03 From Stacy Rigler she/her : Our t’fillah is 20-30 min 14:37:42 From hearts4julie : loving all of these great ideas, but how do we do this virtually for the next few months to continue all this wonderful stuff 14:39:34 From Nicki Greninger : https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nxH92s_SkHcPHS2ayD3oYz92NvaEIJJmme-4wuyLi54/edit?usp=sharing 14:40:51 From hearts4julie : can you email thie tips document out please 14:41:02 From Zoie Utterback : can you share the screen? 14:41:08 From Jacob Glickman : It is just view 14:41:28 From hearts4julie : thank you 14:45:16 From Stacy Rigler she/her : https://blog.joelmhoffman.com/2009/12/09/the-role-of-transliteration-in-the-synagogue/ 14:46:34 From Jacob Glickman : Sorry friends, I have to hop off. As a parting shot, I highly recommend Priya Parker’s book “The Art of Gathering”— it’s the best type of guidebook for this kind of work! Enjoy! 14:47:49 From Temple Menorah : We're going to use Padlets, so kids can have access to text and recordings as well as post their own videos and responses 14:47:53 From Jewish Education Center of Cleveland : What specific ideas do you all have for this in a virtual setting? Let's brainstorm 14:57:30 From Leslie Bright : What is JQuest? 14:57:53 From Stacy Rigler she/her : JQuest is a name for the education program, wanted something different than religious school. 14:58:12 From Stacy Rigler she/her : Both Nicki and I independently chose that name, I think we are the only ones that use it 14:59:04 From Stacy Rigler she/her : So glad to see you all and connect around this learning. It’s a crazy time and so nice to be able to study and think together 14:59:34 From Stacy Rigler she/her : https://www.onwardhebrew.org 14:59:50 From Temple Menorah : Thank you 15:00:14 From hearts4julie : Thank you everyone. Everyone stay healthy and safe 15:00:17 From rrabeeya : thank you for this valuable time together; much to think about 15:00:18 From Nicki Greninger : Really nice to be with everyone! I know it’s hard to focus on this, especially in a long-term way, while we’re all trying to figure out our new reality. So thank you for being here and thinking about these things amidst the chaos! :) 15:00:35 From Stacy Rigler she/her : https://www.facebook.com/groups/194398270732234/ 15:00:38 From Sarah Lauing : Thank you! Appreciate the opportunity to think beyond the present moment! 15:01:16 From mcohen : Thanks for doing this through all this craziness!