Be’eri is excited to announce a new partnership with the Israeli Scouts (Tzofim), Israel’s largest national youth movement, which serves 80,000 students annually in more than 100 cities and towns throughout Israel.
The Be’eri-Israel Scouts Partnership Program will provide Scouts’ organizational leadership with a methodology that places Jewish-Israeli identity as one of the movement’s educational pillars for the first time ever. We believe that this will infuse the culture of Israel’s largest youth movement with a sense of Jewish identity that will empower participants – both Israeli youth and the movement’s leadership – to feel a greater sense of identification with and ownership of pluralistic Jewish-Israeli identity.
The partnership will create dedicated programs focusing on Jewish pluralism, social action, and leadership training that will empower Israeli youth to translate Jewish values into action while providing Be’eri with a significant opportunity to broaden its ecosystem through the introduction of informal curricula into a large structured organization. We will work primarily with change agents within the existing Scouts’ infrastructure—management, educational coordinators, and troop leaders—to effectively transmit Jewish content and pedagogy in the goal of building a movement-wide culture that places an emphasis on Jewish values.
This spring, Be’eri is holding two day-long training seminars for Scouts’ leadership on methodologies for instituting Jewish culture and values-based educational activities. In late Spring 2014, Be’eri will lead sessions in a day-long seminar will be held for the 400 troop leaders.
During the 2014-2015 academic year, the program will be implemented in full and will include year-long training for informal educators, a two-day seminar for 100 educational leaders, curriculum development, and a pilot of facilitation in municipalities in which Be’eri already has partnerships to support troop and regional leadership in implementing the new curriculum and methodologies.
This partnership is generously supported by UJA – Federation of New York.
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