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Jewish Placemaking Seminars

Strengthening Jewish Education

From Aviva Stein, Mishkan Chicago • July 27, 2023

Through our professional development sessions with Makom, staff were able to hone their lesson planning skills, while grounding that growth in a focus on relational culture and well being in their classrooms. We saw the value of this training in our classrooms, where we documented students sharing big ideas from their own lives, often using the text as a vehicle to do so.
As a Director in my second year of managing our program, I found regular coaching sessions with Beverly to be immensely helpful. I found Beverly to be attuned, patient, and creative in our coaching sessions. [They] regularly offered perspectives that I did not hear inside our organization, which were immensely helpful for me in taking a step back and thinking critically about my role as the Director of our after school program. I am so grateful for the opportunity to learn from Beverly Socher-Lerner and Makom this year.

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Writing about Jewish Placemaking

Read about Jewish Placemaking and how we believe in the work of part-time Jewish education in our recent eJewish Philanthropy piece, “Parents still believe in part-time Jewish Education. Makom Communnity does too.”

Previous Jewish Placemaking Professional Development

Learn more about our third year of our Philadelphia based Jewish Placemaking Accelerator, generously funded by the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia. This experience is roughly 14 hours, over the course of an academic year, of Professional Development for Directors of Education and up to four of their teachers in their part-time learning community. We have found this deep commitment to strengthening learning and Jewish family engagement increases both enrollment and attendance, as well as teacher retention. Contact our Director of Strategy, Terri Soifer, to discuss to bring this to your community!