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ICJS Teachers Fellowship

ICJS offers a one-year cohort for Baltimore-area teachers to gain knowledge and confidence in religious literacy, to develop and share lesson plans for their own classroom, and to think deeply about pedagogy with a network of experienced educators and scholars.

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Founder Story: Donna Lee Frisch

ICJS teacher programming has always been teacher-led. Donna Lee Frisch (1940-2020), a founding ICJS trustee and a former teacher at Bryn Mawr School, knew that students need to learn about religion to be informed local and global citizens, yet teaching about religion was tough. With generous support from the Frisch family, since 2015 ICJS has offered essential professional development opportunities for teachers and educators.

Interreligious Studies and Secondary Education—New Book Featuring Contributions by ICJS Staff and Fellowship Alumni

Edited by Christine Gallagher (ICJS), Lucinda Mosher, and Axel Takacs

Interreligious Studies and Secondary Education: Pedagogies and Practices for Living and Learning in a Religiously Plural World is a groundbreaking collection of essays exploring the role of interreligious studies in public, private, and parochial secondary education.

Contributors—including several alumni of the ICJS Teachers and Nonprofit and Civic Professionals Fellowships—offer insights into religious literacy, the impact of Christian privilege, and the transformative power of interfaith dialogue and experiential learning.

Each chapter ends with a list of discussion questions. Our hope is that administrators, professional learning communities, teacher educators, and more can use these essays as a way to begin conversations in their own schools.

Educator Resources

Explore this collection of resources prepared by Fellows for their schools and classrooms and available for your use. ICJS Teacher Fellows work in a variety of contexts, including public, independent, and religious schools and other educational institutions (e.g., museums). Subject areas include English, social studies, and religious studies.

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My mission in teaching is to increase understanding, to prod students to see the beauty and power of other theologies at their founding, to break down barriers, and to uncover biases. Building bridges drives my curricular decisions.

Jill Aizenstein

history teacher, Beth T’filoh Dohan Community School, and ICJS Teacher Fellow alum