Professional Development Programs
Transformative Cohort Experiences
Equipping educators with academic, innovative, and applicable approaches to values exploration, experiential design and identity development.
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Programs
“M² is the destination for soulful, intellectual, and personal advancement… Through its rigor, ingenuity, and innovative training, M² has lifted the role of Jewish educators. If you’re looking for a community of practice and training in experiential education, M² will be catalytic to your personal and professional growth.”
Andy Kastner
Relational Engagement Circle 1 (2018-2019)
“To work closely with the M² team has allowed me to start to develop the foundations of my organization’s Jewish educational philosophy, which we can build upon for years to come. To be able to focus on this work in a cohort of people who are doing so as well is exactly what sets M² apart.”
Jessy Dressin
18x18 (2021-2022)
“M² created a program that was high-level, methodical, relevant, and that pushed us forward… I had to articulate my goals and my path as a Jewish educator– and it changed my entire trajectory.”
Liron Lipinsky
Senior Educators Cohort 2 (2017-2018) & 18x18 (2021-2022)
“M² provided my team with a beautiful balance of theory and practice… They do an excellent job of balancing different modalities of learning, including interactive learning, chevruta learning, and time for reflection. The learning is serious and sophisticated – and worthy of educators’ time.”
Jason Leivenberg
Power in 2020 (2020)
“I appreciated the rich opportunity to be with wise Jewish educators from all over North America, and to be taught by educators who used many media and modes to teach us. I feel like everyone from teachers, staff to participants, went the ‘extra mile’ to be engaged, to work hard, to be conscientious and diligent.”
Shelly Barnathan
Relational Engagement Circle 2
“From the teachers to the design of the workshops, from the cohort to the flow of the seminars, each flowed into each other with ease and intentionality. I've gained new understandings, values, and the skills to apply them in a playful way.”
Chanie Chein
Relational Engagement Circle 2
“Thank you to M² for allowing me to be present in an environment that is not my norm. The activities for exploring values were top-notch and I am excited to utilize some of the activities with my staff and to think about how to use them with our participants as well.”
Julie Brodsky
Senior Educators Cohort 4
“M² helped me unearth a process that demands an in-depth exploration and articulation of values. This process that I am still learning is now integrated into my professional and personal practice. It is beyond impactful. In addition, I now have a sense of my vision for the Jewish world. What a gift.”
Rabbi Tova Leibovic-Douglas
Senior Educators Cohort 4
“I feel that I identify more strongly than ever before as a Jewish educator, and certainly have a language and tools to apply therein.”
Noach Pawliger
Senior Educators Cohort 4
Meet our Fellows
Shmuel
Adler
Assistant Executive Director
Midreshet Ben Gurion
Senior Educators Cohort
Cohort 3
Ira
Wise
Director of Lifelong Learning
Congregation Emanu-El of the City of NY
Senior Educators Cohort
Cohort 4
Andrew
Feig
School Rabbi
Sinai Akiba Academy
Senior Educators Cohort
Cohort 4
Lev
Meirowitz Nelson
Director of Leadership and Learning
T'ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights
Senior Educators Cohort
Cohort 5
Esti
Hecht
Progam Director/ Director/ Director
Chabad AU/ Hebrew School to You/ Camp Gan Israel
Senior Educators Cohort
Cohort 3
David
Rotenberg
Director of Education
NCSY
Senior Educators Cohort
Cohort 2
Abby
Mintz
Program Director, Center for Values in Action
M²: The Institute for Experiential Jewish Education
Senior Educators Cohort
Cohort 6
Deena
Cowans
Director of Family Life and Learning
Bnai Jeshurun of NYC
Chicago Educators Cohort
Educational Resources
Crossroads Cards
Crossroads Cards are the newest resource from M². Each card presents a realistic scenario with: A point of tension where values compete A guiding question for reflection and conversation A Jewish Compass: two perspectives from Jewish tradition that frame the dilemma They don’t offer answers. They slow us down and help surface what matters...
