Member Directory
BetterLesson implements professional learning solutions centered on student outcomes through differentiated learning experiences and researched-backed pedagogy.
Contact: Smadar Goldstein
Work Email: [email protected]
Website: www.betterlesson.com
Offers professional development sessions with faculty, parents, and other stakeholders focused on Israel content knowledge and curriculum implementation. Customizes offerings to each organization’s needs of each with ongoing coaching and mentoring.
Contact: Tal Grinfas-David
P.O. Box 15129 Atlanta GA 30333
Work Phone: 404-395-6851
Work Email: [email protected]
Website: https://israeled.org/day-school/
Provides immersive learning to faith-based schools to advance civic education to cultivate connections to and knowledge of America’s founding values, institutions, texts and ideas, and to empower students to influence their communities.
Contact: Audi Hecht
c/o USCJ 3080 Broadway, Brush 208 New York NY 10027
Work Email: [email protected]
Website: https://civicspirit.org/
Delivers actionable PD that supports educators in preparing students for civic participation. Develops crucial conversation skills that shape a strong school culture and moral development. Offers individualized follow-up support.
Contact: Yehudah Potok
89 South Street Suite 401 Boston MA 02111
Work Phone: 617-232-1595
Work Phone: 1-800-856-9039
Work Email: [email protected]
Website: https://www.facinghistory.org/
Implements PD, coaching and consulting in inclusion/differentiation for atypical learners, social-emotional/mental health needs, proactive behavior management, Universal Design for Learning, Hebrew decoding, and a unique peer disability education program.
Contact: Brian Coonley
333 Nahanton St. Newton MA 02459
Work Phone: 617-630-9010 ×105
Work Email: [email protected]
Website: https://jgateways.org/
Helps develop/enhance Modern Hebrew language programs for improved student outcomes and teacher recruitment/retention. Onboards new teachers to be effective second language educators, offers virtual/on-site PD and Hebrew teacher coaching/mentoring.
Contact: Esty Gross
290 Turnpike Road Suite 5 -214 Westborough MA 01581
Work Phone: 617-580-3565
Work Email: [email protected]
Website: https://hebrewatthecenter.org/
Provides customized PD experiences to cultivate instructional leadership and to enrich Jewish studies curriculum development and pedagogical practices through online workshops, in-person seminars, and/or 1-on-1 coaching sessions.
Contact: Cindy Reich
The Jewish Theological Seminary 3080 Broadway New York NY 10027
Work Email: [email protected]
Website: JDSSB website
Enhances educators’ growth by cultivating deeper relationships with each other, themselves, God and Jewish values. Includes standalone seminars, virtual courses, coaching and a multi-year school cohort to embed the approach within a school’s culture.
Contact: Yehudah Chanales
Work Email: [email protected]
Website: https://lifnaivlifnim.org/
Facilitates PD programs for individual educators and curriculum development on specific topics related to experiential education and stronger professional identity through its 18×18: 18 Dimensions of Jewish Life methodology.
Contact: Clare Goldwater
261 Madison Avenue 9th Floor New York NY 10016
Work Phone: 1-866-462-4353
Work Email: [email protected]
Website: https://ieje.org/
MTEI helps educational leaders transform their schools into places where teachers learn together in community over their whole careers, building cultures where both Jewish content and understanding of teaching and learning are at the core.
Contact: Miriam Raider Roth
1000 Lakeside Avenue Cleveland OH 44114
Work Phone: 216-875-6526
Work Email: [email protected]
Website: www.mtei-learning.org
Cultivates more skillful Jewish text educators through 12-month new/novice JS teacher training certificate and mentoring to develop robust curricular units. Supports whole-school transformation to enhance schools’ Judaic mission.
Contact: Reuven Margrett
29 Pierre Koenig Street Jerusalem 9346937 Israel
Work Phone: 972-2-673-5210
Work Email: [email protected]
Website: Pardes website
Promotes student collaboration & engagement with concrete tools to improve communication and interpretation. Teachers learn how to deepen relationships between students and with content, using a Jewish framework based on havruta learning.
Contact: Allison Cook
Hadar Institute 190 Amsterdam Avenue New York NY 10023
Work Phone: (646) 770-1468
Work Email: [email protected]
Website: PoP website
Builds understanding of language-based learning disabilities and develops school-wide framework for supporting diverse learners through summer institutes, customized workshops, consultations and school study tours to observe best practices in action.
Contact: Rebecca Ritter
The Shefa School 40 East 29th Street New York NY 10016
Work Phone: 212-873-1300
Work Email: [email protected]
Website: www.shefacenter.org
Other DEEP Consortium members include Lookstein: Online Jewish Courses Center and Sulam.