Educator Studio
JSP’s Educator Studio is a unique cohort experience designed to support Jewish educators in cultivating creativity, professional community, and new pedagogical approaches.
Activate your inherent creativity as a core part of your educational leadership.
Gain tools to help you discern and reconnect with your deeper purpose.
Journey through the academic year with a dynamic and supportive community of peers.
“When I began the Educator Studio, I was in a place of personal and professional burnout that I didn’t think I could return from. Slowly over the course of the Studio, I have been nurturing myself back to health. I feel alive again. And as I usher in a new class of students shortly, I hope to bring that renewed trust in the process.”
2023 Educator Studio Fellow
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As a Fellow in JSP’s Educator Studio, you will gain a unique and generative set of teachings and practices to revitalize your leadership and inspire the learners, schools, organizations and communities you serve. This fellowship will support you in integrating JSP’s unique lens on Torah and creative practice and help you move towards greater authenticity, wholeness and vitality in your work. You will receive practical support such as:
Practices for teaching from an authentic place
Exercises to spark imagination and open up creativity
Creative approaches for surfacing new insights and ideas
Upon completion of the Educator Studio, you will become a part of JSP’s growing network of leaders and facilitators and become eligible to participate in ongoing opportunities for learning, mentorship, professional growth and community connection.
THE PROGRAM STRUCTURE
The Educator Studio is an intensive professional development cohort experience centered around JSP’s foundational teachings (Torah of Creativity) made practical through a dynamic pedagogy featuring the Jewish Studio Process methodology.
Webinars (twice monthly) will incorporate JSP’s methodology with a focus on wellbeing, creative practice, dynamic exploration of text, and practical applications for your professional context. One monthly webinar will be Process-based and one will be focused on tools & practices.
Havruta sessions (twice monthly) will extend learning between webinars and help you integrate it into your teaching and leadership.
Retreat (Dec 9 & 10) in person on the East Coast to go more deeply into the work together!
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Tuition for the Educator Studio is $1,800. If you are unable to secure this tuition, please email us to discuss the potential for scholarship.
The JSP Educator Studio is subsidized through generous support from The Covenant Foundation.
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Program dates for the 2024 East Coast Educator Studio Cohort.
Cohort Notification: End of June 2024
Cohort Launch: October 2024
Monthly Sessions (November 2024 - April 2025)
Cohort Webinars (2.5 hours)
Havruta sessions (1 hour)
In-Person Retreat December 9-10, 2024 (East Coast)
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We are seeking applicants who are:
Seeking support and inspiration to fuel their professional passion
In need of resources and strategies to reconnect to their personal purpose
Looking to gain creative tools, practices, and community to sustain their work
Excited to be a part of a dynamic cohort of other Jewish educators
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Applications for the next cohort will be open May, 31 2024!
Educator Studio FAQs
Meet the Educator Studio Faculty
Learn about the lead faculty — Rabbi Adam Lavitt, Rabbi Adina Allen, and Pat B. Allen, PhD, ATR.
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Rabbi Adam Lavitt
Director of Learning
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Rabbi Adina Allen
Co-founder and Creative Director of Jewish Studio Project and designer of the Jewish Studio Process
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Pat B. Allen
PhD, ATR, internationally renowned author, art therapist and designer of the Open Studio Process
“JSP provides a language through which educators can slow down, notice, see new perspectives, and explore aspects of their professional identities that they might otherwise rush past or not have the chance to develop.”
Dr. Miriam Heller Stern
Meet Our Alumni and Fellows
COHORT 2
Earnest Arky Solomon
Caitlyn Case-Cohen
Mitchell Gordon
Tracie Guy-Decker
Hannah Henschel
Lisa Kipen-Hershenson
Susan Morrel
Susie Moskowitz
Kathy Parsonnet
Eli Sobel
Lily Solochek
Bekah Starr Sternbach
Annalee Thompson
Jacob Weiss
Ariel Wolpe
Akiko Yonekawa
COHORT 1
Joel Abramovitz
Liora Alban
Suzanne Bates
Sarah Browning
Leah Friedman
Mark Getten
Sam Lyons
Natasha Newman Tobin
Amanda Nube
Sharone Oren
Shira Sergant
Jennifer Thompson
Dorothy Thursby
Dove Weissman-Shtein
Leila Wice
Questions about applying to JSP’s Educator Studio?
Contact Rabbi Adam Lavitt, JSP Director of Learning, at alavitt@jewishstudioproject.org.
The Educator Studio is made possible by a generous grant from The Covenant Foundation.
