2. Came in with
-2 years of educator experience
-1 year of program administration: Homeschool, Spring and Fall programs, Festivals, Specialist program over the summer, Helping to run 6 month apprenticeship
-Built a lot of curriculum there, helped other in developing curriculum
Born and raised in Chicago, Rachel remembers first finding wonder among the wilderness of her neighborhood parks. It wasn’t until she found herself studying Environmental Anthropology at Wash U in St. Louis when she started working on urban farms and asking herself what her own culture’s relationship was with the earth. Rachel began seeing Jewish rituals and texts with new eyes, and it was then that she first became a Jewish earth-based educator, compiling a Jewish ecology course for her Hebrew school class. Rachel worked as an organizer after school leading campaigns around greater healthcare access, GMO labeling, and de-privatization of public services. She then became an educator and farmer at Eden Village Camp in the Hudson valley where she built curriculum, helped to manage the farm, and ran a Jewish farm educator apprenticeship. She comes to Urban Adamah as a JOFEE Fellow and Senior Farm Educator, excited to ferment into a more seasoned teacher of wonder and facilitator of earth based spiritual practice. She spends her spare time keeping bees, eating apple cores, dancing, and making herbal concoctions. She is excited to be joining the education team at UA and to be living for the first time west of the Mississippi.

3. Now
-3.5 years of educator experience
-2 year of program administration:
running full year of farm programs 4-5 programs/wk
Helping at festivals
Teaching others how to do this in a whole new way
Building curriculum in accordance with science standards
Working with non Jewish groups
Teaching adults

4. My impact on overall org:
# programs -
-OUSD
-Jewish Community Field Trips
-HSOF
-Family Programs: Tot Shabbat, Volunteer Days , Sprouts Days
Actually #: 1,867
My impact on overall org:
-Allowing UA to grow into its full potential and capacity.
-planning winter and spring camp
-teen programming
-running 4-5 programs a week
-working with fellows on a new curriculum Jewish Ag classes
-bringing in more primitive skills (weaving, fire)
-allowing A to go learn more taking on more responsibility

5. Teacher:
-summer camp, applying David Sobel’s principles of play
-taught community members, teachers, fellows, staff

6. Responsibility
-Took over year round program coordination
-Starting teen programs at UA
-Resource internally for staff
-Started tot shabbat, community values
-Support deeper learning in SQALP

7. -Speak at public programs, share Torah
-Rep earth based Judaism in the community
-Ownership of creative process, don’t rely on other resources like I used to (just for texts)

8. Rain Dance: sukkot
Rafi, afraid of soil: Family Farm Day
Zero Waste Lunch: OUSD
Brit Adamah of not eating meet: HSOF, Kehilla

9. ”You silly white people, you think that we are different”
-Village Sight near Cordonices Creek
-Shell Mounds, pave the streets
Daniella shared a story of a teacher of her who asked this wuestion to an elder…
”You silly white people, you think that we are different”
we are all stewards and we also shoulde
-ask for permission
-offer resources – but first listen to what they need
-come with humility and without any assumtptions
Growing native variety of seeds
Offering our food to their elders thru CSA

10. As I review my goals it becomes clear they are life-time journeys
Goals to work on with
Mentor Adam B
As I review my goals it becomes clear they are life-time journeys
1.Gender has been a theme of the year for me. I have stood up for myself and women and tried to act in ways that defy gender roles (asking for raise, giving feedback clearly and strongly ) and that embrace the parts of being a female that I know serve my work (Compassion and sharing power, working collaboratively and acting first with concern for feelings of coworkers makes work enjoyable and a healthy place to show up as human)
Also been a challenge.. Have been challenged in moments with males in the org and have not always voiced feedback
2.Teen Week… we shall see. In my personal life this has come to be true. If you have the power to manifest now begs the question well what do you want?
3.Personal life, been giving quick feedback constantly, to friends, family, loves. At work too, but also knowing when to give it and how. Sensitive when we work with those we love and they are going through hard times.
4.YES! Taught others about this too. Apply this everyday. Work on questions when I vision lessons.
5.YES! Feel like a master in some ways. I am almost board of the materials and yearning for more Jewish learning. Want to get into kabbalah, chasidut, stories, songs to inform what I teach now.
6. Thru WT have been thinking a lot about this. Still have work to do integrating into work but it’s def a lens I share when contextualizing Jewish Ag. The place from which I understand this work – us reclaiming our indigineity
7. YES! Teaching a lot with fellows, staff, teachers in the community. What I have realized is I am an expert and also, don’t need to be an expert because so much is recycled and reused. Folks want exposure with someone who is passionate.

11. As I review my goals it becomes clear they are life-time journeys
Goals to work on with
Supervisor Ariela
As I review my goals it becomes clear they are life-time journeys
1.Gender has been a theme of the year for me. I have stood up for myself and women and tried to act in ways that defy gender roles (asking for raise, giving feedback clearly and strongly ) and that embrace the parts of being a female that I know serve my work (Compassion and sharing power, working collaboratively and acting first with concern for feelings of coworkers makes work enjoyable and a healthy place to show up as human)
Also been a challenge.. Have been challenged in moments with males in the org and have not always voiced feedback
2.Teen Week… we shall see. In my personal life this has come to be true. If you have the power to manifest now begs the question well what do you want?
3.Personal life, been giving quick feedback constantly, to friends, family, loves. At work too, but also knowing when to give it and how. Sensitive when we work with those we love and they are going through hard times.
4.YES! Taught others about this too. Apply this everyday. Work on questions when I vision lessons.
5.YES! Feel like a master in some ways. I am almost board of the materials and yearning for more Jewish learning. Want to get into kabbalah, chasidut, stories, songs to inform what I teach now.
6. Thru WT have been thinking a lot about this. Still have work to do integrating into work but it’s def a lens I share when contextualizing Jewish Ag. The place from which I understand this work – us reclaiming our indigineity
7. YES! Teaching a lot with fellows, staff, teachers in the community. What I have realized is I am an expert and also, don’t need to be an expert because so much is recycled and reused. Folks want exposure with someone who is passionate.

12. Build my own home / grow my own food / keep bees / homeschool kids /