Leah Herzog, M.Ed

Leah Herzog graduated (magna cum laude) with a BA in Psychology from Barnard College in 1986. At that time, she was also inducted into the Phi Betta Kappa society. In 1984, she earned her Teacher’s Certification from Michlalah, the Jerusalem College for Women. Leah earned her M.Ed. in Educational Psychology from Loyola University of Chicago in 1989 and continued her doctoral work in the same field, as well as completing doctoral work in Educational Administration at the University of Cincinnati. Leah has taught Tanach and psychology to high school students at the Ida Crown Jewish Academy in Chicago, RITSS high school in Cincinnati and the Frisch School in New Jersey. She taught at the Rae Kushner Yeshiva High School for nine years, serving as Chair of the Tanach Department for the last two years. From 2006-2019, Leah taught Tanach at Maayanot Yeshiva High School, and was the co-director of Israel Guidance there. In addition she worked as a Mechanechet and Adult Educator, and did professional development there. She has also taught adult education at the Anne Blitstein Teacher’s Institute in Chicago, the Melton School in Cincinnati and has lectured in the US, Canada and Israel. Leah is also a facilitator for Project Based Learning seminars and a Limudei Kodesh curriculum consultant. Leah Herzog now lives in Israel, where she is a Tanach instructor for Matan Modi'in/Chashmonaim and Midreshet Amudim, and teaches at the Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem. She also works as an Instructional Coach and (virtual) educational workshop facilitator for BetterLesson.