Stronger Together: Third Annual ECE Directors’ Retreat

Stronger Together: An Asset-based Approach to Building a Collaborative School Culture with Dr. Mindy Gold

ECE Directors often do not have the time or opportunity to think about the organizational culture of their school. This retreat will provide the space to examine the values and existing communal assets that are foundational to your school. Dr. Mindy Gold will guide you through Stronger Together - an asset-based approach that maximizes the resources you have at your fingertips, and provide you with concrete tools to enact meaningful change for your school.

Stronger Together invites you to imagine what you could achieve if you truly brought together the ideas and the strengths of your educators, clergy, parents, and your students! During this retreat, you will:

• discover fresh ways to tap into the talents and perspectives of your colleagues and community members,
• get hands-on strategies and frameworks to make real change in their school community, and
• become energized and equipped to create stronger, more connected teams, ready to make a lasting impact together.

Program Details:

• Aimed at: Directors of Bay Area Early Childhood Education programs.
• When: Thursday, February 26, 2026 from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm.
• Where: Marin JCC at 200 North San Pedro Rd. San Rafael, CA 94903.
• Participant fee: $180 per participant. Includes a vegetarian lunch. All trainings programs at Jewish LearningWorks are subsidized by our generous donors. If the participant fee is a hardship, please contact us to register with a fee adjustment.
• Contact us: For more information or any questions you may have, please contact Ellen Lefkowitz, Senior Educator, at ellen@jewishlearning.org.

This is an invitation-only event.
Lunch will be provided. Please view our kashrut policy.

About Our Facilitator:

Dr. Mindy Gold is the founder and principal consultant of Gold Learning Solutions, a consulting practice focused on supporting professional learning and organizational change in Jewish educational contexts. As a former elementary school teacher, she brings her classroom and leadership experience to her work with early childhood, K-12, and communal leaders. Mindy is a faculty member of the Mandel Teacher Educator Institute (MTEI). She teaches in MTEI's Educators as Designers strand, focusing on participatory action research and design thinking methodologies. In addition, she provides instructional design support for the MTEI faculty and is the instructor for the MTEI-Hebrew Union College Certificate in Jewish Educational Leadership course series.

As part of her commitment to research in Jewish education, Mindy serves as Associate Editor, Practitioner Research Portfolio for the Journal of Jewish Education. Based in Nashville, TN, Mindy enjoys the long garden growing season and music venues with her husband as well as being an honorary Hawkeye and 'Cane in support of her two sons' collegiate journeys.