Laurence Kutler

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Education

PhD New York University, Ancient Near East Languages, 1980

M.A. New York University, Hebrew Language and Literature, 1976

B.A. Hofstra University, Judaica & Education, 1975

Hebrew University in Jerusalem, 1976-1978

Experience

Interim Head of School 2019-2021

Tucson Hebrew Academy

●Guided, wrote, and implemented a three year strategic plan

●Increase enrollment

●Placed the school on a sound financial status

●Implemented a Challenge Based Learning Program

Head of School 2013-2017

Talmud Torah/ Herzliah

●Guided, wrote, and implemented a three year strategic plan

●Increased enrollment from 617-720 in three years with a parent ambassador program

●Created an Admissions Department and a Public Relations Department

●Brought the school from a deficit budget to a surplus budget

●Collaborated in the planning of a fifty two million capital campaign to build a new facility and endow Herzliah High School (45 million raised)

●Created and implemented an advanced learning center incorporating academics, Judaica, Athletics and Performing Arts

Scholar -in -Residence

San Diego Jewish Academy, San Diego, CA, 2009-2013

●Strategic Planning with the Board of Directors

●Teaching Rabbinics

●Moot Beit Din

Mentor in Project Sulam

RAVSAK, New York, NY 2009 – 2011

●Mentored six principals working throughout the United States on ways to engage students, faculty and staff with Judaism

Head of School

David Posnack Hebrew Day School, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 2005 - 2009

●Developed, articulated and promoted a strategic plan that created a vision for the future of the school in a new campus

●Established clear goals and metrics for youth programming that engaged key stakeholders, students, professional staff, and lay leaders

●Worked with community leadership to ensure development and expanded the financial resources of the campuses.

●Established a performing arts center throughout the institution

●Created an Advancement Office and raised one million dollars per year

●Oversaw a staff of more than 120 and managed an annual budget of more than $8 million

Head of School

Hebrew Academy of Tidewater, Virginia Beach, VA 1996 – 2005

●Ensured the growth of the school by recruiting new members to the board through a nomination process

●Engaged the board as active partners by providing them information and actively fund raising so that a new forty one million facility could be built

●Recruited, hired and trained teaching and administrative support staff to ensure the viability of the two campuses

●Set up Smart Board technology in the elementary school and a tablet program in the high school

●Introduced the theory of Multiple Intelligences throughout the elementary and middle schools

●Created an endowment of five million dollars

Adjunct Professor

Virginia Wesleyan College & Old Dominion University, Virginia Beach, VA 2000 – 2004

●Provided leadership in marketing and public relations to the Jewish community

●Taught courses on Biblical Hebrew and Jewish Studies

●Comfortable with interacting with students and building relationships with alumni and advocating for students on campus

●Served as Coordinator for Jewish Studies Outreach to the community

Principal

Akiva Academy Jewish Day School, Youngstown, OH 1985 – 1996

Founded Day School and developed it into a sustainable elementary school

Grew enrollment and enrolled 70% of the eligible children in the community. Setting a national record in non-Orthodox Day Schools

Associate Professor of Hebrew

Kent State University, Kent, OH 1986 – 1996

●Served as representative of the Jewish community on campus

●Provided counseling and referral for students

●Taught Introductory and Intermediate-level Hebrew courses to students at Kent State University

Executive Director

Commission for Jewish Education, Youngstown, OH 1984 – 1996

Expanded the supplementary schools to include all area synagogues

Established K-6th Grade day school, Akiva Academy

Conducted high school programs for teenagers, including the March of the Living

Principal

High School of Jewish Studies, San Diego, CA 1980-1984

Professional Organizations

Jewish Educational Service of North America (JESNA)

Association of Jewish Studies

Jewish Community Day School Network (RAVSAK)

Zionist Organization of American - In-state Regional Vice President

Society of Biblical Literature

Listed in Who's Who in American Education

Virginia Association of Independent Schools

Association of Independent Schools of Florida

Certifications

●JESNA Hebrew Principal Certificate

●Ohio Principal License & Teaching Certificate

●California Community College Teaching Credential

Publications

●“My Fate is in the Cup on the Day I Call”, Festschrift to Yossi Tobi (Jerusalem, 2010)

●“Seeing G-d From Biblical Literature to Neo-Platonic Thought”, appearing in Chasing Esther: Jewish Expressions of Cultural Difference (Kol Katan Press, 2005)

●Nelson Glueck: Biblical Archaeologist and President of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, with Jonathan Brown (Hebrew Union College Press, 2005)

●“Pluralism in Jewish Day School”, CAJE (1998)

●“The Israel Experience on Jewish Teens in Small Communities”, RAVSAK Newsletter (1998)

●“Diaries, Memoirs and Autobiographical Writings”, Holocaust Literature ed. S. Friedman (Greenwood Press, 1993)

●The Terezin Diary of Gonda Redlich, Translator: Laurence Kutler, Editor: Saul Friedman (Kentucky University Press, 1991)

●“Rhetorical Aspects of the Battle Challenge in Biblical Hebrew”, UF 18 (1985)

●“A Structural Semantic Study of Hebrew Communal Terminology”, Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Studies 15 (Columbia University, 1983)

●“A Strong Case for Hebrew Mar”, UF 16 (1983)

Invited Lectures

Lectures on Hebrew Language and Literature

The American Oriental Society and the Society of Biblical Literature (St. Louis, 1979; Boston, 1981; Baltimore, 1983; Jerusalem, 2002)

Workshops and In-Services

●Discipline in the Classroom; Inclusion in the Day School; Putting Israel in the Curriculum; Teacher Recruitment in Jewish Day Schools; Multiple Intelligences in Jewish Day Schools

Boards

●Board Member, Jewish Educational Service of North America, 1999 – 2002

●President, The Jewish Community Day School Network (RAVSAK), 1997 – 1999

●Board Member, ZOA Tri-State Regional Board, 1990 - 1996

Languages, Skills & Hobbies

●Hebrew, Arabic, French, Akkadian, Ugaritic, Phonecian, Aramaic, et al

●Classical piano

●Regularly competes in Ironman Triathlons, Marathons, and Half-Marathon races

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