CATE+Minutes+October+2009

Type in the content of your page here. CATE Minutes October 21, 2009 Meeting was opened at 10:50 AM by Judy Spicehandler

In attendance:Ari Miffic, Alan Sufrin, Rolly Cohen, Judy Spicehandler, Marcia Cohen Shari Granat, Marci Dickman, Lori Sagarin, Vanessa Ehrlich, Sandy Robbins, Alan Levin, Judi Berliner, Leslie Weiss, Richard Prass, Jeff Kondritzer, Anne Stein, Judy Jury, Sharon Morton, Geoff Prass

The D'var Torah was presented by Lori Sagarin and related to Noah, new beginnings, transitions, second chances and graditude. CFJE:** Leslie Weiss distributed and went over current and upcoming information from the CFJE. Handout included different seminars and courses. For more information, please go on the Community Foundation for Jewish Education web site, cfje.org
 * Reports:
 * Chavayah Report**: Chavayah will take place at Temple Chai in Long Grove, on January 31, 2010. Jeff kondritzer will host. Lori Sagarin suggested that we hire someone to help organize the program (as it was done in the past.) Ari Moffic suggested a "God" theme. A meeting will be set to discuss the details for Chavayah. Please check the Wikipage for details of a future meeting.
 * Jewish Healing Network:** Tracy Kite presented //the G'vurah// Curriculum from the Jewish Healing Network. Marcia Cohen and Judy Sprichandler bothe previewed this curriculum in grades 4-6 and reported on their experiences in using this curriculum. A question and answer session followed and Tracy invited other schools to use this curriculum. The curriculum is on the web and taining is only about an hour. For more information, please contact Tracy, Tracykite@JCFS.org
 * BJE:** Rolly Cohen prsented the BJE calendar of events and a preview for Brunchbites.Alan Sufrin spoke about technology at the BJE and workshops that will target the use of technology in our schools, including how to make use of iphones, computors, notebooks, etc.
 * Foundation for Jewish Camp**: Jennifer Flink presented information about Jewish camps and creating Jewish campers. She spoke about Jewish Camp Coupons, Jewish Camping Scholarships and incentives. Jennifer has promoted OSURI and provided all CATE members at the meeting with posters to be placed in our schools and congregations. She is willing to come to any congregation to help inform and promote Jewish camping

Our next CATE meeting is December 16 at Lakeside Congregation 1221 Lake Cook Road, Highland Park at 9:45AM
 * New Business:** We will be billed for our CATE dues in the near future

This part of the meeting adjourned at 11:05 After the CATE meeting, we met with Terry Kaye and David Behrman of Behrman House. They presented a session on how Jewish education has change over the decades and how it will continue to change with the use of technology. They presented an informative power-point Digital Learning vs Traditional Teaching, and answered many questions we had as to how congregational schools throughout the United States and Canada are using technology to reach students.