Shiluv Faculty Fellowship Brochure

Faculty Fellowship

Engage your students and educators in compelling, experiential Jewish programming.

Cultivate an environment of respect and appreciation of learning, physical, and developmental differences.

Gateways: Access to Jewish Education provides a comprehensive set of services to support children and teens with learning differences, disabilities, and/or mental health challenges. We exist to fulfill young people’s potential, enrich family life, strengthen Jewish community, and help create new norms for diversity and inclusivity in the Jewish community at large. By working directly with families, educators, day and congregational schools, preschools, synagogues, and organizations, we are emphasizing and investing in the full educational ecosystem surrounding the children and teens we serve.

What Is Shiluv?

Shiluv, Hebrew for inclusion, is a Peer Disability Education Program that fosters a culture of respect and appreciation of learning, physical, and developmental differences and an understanding that these are a natural aspect of the human experience. By focusing on the culture and mindset of the community towards difference and disability, and doing so through a uniquely Jewish lens, Shiluv seeks to shift understandings of what it truly means to include people with disabilities in Jewish community.

Multisensory Experiential Learning

Students engage in fun, hands-on activities that explore themes of embracing differences, respecting developmental variation, and understanding disability. Students reflect on their own characteristics, cultivate an appreciation for the individual differences within their community, and brainstorm ways to support and include everyone.

Supplementary Classroom Resources

Jewish text study and reading guides engage students with stories of people with lived experience of disability and make explicit connections with Jewish values, texts, and community.

Speakers with Disabilities

Speakers with different disabilities, including intellectual and learning disabilities and Autism, share their lived experience navigating their differences with friends and family, in school, and in the Jewish community while forming a positive identity.

Disability Through a Jewish Lens

Jewish stories, texts, and thought are part of the foundation of Shiluv and are incorporated at every stage of the curriculum. Texts like the one below yield thoughtful conversations about the role of disability and difference in Judaism.

[Ben Azzai] used to say, do not scorn any person, and do not disregard any thing, for there is no person that does not have their hour, and there is no thing that does not have its place

Pedagogical Framework

Students generalize what they’ve learned to their relationships and community

- Pirkei Avot 4:3

Students hear firsthand from speakers with disabilities

“[Shiluv]

~ Classroom Teacher

Students participate in experiential activities

Students reflect on the activities and make connections to personal experiences

Students engage in literacy activities to apply their learning

Shiluv Faculty Fellowship

Jewish educators can participate in a year-long fellowship to receive certification to implement Shiluv in their classrooms. Shiluv Faculty Fellows develop grounding in the philosophy and history of disability rights and inclusion, cultivate a shared language about difference and disability, and receive coaching and feedback on their implementation of the Shiluv curriculum in their general education and inclusive classrooms.

Shiluv Faculty Fellows Receive:

10 HOURS LIVE PROFESSIONAL LEARNING ON

Disability Language

Mental Models of Disability

Ableism

Disability Narratives in Jewish Tradition

Disability Justice & History

Authentic Representation in Literature

Access and Universal Design

ACCESS TO

Ongoing asynchronous learning opportunities

Shiluv curriculum for grades K-5 ($1,200 value) for 1 year

Curriculum certification for an additional two years with eligibility to renew (licensing fee applies)

1:1 coaching with Gateways experts

Community of practice with Jewish educators committed to impacting mindsets about difference and disability

$3,200 per faculty member

$2,700 early bird (deadline June 30)

If multiple faculty from one school are interested, contact us to discuss a reduced price for the second participant.

The [Shiluv] experience was extremely positive for everyone involved - students, teachers, principal, rabbis and me. The key take-aways were that everyone has strengths and challenges, that some challenges are visible and some are hidden, that everyone has something valuable to contribute to the community and that community means noticing when someone needs help and offering help as well as asking for help from others.

~ Shiluv Fellow