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# Jewish LearningWorks

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- [Shaping the Future of Jewish Women’s Leadership](https://jewishlearning.works/2026/07/shaping-the-future-of-jewish-womens-leadership/) - Original article by Jewish Federation Bay Area, published on June 30, 2026. What does it look like when a community truly invests in its women leaders — not just by promoting them, but by creating space for them to discover themselves, build deep collegial bonds, and realize their fullest potential? For the Jewish community of
- [Soul FULL: Unlocking the Neuroprotective Potential of Jewish Education](https://jewishlearning.works/2025/02/soul-full-unlocking-the-neuroprotective-potential-of-jewish-education/) - By Liliana Peliks, Jewish LearningWorks’ Director of Marketing.The Bay Area Jewish educational community came together at Soul FULL, a gathering created by Jewish LearningWorks to explore the neuroscience research that supports spirituality as a key component of health and fulfillment throughout our lifespan.Dr. Lisa Miller, professor in the Clinical Psychology Program at Teachers College, Columbia
- [It All Starts With a Connection: The Kesher Fellowship at The Kehillah School](https://jewishlearning.works/2026/06/the-kesher-fellowship-at-the-kehillah-school/) - Photo credit: The Kehillah School. Photographed: Sarah Lesser teaching. By Sarah Lesser, educator, and Genevieve Shimshowitz, rising 12th grader and Senior Kesher Fellow, at the Kehillah School. In its second year at The Kehillah School, the Kesher Fellowship made much progress towards its goals of creating a space where students could build meaningful friendships, strengthen leadership
- [Voices for Good Fellows: Trailblazers Fueled by Tradition and Innovation](https://jewishlearning.works/2026/05/voices-for-good-fellows-trailblazers-fueled-by-tradition-and-innovation/) - By Jenni Mangel, Senior Director of Impact and Evaluation, Jewish LearningWorks From my first job out of college working at Jewish Vocational Service in San Francisco, two extraordinary mentors changed my life and career path:Judy Bloom z”l, when she first met me, informed me that she would “teach me how to be a woman in
- [Stretching the Capacity to Serve All Children at Oakland Hebrew Day School](https://jewishlearning.works/2026/06/capacity-to-serve-all-children-at-ohds/) - By Yael Krieger, Associate Head of School, Oakland Hebrew Day School Oakland Hebrew Day School has a long-standing commitment to investing in learning support and stretching our capacity to serve a diverse student body. We recognized, however, a critical need to transition from a reliance on external experts toward a more sustainable, robust internal infrastructure. This
- [Investing in Educators, Investing in the Future](https://jewishlearning.works/2026/03/investing-in-educators-investing-in-the-future/) - By Gittel R. Goodman, Director, Gan Outdoor Preschool in San Rafael, CA Some of the most important adults in our communities are also the least visible: early childhood educators. They hold children’s big feelings, guide families through uncertainty, and help children learn to navigate the world in healthy, grounded ways. In doing so, they help
- [Power Hour: A New Model of Educator Training & Engagement](https://jewishlearning.works/2026/03/power-hour-a-new-model-of-educator-training-engagement-for-experiential-jewish-learning-environments/) - By Devra C. Aarons, Executive Director at Contra Costa Midrasha, Walnut Creek, CA Contra Costa Midrasha is blessed with dedicated teens educators who learn and engage our Jewish teen community every Wednesday night and at three retreat weekends a year. These gifted adults know how to engage teen minds, hearts, and bodies to be vulnerable,
- [Mussar, Midot, and Hitlamdut: Toward the Intentional](https://jewishlearning.works/2026/03/mussar-midot-and-hitlamdut-toward-the-intentional/) - By Yafit Shriki Megidish, JCC East Bay Chief Jewish Education Officer, and Marla Kolman Antebi, M.S.W., Educator of Jewish Meditation and Mysticism, and trained in Spiritual Direction When the JCC East Bay applied for Jewish LearningWorks’ 2025-26 microgrant program, we thought we were funding professional development. What unfolded became something deeper: a process that invited us to look
- [Growing Our Staff, Growing Our Spark](https://jewishlearning.works/2026/03/growing-our-staff-growing-our-spark/) - By Adam Lowy, Lifelong Learning Moreh Derech at Congregation Beth Sholom of San Francisco, and 2024 Ruby Award recipient Last fall I was thrilled to receive the announcement of Jewish LearningWorks’ new microgrant opportunity for staff development, and was ecstatic to be awarded funds! I applied for the grant because it was an opportunity to
- [Growing Reflective Practice and Responsive Classrooms](https://jewishlearning.works/2026/05/growing-reflective-practice-and-responsive-classrooms/) - By Kelly Dotson, Senior Site Director, JCCSF Rosenberg Early Childhood Education Center This year, Rosenberg was fortunate to receive a microgrant from Jewish LearningWorks for the 2025–26 school year. When I applied, I had a simple but hopeful vision: to give our teachers the time, guidance, and tools to deepen reflective teaching practices, strengthen Lead Teacher skills,
- [From Leadership to Teamship: My Journey to Here](https://jewishlearning.works/2026/06/from-leadership-to-teamship-my-journey-to-here/) - By Dona Standel, Engagement Manager at Jewish LearningWorks Beet red and a bit shaky, I spoke in front of a Board of Directors for the first time as a college student in 2006. Five years later, I was in the board room as a board member but with little ability to share my thoughts. Five
- [Relishing in the Wilderness: Reflecting on the Ruby Award 2026](https://jewishlearning.works/2026/06/relishing-in-the-wilderness-reflecting-on-the-ruby-award-2026/) - By Alisha Pedowitz, Senior Educator, Jewish LearningWorks For those of us who work with and/or parent teens, this phase of life can often feel like a whole new frontier full of wild unknowns, particularly in this moment in time where the world around us — and the things our teens are navigating — are quickly
- [Playing with Jewish Values, Literally](https://jewishlearning.works/2026/05/playing-with-jewish-values-literally/) - Caption: Students adding pieces as a team to a puzzle as they work on shalom, anchored in shlemut/wholeness. By Sue Bojdak, independent Jewish educator and consultant. “Surely, this instruction which I enjoin upon you this day is not too baffling for you, nor is it beyond reach. It is not in the heavens, that you
- [From Microgrant to Momentum: Expanding Professional Development](https://jewishlearning.works/2026/05/from-microgrant-to-momentum-expanding-professional-development-at-jccsfs-helen-diller-family-preschool/) - By Karla Cianci, Preschool Site Director at Helen Diller Family Preschool and Lisa Monette, Senior Director of Early Childhood Education at the JCCSF When the JCCSF learned about Jewish LearningWorks’ microgrants, our preschool site directors immediately saw an opportunity to strengthen professional development for our team of more than 60 early childhood educators. We proposed several
- [Beyond Workshops: A New Model for Supporting Every Child](https://jewishlearning.works/2026/05/beyond-workshops-a-new-model-for-supporting-every-child/) - By Jodi Gladstone, Early Childhood Education Director at Beth El Nursery School (BENS) at Congregation Beth El, Berkeley, CA There is a moment, familiar to every early childhood educator, when you look around your classroom and feel as though you are standing in a vibrant garden in full bloom. Each child, like a unique flower,
- [A 25 Year Surprise: The Fellowship That Became a Lifelong Community](https://jewishlearning.works/2026/04/a-25-year-surprise-the-fellowship-that-became-a-lifelong-community/) - By Jenni Mangel, Senior Director of Impact and Evaluation at Jewish LearningWorks. When I was selected to be a participant in a Jewish LearningWorks fellowship program for youth professionals in 2001, I had no idea that I was setting myself for a quarter century of friendship, learning, and community.This lesson was brought full circle for
- [Whoever Listens to a Witness](https://jewishlearning.works/2026/03/whoever-listens-to-a-witness/) - By Rebecca Goodman, Director of Jewish Community Engagement at JCRC “Whoever listens to a witness becomes a witness” -Elie Wiesel Elie Wiesel believed that one who listens to a witness, becomes a witness. I am lucky. My Opa (grandfather) fled Nazi Germany, and was able to live a full life in the United States. His
- [Jewish Embodiment as a Path to Well-being](https://jewishlearning.works/2026/03/jewish-embodiment-as-a-path-to-well-being/) - Yoga for Freedom • 4th Street Yoga • Berkeley, CA Reconnecting with Body, Soul & Spirit “The vital desire of the soul (nefesh) is to be free in her movement, in her physical movement and spiritual movement, with a desire for elevating and renewal.” -Rav Avraham Isaac Kook, Olat Re’iyah, commentary on ‘Matir Asurim’ By
- [New Partnership for Jewish Inclusion in the Bay Area](https://jewishlearning.works/2026/03/new-partnership-for-jewish-inclusion-in-the-bay-area/) - Early childhood educators during SDC training “Understanding Burnout and Cultivating Resilience” at Temple Sinai, Oakland. By Stephanie Kaufman, principal at Sequential Development Consulting I am so excited about the partnership between Sequential Development Consulting (SDC) and Jewish LearningWorks. It feels especially meaningful to have the opportunity to bring this kind of support to Jewish early
- [Spirituality — It Is the Core of What We Do](https://jewishlearning.works/2026/03/spirituality-it-is-the-core-of-what-we-do/) - By Mary Frank, Education Director at Temple Or Rishon, Orangevale, CA When the opportunity to join the More Than Minds: Social, Emotional, and Spiritual Learning (SESL) cohort arrived in my email inbox from Jewish LearningWorks, I was intrigued. As a former public school educator, I was well versed in the concepts surrounding SEL strategies. I
- [Stronger Together: An Asset-Based Approach for Jewish ECE](https://jewishlearning.works/2026/03/stronger-together-an-asset-based-approach-for-jewish-ece/) - Last week, thirty ECE leaders came together for a day-long retreat at the Marin JCC. The learning was focused on an asset-based approach to building a collaborative school culture. Our day was facilitated by Dr. Mindy Gold. Beginning with the Coherence Framework from the Public Education Leadership Project, Dr. Gold pulled out collaborative culture as
