Research Enounter: Weaving Together the Community of Teachers

What makes teachers feel that they belong at a school? Explore the different aspects of community that teachers participate in within a school. Based on Shira Hammerman's chapter "Designing Schools Around Five Dimensions of Community" in the volume Teaching & Learning in Jewish Day Schools, this conversation enables school leaders to share practices, stories and reflections on ways that they support teacher culture and belonging in their schools.   With special guests Rabbi Gavriel Brown is the head of school at Margolin Hebrew Academy–Cooper Yeshiva of the South, a Pre-K through 12th grade Orthodox Jewish day school in Memphis, Tennessee. Tamar Cytryn is the director of Jewish studies at Chicago Jewish Day School, a JK-8 community school. Dr. Shira Hammerman is the director of faculty learning and professional development at the Jewish Educational Center (JEC) in Elizabeth, New Jersey. She received a doctorate in education and Jewish studies from New York University and has worked in a variety of Jewish educational settings. Ilana Ruskay-Kidd is the founder and head of school at The Shefa School, a K-8 school for students with language-based learning disabilities in Manhattan.