Chana Zweiter

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.

As a teacher-learner, I have experienced how Kaleidoscope has changed school and home environments so that they are conducive to learning and behaving better. That goes for children and adults alike. By placing emphasis on developing social and emotional skills, on being a mensch, we have helped schools and playgrounds become safer and more comfortable places to be. And we have helped children become more respectful of one another – of the children in their own classes as well as those they do not have regular contact with such as Arab and Jewish children. That is why Kaleidoscope is so important to me.

Naama Arazi

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.

I see Kaleidoscope as a universal approach that affects all aspects of our lives. I believe that looking into the kaleidoscope and reflecting on its personal meaning, allows individuals to better understand themselves, to be aware of the many differences that exist within themselves and thus to make more effective decisions and choices.

Ehab Kadah

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.

In my eyes, the uniqueness of Kaleidoscope lies in its ability to see each child as a composite of a variety of characteristics and values without being judgmental.

Sivan Danino

“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.

My connection with Kaleidoscope is based on my belief that effective learning results from combining experience with processing. By working in cooperation with varioius educators, we can promote the development of the values and social skills that foster self-awareness that in-turn fosters awareness and acceptance of others.