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Tanenbaum Education is proud to offer a range of synchronous and asynchronous opportunities to build your skills and comfort with inclusive education. Browse our opportunities to bring professional development, consultation, webinars, or e-learning experiences to your community.

Tanenbaum professionals are always available to design custom programming for your community. Contact us at [email protected].

Professional Development

Our professional development workshops provide educators and education professionals with a wide array of pedagogical and professional skills. Workshops are available as one-hour, 90-minute, and two-hour sessions and can be delivered remotely or in-person.

Recipients of Tanenbaum’s professional development expertise include New York City Public Schools, the Harmony Program, the Partnership for After School Education, the Children’s Museum Houston, among others.

Current professional development trainings include:

1. Discussing Difference: Transforming Conflict to Build Respect in Our Diverse World

Transforming Conflict to Build Respect in Our Diverse World

  • Learn how to teach skills for encountering difference with respect.
  • Explore how identity and communication shape conflict situations.
  • Practice different approaches to engaging in school-based conflict.
2. Interacting with Religious Diversity
  • Learn important historical and contemporary trends in American religious landscapes.
  • Explore teaching strategies to build an inclusive classroom culture.
  • Practice actionable ideas for supporting diverse religious identities.
3. Building a Respectful Classroom
  • Learn how to create and sustain respectful learning communities throughout the year.
  • Explore strategies for building an inclusive educational community.
  • Practice respectful communication.
4. Religious and Cultural Literacy for Public School Communities
  • Learn best practices for teaching about religion in public schools.
  • Explore how teaching about religion enriches academic, social, and emotional learning.
5. Cultivating a Culturally Responsive Social Studies Classroom
  • Learn to layer communication skills into curricula.
  • Explore ways to transform interpersonal conflict into opportunities for building respect.
  • Practice using historical and contemporary events to teach about conflict transformation.

School Workshops

Tanenbaum Education staff want to help you create a school-wide culture of respect. We will partner with your school or educational institution to design a customized learning plan that will bring benefits to your entire community.

Our services include:

  • Needs assessments to determine community growth areas.
  • Workshops for students, faculty, and/or parents, on topics related to religious identity and diversity.
  • “Train the trainer” workshops that empower faculty and staff to extend student learning.
  • Follow-up work, including recommendations and training on additional educational resources.

Our partners include public, independent, and religious schools including the Trevor Day School, the Academy of Mount Saint Ursula, Gaynor McCown Expeditionary Learning School, New World High School, the Lycée Français de New York, among others.

Peace in Practice

Peace in Practice: A Narrative-based Approach to Teaching Empathy

Today’s students see outrage, division, and misinformation in the news, online, and sometimes in their personal and academic experiences. The question is: What are we teaching them about how to respond?

If we begin with understanding ourselves and others – the first evidence-based step of peacebuilders worldwide – we can show a way for our school communities to put peacebuilding into practice. Let’s equip them to listen, care, and build peace.

The Parents Circle – Families Forum and the Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding are partnering to help schools teach the communication skills that matter most in conflict:

  • Listening
  • Empathy
  • Dialogue
  • Reflection
  • Rebuilding

Peace in Practice brings K-12 educators a rich set of customizable pedagogical tools from two gold-standard resources.

  1. Transforming Conflict – Tanenbaum resources with turn-key lessons curated to bring teaching about understanding differences and similarities in identity, belief, and ways of belonging into classroom curriculum and culture.
  2. Listening from the Heart: Parents Circle – Families Forum
    Stories from bereaved Israeli and Palestinian families who chose reconciliation over revenge, paired with student-ready activities. If people who have lost loved ones to violence can choose peace, so can we—and so can our students.

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Webinars

Our webinars provide deep dives on Tanenbaum’s educational resources and important topics related to inclusive education about religion. Click on the links below to get started.

Religious Diversity in the Classroom

Learn ways to create and modify lessons plans so they address religious diversity and be prepared to facilitate classroom discussions about religious diversity and beliefs. Each webinar will offer a variety of helpful tools and an after-session resource pack filled with turnkey tips and lesson plans.

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World Olympics for All

Tanenbaum makes it easy for educators to teach about respect for the world’s cultural and religious diversity with a free six-part webinar series. This series is based on our creative, academically integrated World Olympics curriculum. Step-by-step strategies and turnkey resources let you implement a fun and engaging program that meets learning standards and promotes both physical and socio-emotional health.

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E-learning

Tanenbaum’s e-learning experiences are designed to allow you to explore topics related to religious diversity at your own pace. Email us at [email protected] to learn more.

Click here to begin your e-learning experience (password required).