- [Holocaust Witnesses Hold Keys to Polish History](https://jewishlearning.works/2026/03/holocaust-witnesses-hold-keys-to-polish-history/) - but stories need to be unlocked... Originally by Morgan Blum Schneider, published on the J. Jewish News of Northern California On a warm afternoon this summer near Warsaw’s storied Nozyk Synagogue, 86-year-old Czeslawa Zak told me about the “secret years.” These were the years that Czeslawa and her family hid three Jewish families who had escaped
- [The First Yes: Early Childhood Education and the Future of Jewish Community](https://jewishlearning.works/2026/01/the-first-yes-jewish-ece/) - By Ellen Lefkowitz, Jewish LearningWorks’ Senior Educator One of the many things I loved about my position as a Jewish early childhood director was meeting the parents who came through our doors to tour the school. For many families, choosing an early childhood center is one of the first significant decisions they make not only
- [Jewish Preschools Across the Bay](https://jewishlearning.works/2025/12/jewish-preschools-across-the-bay/) - By Ellen Lefkowitz, Jewish LearningWorks Senior Educator Jewish LearningWorks has been “on the road” visiting preschools across the Bay Area. During these visits, it has been a joy and privilege to see so many different, wonderful spaces, and hear from the directors the pride in the spaces and communities they have built. We have learned
- [Supporting the “Unsettled Center”and Building Skills for Conversations Across Differences](https://jewishlearning.works/2025/11/supporting-the-unsettled-centerand-building-skills-for-conversations-across-differences/) - By Alisha Pedowitz, Jewish LearningWorks’ Senior Educator I read with interest the newly published research article, “You Stand Out No Matter What You Say” by Cheryl Weiner, Jonathan Krasner, Meka Greenwald, and Lance Rothchild, published out of the Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Center out of Brandeis University. While their research focused on the experiences
- [AI is Here, in Jewish Education](https://jewishlearning.works/2025/12/ai-is-here-in-jewish-education/) - By Ellen Lefkowitz, Jewish LearningWorks Senior Educator AI is here. For those of us who grew up in the 80s, this was a thing of science fiction. In my wildest dreams, I don’t think I could have ever imagined the ubiquitous nature of AI in our world. Ads on TV invite us to use ChatGPT
- [Teaching as Performance Art](https://jewishlearning.works/2025/12/teaching-as-performance-art/) - By Jenni Mangel, Director of Educational Leadership, Jewish LearningWorks My mom says that theatre saved me and my sister in high school. Yes, I was a “theatre kid” who lived for the annual spring musical. Being in the drama and music space gave me direction, purpose, community, and belonging. But what I didn’t realize is
- [In the Summer of 2021 by Natalie Boskin](https://jewishlearning.works/2023/02/in-the-summer-of-2021-by-natalie-boskin/) - By Natalie Boskin, Assistant Director of Youth Programs at Kehillah Community Synagogue in Oakland, California. In the summer of 2021, I reached out to Rachel on a whim because I wanted her perspective on what could only be described as seven pages of word vomit. I had finished translating the Akedah and the process of
- [Who Will You Bring Along for the Ride?](https://jewishlearning.works/2024/06/who-will-you-bring-along-for-the-ride/) - By Dona Standel, Director of Development at Camp Ramah in Northern California, and Voices for Good Fellowship Alumna “Ema, I finished the puzzle!”“Wow! And you did it by yourself?”“Yeah! All by myself!”“You worked so hard! Good job boobah.”A typical interaction in my household, and many other households, irks me as I frantically and silently search
- [Just the Beginning: Centering People of Color in Jewish Spaces](https://jewishlearning.works/2022/05/just-the-beginning-centering-people-of-color-in-jewish-spaces/) - By Mollie Breger, Camp Tawonga’s Associate Director of Development and Jewish LearningWorks’ Voices for Good Fellowship alumna.Read time: 3 mins. I joined the staff at Camp Tawonga only a few weeks before this feature in the New York Times was published about our work creating an all-gender cabin to ensure that more children at camp
- [Bringing in the Light](https://jewishlearning.works/2025/11/bringing-in-the-light/) - By Liora Brosbe, former Jewish LearningWorks Senior Educator. One of the things I love about engaging in Jewish rituals is that I often have to revisit the “why” and “how” in order to refresh my brain. Especially for rituals that happen once a year or even less! Does the mezuzah lean towards the house or
- [A Time to Heal](https://jewishlearning.works/2025/10/a-time-to-heal/) - Caption: Kibbutz Be’eri by cartoonist and illustrator Michel Kichka, a collaborator of Wrapping Memory. By Dana Sheanin, Jewish LearningWorks’ CEO At Jewish LearningWorks, we believe that learning and healing are intertwined; both acts of courage and hope, acts of care for the soul.Today we feel changed by the first fragile steps toward healing as we witness
- [Elu v’Elu - Working Together to Teach Difficult Topics](https://jewishlearning.works/2025/09/elu-velu-working-together-to-teach-difficult-topics/) - By Jenni Mangel, Jewish LearningWorks’ Senior Director of Impact and Evaluation Over the last few years, a recurring text we have studied with our Voices for Good fellows is Eruvin 13b(10). In this passage of Talmud, the rabbis are debating whether to follow the guidance of Rabbi Hillel, or the guidance of Rabbi Shammai when:
- [Educator Spotlight: Cantor Brian Reich](https://jewishlearning.works/2025/09/educator-spotlight-cantor-brian-reich/) - The Jewish LearningWorks team put together ten questions, designed to open a window into the life of the educators in our communities. Dive in to get to know who they are, be surprised, inspired, or both! Cantor Brian Reich Tefillah Teacher at Temple Beth Abraham Where did you grow up?San Francisco.What is your favorite dessert?Mojave…..Oops,
- [What We’ve Learned From Two Decades of Teen Engagement](https://jewishlearning.works/2025/09/what-weve-learned-from-two-decades-of-teen-engagement/) - By Dana Sheanin, Jewish LearningWorks’ CEO and Rabbi Alissa Miller, Rabbi of Community Engagement at Temple Isaiah, Lafayette, CA and Voices for Good Alumna. I have spent almost twenty of my thirty years in Jewish education thinking about teenagers — how to reach them, build their Jewish identities, encourage resilience, and inspire them to rely
- [Shana Tova: Shaping Our Collective Experience of Life and Love](https://jewishlearning.works/2025/09/shana-tova-shaping-our-collective-experience-of-life-and-love/) - By Dana Sheanin, Jewish LearningWorks’ CEO This spring and summer, I was captivated by a short series of podcasts on hope, hosted by On Being with Krista Tippett. Each of the fifteen minute episodes ended with a provocation, inviting listeners to think, write, or speak with others about big questions of the moment, including —
- [Educator Spotlight: Rachel Dubowe](https://jewishlearning.works/2025/05/educator-spotlight-rachel-dubowe/) - The Jewish LearningWorks team put together ten questions, designed to open a window into the life of the educators in our communities. Dive in to get to know who they are, be surprised, inspired, or both! Rachel Dubowe Senior Assistant Director at URJ Camp Newman, and Voices for Good Fellow.Read Rachel Dubowe’s bio, and her
- [Purim: Happiness and… Horror](https://jewishlearning.works/2025/02/purim-happiness-and-horror/) - By Jenni Mangel, Jewish LearningWorks’ Senior Director of Impact and EvaluationNext week we will celebrate Purim. The rabbinic teachings and traditions about being joyful on Purim are clear, and draw from a line in the Book of Esther that is so important that it is canonized in the opening section of our Havdalah liturgy:לַיְּהוּדִ֕ים הָֽיְתָ֥ה
- [The Small and Mighty Footsteps of Educators](https://jewishlearning.works/2025/04/the-small-and-mighty-footsteps-of-educators/) - By Sabrina May, Director of Preschool at JCC East BayJust as the Purim joy fades away in the Jewish calendar’s rearview mirror, The Prince of Egypt soundtrack grows louder, and louder within the JCC of the East Bay’s walls. Pesach is officially here!Each year as Passover approaches, I think of the many leaders of the
- [Educator Spotlight: Amanda Schwartz](https://jewishlearning.works/2025/05/educator-spotlight-amanda-schwartz/) - The Jewish LearningWorks team put together ten questions, designed to open a window into the life of the educators in our communities. Dive in to get to know who they are, be surprised, inspired, or both! Amanda Schwartz Family Life Director at Judaism Your Way, and Voices for Good Fellow. Where did you grow up?Centennial,
- [Educator Spotlight: Nicole Francis](https://jewishlearning.works/2025/05/educator-spotlight-nicole-francis/) - The Jewish LearningWorks team put together ten questions, designed to open a window into the life of the educators in our communities. Dive in to get to know who they are, be surprised, inspired, or both! Nicole Francis Senior Director of Preschool, Youth and Family Engagement at PJCC and Voices for Good Alumna. Where did
- [Educator Spotlight: Lauren Ngoi](https://jewishlearning.works/2025/05/educator-spotlight-lauren-ngoi/) - The Jewish LearningWorks team put together ten questions, designed to open a window into the life of the educators in our communities. Dive in to get to know who they are, be surprised, inspired, or both! Lauren Ngoi Early Childhood Education Associate Director at the Peninsula Jewish Community Center, and Voices for Good Fellow. Where
- [Educator Spotlight: Yafit Shriki Megidish](https://jewishlearning.works/2025/04/educator-spotlight-yafit-shriki-megidish/) - Caption: Yafit Shriki Megidish (second from left to right) with colleagues in Israel. The Jewish LearningWorks team put together ten questions, designed to open a window into the life of the educators in our communities. Dive in to get to know who they are, be surprised, inspired, or both! Yafit Shriki Megidish Chief Jewish Learning
- [Educator Spotlight: Nicole Novach](https://jewishlearning.works/2025/04/educator-spotlight-nicole-novach/) - The Jewish LearningWorks team put together ten questions, designed to open a window into the life of the educators in our communities. Dive in to get to know who they are, be surprised, inspired, or both! Nicole Novach PJ Library Parent Connector for Sonoma County & Youth Educator at Congregation Shomrei Torah in Santa Rosa.
