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Rabbi Dr. Gavriel Brown

Rabbi Dr. Brown was born in Israel and grew up in Silver Spring, Maryland. He is a summa cum laude graduate of Yeshiva University’s Honor’s College. At Yeshiva University, Rabbi Dr. Brown completed his Honor’s Thesis on “What Works: Best Practices Research and the Charter School Movement”. In 2012, Rabbi Dr. Brown received the prestigious Elie Wiesel National Prize in Ethics, awarded annually by the Elie Wiesel Foundation.

 

In 2014, he was accepted into the Teach for America program where he taught English, journalism, and humanities at two celebrated no-excuses charter schools: Uncommon Schools in Newark, New Jersey and Success Academy High School for the Liberal Arts in New York City. In 2016, Rabbi Dr. Brown received his master’s degree in education from the Relay Graduate School of Education.

In 2017, Rabbi Dr. Brown moved to Baltimore, to pursue his Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins University’s Institute for Advanced Studies. During that same time, he served as the Director of Curriculum and Instruction at the Talmudical Academy of Baltimore (known nationally as “TA”) – a Pre-K-12, Jewish day school with over 1,000 students. While at TA, Rabbi Dr. Brown also served as a research fellow in school leadership at New Leaders for New Schools. As a Fellow he worked with, and mentored, aspiring elementary and middle school administrators and teachers, and used research-based analytics to support the redesign of national leadership curricula. The following year, Rabbi Dr. Brown was named the David L. Clark National Research Scholar in Educational Administration & Policy by the American Educational Research Association.

In 2021, Rabbi Dr. Brown received his Ph.D. in Leadership Studies from Johns Hopkins University. His Doctoral Thesis - The Role of Job Demands and Job Resources in Predicting Principal Job Satisfaction: A Cross-National, Hierarchical Linear Model Analysis - researched quantitative analysis, data visualization, leadership, school turnaround, professional development, and leadership retention. That same year, he moved to Chicago to become the Assistant Head of School/Dean at Ida Crown Jewish Academy. In his role at Ida Crown, Rabbi Dr. Brown is responsible for all aspects of the Judaic and general studies programs including curriculum, professional development, teacher development and supervision, and programming.

Rabbi Dr. Brown holds academic certificates in School Management and Leadership from Harvard Business School; Non-Profit Financial Management from Cornell University; and Jewish Leadership from Northwestern University. Rabbi Dr. Brown received his S’micha, Yoreh Yoreh B’isur V’Heter, from Yeshiva Pirche Shoshanim. In 2023, Rabbi Dr. Brown was named a Legacy Heritage fellow at Harvard’s Principals’ Center and was a Jewish New Teacher Project’s Administrator Fellow. He has published multiple articles in HaYidiyon, Jewish Educational Leadership Journal, and other publications.

He is married to Bec, a native of Australia, and they have three children: Adi, Lev, and Ori.

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