Professional Development Workshops
Bring Torah to Life in Your Preschool Classroom
Professional development for Jewish early childhood educators who want Torah, Jewish values, and Hashem to feel like a natural part of a child’s everyday world.
Young children learn through stories.
They remember the characters. They reenact what happened during play. They ask questions you never saw coming. And sometimes, a story you told on Monday pops back up three weeks later while two kids are figuring out whose turn it is.
That’s what makes storytelling such an incredible tool in Jewish early childhood education.
These interactive workshops give preschool teachers practical, developmentally appropriate ways to use Torah stories to teach Jewish values, build meaningful classroom experiences, and help children begin forming their own relationship with Torah and Hashem.
Teachers leave with ideas they can actually bring back to their classrooms, not a notebook full of notes they’ll never look at again. 🤍
Choose a Workshop:
Teaching Jewish Values Through Torah Stories
Learn how to go beyond simply telling a Torah story and use it to introduce Jewish values in a way children can understand and connect to their own lives.
We’ll explore how to identify the values within a Torah story, choose what’s developmentally appropriate for preschoolers, and help children connect those ideas to experiences they already understand, like kindness, friendship, gratitude, helping others, courage, and trusting Hashem.
Bringing Hashem Into the Classroom
Discover natural, age-appropriate ways to help young children recognize Hashem in their classroom, relationships, and everyday world.
We’ll explore how conversations about Hashem can happen naturally through stories, brachos, nature, gratitude, kindness, questions, and ordinary classroom moments, so talking about Hashem doesn’t have to feel like a separate lesson.
Build a Preschool Curriculum Around Torah Stories
Learn how to use Torah stories as the starting point for meaningful art, play, sensory experiences, songs, conversations, and more.
Teachers will learn a practical framework for taking one Torah or holiday story and using it as the thread that connects learning throughout the classroom, creating a curriculum that feels cohesive, intentional, and exciting for young children.
Why Stories Stick: The Science Behind Storytelling
Discover why stories are such an effective teaching tool and how they support young children’s language, memory, imagination, and emotional development.
We’ll look at what happens when children listen to, participate in, and retell stories, and how educators can use what we know about early childhood development to make storytelling an even stronger part of their teaching.
Felt Stories: Turning Torah Into an Experience
Learn how to use felt, movement, repetition, and participation to make Torah stories more engaging, interactive, and memorable.
Teachers will see how simple storytelling techniques can turn children from passive listeners into active participants who interact with the story, retell it themselves, ask questions, and carry its ideas into their play and everyday lives.
Bring a Workshop to Your School
Whether you’re planning a staff professional development day, teacher training, conference, or special program, workshops can be tailored to the needs of your preschool and educators.
Choose the topic that fits your staff best, and let’s give your teachers practical ways to make Torah storytelling one of the most meaningful parts of their classroom.
