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| The Graduate School of Education and Human Development at the George Washington University proudly houses the Mayberg Center for Jewish Education and Leadership.
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SAVE THE DATE for Conversations that Matter • March 6, 2018 The Limits of Civil Discourse with Moshe Halbertal and Jeffrey Goldberg
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| What's New at the Mayberg Center • Fall 2017
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| Dr. Erica Brown, Associate Professor of Curriculum and Pedagogy and Director of the Mayberg Center for Jewish Education and LeadershipAs I walked in the pouring rain with a freshman from an undergraduate class a few weeks ago, he told me how much he enjoyed our study of Bible. “It’s really well-written,” he said. I smiled inside, all the while thinking that the job of every teacher is not only to be a content expert but to share knowledge with passion and conviction. It’s what catalyzes curiosity and what we aspire to achieve in the Mayberg Center. Read more
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Welcome to Our Newest Staff Member!We are pleased to welcome Rebecca Weisman as the new project director of the Mayberg Center. Weisman will take the lead on creating professional development for educators, bringing research and best practices to the front lines of the Jewish classroom. She also will oversee the Center’s operations and special events. Read more
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Rabbi Dr. Howard Deitcher |
| Jewish Spiritual Education - Possibilities and Challenges with Rabbi Dr. Howard Deitcher December 6-7, 2017 The Mayberg Center is honored to host Rabbi Dr. Howard Deitcher, an influential educational leader with global reach, for a range of professional development workshops on topics including the possibilities and challenges of Jewish spiritual education and emerging challenges in day school education. On December 6-7, 2017, Dr. Deitcher will engage with a variety of professionals including day school heads, Jewish educational leaders in schools and congregations, GW professors and other local academics. He also will facilitate a learning session on spirituality in children for parents. We thank the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington for inviting Dr. Deitcher to facilitate several sessions at their Jewish Early Childhood Educator Conference and for co-sponsoring the workshops for Jewish educators. Read more
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Conversations that Matter - The Limits of Civil Discourse with Moshe Halbertal and Jeffrey Goldberg March 6, 2018 Join us for “Conversations that Matter” -- The Limits of Civil Discourse - on March 6, 2018 at 7:30pm in the former Crossfire Auditorium, the Jack Morton Auditorium on GW’s campus. Mark your calendar now to attend a riveting discussion facilitated by Dr. Erica Brown featuring Moshe Halbertal, noted Israeli philosopher, professor, and writer, and Jeffrey Goldberg, Editor-in-Chief of The Atlantic. Moshe Halbertal received his PhD from Hebrew University and was a fellow at the Society of Fellows at Harvard University for five years. He served as a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, University of Pennsylvania Law School, and Yale Law School and currently is professor of Jewish thought and philosophy at Hebrew University and visiting professor at New York University. In addition to being a Senior Fellow at the Shalom Hartman institute, he co-authored the Israeli Army Code of Ethics. An accomplished author, his most recent book is, The Beginning of Politics: Power in the Biblical Book of Samuel (2017) co-authored with Stephen Holmes. Jeffrey Goldberg is the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic; he joined the magazine’s staff in 2007. He was also the Middle East correspondent and former Washington correspondent of The New Yorker and wrote for The New York Times Magazine and New York Magazine. Goldberg, a former New York bureau chief of the Forward, is the author of Prisoners: A Story of Friendship and Terror. Space is limited; ticket reservations will open in early 2018.
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Kim Marshall with day school administrators |
| How Are We Doing? Better Teacher Evaluations One of the goals of the Mayberg Center is to provide high quality professional development for educators and nonprofit professionals, locally, regionally and nationally. To that end, while many people were sitting on beaches in early August, a group of day school heads and administrators sat in the Berman Hebrew Academy boardroom to engage in learning with Kim Marshall, a former teacher, principal, and district official in the Boston Public Schools. Marshall, who currently consults with schools all over North America on educational leadership practices, focused his discussion on effective teacher evaluation. Read more
When Israel is Your Classroom: JWRP Educational Assessment At the end of June, hundreds of women toured Israel through a Jewish Renaissance Women’s Project Momentum (JWRP) trip. JWRP’s mission is to inspire women to transform themselves, their families and their communities.To that end, the international organization partners with 143 organizations in 26 countries and has sent over 11,000 women to Israel.
