About us

Before joining the Center, I worked at the Stanford University School of Education in California at a Center for collaborative applied research. At Stanford, I managed research projects in partnerships with educational/social organizations to improve policies, processes, and action for the target populations. I also mentored regional organizations and partnerships in developing research skills and organizational learning for strategic leadership and the establishment of process and result indicators. I hold a Ph.D. in education, with an emphasis on quantitative research methods, from the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB), a master’s degree in organizational-social psychology from Bar-Ilan University, and a teaching diploma from Seminar Hakibutzim College.

I am the mother of Eli and Itamar, and a catchball player in the Mamanet League in Ramat Gan.

I hold a double master’s degree in Education Systems Management and Curriculum Studies and a bachelor’s degree in Special Education. I have nineteen years of experience in the education system, seven of which as a school principal.​

I also engage in the study of these joint development processes.

I hold a Ph.D. from Ben Gurion University of the Negev. My thesis dealt with the integration of dialogic pedagogy and the challenges of changing the discourse in the classroom. In conducting the research, I led the development work in the Productive Pedagogical Discourse Program, coached and worked with teachers and instructors in the development of professional tools and resources. In the past, I worked for a decade as a homeroom high-school teacher, after which I was a fellow at the Mandel School for Educational Leadership, and then in research and development at the Avney Rosha Institute. I live in Tel Aviv with my partner and two children, like to cook and try to run.

Ziv has extensive experience in the educational field, including management roles at the Experimental-Argentina School and leading teacher training programs at leading academic institutions.
Alongside his work at the center, he is a board member and heads the collaboration initiatives in the Special Training Unit at Kibbutzim College, where he leads innovative teacher training programs.
His current doctoral research at Ben-Gurion University focuses on developmental-pedagogical approaches and progressive schools in Israel.
Ziv holds a master’s degree from Bar-Ilan University in the field of Technology, Science, and Society, and a bachelor’s degree in Physics from Ben-Gurion University.
He grew up in Jerusalem with his partner and their two children.

She works to create and nurture spaces for knowledge sharing and supports the production of research-based development outputs.
Hadar holds a master’s degree in Social Psychology from Ben-Gurion University.
In the past, she worked as a journalist, editor, ghostwriter, content creator, and was involved in public relations and marketing in various settings and for different companies.
She lives in Be’er Sheva with her partner and their daughter, Yuval.

In my doctoral studies, which I completed in 2020 at the University of Haifa, I studied professional learning communities in technology-enhanced learning environments that I also helped to design. In the past, I was a teacher of Jewish Thought and a homeroom teacher at Maccabim-Reut Mor High School. I live in Modiin with my wife and our four children, and in my free time I like to climb walls.

I am particularly interested in how teachers learn (or don’t learn) to adopt student-centered dialogical pedagogy practices as well as equity-oriented practices.

In my research study, I examine teachers’ discourse as a source of professional learning and combine qualitative and quantitative research methods for studying the discourse.

In the past, I taught mathematics in junior high school and lectured in the teacher training track at the Hebrew University and in master’s degree studies in education at Ben Gurion University. I also coordinated the research work at the Learning & Interaction Lab of Prof. Christa Asterhan at the Hebrew University.

My partner and I are raising our four children in Motsa Elite.