Cheder Darchai Limud

This past year, we continued servicing children in individualized groups at either their school location or at a private learning center away from their school. They received support in their academic studies using skill based learning. These children were children who have experienced academic failure and have some kind of learning or behavioral weakness. For children previously at-risk, their gain in academic skill level and taste of school success has greatly impacted their overall self confidence and self esteem. These children have been able to succeed in the mainstream setting with support, sometimes exceeding their peers. We have continued to put emphasis on working with some of the same students for multiple years which has allowed a greater effect on each child and also furthered longitudinal research to develop effective methods and materials. This has allowed us to help these students throughout more years of their development and helped us further our longitudinal research.

The organization has worked to expand our reach for the products we currently have, employing various marketing strategies as well as participating at an educators' conference for this purpose. We were able to successfully reach more new schools including existing schools using more products of the curriculum and making it part of their school syllabus.

In August 2015, the organization began publishing the curriculum and promoting it to schools and parents in the wider community. This included a Hebrew reading curriculum and Hebrew Bible Curriculum. The Hebrew reading curriculum is highly graphical, engaging and hands on and textbooks on other Hebrew subjects including Bible and Hebrew language. The Hebrew reading curriculum gives parents and schools the option of remediating reading disabilities using a DIY series of workbooks that have all the professional techniques that specialists use laid out in fun-filled exercises with clear instructions. This has proven to be highly effective and spares the parents the need to spend thousands of dollars on remedial programs. Remedial tutors also like using it as it makes their work more effective. The Hebrew Bible curriculum is designed in such a way that the content and architecture of the curriculum allows schools to promote inclusion in their mainstream classroom, as the materials cleverly engage the weakest while simultaneously stimulating and challenging the brightest. This past year, we completed the 6th volume on Parshas Toldos. We are now working on the 7th and have 3 of them translated into Yiddish with the fourth on the way. We completed a new Talmud curriculum for the Jewish community. The first volume is a visual introduction to the Talmud. The next volume is an actual chapter of the Talmud (Tractate Berochos Chapter 4). This is an illustrative and engaging version of the Talmud. We are working on creating other chapters. The material is the selected parts that are typically taught in Jewish Day Schools.