MaTaRoT: Hebrew College Center for Jewish Professional Learning & Leadership

Jewish Educators partner with an experienced coach to develop and deepen skills in areas such as change management, interpersonal communication, supervision, leadership, etc. to achieve professional goals. (Up to 16 sessions)

Building on the success of our current coaching we are pleased to offer several choices for Leadership Coaching in the coming year, including limited spaces for those coachees that would like to continue for an additional year.

Please apply by June 1, 2023. Applicants will be notified by June 23, 2023.

For Senior Educational Leaders: Are you looking to review your curriculum needs? Have you been considering making a change to your curricular goals, scope and sequence? MaTaRoT coaches are available to work with you as you investigate your curricular needs (10 sessions).

Please apply by June 1, 2023. Applicants will be notified by June 23, 2023.

We are currently preparing all of our offerings for 2023-2024. Please check this page frequently for updates!

If you’d like to be added to our MaTaRoT mailing list, please email Debrah Ron.

Upcoming in 2023-2024

• • Greater Boston’s Education Directors Discussion Group
  • Free Workshops (check out our past workshops here!)
  • Project Based Learning

For more information contact Marion Gribetz.

Directors of Education in the Greater Boston Area are invited to join a weekly conversation guided by the interest of the group. In this group we share, explore, and critically respond to the opportunities and demands of our important work. This group is open to all schools in the CJP catchment area.

A Communities of Practice (CoP) is an invitation to educators to carve out time and step back to reflect, refocus, and join with colleagues. Each CoP is an opportunity to create sacred time to deepen our practice, as we impart individual and collective wisdom in a safe and brave professional community of educators. By gathering with a defined purpose, along with an engaged and positive perspective, we bring new energy to our work. Each CoP has a specific focus. Some examples may include social-emotional learning, educational technologies and family or teen engagement.

These intensive multi-week short courses take a sustained, deeper dive into relevant and timely topics in the field of Jewish education. 

The professional development team at Hebrew College is available for a set of individualized coaching sessions. Educators partner with an experienced coach to develop and deepen skills in areas such as change management, interpersonal communication, supervision, leadership, etc. to achieve professional goals.

Project Based Expeditionary Learning (PBL)

Hebrew College works with selected teachers and educational directors from schools to introduce project based learning into their school curriculum and structure. The program focuses on training in the principles and implementation of expeditionary projects. Each school is matched with an experienced consultant to guide the teachers as the project(s) progress.

(Pictured: In October 2022, Hebrew College’s MaTaRoT Center hosted colleagues from the liberal Amsterdam Jewish community for a week of project-based learning. The group celebrated Siimchat Torah with Hebrew College 2015 alumna Rabbi Susie Schwartz at her shul Temple Israel of Boston.)

Read more here.

Hebrew College partners with national and local organizations, as well as individuals both within and outside of the College, to offer nine stand-alone seminars on a variety of current topics. These may include topics such as, Equity and Justice in Jewish education; inclusion & equality in Jewish life; Jewish arts; book discussions, etc. Organizations will likely include JArts, Gateways, Facing History and Ourselves, Keshet, and more.  These subsidized seminars are available to all schools in the CJP catchment area.

Watch Past Workshops!

Workshop Archive

For Our Teachers and Their Learners: A series of virtual professional sessions in the time of isolation (2020-2021)

This online series served as a resource and a venue for Jewish educators to be in a community. Sessions explored various virtual educational modalities and Jewish textual learning and the bridge between theory and practice.

>> Watch archived workshops here.

At Hebrew College you can earn a Graduate Certificate in one of two areas:

• Certificate in Jewish Spiritual Education (4 credits)
• Certificate in Learning & Leading (4 credits)

All four modules within a certificate program must be completed to earn the graduate level certification. (Individual modules may not be taken for graduate credit.) Upon completion, students earn 4 graduate credits and an official transcript from Hebrew College.

>> Visit the Graduate Certificate page for details.

Using Certificate Credit Toward a Master in Jewish Education Degree

If you enroll in a certificate program and decide to apply to our Master of Jewish Education program before the end of the course, you are eligible to apply up to an additional 4 credits (for a total of 8 credits for the certificate) toward your degree.

Contact Us

Questions? Please email Susan Morrel at smorrel@hebrewcollege.edu.

Hebrew College’s Master of Jewish Education (MJED) Program offers a comprehensive curriculum that combines leadership for learning, pedagogic application, and social and spiritual learning; supervised field experience; and an opportunity to become an iCenter Fellow for the teaching of Israel.

MJED Fast Facts

1. A flexible three year, part-time program designed for Jewish educators working in Jewish settings who want to transform their practice. Complete your degree in the comfort of your home through our award-winning online courses—without sacrificing the personal attention you’ve come to expect from Hebrew College. Note: Hebrew College also offers the MJEd in conjunction with rabbinical or cantorial ordination.
2. Courses are online, combining synchronous meetings with asynchronous work and assignments. Join a dynamic community of students from across the country and around the world in an interactive virtual classroom with Hebrew College faculty. Use our Schoology online learning platform to learn with ease and comfort and build a personal relationship with your faculty adviser who will serve as your mentor and guide. Hebrew College has been recognized nationally for its online learning programs, and our faculty have been teaching in the online environment for more than a decade.
3. A specialized focus on Jewish Spiritual Education, Jewish Educational Leadership, and Emerging Trends in Jewish Education.
4. A program designed for Jewish leadership and learning for a pluralistic world.
5. Year-long field experience in your home community. Current teaching may count toward your field experience.
6. Year-long field experience in your home community. Current teaching may count toward your field experience.
7. Faculty advisor to guide you throughout the program.
8. No Hebrew language prerequisite for admission. Hebrew courses may be taken before or during the program. Students are expected to pass a Hebrew assessment by the time they graduate, and those who wish to be exempt may request to take a Hebrew assessment upon entering the program.
9. Earn a Graduate Level Certificate in one of the following areas (each certificate is 8 graduate credits): Certificate in Learning & Leading or Certificate in Jewish Spiritual Education.

>> LEARN MORE HERE

Contact Info

Debrah Ron
dron@hebrewcollege.edu

Susan Morrel
smorrel@hebrewcollege.edu

We offer the opportunity to combine a Master of Jewish Education from Hebrew College with traditional text study at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem to prepare for a career in Jewish Day School Education. This is a two-year, pluralistic graduate degree program.

If accepted into the Pardes Teacher Fellowship, you will receive generous living stipends to spend an academic year in Israel, and a first-year teaching salary while working as a Jewish Studies Teacher in a Jewish Day School in North America.

>> LEARN MORE HERE