Cleveland Educators Cohort

Rabbi Stacy L. Schlein is the Director of Educational Capacity Building at the Jewish Education Center of Cleveland, where she supports the local synagogue and early childhood education programs. For fourteen years, as a rabbi and educator at The Temple-Tifereth Israel in Cleveland, she also directed the weekly experiential Shabbaton Family Learning Program. Rabbi Schlein graduated from Indiana University, was ordained at HUC-JIR in New York in 2001, and earned the school’s Executive M.A. in Jewish Education in 2017. A passionate lifelong learner, she is currently a participant in Cohort 10 of The Mandel Teacher Educator Institute.

Stacy can be reached at sschlein@jecc.org.

Jonny is a connoisseur of experiential education. He founded and led Makom: the Israel Education Lab’s pioneering efforts of “hugging and wrestling” with Israel and the Jewish People for 12 years. He has researched, designed and delivered educational experiences for 35 years in public school, university and in adult and travel settings and held senior positions at the Jewish Agency, the Mandel Leadership Institute, the United Jewish Israel Appeal and Melitz. He’s currently writing a book on educating people to become cosmopolitan patriots. He teaches experiential education at the Hebrew University’s Melton Centre for Jewish Education. Born in the UK, he lives in Israel with his family.

Rhoda is the founder and chief creative officer of Rhoda+CO. She previously served as the Dean of the Graduate School of Nonprofit Management at American Jewish University. She has a 25+ year career in identifying, educating and coaching Gen X, Gen Y, and Millennial talent to become excellent leaders. Rhoda is one of the original founders of the Jewish engagement model used today and believes that every person deserves a high-level connection to Jewish life and tradition. In her position at AJU, she helps develop and place top leaders throughout the nonprofit sector.

Mollie has over 10 years experience teaching in a variety of Jewish educational settings – from formal classroom teaching to nature education, theatre education to collaborative philanthropy education. She enjoys being in the field, as well as building programs and trainings to support others. Mollie holds a double Masters in Midrash and Jewish Experiential Education from the Jewish Theological Seminary, a BA in Religion from Bard College, and is a graduate
of M²’s Senior Educators Cohort. She lives in Brooklyn, NY with her husband and children.