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Presents...

Agency for
Jewish Education
names Wendy Sadler
as school
services head.

MielLael Medved

l unclay, Novemier X5,1998 • 0:00 p.m.

b.Dan & Betty Kahn Building
West Bloomfield

AJE's new school services director, Wendy
Sadler, with Temple Israel student Jill Allen.

JULIE WIENER
Staff Writer

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he Agency for Jewish
Education of Metropolitan
Detroit's new full-time direc-
tor of school services isn't
leaving the Hebrew school trenches.
Wendy Sadler, a Hebrew school
teacher for more than 20 years, will
oversee training and professional devel-
opment services for local religious
school teachers, in an AJE post that
has been vacant since summer.
She also will continue teaching sev-
eral classes a week at Temple Israel,
where she developed the eighth grade
curriculum and has taught grades 5, 7,
8 and high school. "I've been in Jewish
education my whole life," explained
Sadler, who grew up in suburban
Chicago. "My first year of not being a
student or madricha (teacher's aide), I
spent two Sundays at home not know-
ing what to do, then got a teaching job
and never stopped. I really don't know
what to do with a Sunday off."
Sadler's passion for teaching stems
from the "non-negotiable" importance
of Judaism in her life and the "warm
fuzzies" she gets from seeing her stu-
dents succeed after graduation.
"You don't always get the kudos up
front, but you get them 10-12 years
later," she said. "What motivates me is
knowing you're having an impact on a
child who will go on to become an
adult and impart it to his or her own
children."
Sadler, who has also worked in
advertising, is pursuing a master's
degree in education from Eastern
Michigan University. A founding
member of Bet Chaverim in Canton
and a Temple Israel teacher for 14
years, she has also taught at B'nai
Moshe, Pontiac's Beth Jacob and the

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host of the television show, Sneak Previews. Currently,
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is syndicated across the United States.

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AJE's Stepping Stones to a Jewish Me
program for interfaith families.
Herself intermarried, Sadler said
she and her husband are raising their
three children as Jews. "We knew
from the beginning that if we got
married, we'd have a Jewish home and
the children would be raised Jewish,
so it never was allowed to become an
issue," she said.
In her new position at the AJE,
Sadler hopes to strengthen ties
between religious schools, expand the
resource center for educators and
make sure the needs of each individual
school are addressed.
"We want to continue to be able to
provide good strong educational pro-
grams and program support so that
our teachers can go out and really
plant that seed in-children so that
Judaism continues, grows, flourishes
and becomes a non-negotiable item
for everyone," she said.
Temple Israel Education Director
Fran Pearlman recommended Sadler
for the AJE job. "She runs a very
interactive classroom with very little
lecturing and more hands-on learn-
ing," said Pearlman. "We get a lot of
positive feedback about her." 0

Clarification

The Hillel Day School special
persons' day involved children in
grades kindergarten through five,
not kindergarten through three
as reported last week.

Farmington Hills Harrison High
School football player Ari
Breshgold was misidentified in
last week's Sports section.

