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Torah Home Education Conference -- registration now open!

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Oy, vey… I’d better be going.  It looks like they have me listed as a speaker this time around.  :-o

----- More exciting details follow! -----

We have opened registration for the Fourth Torah Home Education Conference!

You will spend the day learning from veteran home educators, meeting other Jews interested in living a family-based learning lifestyle, and be able to peruse and purchase homeschooling materials from local and national educational vendors.

We are proud to bring you:

  • · Evelyn Krieger, the author of the popular new novel, One is Not a Lonely Number, and veteran homeschooling mother.
  • · Mrs Deborah Beck talking about Integrating Kodesh and Chol: Secular Subjects and Torah - Two Sides of the Same Coin.
  • · Mrs. Robin Alberg presenting Remaining Focused In an Age of Digital Distractions. 
  • · Mrs. Susan Lapin teaching us the idea of VeShinantam Levanecha: Defining Torah Home Education.
  • · A Veteran Homeschoolers Panel: Addressing Key Questions Including "How Can I Teach What I Never Learned?"
  • · Mr Max Masinter leading a group discussion on Whether the Homeschooling Community Should Promote Homeschooling as a Lifestyle Choice to Address Communal Issues. 
  • · and several speakers/topics TBA.

Shabbos hospitality is available with the possibility of a melava d'malka afterwards. 

The conference will be Sunday May 6, 2012 at the Park Heights JCC in Baltimore, MD. Registration will begin at 8:15am and the conference will begin at 9 am.

To find out more and register for the conference, please visit http://torahhomeeducation.eventbee.com

We look forward to meeting you at the conference!

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  1. Yael AldrichFebruary 05, 2012 10:41 PM

    Can't wait to meet (or re-meet) many of my online friends!!

    Yael

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  2. AztecQueen2000February 05, 2012 10:57 PM

    I'm planning on going also. Enjoyed meeting you last year.

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