- [Educator Spotlight: Rachel Berman](https://jewishlearning.works/2025/04/educator-spotlight-rachel-berman/) - The Jewish LearningWorks team put together ten questions, designed to open a window into the life of the educators in our communities. Dive in to get to know who they are, be surprised, inspired, or both! Rachel Berman Director of Family Engagement & Jewish Recourse Specialist at The Grove Preschool at Congregation Kol Shofar, Tiburon,
- [Educator Spotlight: Mia Zimman](https://jewishlearning.works/2025/04/educator-spotlight-mia-zimman/) - The Jewish LearningWorks team put together ten questions, designed to open a window into the life of the educators in our communities. Dive in to get to know who they are, be surprised, inspired, or both! Mia Zimman Youth and Family Education Director at Congregation Ner Shalom- Cotati, CA. Where did you grow up?Nashville, TN.What
- [Educator Spotlight: Sue Bojdak](https://jewishlearning.works/2025/04/educator-spotlight-sue-bojdak/) - The Jewish LearningWorks team put together ten questions, designed to open a window into the life of the educators in our communities. Dive in to get to know who they are, be surprised, inspired, or both! Sue Bojdak Director of Congregational Learning at Congregation B’nai Tikvah, Walnut Creek, CA Where did you grow up?Outside of
- [Educator Spotlight: Meg Adler](https://jewishlearning.works/2025/04/educator-spotlight-meg-adler/) - The Jewish LearningWorks team put together ten questions, designed to open a window into the life of the educators in our communities. Dive in to get to know who they are, be surprised, inspired, or both! Meg Adler Teacher at Denver Jewish Day School Where did you grow up?Piedmont, CA.What is your favorite dessert?Chocolate.What’s one
- [Educator Spotlight: Ariela Ronay-Jinich](https://jewishlearning.works/2025/04/educator-spotlight-ariela-ronay-jinich/) - The Jewish LearningWorks team put together ten questions, designed to open a window into the life of the educators in our communities. Dive in to get to know who they are, be surprised, inspired, or both! Ariela Ronay-Jinich Founder and Executive Director of Olamim – Latin Jewish Belonging for Families. Where did you grow up?Mexico
- [Educator Spotlight: Jane Elisa Simon](https://jewishlearning.works/2025/04/educator-spotlight-jane-elisa-simon/) - The Jewish LearningWorks team put together ten questions, designed to open a window into the life of the educators in our communities. Dive in to get to know who they are, be surprised, inspired, or both! Jane Elisa Simon Jewish Resource Specialist at Temple Sinai in Oakland, CA and Artist in Residence at the East
- [Educator Spotlight: Lena Fishman](https://jewishlearning.works/2025/05/educator-spotlight-lena-fishman/) - The Jewish LearningWorks team put together ten questions, designed to open a window into the life of the educators in our communities. Dive in to get to know who they are, be surprised, inspired, or both! Lena Fishman Executive Director at the Golda Meir House Museum. Lena is also on the board of the Rocky
- [Educator Spotlight: Ann Bergstrom](https://jewishlearning.works/2025/05/educator-spotlight-ann-bergstrom/) - The Jewish LearningWorks team put together ten questions, designed to open a window into the life of the educators in our communities. Dive in to get to know who they are, be surprised, inspired, or both! Ann Bergstrom Teacher at Gan Avraham Preschool in Oakland, CA. Where did you grow up?San Francisco, CA.What is your
- [Educator Spotlight: Ben Lieberman](https://jewishlearning.works/2025/05/educator-spotlight-ben-lieberman/) - The Jewish LearningWorks team put together ten questions, designed to open a window into the life of the educators in our communities. Dive in to get to know who they are, be surprised, inspired, or both! Ben Lieberman Assistant Director of Youth Education at Congregation Beth Sholom. Also works at the Brandeis School of San
- [Liora Brosbe, Todah Rabah for Everything](https://jewishlearning.works/2025/03/liora-brosbe-todah-rabah-for-everything/) - Caption: Liora Brosbe, Jewish LearningWorks educator, and her mother Ellen Brosbe, former BJW/Jewish LearningWorks staff member in August 2023 at our first Oakland office open house. For five years, Jewish LearningWorks’ flagship Special Needs Inclusion Initiative has flourished under the leadership of Senior Educator, Liora Brosbe. Liora’s deep commitment to full inclusion for all has
- [Re-centering the Spiritual in Jewish Education](https://jewishlearning.works/2025/03/re-centering-the-spiritual-in-jewish-education/) - We are excited to share with you the latest Adapting podcast episode! Listen to Dana Sheanin, Jewish LearningWorks CEO in conversation with David Bryfman, Jewish Education Project CEO. They talked about the particular challenges of Jewish education in the Bay Area, our recent SoulFULL gathering, and Jewish LearningWorks’ commitment to returning spirituality to the center
- [It’s Time for Jewish Education to Re-embrace the Spiritual](https://jewishlearning.works/2025/02/its-time-for-jewish-education-to-re-embrace-the-spiritual/) - By Dana Sheanin, Jewish LearningWorks’ CEO Originally published on eJewishPhilanthropy, February 26, 2025 I grew up in the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles in the 1970s. I was raised in a Conservative synagogue and attended day school. With the exception of summer camp, I checked every box a Jewish child can check: youth group,
- [Neuroscience shows how spiritual experiences can help with the teen mental health crisis](https://jewishlearning.works/2025/02/neuroscience-shows-how-spiritual-experiences-can-help-with-the-teen-mental-health-crisis/) - By Alisha Pedowitz, Jewish LearningWorks’ Senior Educator. Originally posted on J. Jewish educators have at our fingertips a powerful antidote that helps mitigate the impacts of the epidemic of despair and loneliness plaguing our society: spirituality. That was my main takeaway from the keynote talk at SoulFull, a conference hosted by Jewish LearningWorks that drew
- [Passing the Flame Forward](https://jewishlearning.works/2025/04/passing-the-flame-forward/) - By Claire Mikowski, Former Jewish LearningWorks Staff & Jewish Family Educator, 2003–06 Not often in my career as a Jewish educator had my legacy called me to action, but when it did, I answered Hineni, here-I-am. That moment took place more than two decades ago. In 2004, I was Midrasha Director of the Bureau of
- [Mazel tov! New Emerging Teachers in Jewish Preschools](https://jewishlearning.works/2025/03/mazel-tov-new-emerging-teachers-in-jewish-preschools/) - By Ellen Lefkowitz, Jewish LearningWorks’ Senior Educator In the fall of 2023, Jewish LearningWorks had the honor and privilege of participating in an exciting and critically important new project to elevate the field of Jewish Early Childhood Education. ElevatEd is a groundbreaking, collaborative initiative to recruit, train, mentor, and support over 300 new teachers in
- [Microgrants: Investing in Strong ECE Communities](https://jewishlearning.works/2025/05/microgrants-investing-in-strong-ece-communities/) - Bay Area Early Childhood Education Directors, recipients of Jewish LearningWorks’ 2024-25 ECE experimentation micro-grants.By Ellen Lefkowitz, Jewish LearningWorks’ Senior Educator, and Board President of the Early Childhood Educators of Reform Judaism (ECE-RJ)As part of Jewish LearningWorks’ participation in ElevatEd, a national project to recruit and retain early childhood educators, we received funds to develop an
- [What the world needs now is Jewish thought residencies](https://jewishlearning.works/2025/06/what-the-world-needs-now-is-jewish-thought-residencies/) - By Rabbi Amanda Schwartz, Family Life Director at Judaism Your Way, and Jewish LearningWorks’ Voices for Good Fellow. Originally published on eJewishPhilanthropy, June 9, 2025 “Invest in ideas,” Andres Spokoiny, CEO of the Jewish Funders Network, argues in his 2024 book Tradition and Transition: Jewish Communities and the Hyper Powered Individual. I couldn’t agree more.
- [First Year of the Bay Area Jewish Youth Resilience Roundtable](https://jewishlearning.works/2025/05/first-year-of-the-bay-area-jewish-youth-resilience-roundtable/) - By Alisha Pedowitz, Jewish LearningWorks’ Senior Educator Write Them Upon the Doorposts of Your House, and Upon Your Gates:Reflecting on Year 1 of the Bay Area Jewish Youth Resilience Roundtable.Throughout the 2024-2025 program year, Jewish LearningWorks convened a group of 36 educators representing 13 Bay Area organizations that work with Jewish adolescents. We met monthly to

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- [Getting UnStuck](https://jewishlearning.works/getting-unstuck/) - Getting UnStuck In-Person Moving Your Israel Education Program Forward Many of us, from the classroom to the board room, are considering ways to adapt or build Israel education opportunities for learners of all ages. Jewish LearningWorks invites you to think with us about how to get unstuck in your planning, and move toward experimentation and
- [Critical Conversations for Jewish Education](https://jewishlearning.works/critical-conversations-for-jewish-education/) - Critical Conversations for Jewish Education Online, In-Person Democracy & Antisemitism Our Critical Conversations for Jewish Education initiative is a new learning series designed to help educators explore the challenges most alive in America today, and how they are affecting children, teens, and families. We will examine how and why we, as Jewish educators, can help
- [Soul FULL: A Community of Practice for Spiritually Centered Judaism](https://jewishlearning.works/soul-full-a-community-of-practice-for-spiritually-centered-judaism/) - Soul FULL: A Community of Practice for Spiritually Centered Judaism Online Cultivating a Pedagogy for Educators Deepening Spirituality in Judaism In the 2025–2026 school year, members of the SoulFULL Community of Practice met to share and explore educational pedagogies and practices that place spirituality at the center of Judaism, while building on learnings from Dr.
- [Bay Area Jewish Youth Resilience Roundtable](https://jewishlearning.works/resilience-roundtable/) - Bay Area Jewish Youth Resilience Roundtable A professional learning network for those sitting at the intersection of Jewish education, and adolescent well-being. Online, In-Person Those of us who work with adolescents know that we are in the midst of a youth mental health crisis. And, those of us who work within Jewish education, and engagement
- [Training Programs](https://jewishlearning.works/training-programs/) - Training Programs The commitment to lifelong learning is an essential part of Jewish education, not just for children and teens, but for teachers, program directors, camping and youth professionals. For more than 125 years, Jewish LearningWorks has served as a wellspring of high quality professional learning for Jewish leaders and organizations. Professional Development Offerings Big
- [Upcoming Programs & Events](https://jewishlearning.works/calendar/) - UPCOMING PROGRAMS & EVENTS We are glad you are seeking opportunities to connect and learn Big Tent Teaching In-Person FROM August 11, 2026 - 1:00 PM PDT TO August 11, 2026 - 4:00 PM PDT Start your school year with an exploration of case studies and classroom resources that will help you build inclusive and ...
- [One-on-One Leadership Coaching](https://jewishlearning.works/leadership-coaching/) - Leadership Coaching “Always choose influence rather than power. It helps change people into people who can change the world.” – Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks z”l How will coaching support my leadership? Whether you’re navigating challenges, building your vision, or simply craving a space to think things through, our 1:1 leadership coaching will offer you a
- [Coaching & Mentoring](https://jewishlearning.works/coaching-and-mentoring/) - Coaching & Mentoring Jewish LearningWorks is pleased to offer both coaching and mentoring support to Jewish professionals in all settings. Both are designed to help you identify your unique strengths and challenges, learn new skills, problem solve, and practice self reflection. To learn more about the difference between coaching and mentoring, keep reading to the
- [Leadership for Jewish Professionals](https://jewishlearning.works/leadership-for-jewish-professionals/) - Leaders at All Levels, in All Places At Jewish LearningWorks, we know that leadership is possible at all levels, in all places, and that great leadership begins with self-awareness, curiosity, and expert support. One-on-one Leadership Coaching For professionals with 7-10 years of experience, presently working in Jewish organizations Whether you’re navigating challenges, building your vision,
- [Special Initiatives](https://jewishlearning.works/initiatives/) - Special Initiatives Our world is in a state of constant flux, and Jewish LearningWorks’ professional learning offerings are designed to respond to evolving needs. Our special initiatives are time limited, and reflect unique opportunities for partnership. Kadima Collective For professionals who have learned with Jewish LearningWorks for 40+ hours Kadima Collective creates opportunities to remain
- [Grants](https://jewishlearning.works/grants/) - grants for bay area organizations Capacity Building Grants Do you have a professional development idea for your school? Do you keep postponing educational pilots that have the potential to build your program or school? Do you want to strengthen your inclusion support? For the 2026–27 program year, Jewish LearningWorks is investing in innovative projects that
- [Communities of Practice](https://jewishlearning.works/communities-of-practice/) - COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE A community of practice (CoP) is a group of people with shared interests, who come together to fulfill both individual and group goals. CoPs often focus on sharing best practices and creating new knowledge to advance professional practice. Jewish LearningWorks’ CoPs are designed to help you grow professionally and deepen collegial relationships.
