2026 Ruby Award: Inside the Adolescent Mind

In-Person
FROM   May 19, 2026 - 11:00 AM PDT
TO   May 19, 2026 - 2:00 PM PDT
3200 California St, San Francisco, CA 94118

The Ruby Award is Jewish LearningWorks’ biennial celebration of Jewish educators and professionals who work with Jewish teens. In addition to honoring an outstanding teen educator from the community, the Ruby Award aims to elevate Jewish education by studying important issues that impact Jewish teens, and addressing the implications, challenges and opportunities for the educators who care for them, and help them grow. Please join us!

Program Details

For this year’s Ruby Award, we are excited to be joined by Pulitzer Prize winning author, and NYT science reporter Matt Richtel to deliver a keynote on his most recent book, How We Grow Up: Understanding Adolescence.

Following Matt Richtel’s keynote, Jewish LearningWorks will facilitate a short workshop that applies takeaways from his book to the work of Jewish educators. In this workshop, we will share tangible tools for nurturing adolescent well-being and spirituality in a way that supports the developmental tasks of adolescence. Our program will conclude with a Q&A with Matt Richtel.