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A copy of this blog appears on Oshi the clown's blog, too. I met a girl who was a ball of energy. She was electric. Bounced off walls....

In 2018-2019, my alter ego, Oshi, worked in schools as an educational clown. I blog about my experiences in the different schools from...

When I was interviewed for the Childhood Elsewhere documentary by journalist Zhou Yijun about education in Israel, I was filmed as my...

Killer clowns are way more popular than their therapeutic counterparts. Although that shouldn’t be surprising. It’s been shown that...

Two years ago, I crossed the lines of writing about the arts -- which I’ve done for over 20 years as a journalist -- to being in the...

Sometimes you need an outsider to show you what's happening in your neighborhood. Journalist and filmmaker Zhou Yijun dedicates an...

Twice a week, I work as an educational clown. The rest of the week, I work as an innovation journalist and give talks on the culture of...

For the past five years, I’ve focused my public speaking on the innovation stories I’ve covered as a journalist. I love speaking to...

As an educational clown, adding humor to the school day impacts the openness to learning. Sometimes, being silly and offering another...

Back-to-school season is underway. For teachers that means lesson plans, learning students’ names, teaching strategies, classroom...

Niv Morgenstern, an educational entrepreneur who is on a mission to creating a relevant learning experience in the 21st century, runs a...

Inevitably, at least once a day at school, Oshi is called a killer clown. Of course, take one look at Oshi – an educational therapeutic...

1. Therapeutic clowns work in schools at all levels – high school, middle school, elementary school. 2. Therapeutic clowns work with...

Educational clowning is still making its mark in Israel. Of the thousands of schools in the country today, 11 have taken part in piloting...

There are over 1.6 billion websites in the world. Over 500 million of them are considered to be blogs. There are over 2 million blog...

Learning from failures is important. Being able to fail, to really embrace a failure, is even more significant if the experience is to be...

The Passover holiday break ended... so, Oshi, went back to school for educational clowning. First day back after so much family time also...

“I don’t want to talk to you,” a sixth grader recently told me. “Good. Cuz I don’t want to talk to you either,” I replied. “I only want...

As soon as the kids saw me walking towards the school gate, they screamed my clown name: “Oshi! Oshi!” They had big news to share with...

For over 20 years, I’ve been penning articles, blogs and scripts for an array of media. When I launched my new website, I debated whether...