- [Kadima Collective](https://jewishlearning.works/kadima-collective/) - Kadima collective Learning and Leading, Together. Jewish learning is not meant to be a one-time experience. Neither is Jewish LearningWorks.Over the years, hundreds of educators, communal professionals, and lay leaders have devoted significant time to learning with us. Through fellowships, cohorts, retreats, leadership programs, and other intensive learning experiences, they have explored big ideas, built
- [Board of Directors](https://jewishlearning.works/board-of-directors/) - BOARD OF DIRECTORS Executive Committee Joel Abramovitz, Co-President Joel Abramovitz is a Jewish educator with deep personal and professional roots in the Bay Area and has served on the Jewish LearingWorks board since 2020. He currently works as the Director of the Wenger-Markowitz Family Education Initiative at Reconstructing Judaism, leading professional development for Reconstructionist congregational
- [Resilience & Mental Health](https://jewishlearning.works/resilience-and-mental-health/) - Resilience & Mental Health Our community’s educators and clergy have developed tremendous resilience over the past five years. Jewish LearningWorks is proud to support them with knowledge, tools, skills and community. Jewish Resilience Roundtable For Bay Area professionals and lay leaders working with Jewish adolescents The roundtable will again meet monthly during 2026-27 to strengthen
- [Cohort Learning](https://jewishlearning.works/cohort-learning/) - Cohort Learning Experiences Jewish LearningWorks offers a variety of cohort learning experiences designed to share best practices, and deepen your professional knowledge by learning with and from colleagues. Community is the heart of all Jewish learning. As Jewish educators know, when we engage in Jewish learning, we become part of a rich conversation, taking place
- [Mentorship Program](https://jewishlearning.works/mentorship-program/) - Mentorship Program “Find yourself a teacher, acquire for yourself a friend and judge each person according to their own merits.” Pirkei Avot 1:6 Jewish LearningWorks has offered mentorship experiences to educators in our community since 2018. We do this by connecting professionals to engage in a mentorship experience that benefits both the mentor and mentee.Mentoring
- [Ruby Award](https://jewishlearning.works/ruby-award/) - The Ruby Award Celebrating the Work of Jewish Youth Professionals in the Bay Area The Ruby Award is a special opportunity to recognize excellence in Jewish youth education and engagement, established in 2020 in collaboration with the San Francisco Teen Initiative. Jewish LearningWorks is proud to give this award in memory of Robert Ruby, to
- [Support for Neurodivergent Learners](https://jewishlearning.works/support-for-neurodivergent-learners/) - Supporting Neurodivergent Learners Jewish LearningWorks believes that all children deserve to be welcomed, included and embraced by the Jewish community regardless of individual needs or learning style. These following services are available for Bay Area Jewish institutions, including preschools, synagogue programs, day schools, camps, and other Jewish educational settings. Grants Supporting Inclusion in 2026-2027 For
- [Israel Education](https://jewishlearning.works/israel-education/) - Israel Education We believe that a comprehensive and integrated approach to Israel Education is a critical component of a holistic Jewish education. For decades, educators have looked to Jewish LearningWorks for knowledge, skills and tools to support their work in the classroom and beyond. Exploring Israel with learners of any age has perhaps never been
- [Work at Jewish LearningWorks](https://jewishlearning.works/careers/) - Work at Jewish LearningWorks Baruch HaBa - Welcome! We are so glad you are exploring a career at Jewish LearningWorks, the only organization in Northern California exclusively devoted to elevating the field of Jewish education by serving educators and teachers in a multitude of settings.We are a hub of professional learning and community, composed of
- [Staff](https://jewishlearning.works/staff/) - OUR STAFF Alison DeJung Operations Manager Alison has nearly three decades of experience in the Bay Area nonprofit and philanthropic sectors. She has held a range of roles spanning program development…READ MORE » Ellen Lefkowitz Senior Educator Ellen holds a Joint Master’s degree in Jewish Education and Jewish Non-profit Management from Hebrew Union College. Since
- [Our History](https://jewishlearning.works/our-history/) - Our History Our history traces back to 1898. Only forty years after its inception, the Jewish Educational Society (JES) was teaching hundreds of students on a daily and weekend basis. Recognizing its impact, the State of California incorporated JES as the Jewish community school system in 1897. By 1910, JES expanded its services to include
- [2026 Strategic Plan](https://jewishlearning.works/mission/2026-strategic-plan/) - 2026 Strategic Plan Download the PDF Version
- [Mission & Strategic Plan](https://jewishlearning.works/mission/) - Mission Jewish LearningWorks elevates the field of Jewish education by nurturing educators, inspiring innovation, and building Jewish literacy. We Believe At Jewish LearningWorks, we believe Jewish education is not optional—it is essential. Just as math and language are the building blocks of secular learning, Jewish learning builds a foundation of resilience, meaning, and hope. It
- [Donate Spring 2026](https://jewishlearning.works/donate-spring-2026/) - Donate to Jewish LearningWorks Today Your contribution helps us support the educators and professionals shaping their journey. Thank you for investing today, and helping us co-create their tomorrow. Your support allows us to provide year-round training, coaching and leadership development for Jewish educators, and reach thousands of lifelong Jewish learners.Together, we strengthen more than 140
- [Ellen Lefkowitz](https://jewishlearning.works/staff/ellen-lefkowitz/) - Ellen Lefkowitz Senior Educator 415-751-6983 ellen@jewishlearning.works She/Her Ellen holds a Joint Master’s degree in Jewish Education and Jewish Non-profit Management from Hebrew Union College. Since receiving her Master’s degree, family and early childhood education have been the focus of her work. She has worked in both congregational education and the field of Jewish early childhood
- [Kashrut Policy](https://jewishlearning.works/kashrut-policy/) - Kashrut Policy How we gather and provide nourishment matters. Jewish LearningWorks values gathering in a pluralistic setting, and seeks to provide a welcoming environment for guests. In recognition of this and of the nature of the Bay Area community, our events will include pescatarian food. We provide an opportunity upon event registration for participants to
- [Mykenzie Busser](https://jewishlearning.works/catalog-of-professional-development-workshops/mykenzie-busser/) - Mykenzie Busser Mykenzie Busser has been a Jewish Early Childhood Educator for almost 30 years. She has been a Fellow in the SHEVA Leadership Institute through the JCCA and is currently working on her on her Master’s in Jewish Early Childhood Education through American Jewish University. Mykenzie has been a mentor and Early Childhood Consultant,
- [Curricula & Guides](https://jewishlearning.works/curricula-guides/) - Looking for Resources to Use With Your learners? Soul full Sources A Collection of Spiritual Teaching Resources At Jewish LearningWorks we believe this is a critical time for Jewish education to return spirituality to the forefront of our work, honoring its place as a tool to help the next generation find meaning, create purpose, and
- [Source Sheets Library](https://jewishlearning.works/source-sheets-library/) - Source Sheets Library Curated by seasoned Jewish educators and designed for today’s learners Exploring Torah Study, Leadership, Values, and Inclusion Jewish learning is at its best when it sparks deep reflection, conversations with some tension, and enduring connections with Judaism. The Jewish LearningWorks Source Sheets Library is a growing repository of Jewish learning materials that
- [2026 Ruby Award: Inside the Adolescent Mind](https://jewishlearning.works/2026-ruby-award-inside-the-adolescent-mind/) - 2026 Ruby Award: Inside the Adolescent Mind In-Person 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
- [Voices for Good Fellowship](https://jewishlearning.works/voices-for-good-fellowship/) - Voices for Good Fellowship For Women Leaders in Jewish Communal Organizations The Voices for Good Fellowship creates an affinity space for women leaders in Jewish communal organizations to build collegial relationships, explore Jewish values in leadership, and address challenges unique to women in Jewish professional life.This fellowship is part of the Voices for Good Initiative,
- [Remembering as a Blessing](https://jewishlearning.works/curricula-guides/spiritual-ed/remembering-as-a-blessing/) - Remembering as a Blessing A Spiritual Healing Circle for Children We have partnered with Jewish educator and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Liora Brosbe, to offer you the framework for a Children’s Healing Circle, a group ritual and process that helps our youngest ones express their relationship to death, and how we live after people
- [Using Our Bodies to Cultivate Spirituality](https://jewishlearning.works/curricula-guides/spiritual-ed/embodied-pardes/) - Connecting Our Body and Soul Using Our Bodies to Cultivate Spirituality We have partnered with Embodied Jewish Learning to offer you a framework to introduce learners to the experience of using their bodies to cultivate shlemut, wholeness, and in doing so, their spiritual selves. This spiritual teaching resource is focused on the Embodied Pardes™ Method,
- [Donate - 2026 Teacher Appreciation](https://jewishlearning.works/2026teacherappreciation/) - Donate to Jewish LearningWorks Today Your contribution helps us support the educators and professionals shaping their journey. Thank you for investing today, and helping us co-create their tomorrow. Your support allows us to provide year-round training, coaching and leadership development for Jewish educators, and reach thousands of lifelong Jewish learners.Together, we strengthen more than 140
- [Voices for Good Fellowship: Meet the Graduates](https://jewishlearning.works/voices-for-good-fellowship/graduates/) - Voices for Good Fellowship:2018–2026 Graduates
- [Spiritual Teaching Resources](https://jewishlearning.works/curricula-guides/spiritual-ed/) - A collection of spiritual teaching resources Jewish LearningWorks believes this is a critical time for Jewish education to return spirituality to the forefront of our work, honoring its place as a tool to help the next generation find meaning, create purpose, and embrace hope.While Jewish religious education focuses on knowledge, tradition, and practices to help
- [Impact](https://jewishlearning.works/impact/) - Our Impact In the Community Jewish LearningWorks has been training and supporting Jewish educators for more than125 years. Our work has taken many forms through the decades — but what has remained constant is our belief that any child’s experience is only as good as the teachers and other role models they encounter at school,
- [Other Ways to Give](https://jewishlearning.works/other-ways-to-give/) - Other Ways to Give Jewish LearningWorks offers several giving opportunities for your convenience. We thank you for your generous support. Donate Online Cash, Check, and Credit Card Donations Checks should be made payable and mailed to:Jewish LearningWorks1770 Post Street, #145San Francisco, CA 94115To make a donation using a credit card, please use our secure online
- [Voices for Good Fellowship: Cohort 3](https://jewishlearning.works/voices-for-good-fellowship/voices-for-good-fellowship-cohort-3/) - Voices for Good Fellowship: Cohort 3 Meet the 2024–26 Fellows Erica Aren Senior Director, Roots & Culture at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, CA Erica Aren (she/her) believes in the power of community and creating spaces where people feel they belong. A Jewish professional for more than two decades, she has led programs
