Lauren Applebaum, Ed.D.
Director of DeLeT Programs
Contact Information
school/program: School of Education
academic field: Jewish Education
campus: Los Angeles
email: lapplebaum@huc.edu
Dr. Lauren Applebaum is the Director of DeLeT programs. Based on the Los Angeles campus, she oversees training and development programs for novice and experienced Jewish day school teachers through the DeLeT Credential program, the DeLeT MAT, DeLeT Lehora’at Ivrit for Hebrew educators, and the DeLeT Coaching and Induction programs. As a scholar and practitioner in the field, Lauren’s work focuses on collaborative professional learning for teachers and educators. She is an affiliated scholar at the Mandel Center for Jewish Education at Brandeis University, where she serves as the co-director of Learning and Teaching about What Matters, a research project engaging with Jewish children and their teachers about important issues in their lives. An alumna of the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Williams College, Lauren received her doctorate in education from the Jewish Theological Seminary.
DLT 504: DeLeT Credential Bridge Seminar
MAT 610/611 Collaborative Reflective Practice I and II
DLT 553: Day Schools and Society
“A lot of horrible things have happened”: Jewish children’s beliefs about October 7th and its aftermath. (with Sivan Zakai). In Reingold (Ed). Jewish Education After October 7th. (In press)
A kite that soars and a box that opens: The challenges of transformative professional learning for Israel educators. In Zakai and Reingold (Eds.), Teaching Israel: Studies of Pedagogy from the Field. Brandeis University Press, 2024.
“What are we Doing?”: The Pedagogical Questions of Jewish Early Childhood Educators and Teacher Educators. (with Sivan Zakai) In S. Zakai and M. Reingold (Eds.) Teaching Israel: Studies of Pedagogy from the Field. Brandeis University Press, 2024.
Learning from Children’s ideas about October 7th and the Israel-Hamas war. Jewish Educational Leadership, Fall 2024. With Sivan Zakai.
A very protected space to play: Jewish early childhood educators discovering Israel. In Tickton Schuster, Portraits of Adult Jewish Learning: Making meaning at many tables, Wipf and Stock, 2022.
“A little bit more far than Mexico”: How 3- and 4-year old Jewish preschool students understand Israel. Journal of Jewish Education 87(1), 4-34, 2021. With Anna Hartman and Sivan Zakai.
“I’m going to Israel and all I need to pack is my imagination”: Pretend trips to Israel in Jewish early childhood education. Journal of Jewish Education, 86(1), 2020. With Sivan Zakai.
“Dwelling in the Space Between.” Scriptions: Jewish Responses in a Time of COVID, 2020. With Sivan Zakai.
When we agree and when we argue: How does dialogue deepen learning among colleagues? HaYidion, Summer 2019.
Ed.D., Jewish Theological Seminary
Ed.M., Teaching and Learning, Harvard University Graduate School of Education
Bachelor of Arts in English, Religion, Williams College
Affiliated Research Scholar, Brandeis University Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education