Ideas for the Field

REFLECTIONS BY

Cohort One

EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP PROGRAM, 2023

Essays

“Make No Little Plans”

Federations and Congregational Education

By

Scott Aaron

Transforming Hebrew Education

Cultivating Proficiency, Relevance, and Empowered Practitioners

By

Adi Barel

A New Framework for Jewish Children’s Learning

By

Rabbi Rebecca Milder

What Price Are You Willing  To Pay?

How we are failing our congregational educators and the future of North American Jewry

By

Micol Zimmerman-Burkeman

The Jewish After School Accelerator

Scaling a Successful Regional Innovation into a National Model for Jewish Engagement

By

Ana Robbins

A Pedagogy of Family Learning

By

Mara Braunfeld

Parents Still Believe in Part-Time Jewish Education. Makom Community Does Too

By

Beverly Socher-Lerner

A Holistic Approach to Cultivating Jewish Spirituality in Jewish Day Schools

By

Yael Krieger

Empowering Teachers through Classroom Observations and Feedback

By

Ethan Zadoff

Teaching Our Past to Strengthen Our Present and Transform Our Future

By

Rabbi Yehudah Potok

Collaborative Vision Planning

Empowering teachers to shape an educational vision

By

Tamar Rabinowitz

Change is the Enduring Understanding

By

Laura Perpinyal

What Does it Mean to Have Jewish Trauma-informed Ritual to Support Trauma Survivors?

By

Tehliah Eisenstadt

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.