- [Catalog of Professional Development Workshops](https://jewishlearning.works/catalog-of-professional-development-workshops/) - Catalog of Professional Development Workshops Explore our catalog of workshops, and find the ideal training for your educator team, and your learner’s needs. Jewish LearningWorks is making customized professional development training more accessible to you, and your team members. This online catalog includes training programs for teachers, educational leaders and boards at Jewish schools, and
- [Alison DeJung](https://jewishlearning.works/staff/alison-dejung/) - Alison DeJung Operations Manager 415-529-3209 alison@jewishlearning.works She/Her Alison has nearly three decades of experience in the Bay Area nonprofit and philanthropic sectors. She has held a range of roles spanning program development, grantmaking, and organizational operations, including most recently serving as Executive Director of Eden I&R/211 Alameda County, where she led significant growth in programs,
- [Jenni Mangel](https://jewishlearning.works/staff/jenni-mangel/) - Jenni Mangel Senior Director of Impact and Evaluation 415-529-3225 jenni@jewishlearning.works She/Her Jenni Mangel believes passionately that Jewish education positively impacts the Jewish identity of children and their families. Her work reflects a commitment to connecting learning, community involvement, and leadership with personal and spiritual development. While she has been engaged in Jewish education since 1993,
- [Our Supporters](https://jewishlearning.works/our-supporters/) - Our Lead Supporters Thank you to all of our donors at all levels, this year and every year. Donations from committed individuals who align their financial resources with their values are critical to fostering Jewish lifelong learners, and keeping Bay Area Jewish life vibrant.We are grateful for this community of individuals who have pledged their
- [Rabbi Alissa Miller](https://jewishlearning.works/ruby-award/rabbi-alissa-miller/) - Rabbi Alissa Miller Rabbi of Community Engagement at Temple Isaiah in Lafayette Rabbi Alissa Miller — affectionately known as RAM — has served on the clergy team of Temple Isaiah in Lafayette since 2007. She was ordained at the Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion in Los Angeles in 2007, where she also
- [More than Minds with Dr. Nancy Parkes](https://jewishlearning.works/more-than-minds-with-dr-nancy-parkes/) - More than Minds with Dr. Nancy Parkes A Workshop Series on Social, Emotional, and Spiritual Learning for Jewish Educators Online, In-Person This fall, Jewish LearningWorks is excited to launch a new learning cohort with Dr. Nancy Parkes, a nationally recognized expert in Jewish education and Social, Emotional and Spiritual Learning (SESL) integration. Nancy has taught
- [Jewish Foundations: Cultivating Wonder in Jewish ECE](https://jewishlearning.works/jewish-foundations-cultivating-wonder-in-jewish-ece/) - Jewish Foundations: Cultivating Wonder in Jewish ECE In-Person 2025-26 Professional Learning Days for Bay Area Jewish Early Childhood Educators Our communal professional learning days are an opportunity for Jewish early childhood educators to be in relationship with their local colleagues, learn from local experts in the field, and explore new ways of infusing Jewish life
- [Passover Bingo Cards](https://jewishlearning.works/passoverbingo/) - Passover Bingo Cards For your classrooms, community seders or home. Jewish LearningWorks is committed to supporting Jewish education that is creative, responsive, and rooted in tradition. To help spark conversation, and bring a bit of playful learning to this season, we’re sharing our new Passover Bingo Cards, designed for multi-generational use. Download the Bingo Cards
- [Accessibility & Inclusion Workshops with Matan](https://jewishlearning.works/inclusion-workshops/) - Accessibility & Inclusion Workshops with Matan Online How to Actively Support and Include Neurodivergent Children in Your Learning Spaces Starting this fall, Jewish LearningWorks will host 5 workshops to support Bay Area educators, lay leaders, and other Jewish communal professionals working toward systemic inclusion in their learning spaces and communities. We are pleased to partner
- [2026 Passover Bingo Cards](https://jewishlearning.works/2026-passover/) - Passover Bingo Cards For family or community seders, and Jewish education spaces. Jewish LearningWorks is committed to supporting Jewish education that is creative, responsive, and rooted in tradition. To help spark conversation, and bring a bit of playful learning to this season, we’re sharing our new Passover Bingo Cards, designed for multi-generational use. Download the
- [Hinei Ma Tov](https://jewishlearning.works/curricula-guides/spiritual-ed/hinei-ma-tov/) - Introducing Spiritual Language Hinei Ma Tov: Stop Notice and Name the Good We have partnered with the Light Lab to offer you a framework to introduce Jewish spiritual language to children, as a way to explore and normalize the experience of the spiritual in everyday life. This instructional resource is focused on the key siddur
- [See No Stranger](https://jewishlearning.works/curricula-guides/spiritual-ed/see-no-stranger/) - Recognizing the Divine in Others See No Stranger We have partnered with Kabbalah Experience to help your learners awaken to the awareness that every human being is b’tzelem Elohim — a reflection of the Divine; a value that transforms not only how we view others, but how we can shape a more compassionate, just, and
- [Shema: Listening as Prayer](https://jewishlearning.works/curricula-guides/spiritual-ed/shema-listening-as-prayer/) - Introducing Prayer Shema: Listening as Prayer We have partnered with Jewish educator and spiritual director, Sue Bojdak, to offer you a framework for introducing prayer to children as a way of bringing spiritual practice into their everyday lives. This spiritual teaching resource is focused on Judaism’s central prayer, the Shema. It uses the sense of
- [Donate Passover 2026](https://jewishlearning.works/2026passover/) - Donate to Jewish LearningWorks Today Your contribution helps us support the educators and professionals shaping their journey. Thank you for investing today, and helping us co-create their tomorrow. Your support allows us to provide year-round training, coaching and leadership development for Jewish educators, and reach thousands of lifelong Jewish learners.Together, we strengthen more than 140
- [Values & Commitments](https://jewishlearning.works/values/) - Our Values & Commitments מנהיגות · Manhigut · Leadership We are fearless in our pursuit of continuous improvement, experimentation, and thought leadership that expands the intellectual horizons of those with whom we work. סקרנות · Sakranut · Curiosity We are lifelong learners who delight in discovery, and strive to spark imaginative inquiry among those we
- [Voices for Good Fellowship: Alumni Speak](https://jewishlearning.works/voices-for-good-fellowship/alumni-voices-speak/) - Voices for Good Fellowship Voices of Our Women's Leadership Fellowship Graduates Leadership and Philanthropy What the World Needs Now is Jewish Thought Residencies by Amanda Schwartz for eJp June 2025.The Art of Team Retreat by Rachel Shamash Schneider and Jenna Hanauer for eJp, July 2024.Who Will You Bring Along for the Ride? by Dona Standel for
- [Building Resilience Through Skills for Hard Conversations](https://jewishlearning.works/resilience-and-skills-for-hard-conversations/) - Developing Skills for Hard Conversations In-Person A Workshop with NewGround: A Muslim-Jewish Partnership for Change When we help adolescents build their capacity to communicate across differences, we support them in increasing the likelihood of transforming entire communities through the power of relationships. This is the heart of our winter, resilience building workshop with Tasneem Noor,
- [Liliana Peliks](https://jewishlearning.works/staff/liliana-peliks/) - Liliana Peliks Director of Marketing 415-751-6983 liliana@jewishlearning.works She/Her Liliana is a marketing and non-profit professional who enjoys approaching her work as a customer experience curator. At heart, she is a creative, a problem solver, and an excellence seeker committed to putting her skills to work at the intersection of spiritual fulfillment, social justice and environmental
- [Become a Sustaining Donor](https://jewishlearning.works/monthly-giving/) - Join Our Sustaining Donor Circle Cultivating our community is a year-round commitment Your commitment to a monthly gift supports Jewish educators through the best days, and through the hard ones.Your sustained donations become a financial partnership that provides us with a dependable and ongoing source of revenue for our work. In turn, we are able
- [December 2025 Donate](https://jewishlearning.works/2025annualcampaign/) - Donate to Help Us Spark Hope Your contribution supports the educators cultivating Jewish identity and belonging today. Thank you for investing in those bringing Jewish learning alive with joy and meaning. Your support allows us to provide year-round training, coaching and leadership development for Jewish educators, and reach thousands of lifelong Jewish learners.Together, we strengthen
- [Donate](https://jewishlearning.works/donate/) - Donate to Jewish LearningWorks Today Your contribution helps us support the educators and professionals shaping their journey. Thank you for investing today, and helping us co-create their tomorrow. Your support allows us to provide year-round training, coaching and leadership development for Jewish educators, and reach thousands of lifelong Jewish learners.Together, we strengthen more than 140
- [We Are Sorry You Can't Join Us](https://jewishlearning.works/regrets/) - We Are Sorry You Can't Join Us Thank you for sending your regrets. We are sorry you can't join us this time. You may view our calendar of upcoming learning opportunities. We look forward to seeing you in the future! Upcoming Learning Opportunities
- [Giving Tuesday 2025](https://jewishlearning.works/giving-tuesday-2025/) - Donate to Jewish LearningWorks Today Your contribution helps us equip the educators and professionals shaping their journey. Thank you for investing today, and helping us co-create their tomorrow. Your support allows us to provide year-round training, coaching and leadership development for Jewish educators, and reach thousands of lifelong Jewish learners.Together, we strengthen more than 140
- [Dona Standel](https://jewishlearning.works/staff/dona-standel/) - Dona Standel Engagement Manager 415-751-6983 dona@jewishlearning.works She/Her Dona Standel is a leadership enthusiast, program design expert, life-long learner, and mom to three. She is committed to creating spaces and building communities that foster curiosity, belonging, connection, and — joy! After 16 years in San Francisco, she now lives in Ventura County. Dona has about 20
- [Maaian Zelman](https://jewishlearning.works/catalog-of-professional-development-workshops/maaian-zelman/) - Maaian Zelman Driven by the belief that children and educators deserve to be fully engaged — intellectually, emotionally, and spiritually — I leverage over 15 years in education as a pedagogical coach and mentor. My journey began in the classroom, then transitioned to administrative roles where I directed and developed a thriving, progressive early childhood
- [Sandy Gold](https://jewishlearning.works/catalog-of-professional-development-workshops/sandy-gold/) - Sandy Gold Sandy Gold brings over 30 years of professional educational experience to her current role as a Curriculum Coach at the TBS Children’s Center. She began her career in Jewish education at the Rashi School as both a classroom teacher and a learning specialist, was the founding Director of the Temple Shir Tikva Early
- [Sandra K Chapman, Ed. D.](https://jewishlearning.works/catalog-of-professional-development-workshops/sandra-k-chapman-ed-d/) - Sandra K Chapman, Ed. D. I am CEO of Chap Equity Inc., an organization rooted in collaboration, research and dialogue. I am Social Identity Development Lead for the Great First Eight curriculum project, at Stand for Children. I translate concepts on identity into interactive workshops and collaborate on writing projects. I co-author: Bias Starts Early.
