Written by Rachel Friedrichs (Associate Director, PCJE Israel) – Many Jewish day schools have excellent general studies teachers who are also engaged and interested members of their Jewish communities. These teachers have proven classroom teaching skills, are committed to the school’s mission and values, and understand the community and the students, but they may not yet have a strong enough Jewish content background to teach Jewish studies classes. What if these teachers could be intensively taught the content and Jewish text skills they need, paired with content-specific pedagogy, so that they could transition, in part or in full, to teaching Jewish studies at their schools?