Parenting Your Teen Faculty
Margie Bogdanow, a licensed social worker, is a national youth specialist at the
Union for Reform Judaism and a consultant to the Youth Educator Initiative of Combined
Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston. She holds a Master of Social Work from Simmons
College and a bachelor’s degree in Russian language and literature from Brandeis
University. Bogdanow has worked for over 30 years with parents and educators in a
variety of settings with the goal of making a difference in the lives of children.
She co-founded and served as co-executive director of Parenting Resource Associates
in Lexington, Mass., and as the associate director of the Early Childhood Institute
at Hebrew College and as president of Temple Isaiah in Lexington, Mass.
Judy Elkin is a long-time Jewish educator and a certified personal and professional
coach, working with individuals, couples, and professional teams. As a Jewish educator
Judy has worked with adolescents, parents, parent educators, teachers and graduate
students, and was the founding director of Ramah Family Camp.
Marjorie Freiman has worked in Jewish education in Boston for 15 years and has taught
children and adults of all ages. She has worked at the Rashi School as the social-justice
educator and family education consultant and as the family educator and Limud director
at Temple Beth Elohim in Wellesley, Mass. Freiman now serves as the adult-learning
co-chair at TBE and is active in adult-learning and caring community programs. She
holds a master’s degree in Jewish education and a certificate in family education
from Hebrew College.
Bonnie Glickman consults with teachers, families, schools and employers. She has
worked as a classroom teacher, special-education teacher, curriculum developer, school
counselor and private consultant. She founded and administered a school for high-school
dropouts in Montreal, which won an award from the Canadian Broadcasting Company.
Glickman holds a bachelor’s degree in education a and master’s degree in reading
instruction and special education from McGill University, as well as a master’s degree
in counseling from the University of Vermont. She has worked extensively with children,
adolescents and adults who have non-verbal and language-based learning disabilities.
Laila Goodman has been teaching biology for more than 25 years, first as a public-school
teacher and for most of her career at independent schools. Since 2005, she has taught
biology at Gann Academy, The New Jewish High School, in Waltham, Mass. She is currently
the school’s dean of students. Goodman leads a liberal minyan and a meditation group
and teaches tefill at the religious school of Temple Ahavat Achim in Gloucester,
Mass.
Cheryl Harris has worked for the past 20 years as a school psychologist at Sharon
(Mass.) High School. During the summer months, she has worked at Camp Yavneh in Northwood,
N.H., as a teacher of Hebrew and as a Yoetzet, advising and supporting counselors
in their work with campers ages 8 through 16. Harris has also served with her husband,
Jay, as a co-master of Cabot House at Harvard College for seven years, where they
enjoyed daily interactions with students as well as planning and hosting events for
students and staff. Harris holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Barnard College
and three master’s degrees from Teachers College at Columbia University: an M.A.
in remedial reading, an Ed.M. in learning disabilities and an Ed.M. in school psychology.
Rabbi Marcia R. Plumb is the former director of the spiritual formation program at
Leo Baeck College in London and has taught adult-education classes for more than
20 years. She led a Parents Coping With Adolescents group for three years and created
and led a national program for adolescents across the United Kingdom. Plumb is a
trained Mussar teacher and Jewish spiritual guide. Originally from Houston, she lived
in London for 20 years before relocating to Boston with her husband and two children.