- [Ruth Ann Binder](https://jewishlearning.works/catalog-of-professional-development-workshops/ruth-ann-binder/) - Ruth Ann Binder Ruth Ann Binder is coach, consultant, and activist with a deep commitment to social change. She has facilitated numerous workshops on whiteness and anti-racism, in the Jewish community, in school districts, and the community at large. Her work is deeply rooted in relationships with people of color and years of study and
- [Marissa Lifshen Steinberger](https://jewishlearning.works/catalog-of-professional-development-workshops/marissa-lifshen-steinberger/) - Marissa Lifshen Steinberger Marissa Lifshen Steinberger provides coaching, training, and facilitation services to mission-driven individuals, leaders, and teams to elevate professional impact and enhance personal fulfillment. She has more than 20 years of experience in the education, foundation, and non-profit sectors, and understands that organizations require courageous leadership and diverse voices at all levels to
- [Lisa Friedman](https://jewishlearning.works/catalog-of-professional-development-workshops/lisa-friedman/) - Lisa Friedman Lisa Friedman, RJE is a widely recognized expert in Jewish Disability Inclusion and has been a Consultant for congregations, schools, camps, and other organizations for over twenty years. She guides communities in the development of inclusive practices for faculty, clergy, leadership, and families through dialogue, interactive workshops, and awareness training. Before her tenue
- [Danielle Barta](https://jewishlearning.works/catalog-of-professional-development-workshops/danielle-barta/) - Danielle Barta I have been a formal and informal educator for over 13 years. I create and execute unique, fun, and educational Israel related programming for students from kindergarten to college. Programs can be short or long-term. Programs can be stand-alone or fit into the school/organization’s curriculum. I will collaborate with you on the following
- [Heather Wolfson](https://jewishlearning.works/catalog-of-professional-development-workshops/heather-wolfson/) - Heather Wolfson Heather Wolfson, the CEO and Lead Strategist at Maven Leadership Consulting leverages nearly two decades of senior-level leadership acumen. She specializes in scalable training, coaching, and strategic consulting for emerging leaders and teams, fostering a sustained impact. Heather’s career features roles such as COO at M2, Chief Program Officer at the Jewish Federation
- [Jaime Rapaport Barry](https://jewishlearning.works/catalog-of-professional-development-workshops/jaime-rapaport-barry/) - Jaime Rapaport Barry Jaime Rapaport Barry comes from a family steeped in entrepreneurship, community work, and storytelling. Those passions inform much of her work, and there is little she relishes more than the opportunity to start with even the tiniest whisper of an idea—and collaborate with clients to transform that idea into a powerful, impactful
- [Julie King](https://jewishlearning.works/catalog-of-professional-development-workshops/julie-king/) - Julie King Julie King is the author, with Joanna Faber, of two best-selling books: How To Talk So LITTLE Kids Will Listen: A Survival Guide to Life with Children Ages 2-7 and How To Talk When Kids Won’t Listen: Whining, Fighting, Meltdowns, Defiance, and Other Challenges of Childhood. Julie and Joanna also collaborated on the
- [Aaron Braun](https://jewishlearning.works/catalog-of-professional-development-workshops/aaron-braun/) - Aaron Braun I am a licensed clinical social worker with a private practice in Oakland, CA. I specialize in work and support for families with neurodivergent needs. The primary therapeutic modality that informs my work is DIR/Floortime therapy. My training began at the Floortime Institute in Washington, DC where I worked alongside occupational therapists and
- [On the Map](https://jewishlearning.works/israel-education/on-the-map/) - On the Map On the Map is Jewish LearningWorks’ curricular framework and activity guide designed to make enduring change regarding how Israel is taught to middle and high school students. It came about in response to a number of educators who called us asking for “a good map of Israel” to use in their classrooms.
- [2026 Voices Siyum Donations](https://jewishlearning.works/2026-voices-siyum-donations/) - YOUR RSVP IS CONFIRMED You will receive an email confirmation shortly Please use this form to make your dedicated donation. Thank you for honoring a Voices for Good Fellow or Jewish LearningWorks staff by making a dedicated donation.Together, we strengthen more than 140 day schools, congregations, JCCs, camps and youth programs each year, keeping our
- [American Jewish Education in the Post 10/7 World](https://jewishlearning.works/american-jewish-education-after-october-7/) - Israel Education Today Our Role At Jewish LearningWorks, we believe Jewish education is not optional—it is essential. Just as math and language are the building blocks of secular learning, Jewish learning builds a foundation of resilience, meaning, belonging, and hope. It connects us to timeless values, equips us to face today’s challenges, and it ensures
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- [Jane Simon](https://jewishlearning.works/catalog-of-professional-development-workshops/jane-simon/) - Jane Simon I fell in love with working with young children as an undergraduate working at the Lab School at Sarah Lawrence College and continued my studies to earn a Masters in ECE at SUNY Buffalo. Over the years I have been a lead teacher and taught student teachers in many college and university laboratory
- [Elana Naftalin-Kelman](https://jewishlearning.works/catalog-of-professional-development-workshops/elana-naftalin-kelman/) - Elana Naftalin-Kelman Elana has been working at the intersection of special education and Jewish education for over 20 years. She was inspired on this path by her time as a camper at Camp Ramah in Ojai, where she has been directing their Tikvah program for campers and young adults with disabilities for 15 years. These
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- [Alison Sorscher](https://jewishlearning.works/catalog-of-professional-development-workshops/alison-sorscher/) - Alison Sorscher Early childhood education has been my primary focus for over 13 years. My academic background is centered in human development, early childhood education, and special education. I hold an MA in ECE and a clear California Education Specialist Early Childhood Special Education credential. My professional experience includes preschool teaching in public special education
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- [David Neufeld, Ph.D.](https://jewishlearning.works/catalog-of-professional-development-workshops/david-neufeld-ph-d/) - David Neufeld, Ph.D. David grew up in the Los Angeles area, came to the Bay Area to attend college at UC Berkeley, and never left. He has worked in the field of Special Education and learning support since the early 2000s. Before joining Jewish Community High School of the Bay in San Francisco where he
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## Ruby Award Winners

- [Rick Concoff](https://jewishlearning.works/ruby-award-winners/rick-concoff/)
- [Devra Aarons](https://jewishlearning.works/ruby-award-winners/devra-aarons/)
- [Zephira Derblich-Milea](https://jewishlearning.works/ruby-award-winners/zephira-derblich-milea/)
- [Jenessa Schwartz z”l](https://jewishlearning.works/ruby-award-winners/jenessa-schwartz-zl/)
- [Meg Adler](https://jewishlearning.works/ruby-award-winners/meg-adler/)
- [Adam Lowy](https://jewishlearning.works/ruby-award-winners/adam-lowy/)

## Trainings

- [On the Map](https://jewishlearning.works/trainings/on-the-map/) - On the Map is Jewish LearningWorks' curricular framework for teaching Israel in middle and high school programs. Created in 2016 by beloved Israel educator Vavi Toran,
- [The Reggio Emilia Philosophy: Principles, Possibilities & Provocations](https://jewishlearning.works/trainings/the-reggio-emilia-philosophy-principles-possibilities-provocations/) - Examine foundational concepts like the Image of the Child and the role of educators, the Hundred Languages, and Progettazione.
- [Deepening Your Observations: Uncovering Children’s Powerful Thinking](https://jewishlearning.works/trainings/deepening-your-observations-uncovering-childrens-powerful-thinking/) - Explore the reflective and intentional practice of truly listening to children through a teacher-researcher mindset. We’ll delve into the profound intellectual processes happening within them and their unique ways of making sense of the world.
- [Elevating Project Work: Sustaining Inquiry & Collaboration](https://jewishlearning.works/trainings/elevating-project-work-sustaining-inquiry-collaboration/) - Walk alongside classroom investigations and explore what keeps meaningful projects alive. We’ll delve into what a vibrant culture of inquiry and collaboration looks like, identifying compelling ideas for ongoing inquiry, while understanding the power of group dynamics and the role of documentation.
- [Rethinking Assessment: Documentation, Relationships & Dialogue](https://jewishlearning.works/trainings/rethinking-assessment-documentation-relationships-dialogue/) - Shift from measurement to a form of assessment that fuels growth. Inspired by Learning Stories and Reggio documentation, this workshop helps you make learning visible, inform practice, empower learners, and build deeper relationships and richer dialogue with children and families.
- [Enhancing Well Being: Exploring Sensory Tools and Calming Strategies](https://jewishlearning.works/trainings/enhancing-well-being-exploring-sensory-tools-and-calming-strategies/) - Participants will learn to recognize signs of sensory overload and stress, and understand how to implement appropriate strategies to mitigate these effects.
- [Managing Challenging Behavior in Preschool: Strategies for Teachers and Effective Communication with Parents](https://jewishlearning.works/trainings/managing-challenging-behavior-in-preschool-strategies-for-teachers-and-effective-communication-with-parents/) - We will define challenging behavior and its impact as well as understand why children engage in challenging behavior. Participants will learn to identify strategies that will decrease challenging behavior and improve the experience for all children in the preschool classroom.
- [Children’s Development of Difference™](https://jewishlearning.works/trainings/childrens-development-of-difference/) - In today’s society, children receive daily messages about skin color, race, ethnicity, culture, religion, ability, gender and many other categories of social identities.
- [Facilitating Challenging Conversations](https://jewishlearning.works/trainings/facilitating-challenging-conversations/) - Conversations across lines of social identity differences can trigger worries that negatively impact the exchange. When people who experience marginalization and people with dominant social identities feel the potential for being misunderstood, there is an increase in emotions and avoidance of topics.
- [1:1 Coaching on DEIB and Leadership](https://jewishlearning.works/trainings/11-coaching-on-deib-and-leadership/) - Everyone comes to DEIBJ work from a different place - informed by their lived experiences, education, prior engagement in DEIBJ work, and other factors such as disposition and ways of seeing and being. 1:1 attention will offer a space for processing new strands of knowledge and how best to apply the knowledge in their work with others.
- [Anti-Racism For Educators](https://jewishlearning.works/trainings/anti-racism-for-educators/) - We will collaboratively create a workshop about belonging, diversity, equity and inclusion that addresses the specific needs of your organization.
- [Working Through Change](https://jewishlearning.works/trainings/working-through-change/) - The very idea of change can be very challenging. In order to support participants to better understand what might be getting activated for them when approached with the possibility of a transition, it’s important to identify, explore, and push through assumptions, challenges, and self-doubts that may be getting in the way of their success.
- [Welcome to my Ted(Lasso) Talk: Holistic and Equity-Driven Leadership](https://jewishlearning.works/trainings/welcome-to-my-tedlasso-talk-holistic-and-equity-driven-leadership/) - The mustachioed Midwesterner turned British soccer coach, Ted Lasso, made his way into the hearts and minds of millions at a time when we needed it the most.
