The children are intelligent and well behaved, the teachers care, the parents give of their time and money. I wondered, Is it possible? So much specialness concentrated in one place? A cosmic coincidence? Or was this really an extraordinary school with unusually dazzling children, committed teachers, generous and energetic families? In fact, this school is a fine and good one. And, finally, this year’s third-grade class was in itself a very, very special group. Even the unassuming Pie Drive was, for reasons not clearly revealed by the newsletter coverage, special indeed. The Emerging Artists exhibition was special. I recently read a third-grade school newsletter that used the word special five times on two pages. On October 1, 2006, the New York Times published a profile of Mogel and her work.Discovering Your Unique and Ordinary Child Mogel lives in Los Angeles with her husband, writer Michael Tolkin, and their two daughters, Susanna and Emma. She is co-founder of the Los Angeles Association of Independent School Counselors and serves on the boards of the Center for Early Education and the Counsel for Spiritual and Ethical Education. Mogel graduated from Middlebury College and completed an Internship and Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the Department of Psychiatry at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
Mogel is a nationally known speaker and author who looks at every day parenting problems through the lens of the Torah, the Talmud, and important Jewish teachings. Mogel lives in Los Angeles with her husband, writer Wendy Mogel, PhD is the author of The Blessing of a Skinned Knee: Using Jewish Teachings to Raise Self-Reliant Children published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 2001. Wendy Mogel, PhD is the author of The Blessing of a Skinned Knee: Using Jewish Teachings to Raise Self-Reliant Children published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 2001.
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