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Moshe Leiba

Oct 24, 2023, 6:59 PM

Nurturing Hearts and Minds in Troubled Times

World ORT Kadima Mada students in Kiryat Yam benefit from robotics classes before the war (Credit: World ORT)

These are dark days for all of us across Israel. Tragically, children have been terribly affected by the atrocities, displacement and learning loss of the past weeks. In response, in the earliest hours and days of the war, World ORT...

Feb 7, 2023, 10:56 AM

Developing Ethiopian Jews’ Skills for Life

Jewish students learning computer skills in Gondar, Ethiopia (Credit: World ORT)

Nothing could have prepared me for my visit to Gondar in Ethiopia. Although I was ready for the challenges of launching a program to benefit young Ethiopian Jews and provide them with life skills, arriving in the city was...

Dec 9, 2021, 1:14 PM

Helping Students Turn Hope Into Future Reality

When I think of the children my team works to support, a persistent question lingers in my mind. How can you dream if you cannot even conceptualize possibilities, if you cannot conceive of promise and potential? What happens when you...

Oct 13, 2021, 4:39 PM

What a Year of Remote Teaching Taught Me

Students and teachers alike have felt the benefits - and the drawbacks - of online learning during the pandemic (Image: World ORT)

For the past 20 years I have worked in education. But nothing prepared me – or any of my colleagues – for what happened since Covid arrived last year. How could it? Thousands of teaching hours, in front of a...

Aug 18, 2021, 4:53 PM

My Top Tips for Teachers for the New School Year

September looms on the horizon, laced with concerns around the lingering health risks of fully opening schools while there continues to be uncertainty regarding Covid variants, and even more urgent is the realization that it is time to tackle...

About Me

Dr. Moshe Leiba is Chief Pedagogical and R&D Officer of World ORT Kadima Mada. He is also an assistant professor at the faculty of Information Systems and heads the Digital Learning Project at The Academic College of Tel Aviv Yaffo, Israel. In his capacity at World ORT Kadima Mada, Moshe is responsible for all educational activity in Israel, including 12 excellence centers throughout the country and leads several global ORT programs from conception to implementation. Catering to over 5,000 children, these programs integrate experiential learning in diverse curricular and extracurricular activities in the field of STEAM.