- [Do You Know Your ABCs? Designing Meetings for Impact](https://jewishlearning.works/trainings/do-you-know-your-abcs-designing-meetings-for-impact/) - Whether planning for a large event, a team retreat, or a one-on-one meeting, being intentional about your desired outcomes across these three different dimensions will set you up for success.
- [Building Better Boundaries](https://jewishlearning.works/trainings/building-better-boundaries/) - Given the many competing commitments that you are likely navigating on any given day, it can be challenging to set appropriate boundaries around your time and energy.
- [Listening at All Levels](https://jewishlearning.works/trainings/listening-at-all-levels/) - Learning to listen at different levels is a critical component of effective communication that spans all dimensions of the organization. Being able to match the appropriate level of listening to the situation gives leaders more precise tools that will inevitably support them in being more impactful.
- [Navigating Polarities by Adopting a Both/And Mindset](https://jewishlearning.works/trainings/navigating-polarities-by-adopting-a-both-and-mindset/) - Being able to approach situations with solutions that go beyond the either/or, all-or-nothing binary is critical. Cultivating a both/and mindset allows us to think more expansively and creatively about challenges which then become fruitful opportunities to affect change.
- [Disability Inclusion Training](https://jewishlearning.works/trainings/disability-inclusion-training/) - An interactive session for boards or other congregational lay leadership
- [Disability Inclusion Training for Lay Leaders](https://jewishlearning.works/trainings/disability-inclusion-training-for-lay-leaders/) - An interactive session for boards or other congregational lay leadership
- [How To Talk So Kids Will Listen](https://jewishlearning.works/trainings/how-to-talk-so-kids-will-listen/) - Do you get worn down by dawdling, defiance, or general mayhem? Could you use some alternatives to threats, bribes and punishment? Would you like to learn concrete, effective methods that will make life with children easier and more satisfying?
- [How To Talk So Little Kids Will Listen](https://jewishlearning.works/trainings/how-to-talk-so-little-kids-will-listen/) - Do you get worn down by dawdling, defiance, or general mayhem? Could you use some alternatives to threats, bribes and punishment?
- [Both/And Leadership](https://jewishlearning.works/trainings/both-and-leadership/) - Does leadership ever feel like a series of impossible choices? Should our decision-making be more centralized or distributed?
- [Navigating Conflict: Communicating Effectively Across Differences](https://jewishlearning.works/trainings/navigating-conflict-communicating-effectively-across-differences/) - In a time of war and increasing polarization, many organizations are straining from internal conflict, damaged relationships, and outside pressures.
- [Manager as Coach Copy](https://jewishlearning.works/trainings/manager-as-coach-copy/) - Join our interactive DISC session to uncover your unique communication style and those of your team members.
- [Manager as Coach](https://jewishlearning.works/trainings/manager-as-coach/) - Transform your managerial approach with coaching techniques that emphasize empathy, active listening, and asking powerful questions.
- [The Art of Giving & Receiving Feedback](https://jewishlearning.works/trainings/the-art-of-giving-receiving-feedback/) - Master the essential skills of delivering and accepting feedback with confidence and grace. This session will equip you with techniques to provide constructive criticism that motivates and empowers, as well as strategies to receive feedback openly and productively.
- [Experiential Israel Education Programming](https://jewishlearning.works/trainings/experiential-israel-education-programming/) - Create an experiential education program where participants can actively learn about and experience Israeli history, politics, culture, and people.
- [Preparing for Feedback](https://jewishlearning.works/trainings/preparing-for-feedback/) - How to think about difficult conversations with families regarding classroom support or behavior.
- [Provocations: the What, Why, How and the Jewish Connection](https://jewishlearning.works/trainings/provocations-the-what-why-how-and-the-jewish-connection/) - This workshop is a hands-on and presentation type workshop that explores the importance of provocations and environments as developmentally appropriate practice, with a whys and the hows, all seen through a Jewish Lens and values.
- [The Practical Application of Jewish Values in the Classroom](https://jewishlearning.works/trainings/the-practical-application-of-jewish-values-in-the-classroom/) - This workshop explores how Jewish Values can be brought into the classroom in easy and practical ways so that children, families and educators can understand and enjoy. This is an interactive workshop.
- [Process vs. Product](https://jewishlearning.works/trainings/process-vs-product/) - This workshops explores the difference between process and product art and explorations. We will touch on the what process looks like, the benefits and how the how to.
- [Let's Collaborate to Create a Custom ECE Workshop for You](https://jewishlearning.works/trainings/lets-collaborate-to-create-a-custom-ece-workshop-for-you/) - Need a workshop on pedagogy, documentation, open-ended materials and more? Let's collaborate!
- [Beyond Classroom Volunteers: Engaging Parents Authentically](https://jewishlearning.works/trainings/beyond-classroom-volunteers-engaging-parents-authentically/) - We will explore exemplar models of Parent Engagement, taking into account the image of the Parents, Social-Emotional Learning, and training in Belonging. We will examine how this is situated in a Jewish setting with diverse families and staff.
- [Beyond the Shabbat Box: Experiential Jewish Curriculum](https://jewishlearning.works/trainings/beyond-the-shabbat-box-experiential-jewish-curriculum/) - We will investigate Jewish curriculum beyond Shabbat and holidays, exploring how to bring Jewish values to life in a developmentally appropriate manner.
- [How Do You Know it's a Jewish School on a Tuesday in November?](https://jewishlearning.works/trainings/how-do-you-know-its-a-jewish-school-on-a-tuesday-in-november/) - We will examine classroom design to understand and magnify the role of the classroom as the third teacher in a Jewish setting. How does your classroom look, sound and feel like a Jewish environment when it's not a holiday?
- [The How's and Why's of Behavior in Children](https://jewishlearning.works/trainings/the-hows-and-whys-of-behavior-in-children/) - You will come away from this training understanding why and how children act the way they act, with concrete tools to provide support for all types of behaviors.
- [Radical Inclusion!](https://jewishlearning.works/trainings/radical-inclusion/) - What does it mean to be an inclusive community? At the end of this session, you will have a deeper understanding of what it means to be an inclusive community and you will walk away with tools to increase inclusion at your site.
- [Workshops, Training and Coaching for Directors and Assistant Directors](https://jewishlearning.works/trainings/workshops-training-and-coaching-for-directors-and-assistant-directors/) - I have a variety of offerings for Directors and Assistant Directors. (These also work well for teacher leaders) Some sample topics are: Director/Assistant Director Coaching Leadership Creating Successful Systems Teambuilding Working with Lay Leaders/Parents
- [Customized Professional Development Trainings for Teachers](https://jewishlearning.works/trainings/customized-professional-development-trainings-for-teachers/) - I offer professional development trainings and workshops for educators on a variety of topics. Sample topics include: Teaching Pedagogy: What does it mean in my classroom? Ages and Stages: What to expect in your classroom and what to do when you need help!
- [Coaching and Mentoring](https://jewishlearning.works/trainings/coaching-and-mentoring/) - I offer coaching and mentoring for Directors, Assistant Directors, Teacher Leaders and teachers. This kind of training takes place over the school year, and enables educators to get to the next level in their work, to feel more confident and to find the joy in their work
- [Recognizing and Responding to Challenging Behaviors](https://jewishlearning.works/trainings/recognizing-and-responding-to-challenging-behaviors/) - This training presents an overview of the types of challenging behaviors that we see in educational settings—how they show up, what underlying challenge(s) they are communicating, and how to respond effectively.
- [Special Needs 101](https://jewishlearning.works/trainings/special-needs-101/) - This training provides an overview of up to three diagnoses that you may be seeing in your educational environments — what the diagnosis means, how it might manifest in your program, and how to accommodate it.
- [Special Needs 201](https://jewishlearning.works/trainings/special-needs-201/) - A more advanced version of Special Needs 101: A deeper dive into one or more diagnoses which is suitable for educators who have some background knowledge already.
- [Sensory Processing and Integration: The Seven (Yes, Seven!) Senses](https://jewishlearning.works/trainings/sensory-processing-and-integration-the-seven-yes-seven-senses/) - Did you know that we actually have 7 senses? This is an overview of sensory processing and integration challenges and how to respond to them — with concrete strategies that adults can use to create sensory environments that allow children to thrive
- [Navigating Challenging Conversations With Caregivers](https://jewishlearning.works/trainings/navigating-challenging-conversations-with-caregivers/) - We've all been there: a child is demonstrating some worrying behaviors, and it is time to have a difficult conversation with their parent or guardian. This is a stressful situation, but there are ways to make it easier for both you and the adults concerned.
- [Using a Goodness of Fit Lens in the ECE Classroom](https://jewishlearning.works/trainings/using-a-goodness-of-fit-lens-in-the-ece-classroom/) - This training brings current research on temperament and personality and connects it to the practical: social/emotional environment, physical environment, and learning environment.
- [Learning the Language of Inclusion](https://jewishlearning.works/trainings/learning-the-language-of-inclusion/) - This training focuses on building a working or deeper understanding of the language and terminology Jewish educators will encounter when serving children with disabilities and unique learning needs
- [Applying Circle of Security in Preschool Environments](https://jewishlearning.works/trainings/applying-circle-of-security-in-preschool-environments/) - This training explores how Circle of Security principles can strengthen preschool classroom dynamics by creating secure, supportive, and nurturing teacher-child relationships.
- [Cultivating a Love of Learning through Transformational Classroom Management](https://jewishlearning.works/trainings/cultivating-a-love-of-learning-through-transformational-classroom-management/) - Gone are the days when rules are posted on the bulletin board the first day of class and, the next day, students return with a form indicating that they have discussed these rules with their parents.
- [Project Based Learning in Jewish Spaces](https://jewishlearning.works/trainings/project-based-learning-in-jewish-spaces/) - We want students to live Jewish values, not just study them. Project Based Learning (PBL) is all about learning in the context of real life: Integrating PBL into Jewish Education is an opportunity to curate an environment where asking meaningful
- [K’Dushah – The Sacred and Holy Moments Behind Loose-Parts](https://jewishlearning.works/trainings/kdushah-the-sacred-and-holy-moments-behind-loose-parts/) - We will explore Loose-parts through a hands-on experience making connections to the child, family, educator and Jewish values while focusing on the importance
- [Torah Godly Play; Wondering Stories](https://jewishlearning.works/trainings/torah-godly-play-wondering-stories/) - Introduction to the practice of Torah Godly Play and access to stories and materials.
- [Pirkei Avot- Ethics From Our Ancestors Informing Curriculum with Young Children](https://jewishlearning.works/trainings/pirkei-avot-ethics-from-our-ancestors-informing-curriculum-with-young-children/) - We will learn methods of exploring Pirkei Avot, Ethics of Our Ancestors that have contemporary meaning and purpose. We will re-purpose Talmud Study for Early Childhood Education, resulting in authentic and rich experiences for children and adults.
