Educator Studio

Applications for 2026 Now Closed

JSP’s Educator Studio is a unique cohort experience designed to support Jewish educators in cultivating creativity, professional community, and new pedagogical approaches.

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  • 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.


Read this article by Ed Studio lead, Rabbi Adam Lavitt!

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. As I usher in a new class of students shortly, I hope to bring that renewed trust in the process.”

2023 Educator Studio Fellow

Educator Studio FAQs

2026-2027

Central & Southern Region Cohort

Karli Atwell

Karen Bogard

Victoria Douzamy

Bex Ehrmann

Abbie Frankel

Stephanie Gray

Denae Ilan

Jackie Maris

Malka Packer-Monroe

Andrew Pepperstone

Alexandra Rosenbaum

Soreh Ruffman Rosenblum

Forrest Yesnes

Heather Seid

Esti Shapiro

Gail Swedroe

Mara Zeichner

Meet the Educator Studio Faculty

Learn about the lead faculty — Rabbi Adam Lavitt and Pat B. Allen, PhD, ATR.

  • Rabbi Adam Lavitt

    Director of Learning

  • Pat B. Allen

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

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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

Meet Our Alumni and Current Fellows

COHORT 3

Karli Atwell
Karen Bogard
Victoria Douzamy
Bex Ehrmann
Abbie Frankel
Stephanie Gray
Denae Ilan
Jackie Maris
Malka Packer-Monroe
Andrew Pepperstone
Alexandra Rosenbaum
Soreh Ruffman Rosenblum
Forrest Yesnes
Heather Seid
Esti Shapiro
Gail Swedroe
Mara Zeichner

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
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.

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The Educator Studio is made possible by a generous grant from The Covenant Foundation.