Erica Brown accompanied this group to observe and evaluate their educational offerings. Brown’s findings on the educational materials, the facilitation and the learning components of the trip were shared in a comprehensive report with their senior professionals, trip leaders and the head of the JWRP board and have already resulted in changes to the educational content and the preparation of its facilitators. Read more
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Erica Brown at the Milton School |
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Educating for Responsibility This fall, Erica Brown presented the first in a series of lectures for the Milton Gottesman Jewish Day School of the Nation’s Capital Scholars’ Forum on the Book of Jonah and his aborted escape from responsibility for its new middle school cohort. Brown has consulted with the middle school since the inception of the Center and finally got a chance to work with its students. To honor the students’ personal experiences and understand the kind of responsibilities, she asked them to write their answers to a few important life questions: Is there a commitment they are running away from or have run away from in the past? Do they think leaders can escape from responsibility? What conversation might they have internally when confronting a daunting task? Read more
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Amian Frost Kelemer, CEO of The Louise D. & Morton J. Macks Center for Jewish Education in Baltimore, MD shares a bit about herself and her work, as part of a new series to get to know practitioners in the field. Name: Amian Frost Kelemer Life mission: To ensure access to meaningful Jewish education experiences for as many people as possible
Weird hobby: Collecting the crazy auto-corrects for Jewish terms that my phone does not recognize
Favorite book: Can’t choose one! Some favorites are: The Mathematician’s Shiva, Ella Minnow Pea and Ex Libris, but no list is complete without Little Fur Family
Mentor: Larry Ziffer
Most unusual job you’ve ever had: Repairing stuffed animals for my neighborhood friends when I was six
Favorite Jewish holiday: Toss-up between Sukkot and Tisha B’Av (no, really)
Inspiring quote: "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?" (Marianne Williamson) Most recent big dream in Jewish education: Creating an awesome gathering space (virtual and physical) where educators and people from all disciplines can come to toss around their ideas, resolve their questions and dialogue with peers
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New Books In Jonah: The Reluctant Prophet, Dr. Erica Brown takes us on a journey over land and sea, in the footsteps of the Bible’s most recalcitrant prophet. Melding traditional commentators, rabbinic literature, modern biblical scholarship, psychological sensitivity, and artistic imagination, Brown travels through the four chapters of Jonah’s story − tracing his call to leadership, his subsequent intransigence, his momentary rise to duty and his tragic resignation − in an effort to discover God’s ultimate lesson for him. In Cultures and Contexts of Jewish Education, Dr. Benjamin M. Jacobs and his colleagues, Barry Chazan and Robert Chazan, examine the history of Jewish education from the Biblical period to the present. The book traces how Jews have formally and informally transmitted their culture and worldview over the years, with particular attention to the shift from pre-modernity to modernity and to the unique opportunities and challenges of contemporary American Jewish education. Its authors combine historical background and insight with educational expertise to provide a robust portrait of the cultures and contexts of Jewish education and address possibilities for the future. Articles of Interest
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The Mayberg Center advances community-based scholarship in the field of Jewish education and leadership, particularly in the arenas of pedagogy, identity, and literacy. The Center convenes academics and practitioners in critical conversations about the Jewish future, catalyzes research and provides graduate level training for Jewish educators and certificate program opportunities for professionals working in Jewish nonprofits. Housed in the GW Graduate School of Education and Human Development (GSEHD), renowned for connecting research to practice and education to the larger community, the Center aspires to be a vibrant laboratory for teaching, learning, and educational engagement. Through interdisciplinary studies and in collaboration with GSEHD’s graduate program in Experiential Education and Jewish Cultural Arts, the Center explores important links between evolving theories of teaching and learning and formal and experiential education. The Mayberg Center for Jewish Education and Leadership is funded through the generosity of the Mayberg Foundation.
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Mayberg Center for Jewish Education and Leadership
GW Graduate School of Education and Human Development
2134 G Street, NW
Washington, DC 20052
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