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ARJE In Conversation: What Can We Learn from Listening to Kids? Student Voice in Congregational Jewish Education

October 27, 2026 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM (EDT)

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October 27 Dr. Esther S. Friedman
What Can We Learn from Listening to Kids? Student Voice in Congregational Jewish Education 

About this session: As congregational schools grapple with declining enrollment, what might we learn by asking children themselves about their experiences? In a study conducted in partnership with CASJE and the Jewish Education Center of Cleveland, Dr. Esther Friedman listened directly to children and teens about what draws them in, what pushes them away, what they value about congregational school, and what might make them want to stay.


This session will share key findings from the study, with a particular focus on what educators can learn from listening to students in their own settings. Drawing on both her research and her years as a classroom educator, Esther will also share practical approaches for eliciting children's perspectives in ways that move beyond simply asking, “What do you like?” Participants will consider how student voice can help educators better understand children's experiences and use what they hear to inform their own practice.


About the presenter: Dr. Esther S. Friedman is the founder and principal of OMEC Consulting, where she works with Jewish educational organizations on research, evaluation, and professional learning. She lectures and serves as a doctoral academic advisor at American Jewish University, is a Research Associate at the Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education at Brandeis University, and is Book Review Editor of the Journal of Jewish Education. Esther completed a CASJE postdoctoral research fellowship after earning her PhD in Jewish education from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Before moving into research and teacher education, she spent many years as a Tanakh educator and department chair at TanenbaumCHAT in Toronto, where her work included curriculum development, teacher mentoring, and instructional leadership. She is also a graduate of the Mandel Teacher Educator Institute (MTEI). Her research focuses on listening closely to the experiences of teachers and students and translating those perspectives into work that is useful to educators, and has produced publications for both scholarly and practitioner audiences.

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