Leading your Judaic Studies Team in Differentiated Instruction: a six-part series

Dr. Bauman has been a Hidden Sparks senior coach and facilitator for the past 15 years. She has over 20 years of experience helping children with mental health, behavioral, and academic challenges. Dr. Bauman has provided ongoing education and coaching to Jewish Day School Judaic Studies teachers as well as mentoring and supervision to coaches in training. Dr. Bauman has also organized social skills and bully-prevention programming for schools and has provided learning, social skills, and anti-bullying workshops for students, teachers, and parents.

Hollis, Hidden Sparks senior coach and facilitator, has been empowering complex learners for 30 years as a learning specialist, special educator, administrator, and consultant. Hollis created Transform Boundaries, an organization dedicated to helping schools create programs and creative solutions for reaching their complex learners. She served as the Director of Academic Intervention at Explore Charter School and co-created the Carmel Alternative High School for at-risk teens. Hollis also worked as a learning specialist at the Student Success Center of All Kinds of Minds.

Eden Israeli, Coordinator for Israel Programs, is the Learning Disabilities Coordinator for the Society for Advancement in Education  (SAE), Hidden Sparks’ partner in Israel. Eden has over 15 years of experience in treating learning disabilities and spent some years in the US as a Judaic Learning Specialist at Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School. She holds an MA in Special Education from the Hebrew University, and was certified at Bar Ilan University to conduct didactic evaluations and Applied Behavior Analysis.

Rabbi Dr. Lubetski Rabbi Dr. Lubetski has over twenty years of experience in education, with fifteen years as a principal in a variety of Middle Schools and High Schools in New York, Baltimore, and Memphis. He also trained as Hidden Sparks Internal Coach. Today, he serves as the Director of Education in Sulamot writing curriculum in Mishna and Halacha for English speaking schools around the world. Furthermore, he serves as an adjunct instructor in the Master’s Program in Educational Administration at Michlalah Jerusalem. Rabbi Dr. Lubetski earned his doctorate from Azrieli School of Jewish Education and Administration at Yeshiva University in Applying Project Based Learning to Tanach.