Past Issues of Think

Spring 2024 - Issue No. 33

This issue of Think explores what it looks like to put ethics and values into action. Read more...

Fall 2023 - Issue No. 32

This issue of Think explores Mah Tovu: How Goodly are your Tents and the importance of keeping clear focus and perspective. Read more...

Spring 2023 - Issue No. 31

This issue of Think explores rituals, recipes, and freedom. Read more...

Fall 2022 - Issue No. 30

This issue of Think explores the marvel of method or how we do what we do. Read more...

Fall 2021 - Issue No. 29

This issue of Think explores the ordinary and the extraordinary of daily life. Read more...

Spring 2021 - Issue No. 28

This issue of Think explores the moon - what is lit up and what is behind. Read more...

Fall 2020 - Issue No. 27

This issue of Think explores the way we tell stories and teach history to children. Read more...

Spring 2020 - Issue No. 26

This issue of Think explores the individuality of the child and the beauty of community. Read more...

Fall 2019 - Issue No. 25

This issue of Think explores how we talk and the messages that we send to children through words, deeds, and numbers. Read more...

Spring 2019 - Issue No. 24

This issue of Think explores complexity and how we develop complex thinking in children. Read more...

Fall 2018 - Issue No. 23

This issue of Think explores educational approaches to nurturing wonder and developing scientific thinkers. Read more...

Spring 2018 - Issue No. 22

This issue of Think explores commitment and the educational training that supports children to become strong deep thinkers. Read more...

Fall 2017 - Issue No. 21

This issue of Think explores how integration helps children make sense of the world around them. Read more...

Spring 2017 - Issue No. 20

This issue of Think honours and highlights teachers who are inspiring their students to reach for social justice through teaching about the students' heritage, culture, and/or religion. Read more...

Fall 2016 - Issue No. 19

This issue of Think considers imagination and sees children and teachers contemplating possibilities, envisioning their potential, and discovering themselves. Read more...

Spring 2016 - Issue No. 18

This issue of Think looks at the art and science of focus. Our writers consider how children can learn focus, and how Jewish tradition, classroom teaching, and family life contribute to children's sense of self and ability to learn and focus. Read more...

Fall 2015 - Issue No. 17

In this issue of Think our writers reflect on learning and belonging, and aspire to an educational environment that cultivates confidence, insightfulness, and initiative. Read more...

Fall / Winter 2014-15 - Issue No. 16

Fall/winter 2014/2015 - Issue No. 16

In this issue of Think our writers consider what is personal and internal – the mind and not the brain, individual identity and not social definition, the management of perspectives and not information. They write about connections and patterns that are forming inside our children as they learn and mature. Read more...

Spring 2014 - Issue No. 15

This issue of Think contemplates several themes that run through "Weapons of the Spirit". The writer, producer, and director Paul Sauvage uses the story of "Le Chambon" to cogently demonstrate what good values, good training, and good work look like. Our writers address a teacher's focus on the individual child, on the importance to elicit from each student the habit of creative response, and how both this attentiveness and this encouragement connect to moral and ethical responsibility.
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Fall 2013 - Issue No. 14

Spring 2013 - Issue No. 13

In school settings, the word "integration" perhaps calls to mind the desegregation of American schools during the civil rights movement or departments of interdisciplinary studies at universities. Today integration speaks to reframing ideas by widening their scope, enhancing topics through context and purpose. In this issue of think, our contributors fill the canvas with integrated studies.
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Fall 2012 - Issue No. 12

Each of us hopes that the work we do and the life we live is of value: not only for the present but also for the future. We hope that the efforts we put forth to help our families, our communities, and our broader society will in some way endure, and will not simply dissolve in the shifting sands of time.
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Spring 2012 - Issue No. 11

We live in an age of distracted living. Superficial descriptions and buzzwords send us sailing in crazy directions. Eat this. Don't eat that. Exercise for half an hour. Never sit down. In the school world, trendiness sees the phrase "critical thinking" bounce around like a new age technique, computers are touted as essential learning tools, and ecology is a fashion.
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Fall 2011 - Issue No. 10

For some parents, enrolling their children in Jewish Day School education is a clear choice. Family tradition, strong adherence to Judaism as a religion, attachment to the land of Israel or the Hebrew language are all reasons that some families would only choose a Jewish Day School education for their children.
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Spring/Summer 2011 - Issue No. 9

Spring / Summer 2011 - Issue No. 9

"It was child's play!" The phrase implies an activity accomplished with ease and enjoyment, a goal achieved without stress. Digging a deep hole at the beach is fun, even if it requires work and perseverance."
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Fall 2010 - Issue No. 8

"Recently in a store selling "educational" books, games and software for children, a child of five or six years attracted my attention. He was completely absorbed in a computer activity."
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Spring 2010 - Issue No. 7

Fall 2009 - Issue No. 6

"One day last June two very excited children proudly entered my office. They were carrying a plate of salad, but this was no ordinary offering of lunch for the Principal. This was the annual culmination of a math unit on measurement."
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Spring / Summer 2009 - Issue No. 5

"In his book, SMART SCHOOLS: Better Thinking and Learning for Every Child, David Perkins writes that smart schools are informed, energetic and thoughtful. In smart schools, thinking is the center of the learning process. The Lola Stein Institute builds smart schools. The Toronto Heschel School is an excellent example."
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December 2008 - Issue No. 4

"A school that promotes excellence in education must understand the needs of the child in the 21st century."
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October 2008 - Issue No. 3

"To manage or to micromanage, that is the question! As our children grow year to year we want to make sure they develop all the skills they need to be successful and content. Some parents prepare the road for their children. Some prepare their children for the road..."
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June 2008 - Issue No. 2

"During the 1970's when I was immersed in teacher training, the "self-esteem" movement was in vogue. We read voraciously on the subject and learned that praising children was the thing to do. When little Johnny coloured enthusiastically, we hugged him and cheered...."
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March 2008 - Issue No. 1

"As I sit here at my desk, reflecting on the past 12 years, I am struck by the beautiful community that is The Toronto Heschel School..."
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