Jane Shapiro
Passionate Adult Educator with thirty years of experience teaching and researching what helps adults learn.
- Role
- Founder Orot the Center for New Jewish Learning at Orot Center For New Jewish Learning
- Location
- Evanston, IL, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Jane Shapiro
Dr. Jane Shapiro is a transformative leader in the field of Jewish Education. Dr. Jane…
Experience
Founder Orot the Center for New Jewish Learning
Orot Center For New Jewish Learning
Aug 2015 — Present · Chicago, IL, US
Orot: Center for New Jewish Learning offers classes, programs, and retreats that provides opportunities for cultivating transformative habits of body, heart, and mind that lead to greater life wisdom, meaning, and compassion. Orot designs learning experiences that integrate ancient Jewish wisdom with meditation, yoga, music, art, and creative writing in an attempt to empower and support individuals as they open up new pathways into Jewish meaning and look to use Judaism as a source for personal, relational, and communal transformation.Jane Shapiro is passionate about all aspects of Jewish teaching and learning. She has been a teacher to many over the last thirty years, in classes ranging from weekly Torah study to Jewish thought, history and literature. As Associate Director of the Florence Melton School she worked with teachers across North America and Israel to develop good pedagogic practices. She has consulted with organizations ranging from the American Jewish Committee, The Jewish Theological Seminary, Camp Ramah, Spertus Institute, and Jewish Federations of North America. She is a graduate of Princeton University, studied at Columbia University and received her doctorate from the Jewish Theological Seminary in 2016. She is a graduate of the Mandel Teacher Educators Institute and Visions of Jewish Education projects. in 2017 Jane received an Educators Award from the Covenant Foundation. In 2018 she was featured in an Eli talk on “The Torah of Bubbiehood.” She lives in Skokie, Illinois with her husband David and is also mother to four sons, mother-in-law to three daughters and grandmother to five.
Education
Mandel Center for Jewish Leadership
Teacher Educator Institute, Vision Facilitator
2000 — 2009
The Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS)
Doctor of Education (Ed.D.), Adult Education
2010 — 2015
Skills
- Adult Education
- Curriculum Design
- Nonprofits
- Staff Development
- Leadership Development
- Curriculum Development
- Editing
- Program Development
- Fundraising
- Non-Profits
- Community Outreach
- Training
- Volunteer Management
- Teaching
- Public Speaking
- Leadership
- Grant Writing
- Coaching
- Hebrew
- Vision Development
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