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Making Upstanders – Formative Lessons to Lifelong Habits – video
This video is of me presenting my research findings at the MTEI Seminar in October 2025. This research is written up in my post https://nancesea.com/2025/12/16/but-how-do-you-know/ – this is footage of me presenting the findings as part of my Graduate Certificate in Educational Leadership work through MTEI and Hebrew Union College. →
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But How Do you Know?
As part of my course work in the Mandel Teacher Educator Institute (MTEI)/Hebrew Union College Graduate Certificate in Educational Leadership, I was asked to research my own practice as a teacher. I immediately knew my research topic! Does learning in my classroom empower young people to be Upstanders? If so, what experiences in my Jewish… →
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Making Abraham an Upstander
Parashat Vayera D’var 5786 – 8 November 2025 (A video of my reading this d’var is linked at the bottom) Years ago I heard Rabbi Donniel Hartman speak about the Abraham of Genesis 18:16 – 33 versus the Abraham of Genesis 22. Rabbi Donniel taught that our choice of which Abraham speaks to us said… →
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Don’t be Jonah
Darshan Jonah Yom Kippur 5784 Nance Morris Adler (I was honored to give the sermon on the Book of Jonah at my shul this Yom Kippur. This is my teaching. I dedicated it to my students who are always my teachers.) In 6th grade Jewmanities – that is what I call my classes at JDS… →
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Working Towards Full Repentance – D’var Parshat Vayiggash 8738 – given 31 December 2022
When learning about the steps of Teshuvah – the repair and return to a good place that is meant to happen after we “break” a relationship, a trust, or someone else’s property – we don’t always learn about the final step – the proof that the intention behind the apology and repair was sincere and… →
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Ich Judenwochen – A Lone Jew in the Kraichgau
“Oh wait! Are you Jewish?” This was said to me in a lecture that I sat in on at the Jewish Studies Institute in Heidelberg. The lecture was in German and I had been doing my best, aided by Google Translate, to follow along. It also helped that it was on the Crusades and Jewish… →
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Q&A in Germany – What the questions asked say about how the US is viewed abroad
Many of my sessions in classrooms have been opportunities for students to ask me questions. Questions about the US, questions about Judaism, questions about my life, questions about the Holocaust, about history. Anyone who has been in my classroom, or had a child in my classroom, knows I love questions and discussions. Some questions were… →
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Teaching the Holocaust in Germany
Teaching about Jewish resistance during the Holocaust as a Jewish visitor to German schools. (Again out of order chronologically, but fresh, and heavy, on my mind…) This week I spent two days teaching at a gymnasium – “college prep” high school – in Heilbronn. I was speaking in their Religious Education classes, a History class… →
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Nance in Germany – Sinsheim visit 8 July
This post is out of order chronologically but was written right after my visit. On Friday I went to Sinsheim, a town near to Eppingen to speak to students in a variety of classes. This was set up by Jutta, another Centropa teacher, who is the Catholic Religious Education director. A short train ride away… →
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Nance in Germany 2022 – Natzweiler KZ Lager
While folks back in the US were deciding if or how to celebrate The Fourth of July in this year where our rights, freedom and liberty seem at high risk, even for those whose privilege generally has kept them insulated from previous or ongoing injustices and inequality, I joined the Year 9 students of the… →
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