- [Bringing Kavanah/Intention to Creating Inspired Jewish ECE Classrooms](https://jewishlearning.works/trainings/bringing-kavanah-intention-to-creating-inspired-jewish-ece-classrooms/) - In this workshop we will focus our intention on how to create classrooms that speak to both Jewish values and developmentally appropriate practice.
- [Differentiated Instruction in the Jewish Classroom](https://jewishlearning.works/trainings/differentiated-instruction-in-the-jewish-classroom/) - At the end of this session your teachers will walk away with a better understanding of the meaning of differentiated instruction and how to use it in their own classrooms.
- [Trainings on Jewish Content](https://jewishlearning.works/trainings/trainings-on-jewish-content/) - So you want to do a better job of including neurodivergent kids and their families in your programming, but aren't sure how to do it?
- [Creating A Culture of Inclusion](https://jewishlearning.works/trainings/creating-a-culture-of-inclusion/) - So you want to do a better job of including neurodivergent kids and their families in your programming, but aren't sure how to do it?
- [Lomed al Manat Lelamed: Child Development and Discussing Development](https://jewishlearning.works/trainings/lomed-al-manat-lelamed-child-development-and-discussing-development/) - This training provides an overview of typical and atypical child development, terminology and phrasing for discussing development and developmental concerns with colleagues and families, and resources for monitoring children’s development for planning and potential referral purposes.
- [Perceive, Feel, Know: Sensory Processing](https://jewishlearning.works/trainings/perceive-feel-know-sensory-processing/) - This training builds on educators’ existing knowledge of children’s senses and sensory processing, in order to support them in turning theory into practice.

## Events

- [Critical Conversations for Jewish Education](https://jewishlearning.works/events/critical-conversations-for-jewish-education/) - This series explores nonviolent communication, democracy and antisemitism, and considers how Jewish educators can help each other, and their learners, have the critical conversations taking place in our classrooms and communities today.
- [SoulFULL Community of Practice](https://jewishlearning.works/events/soulfull-community-of-practice/) - A peer-learning community of educators seeking to deepen opportunities to integrate spirituality within their teaching. Open to educators across Jewish educational settings.
- [One-on-one Leadership Coaching for Jewish Professionals](https://jewishlearning.works/events/one-on-one-leadership-coaching-for-jewish-professionals/) - If you’ve ever wished for more time to reflect, to imagine, or to feel more accompanied in your professional journey, coaching might be just what you need.
- [Mentorship Program for Jewish Educators & Communal Professionals](https://jewishlearning.works/events/mentorship-program-for-jewish-educators-communal-professionals/) - Mentoring is a proven, effective way to invest in new educators. Jewish LearningWorks’ Mentorship Program is informed by Jewish concepts and texts
- [Bay Area Jewish Youth Resilience Roundtable](https://jewishlearning.works/events/bay-area-jewish-youth-resilience-roundtable/) - Those of us who work with adolescents know that we are in the midst of a youth mental health crisis. And, those of us who work within Jewish education
- [Getting UnStuck](https://jewishlearning.works/events/getting-unstuck/) - Over the last two decades Jewish LearningWorks has supported educators across Jewish educational settings to grapple with the design and implementation of their Israel education program.
- [Kadima Collective Launch](https://jewishlearning.works/events/kadima-collective-launch/) - Members will explore the vision behind Kadima, and get a first look at the experiences, learning opportunities, and meaningful connections that await.
- [Big Tent Teaching](https://jewishlearning.works/events/big-tent-teaching/) - Start your school year with an exploration of case studies and classroom resources that will help you build inclusive and diverse learning environments for your students.
- [2026 Ruby Award: Inside the Adolescent Mind](https://jewishlearning.works/events/2026-ruby-award-inside-the-adolescent-mind/) - The Ruby Award is Jewish LearningWorks’ biennial celebration of Jewish educators and professionals who work with Jewish teens.
- [Voices for Good Fellowship Siyum](https://jewishlearning.works/events/2026-voices-for-good-fellowship-siyum/) - Celebrating the third cohort of our Voices for Good Fellowship, and learning with Dr. Tali Zelkowicz from The Wexner Foundation.
- [Bringing Jewish Stories to Life with Felt Boards](https://jewishlearning.works/events/bringing-jewish-stories-to-life-with-felt-boards/) - Judaism is inherently designed to spark curiosity and awe. This year, we have chosen to focus our professional learning for early childhood educators on myriad strategies for cultivating wonder
- [Israel in Early Childhood Education: Embracing Complexity with Care](https://jewishlearning.works/events/israel-in-ece-embracing-complexity-with-care/) - Judaism is inherently designed to spark curiosity and awe. This year, we have chosen to focus our professional learning for early childhood educators on myriad strategies for cultivating wonder
- [Understanding Autism with Matan](https://jewishlearning.works/events/understanding-autism-with-matan/) - Jewish LearningWorks is pleased to partner with Matan, a national leader in creating inclusive Jewish communities, to host 5 drop-in workshops to support Bay Area educators
- [Anxiety in Children with Matan](https://jewishlearning.works/events/anxiety-in-children-with-matan/) - Jewish LearningWorks is pleased to partner with Matan, a national leader in creating inclusive Jewish communities, to host 5 drop-in workshops
- [Understanding Needs in an Early Childhood Education Classroom with Matan](https://jewishlearning.works/events/understanding-needs-in-an-early-childhood-education-classroom-with-matan/) - Jewish LearningWorks is pleased to partner with Matan, a national leader in creating inclusive Jewish communities, to host 5 drop-in workshops to support Bay Area educators, lay leaders, and other Jewish
- [The Steady Heart of Leadership: Lunch & Learn with Fellowship Alumni](https://jewishlearning.works/events/the-steady-heart-of-leadership/) - As professionals in Jewish communal life, the last two years have led us to significant personal and organizational inquiries, putting us face-to-face with the how of leadership.
- [Stronger Together: Third Annual ECE Directors’ Retreat](https://jewishlearning.works/events/third-annual-ece-directors-retreat/) - Join us to examine the values and existing communal assets that are foundational to your school.
- [Integrating Sephardic and Mizrahi Families & Experiences with JIMENA](https://jewishlearning.works/events/sephardic-mizrahi-families-experiences-today-jimena/) - JIMENA's 2025 study of Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews in the United States, and its implications for educators.
- [Developing Skills for Hard Conversations with NewGround](https://jewishlearning.works/events/skills-for-hard-conversations-with-newground/) - Join the Bay Area Jewish Youth Resilience Roundtable and NewGround as we explore and practice techniques for discussing differences and charged issues.
- [How Can We Help? A Conversation About Funding for Inclusion Support](https://jewishlearning.works/events/funding-for-inclusion-support-feb5/) - Advancing meaningful inclusion support in our Bay Area Jewish education community.
- [How Can We Help? A Conversation About Funding for Inclusion Support](https://jewishlearning.works/events/funding-for-inclusion-support-feb3/) - Advancing meaningful inclusion support in our Bay Area Jewish education community.
- [BeWell Research Summit](https://jewishlearning.works/events/bewell-research-summit-in-person/) - Join the Bay Area Jewish Youth Resilience Roundtable and BeWell as we explore the research findings from the first ever study of wellbeing for American Jewish Teens
- [What’s Jewish About Loose Parts?](https://jewishlearning.works/events/whats-jewish-about-loose-parts/) - This workshop invites educators to engage in a deep exploration of loose parts in Jewish early childhood education. In addition, there will be follow up opportunities for participants to continue to explore this topic virtually with our presenters. Join us to play with loose parts!
- [Reach and Teach All Learners: Tips for Congregational Schools with Matan](https://jewishlearning.works/events/reach-and-teach-all-learners-tips-for-congregational-schools-with-matan/) - Jewish LearningWorks is pleased to partner with Matan, a national leader in creating inclusive Jewish communities, to host 5 drop-in workshops to support Bay Area educators, lay leaders
- [Empowering Teachers and Differentiating Instruction with Matan](https://jewishlearning.works/events/empowering-teachers-and-differentiating-instruction-with-matan/) - Jewish LearningWorks is pleased to partner with Matan, a national leader in creating inclusive Jewish communities, to host 5 drop-in workshops
- [Understanding Burnout and Cultivating Resilience](https://jewishlearning.works/events/understanding-burnout-cultivating-resilience-ece/) - Judaism is inherently designed to spark curiosity and awe. This year, we have chosen to focus our professional learning for early childhood educators on myriad strategies for cultivating wonder

## Categories

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## Trainer's Name

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- [Michael Shire](https://jewishlearning.works/trainer039s-name/michael-shire/)
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- [PJ Schwartz](https://jewishlearning.works/trainer039s-name/pj-schwartz/)
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- [Jenni Mangel](https://jewishlearning.works/trainer039s-name/jenni-mangel/)
- [Aaron Braun](https://jewishlearning.works/trainer039s-name/aaron-braun/)
- [Danielle Barta](https://jewishlearning.works/trainer039s-name/danielle-barta/)
- [Heather Wolfson](https://jewishlearning.works/trainer039s-name/heather-wolfson/)
- [Jaime Rapaport Barry](https://jewishlearning.works/trainer039s-name/jaime-rapaport-barry/)
- [Julie King](https://jewishlearning.works/trainer039s-name/julie-king/)
- [Lisa Friedman](https://jewishlearning.works/trainer039s-name/lisa-friedman/)
- [Marissa Lifshen Steinberger](https://jewishlearning.works/trainer039s-name/marissa-lifshen-steinberger/)
- [Ruth Ann Binder](https://jewishlearning.works/trainer039s-name/ruth-ann-binder/)
- [Sandra K Chapman](https://jewishlearning.works/trainer039s-name/sandra-k-chapman/)
- [Sandy Gold](https://jewishlearning.works/trainer039s-name/sandy-gold/)
- [Maaian Zelman](https://jewishlearning.works/trainer039s-name/maaian-zelman/)

## Training Type

- [Classroom Management](https://jewishlearning.works/training-type-and-trainer/classroom-management/)
- [Communication Skills](https://jewishlearning.works/training-type-and-trainer/communication-skills/)
- [DEIB/Anti-racism](https://jewishlearning.works/training-type-and-trainer/deib-anti-racism/)
- [ECE/Preschool](https://jewishlearning.works/training-type-and-trainer/ece-preschool/)
- [Inclusion](https://jewishlearning.works/training-type-and-trainer/inclusion/)
- [Judaism and Israel](https://jewishlearning.works/training-type-and-trainer/judaism-and-israel/)
- [Leadership and Team Building](https://jewishlearning.works/training-type-and-trainer/leadership-and-team-building/)
- [Teens](https://jewishlearning.works/training-type-and-trainer/teens/)

## Event Categories

- [Professional Learning](https://jewishlearning.works/event-categories/professional-learning/)
- [Featured](https://jewishlearning.works/event-categories/featured/)
- [Coaching and Mentoring](https://jewishlearning.works/event-categories/coaching-and-mentoring/)
- [Hidden](https://jewishlearning.works/event-categories/hidden/)
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