This article is a collaborative effort of 15 heads of school in the Boston area, including: Rabbi Danny Lehmann, Head of Gann Academy; Ruth Gass, Head of School at JCDS, Boston's Jewish Community Day School; Carolyn Keller, head of Metro-West Jewish Day School; Rabbi...
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Avi Baran Munro, Ed.M., Head of School at Community Day, a K-8 Solomon Schechter Day School in Pittsburgh, completed her undergraduate education at Brown University and graduate degrees at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education and the University of...
Dr. Judith Zorfass is Manager, Communities of Practice at Partnership for Excellence in Jewish Education (PEJE) and Associate Center Director at Education Development Center, Inc. Sam, a financial manager, dials a toll-free number and simultaneously logs onto his...
Shalom Berger is the founding editor of Jewish Educational Leadership, and is now a member of its editorial board. In 1999 he initiated Lookjed, a listserv that supports a virtual community for Jewish educators, which he continues to moderate. Full archives of Lookjed...
Pat DiPillo is a Foreign Language educator as well as an assessor for the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards. She was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship in the Classics and studied at the American Academy in Rome in the summer of 1985, is the recipient of...
Rabbi Levi Cooper is a rabbi in Tzur Hadassah and teaches Jewish Studies at Machon Pardes and other university level programs in Jerusalem. Amongst its many contributions, the Hasidic movement gave birth to a literature expounding ideas about God and about humans, and...
Dr. Goldberg holds a PhD in physics, and spent 30 years working as an instructor, manager, and internal consultant at IBM. He has been associated with the Yeshivah of Flatbush family for over 30 years as a parent, husband of a teacher and principal, and briefly as a...
Roni Raab is Head of School at the RASG Hebrew Academy of Greater Miami. He can be reached at rraab@rasg.org. Much can be said about the benefits of professional learning communities. A feeling of belonging to something larger than oneself, that the collaboratively...
Dr. Wallace Greene is the Director of Jewish Educational Services for the UJA Federation of Northern New Jersey. He is also President of The National Board of License for Teachers and Principals of Jewish Schools in North America. Professional Learning Communities...
