MaTaRoT 2023-2024 Course Descriptions
Leadership Coaching
Instructor: MaTaRoT Faculty
Dates: Agreed upon between faculty coach and participant
Time: Agreed upon between faculty coach and participant
Cost: $1000/Small to Medium School; $2000/Large School
Location: Zoom
Register: Returning Applicants & New Applications
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.
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.
Deadline for 2023-2024 new and returning applications is June 1, 2023.
Contact Marion Gribetz to discuss financial aid.
Curriculum Coaching
Instructor: MaTaRoT Faculty
Dates: Agreed upon between faculty coach and participant
Time: Agreed upon between faculty coach and participant
Cost: $1000/Small to Medium School; $2000/Large School
Location: Zoom
Register: New Applications
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).
Deadline for 2023-2024 new and returning applications is June 1, 2023.
Contact Marion Gribetz to discuss financial aid.
Professional Development
The Soul of Jewish Education
Instructor: Rabbi Dr. Michael Shire
Dates: 9/5/23-10/27/23
Time: Asynchronous with synchronous components
Cost: $360
Location: Zoom
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Jewish education has been primarily concerned with the transmission of knowledge, acquisition of skills and developing Jewish identity in people. One aspect of cultivating religious identity has been missing from Jewish educational practice and that is nurturing the spiritual growth of the individual as an explicit aim of our educational practice. We seem to shy away from this practice in our schools and synagogues, often thinking that spiritual practice and a person’s being with God are not part of the Judaism we know. However, not only is nurturing spiritual practice part of the essence of Judaism, it has also been a long component of Jewish education but largely ignored in our times. This module seeks to explore the cultivation of the spiritual life of the individual drawing upon the research, particularly but not exclusively of children’s spirituality. I will offer a Jewish lens with which to view this spirituality that comes from our traditional sources and from contemporary thinking including Social and Emotional Learning, Mindfulness and Thriving. We will explore innovative and creative practices for Jewish education in our educational settings for children, adolescents and adults. Deepening our understanding of this field will determine the very way we see the overall and expanded purpose of a Jewish Education.
Parables, Practices and Critiques of Jewish Mystical Education
Instructor: MaTaRoT Faculty
Dates: 11/1/23-12/22/23
Time: Asynchronous with synchronous components
Cost: $360
Location: Zoom
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Bringing postmodern and feminist ethics into dialogue with the Jewish mystical tradition, this class aims to offer students the technical and conceptual tools necessary to both critique and transform traditional frameworks and practices of Jewish spiritual and moral education. Potential texts will include Hebrew readings in translation by Chaim Vital and Dov Ber of Mezritch, as well as secondary literature by Michel Foucault, Nel Noddings, Hannah Arendt, bell hooks, and Amia Srinavsan.
Instructional Leadership
Instructor: Susan Morrel
Dates: 9/5/23-10/27/23
Time: Asynchronous with synchronous components
Cost: $360
Location: Zoom
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Instructional leaders strengthen the teaching and learning in their settings through providing educational supervision and developing professional learning communities. Promoting greater attention to instructional leadership in Jewish schools leads to meaningful and transformative change. In this course, students will develop a shared language and understanding about instructional leadership, drawing on educational learning theories, and exploring tools and strategies that support improving student achievement. Students will engage with instructional leadership practices such as observation, supervision, co-planning, collaboration, and creating a professional learning community.
Organizational Leadership
Instructor: Dr. Barbara Merson
Dates: 11/1/23-12/22/23
Time: Asynchronous with synchronous components
Cost: $360
Location: Zoom
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Leadership in Jewish organizations is a highly complex activity. Jewish educators must learn to navigate in an environment that has many participants, often with diverse priorities and perspectives. Effective leadership requires a high degree of self-knowledge, flexibility in approach, and balance between long term vision and shorter-term goals. The goal of this module is to give Jewish educators the tools they need to be successful Jewish organizational leaders.
Specific topics will include:
- Theories that are useful for leadership (Tzimtzum, Transformative Learning, the Musar perspective on values, wounding/t’shuvah)
- Navigating between personal and organizational values as a leader.
- Assessment of personal leadership preferences (Personal philosophy/values, Covey, Harvard Assessment Tool).
- Approaches to leadership (Charismatic, Authentic, Servant, Adaptive, and Distributed Leadership).
- Leadership in times of change