Educational Leadership Program

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Jonathan Shmidt Chapman (Cohort I) leading a program with The K’ilu Company. Photo Credit: Wide-Eyed Studios

About the Program

The shape of the North American Jewish community is rapidly changing, presenting Jewish educational leaders with a new set of challenges and opportunities. The Educational Leadership Program is an 18-month fellowship that empowers Jewish educational leaders from a wide range of settings to sharpen their educational visions, broaden their understanding of the educational landscape, and develop leadership skills to bring their visions to fruition.

Program Overview

The program includes four in-person seminars, virtual short courses, peer-led practice groups and one-on-one sessions with an adviser. Three seminars are held at the Mandel Institute’s space in Brookline, MA and one is held in Israel. All program costs and travel expenses are covered by the Mandel Institute. The curriculum is organized around three strands:

Program Strands

Educational Visions

Fellows work to clarify and enrich their educational aims and methods through engagement with a wide range of approaches to Jewish education.

Educational Ecosystem

Fellows deepen their understanding of trends in North American Jewish life, the Jewish educational Institutional landscape, and the evolving history of Jewish education in North America.

Leadership

Fellows develop leadership capacities that empower them to bring their educational visions to life, lead organizational change and act to impact the field more broadly.

Program Dates

Seminar 1: Boston - April 7-11, 2024

Seminar 2: Boston - November 10-14, 2024

Seminar 3: Israel - March 18-25, 2025

Seminar 4: Boston - October 26-30, 2025

About the Fellows

Fellows are educational leaders in Jewish organizations (or Jewish departments in organizations with a broader mission) who aspire to deepen their impact on their own organizations and the broader field. The program deliberately brings together fellows from a wide range of educational settings and perspectives. We believe that educators from different settings have much to learn from one another and that the robust exchange of ideas across settings can spark innovation and clarify visions.