Prizmah Podcasts: Playing in the Classroom, Not Just on the Playground

What would happen if schools thought of play as not just some fun release that takes place outside of the "serious" work, but as integral to the task of education? Learn what play is and why it's so important, and explore the ways that our schools incorporate play into different aspects of the student day. The conversation is inspired by the recent book A Moral Case for Play in K-12 Schools: The Urgency of Advancing Moral Ecologies of Play by Rabbi Judd Kruger Levingston, PhD.

Featuring Special Guests

A recent winner of a Covenant Award, Rabbi Judd Kruger Levingston PhD teaches Jewish studies and is an advisor to the Derech Eretz Council at the Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, serving grades 6 through 12, where he was director of Jewish Studies for 15 years.

Tamar Cytryn is the director of Judaic studies in the Lower School and Middle School at the Chicago Jewish Day School, serving students in junior Kindergarten through eighth grade.

Rabbi Stuart Light is the director of Jewish life and learning at Tarbut V'Torah Community Day School in Irvine, California, with grades TK through 12.

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