Changing

by Michelle Korenfeld

Jude was a talented Israeli suburb girl: abiding and successful in school, dancing ballet and playing the piano. She sets on a mission to understand how to respond to her creative bright daughters’ school anxiety, while keeping the teachers’ content. This fight to do best for her own kids becomes a journey to make education creative for all children. Developing stories and tools for teachers consumes her time but fills her spirit. Still for years she feels speechless. Getting a job and earning good money would have made her life easier, but unbearable.

After a revelation she experiences high in the bright lit radiation therapy room, she decides it is time to fix a meeting with the minister of education. Richard holds Jude’s hand every day through the journey of paradigms challenging topped by cancer. Now as her health is at stakes, will she be able to fulfill her life mission?

Prepare to fall in-love with Jude’s grandparents and parents, the remnants of huge family trees from Poland and the Netherlands, as they build their lives in the new-born country after world war 2.

Discover Jude’s unforgettable bro – the computer-electronics wonder boy who got sent time and again to the principal, and Jude’s husband, who experienced companionship with the head of school too, urged to cut his bright-red long curls.

Get a surprising peek at life in Tel Aviv, the fun cosmopolis that never sleeps, even in times rockets drum through skies. See Jerusalem from Jude’s admiring eyes – a living embroidery of people in the heartful city built of white stone. Travel to the green north and to the desert south, that offer stories of spirited pioneers.

Fill with creative inspiration while Jude develops as a painter, author, and teacher – the kind educators dream to be while working in the fixed-habits system. Find hope with this game-changing heroine that knows it is OK, since thinking outside the box is something you do from within it.

Michelle Korenfeld offers 21st Century Project-Based and Social-Emotional Learning lesson plans, stimulating teacher training, teaching tools, best children’s STEAM book, and lots of inspiration for education innovation. Visit her website Raising Creative Thinkers to find out more.

78 pages, Paperback

Published November 18, 2021

About the author

author, painter, poet, lifelong educator and creativity researcher for the past 20 years, dean's excellence in education leadership, administration and policy MA, brings a fresh breeze to the school bag, with creativity and innovation throughout the learning rainbow. Michelle wrote 10 teaching-learning books - writing, drawing and painting. She believes that much of the social-emotional problems derive from aggression based on stifled creativity. To free such creative thinking, we need to construct creative learning opportunities for self-expression that will lead to excellence, through self-directedness that comes from teachers, parents and grandparents believing in children and youth's strengths.