SREL Fellowship Program
Schechter Residency in Educational Leadership (SREL) Fellowship Program
The SREL program is designed to create a career path to Solomon Schechter Day School professional leadership. Graduates of the Conservative movement’s rabbinical schools (the Jewish Theological Seminary and the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies) who demonstrate a strong interest in Jewish education and some preparation for professional work in Jewish education are the primary target population. This cutting-edge program in professional development bridges the distance between academic preparation and the assumption of a school leadership role. The SREL program provides for the selection of a resident fellow each year, who will choose a placement from a list of Solomon Schechter residency schools that have demonstrated their capacity to supervise and support a Fellow. The residency school, together with the Schechter Association and SREL Fellow, will design the program that meets the needs of the Residency School and that will prepare the Fellow to serve as an educational leader in a Jewish day School.
The SREL program has been designed to ensure that SREL Fellows will receive guided and structured practical experience. The significant grant from the SREL endowment goes to the residency school to be used to ensure a competitive compensation package and support the capacity of the school to provide professional experiences in various aspects of school leadership. One new Fellow will be selected per year.
This year’s allocation of $30,000 is awarded to the Nate and Ann Levine Academy in Dallas, Texas. The residency school will receive an allocation for up to 3 years that the Fellow serves in the school.
Candidates for the fellowship are interviewed by a special committee established by the Solomon Schechter Day School Association and includes representation from the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, its host institution.
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If your school is interested in participating in this cutting-edge program to develop educational leaders for Schechter schools, click on Application for Schools.
Current SREL Fellow
Rabbi Eve Bethany Posen will be working at the Nate and Ann Levine Academy in Dallas, Texas, as the school rabbi. Rabbi Posen will be ordained by the Rabbi Posen will be ordained by the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies at American Jewish University in LA in May and holds a Masters degree in Jewish Education from the Fingerhut School at AJU. She will be the first female rabbi to serve at the Levine Academy.
