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Project InCiTE’s 20 fellows are developing innovative new projects—focusing on teen engagement with Israel and Jewish peoplehood. Fellows received formal creativity training by SIT (Systematic Inventive Thinking) preceding and during the project design phase of the program. We are pleased to share what we have learned through our experiences during Project InCiTE, and invite you to glean insights from the perspectives of innovation and Israel education.

Dina Weinstein writes in the JTA newsletter about the nine fellows from the Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life traveling around the South to provide professional Jewish educational resources to small Jewish communities that don't have them. The two-year fellowship program started nine years ago to reach out to isolated Jewish communities in the American South. Without the Jewish population and knowledge base of larger urban areas, the communities often have religious schools run by all-volunteer staffs, including parents with little or no formal educational training. The fellows, who work with communities on a standard curriculum of Jewish learning, split their time among 72 congregations and 59 schools in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia.

PELIE, the Partnership for Effective Learning in Education, believes it is vital for complementary Jewish educators to understand the potential of educational technology in order to better connect with their learners. In light of this belief, PELIE is awarding fourteen fellowships for the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) 2011 conference, taking place on June 26-29, in Philadelphia, PA. ISTE's annual conference and exposition is the world's premier educational technology event, where 20,000 enthusiastic education and technology professionals from 60 countries unite for four days of professional learning and collaboration.

One hundred exemplary North American college graduates will be chosen to teach in underprivileged communities in Israel for a 10-month service program in Israel, Masa Israel Journey announced recently. In order to address Israel’s educational inequity and the widespread underperformance of youth in low-income communities, Masa Israel Journey and the Israeli Ministry of Education are launching Israel Teaching Fellows to serve as volunteer English teachers throughout Israel. The inaugural program will begin in August, 2011; applicants will be notified of their acceptance in May, 2011.