Educator Studio

JSP’s Educator Studio is a unique cohort experience designed to support Jewish educators in cultivating creative leadership skills and practices.

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  • Reconnect to your personal purpose.

  • Reignite your professional passion.

  • Activate your inherent creativity as a core part of your leadership.

  • Learn within a dynamic and supportive community of peers.

Applications for JSP’s East Coast EDUCATOR STUDIO COHORT will open in May 2024!

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“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

  • 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

    • Tools to help you discern and reconnect with a sense of your sacred purpose

    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 learning based.

    • Havruta sessions (monthly) will extend learning between webinars and help you integrate it into your teaching and leadership.

  • 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 made possible through generous support from The Covenant Foundation.

  • 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)

    • Cohort In-Person Siyyum/Culmination: May 4-7, 2025 (West Coast)

  • 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

  • Applications for the next cohort will be open from May 2024. More details coming soon!

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.

  • Rabbi Adam Lavitt

    Director of Learning

  • Rabbi Adina Allen

    Co-founder and Creative Director of Jewish Studio Project and designer of the Jewish Studio Process

  • Pat B. Allen

    PhD, ATR, internationally renowned author, art therapist and designer of the Open Studio Process

Questions about applying to JSP’s Educator Studio?

Contact Rabbi Adam Lavitt, JSP Director of Learning, at alavitt@jewishstudioproject.org.

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