Parenting Your Teen Faculty

	Margie Bogdanow, MSW Margie Bogdanow, a licensed social worker, is a national youth specialist for the Union for Reform Judaism and a consultant to the Youth Educator Initiative of Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston. She formerly served as co-executive director of Parenting Resource Associates in Lexington, Mass., which she co-founded, and as associate director of the Early Childhood Institute at Hebrew College. Bogdanow holds a Master of Social Work from Simmons College.
	Judy Elkin, MEd Judy Elkin is a certified professional and personal coach, working with individuals, couples and professional teams. A longtime Jewish educator, she previously served as director of DeLeT, a graduate teacher-education program at Brandeis University that prepares elementary Jewish day-school instructors. She is also the founding director of Camp Ramah in New England. Elkin holds a master's degree in education.
	Linna Ettinger, MJEd'12 Linna Ettinger has worked in the field of early-childhood education as well as in software engineering. She has completed the Me'ah program of Combined Jewish Philanthropies and Hebrew College, as well as the Me'ah Graduate Institute, where she earned a Certificate of Studies in Jewish Thought and Spirituality. Ettinger holds a Master of Jewish Education from Hebrew College and a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
	Marjorie Freiman, MJEd Marjorie Freiman has worked in Jewish education in Boston for 15 years and has taught children and adults of all ages. Most recently, she worked at the Rashi School in Dedham, Mass., as the social-justice educator and family-education consultant. Freiman serves as the adult-learning co-chair at Temple Beth Elohim in Wellesley, Mass., and is active in adult-learning and caring-community programs. She holds a master's degree in Jewish education and a certificate in family education from Hebrew College.
	Bonnie Glickman, MS, MEd Bonnie Glickman consults with teachers, families, schools and employers. She has worked as a classroom teacher, special-education teacher, curriculum developer, school counselor and private consultant. She founded and administered a school for high-school dropouts in Montreal, which won an award from the Canadian Broadcasting Company. Glickman holds master's degrees in reading instruction and special education from McGill University and a master’s in counseling from the University of Vermont.
	Laila Goodman, MEd Laila Goodman has been teaching biology for more than 25 years, first as a public-school teacher and for most of her career in independent schools. Since 2005, she has taught biology at Gann Academy, a Jewish high school in Waltham, Mass., where she also currently serves as dean of students. Goodman leads a liberal minyan and a meditation group and teaches tefillah at the religious school of Temple Ahavat Achim in Gloucester, Mass. She holds a Master of Education in science education from Harvard University's Graduate School of Education.
	Cheryl Harris, MA, EdM, EdM Cheryl Harris has worked for the past 20 years as a school psychologist at Sharon (Mass.) High School. Prior to that, she worked for eight years as a teacher of students with learning disabilities at The Ramaz School in New York City. Harris holds a bachelor's degree in English from Barnard College and three master's degree — an M.A. in remedial reading, an Ed.M. in learning disabilities and an Ed.M. in school psychology — from Teachers College at Columbia University.
	Katherine Jungreis, Ph.D. Katherine Jungreis, a licensed social worker, teaches at the Simmons School of Social Work and has been in private practice for more than 30 years. She also does consulting work and has taught in interdisciplinary programs exploring the relationship between religion and psychology at such institutions as Boston College, Boston University and Hebrew College. Jungreis holds a bachelor's degree from Barnard College, a Master of Social Work from Smith College and a doctorate from Simmons College.
	Carolyn Keller, MA Carolyn Keller is an educational consultant and founding head of the MetroWest Jewish Day School in Framingham, Mass. She has also served as director of the Commission on Jewish Continuity and Education of Combined Jewish Philanthropies. A Jerusalem Fellow, Keller has received numerous awards from the Jewish community, including the S’fatai Tiftakh and Sidney Hillson Educational Awards from Hebrew College, the Keter Torah Award for Excellence in Jewish Education from the Bureau of Jewish Education and the Bernard Reisman Professional Excellence Award from Brandeis University. She holds a master's in contemporary Jewish studies and education from Brandeis University and certification from the Harvard University Principal Center.
	Rabbi Daniel Liben Daniel Liben received his rabbinic ordination at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in 1983 and has served as the spiritual leader of Temple Israel in Natick, Mass., since 1991. A prolific teacher, he is a recipient of the Bureau of Jewish Education's Keter Torah Award for his work in family education.
	Rabbi Marcia R. Plumb Marcia R. Plumb has taught adult-education courses for more than 20 years and is the former director of the spiritual formation program at Leo Baeck College in London. She led a Parents Coping with Adolescents group for three years and created and led a national program for adolescents across the U.K. Plumb is a trained Mussar teacher and Jewish spiritual guide.
	Rabbi David Wolfman, Hon. DD David S. Wolfman is an expert in conflict resolution and managing organizational change and transition. He is a certified professional coach and mediator with a background as a rabbi and teacher. Wolfman serves as a leader of Taglit/Birthright Israel and as an adjunct faculty member at Gann Academy, a Jewish high school in Waltham, Mass.. In 2012, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York.