MaTaRoT: 永利国际app Center for Jewish Professional Learning & Leadership
Your Goals. Your Growth.
MaTaRoT: 永利国际app鈥檚 Center for Professional Learning and Leadership is your hub for professional development in Jewish Education. MaTaRoT, meaning “goals,” describes our work together: Mentoring, Teaching, Reaching Together.
永利国际app鈥檚 menu of professional development offerings is guided by a belief that teaching is a complex and dynamic process that demands continual improvement.听 We believe that supporting teachers and educational leaders in congregational schools serves to deepen and broaden theexperiences of the professionals, and thus the students and the families in their programs. By focusing on the intellectual and pedagogical growth of all of the professionals who interact with the students week in and week out, we are investing in improving the teaching and learning in these institutions.
Choose your Path
We offer three paths for your professional growth:
Bonim Beyachad is a 10-month cohort-based fellowship at 永利国际app in Newton, MA to support adults who are new to teaching in part-time and supplemental Jewish educational settings. The fellowship provides in-person and virtual professional development in pedagogy, content, and classroom management for new teachers.
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听Leadership Coaching听in the coming year, including听limited spaces听for those coachees that would like to continue for an additional year.
Instructor:听MaTaRoT Faculty Dates & Times:听Agreed upon between faculty coach and participant Location:听Zoom
Coaching Pricing
Size of Congregation
CJP Congregation
National Congregation*
Small (0-200 family units)
$1,250
$3600
Medium (201-450 family units)
$2,000
$3600
Large (over 450 family units)
$2,750
$3600
*永利国际app alumni price for National Coaching (outside of Boston) ONLY: $3300.00
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.
听Transform your school program through Project Based Learning (PBL). PBL is a dynamic, student-centered, approach to learning in which participants acquire knowledge and skills by actively exploring a complex question and working on an authentic community need. Experienced consultants are paired with selected teachers and educational directors from schools to introduce PBL into their school curriculum and structure.
PBL is a tried and true method for engaging students in projects that have
application and validity in the real world.
Students are able to have voice and choice and teachers are guided in preparing lessons that have clear learning targets, tap into their passions as well as the students鈥�, can be differentiated and worked on collaboratively.
Supported by MaTaRoT Consultants, school teams experiment with PBL
concepts in their setting.
永利国际app has pioneered adapting PBL to the Supplementary School setting and has 10 years of experience implementing successful PBL expeditions in this venue. Our PBL workshops and consultations are structured to account for the unique setting of supplementary Jewish Education.
(Pictured: In October 2022, 永利国际app’s MaTaRoT Center hosted colleagues from the liberal Amsterdam Jewish community for a week of project-based learning. The group celebrated Simchat Torah with 永利国际app 2015 alumna Rabbi Susie Schwartz at her shul Temple Israel of Boston.)
Bonim Beyachad is a 10-month cohort-based fellowship at 永利国际app in Newton, MA to support adults who are new to teaching in part-time and supplemental Jewish educational settings. The fellowship provides in-person and virtual professional development in pedagogy, content, and classroom management for new teachers.
Instructor:听MaTaRoT Faculty Dates & Times:听Agreed upon between faculty coach and participant Location:听Zoom
Coaching Pricing
Size of Congregation
CJP Congregation
National Congregation*
Small (0-200 family units)
$1,250
$3600
Medium (201-450 family units)
$2,000
$3600
Large (over 450 family units)
$2,750
$3600
*永利国际app alumni price for National Coaching (outside of Boston) ONLY: $3200.00
Leadership Coaching
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听Leadership Coaching听in the coming year, including听limited spaces听for those coachees that would like to continue for an additional year.
Curriculum Coaching
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).
Marion Gribetz, Director of 永利国际app Educational Initiatives
Our newly redesigned MaTaRoT MJED and professional development offerings provide educators with flexible, applicable, course work that closely connects theory and practice. Our new incoming cohort will study together in community and support each other as they grow and develop new knowledge and skills. The focus on the soulfulness of education and the skills needed to be instructional leaders is the perfect combination to help these individuals gain knowledge, skills and their individual habits of heart, mind and hands.
Certificate in Jewish Spiritual Education (4 credits)
Certificate in Jewish Educational Leadership (4 credits)
Certificate in Emerging Trends in Jewish Education (4 credits)
Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Jewish Education (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 永利国际app.
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.
永利国际app鈥檚 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
A flexible three year, part-time program听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鈥攚ithout sacrificing the personal attention you鈥檝e come to expect from 永利国际app. Note: 永利国际app also offers the MJEd in conjunction with rabbinical or cantorial ordination.
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 永利国际app faculty. Use our听Schoology听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. 永利国际app has been recognized nationally for its online learning programs, and our faculty have been teaching in the online environment for more than a decade.
A specialized focus on听Jewish Spiritual Education, Jewish Educational Leadership, and听Emerging Trends in Jewish Education.
A program designed for听Jewish leadership and learning for a pluralistic world.
Year-long field experience听in your home community. Current teaching may count toward your field experience.
Year-long field experience听in your home community. Current teaching may count toward your field experience.
Faculty advisor听to guide you throughout the program.
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.
Earn a Graduate Level Certificate听in one of the following areas (each certificate is 8 graduate credits): Certificate in Learning & Leading or Certificate in Jewish Spiritual Education.
We offer the opportunity to combine a Master of Jewish Education from 永利国际app with traditional text study at the 听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.
