Registration for 2025-2026 is now open! Register here today!
Register for JNTP in 2026-27 Today! Early Bird Special pricing Deadline is May 15, 2026!
Registration for 2025-2026 is now open! Register here today!
Register for JNTP in 2026-27 Today! Early Bird Special pricing Deadline is May 15, 2026!
For over 20 years, Jewish New Teacher Project has been elevating the field of Jewish day school education by supporting beginning teachers and administrators, helping them get better faster so that they are more confident, skilled, and effective – ultimately creating optimal learning environments grounded in instructional excellence.
Our two outstanding research-based and field-tested programs, drawn from the award-winning New Teacher Center (NTC), help Jewish day schools support
teachers and new administrators in their multiple roles to ensure that all students receive the excellent education that they deserve!
Now is a great time to Partner with JNTP to help you support teaching, learning, leadership, and culture in your school.
Taking on a new administrative role or leadership responsibilities requires changes in behavior, priorities, and mindsets. It can necessitate the acquisition of a new set of skills: navigating a change in relationships within and outside of the school community; leading a culture change; building trust with multiple constituents; taking on a supervisory role; and dealing with criticism. The impact of these changes is not only on the individual but on the people and the systems around them. Many administrators move or are moved into school leadership positions because they are good teachers. But good teaching skills don’t necessarily translate into good administrative skills.
JNTP offers two options to support day school administrators with content focused on culture, leadership, and supervision, providing essential tools and strategies for effective supervision and leadership. Our 20-month cohort-based program provides participants an opportunity to collaborate, share experiences, and grow with a cohort of educators in similar roles. We also offer customized 1:1 coaching for both new and more seasoned administrators.
Click here for more information and click here to complete an interest form as the first step in registration.
We understand the challenge of being a new teacher and juggling student engagement, lesson planning, parent communication, and academic achievement. Utilizing a proven, data-driven, peer-mentoring program, JNTP trains veteran teachers in your school to intensively mentor your beginning teachers, accelerating teachers’ effectiveness and long-term commitment to the field.
Over two years, mentors learn JNTP’s approach, language, standards, and tools to support new teachers. During this period, they meet with new teachers weekly for one-on-one, ongoing, job-embedded observation cycles to provide feedback on the effectiveness of their teaching, student learning, and classroom environment.
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Register today for JNTP’s Teacher Induction program. Early Bird pricing ends May 17, 2024!
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Judith is a Program Consultant at JNTP, where she serves as a facilitator and coach to early career administrators through the Administrator Support Program. Judith has been collaborating with NY-area Day School and Yeshiva educators and leaders to provide tailored professional learning and growth, across both General and Judaic Studies, for 20 years. She is passionate about understanding each learner’s context and co-creating solutions that make sense in their setting. Prior to her current focus on leadership and Professional Development (PD) at The Jewish Education Project, Judith was a K-8 classroom teacher and later a Principal at Westchester Day School. She can be reached at [email protected].
Rachel Harari is an Associate Program Consultant at JNTP, where she co-facilitates new teacher training. She is also an Associate Lecturer at Columbia University and a middle school English Language Arts teacher at Yeshivah of Flatbush. Rachel is currently working on her PhD at Teachers College, Columbia University, within their Educational Leadership program. Through her work as a Department Chair for six years at Magen David Yeshivah High School in Brooklyn, New York, Rachel was inspired to study the role of the high school department chair in Modern Orthodox schools in New York City. Rachel received her M.S. in Special Education from Brooklyn College, and her B.S. in English Education from New York University, where she published her research on mathematics anxiety in elementary school students: “Mathematics Anxiety in Young Children: An Exploratory Study.” Rachel is a 2016 recipient of The Covenant Foundation’s Pomegranate Prize, which recognizes emerging leaders in the field of Jewish Education.
Lauren Katz is JNTP’s Director of Development, where she oversees the organization’s fundraising efforts and marketing and communications initiatives in an effort to advance JNTP’s mission and strategic goals. Lauren’s portfolio includes strategic planning, donor cultivation, engagement, and gift acquisition. She has an extensive background in Jewish non-profit management with a specific focus on fundraising and development, most recently serving as the Director of Marketing & Communications and Alumni Relations at SAR High School for over four years and at the Ramaz School for seven years as the Director of Alumni Relations. In addition, Lauren worked at the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit and UJA-Federation of MetroWest, NJ in the campaign and planning and allocations departments. Lauren holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Michigan and attended the University of Michigan School of Social Work and Jewish Communal Leadership Program. Lauren can be reached at [email protected].
