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Dodie Katz

Educational Thought Leader

Aug 8, 2019, 5:38 PM

Aviya Kushner’s July 11 article in The Forward, “No one’s studying Hebrew Anymore -- That’s a big problem,” describes the well known landscape of Hebrew in higher education, noting that enrollment in Hebrew language courses has been on a...

Feb 25, 2019, 8:20 AM

Learning That Sticks

Let me indulge your imagination. Picture a school in which teachers and students are highly motivated. Imagine a learning environment filled with vision and purpose. Paint for yourself a scene of students engaged in purposeful and meaningful learning activities....

Feb 3, 2019, 11:09 PM

Did your Netflix binge of Shtisel make you wish you knew Hebrew?

In the summer of 2018, the lounge in our dormitory of the Middlebury School of Hebrew’s Vermont campus was filled with the bellowing sounds of the voice of Reb Shulem Shtisel. The series, (prior to its release on Netflix)...

About Me

Dr. Dodie Katz is member of the graduate school faculty of the Middlebury School of Hebrew. Her work at Middlebury is dedicated towards revolutionizing the field of Hebrew language instruction through training teachers from around the world in best practice language learning pedagogy. Dr. Katz's research interests include school and teacher leadership, Jewish/Israel education, curricular innovation, curriculum theory, applied linguistics, psychoanalysis, and history and social studies teaching.

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