Kaleidoscope Initiatives

Ohr Hadash – Enhancing our Tefila/Prayer, Developing our Social and Emotional Skills

admin — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 08:17:46 +0000

Ohr Hadash connects our tefiila/prayer to our everyday lives, making it more meaningful. Today it is being implemented in schools in Israel as well as in synagogues in the United States.

Active Citizenship – Enhancing our Commitment to the Community

admin — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 08:23:30 +0000

In the context of in-service workshops for educators and student workshops, this Kaleidoscope initiative focuses on developing understanding of how governments work and of the benefits and responsibilities of citizenship.

Ehab Kadah

admin — Sun, 16 May 2010 12:43:36 +0000

Ehab was brought up in Kfar Manda, in the Lower Galillee, where he continues to live today. He has earned a BA degree from Tel Aviv University in Health Care and a Master’s degree from there as well in Educational Psychology and Counseling. He brings the knowledge he has gleaned at university together with five years experience working with teens in the field of multiculturalism. Ehab joined the Kaleidoscope staff in 2007 as coordinator of Northern programs, program mentor, and advisor to programming related to the Arab sector.

Sivan Danino

chana — Thu, 13 May 2010 17:14:16 +0000

“The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.” -Plato

Sivan joined the staff of Kaleidoscope in 2006, when she became the coordinator and facilitator of early childhhod porgrams in Lod and Ramle. She brings with her various experiences working with youth-at-risk and children, primarily iin Lod which is home for Sivan. Today, Sivan is studying for a degree in Behvaioral Sciences. She serves as the organinzation’s Program Coordinator and facilitator of Kaleidoscope acitivities in settings such as Barkai, fostering acceptance between Arab and Jewish children, and in Kiryat Malachi, fostering acceptance between religious and secular children.

Workshops

admin — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:32:38 +0000

Chana Zweiter, Kaleidoscope’s founder, recently facilitated workshops in New York at the Summer Institute co-sponsored by the Center for Social and Emotional Education and The City University of New York, School of Professional Studies.

Kaleidosport

admin — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:45:30 +0000

Kaleidosport expands programming, linking sports and Kaleidoscope, educating kids on and off the courts to be more responsible and respectful.

Chana Zweiter

admin — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:02:38 +0000

Chana Zweiter is Founding Director of The Rosh Pina Mainstreaming Network, the organization that created the Kaleidoscope approach. Dedicated to promoting caring learning environments and the social and emotional competencies that they are made up of, Chana promotes the approach as a facilitator of in-service workshops for educators and parents, in Israel and abroad. Before moving to Jerusalem in 1991, Chana founded and directed the Yachad program, integrating children and youth with special needs into the American Jewish community. Chana has served as educational consultant to various foundations including the Ted Arison Family Foundation and earned a BA from Yeshiva University and an MA from New York University. Chana Zweiter is Founding Director of The Rosh Pina Mainstreaming Network, the organization that created the Kaleidoscope approach. Dedicated to promoting caring learning environments and the social and emotional competencies that they are made up of, Chana promotes the approach as a facilitator of in-service workshops for educators and parents, in Israel and abroad.Before moving to Jerusalem in 1991, Chana founded and directed the Yachad program, integrating children and youth with special needs into the American Jewish community. Chana has served as educational consultant to various foundations including the Ted Arison Family Foundation and earned a BA from Yeshiva University and an MA from New York University.

Naama Arazi

admin — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:51:15 +0000

A resident of Modiin, Naama joined the staff of Kaleidoscope as a program facilitator in 2000, working with children, helping them to accept one another. Her training in Community Theater for which she received a degree from Tel Aviv University, has empowered her with many skills which she has applied to Kaleidoscope. Today, Naama focuses her experience and expertise in developing programsand in training and mentoring facilitators.