Shellie Dickstein

Shellie Dickstein is a recognized national leader in Jewish Early Childhood Education and Family Engagement. She is presently an independent consultant, and mentor in leadership development for the Early Childhood Master’s degree program at AJU. She is also the co- community coordinator for the Long Island, NY cohort of the new Jewish early childhood initiative, ElevatEd.   Shellie was the Managing Director of Early Childhood and Family Engagement for the Jewish Education Project, for over 25 years. She led the strategic agenda to provide leadership development to spark and spread innovative approaches and models in early childhood education for over 250 early childhood centers in the New York metropolitan area, and for community early family engagement initiatives. She has also facilitated workshops and courses on family education and engagement nationally and internationally, including for the  informer Whizen Institute, JDC, URJ, USCJ, The Paradigm Project, and as adjunct faculty for HUC-JIR in New York  Shellie has written and contributed to various articles, blogs and publications on Jewish Family Education including JTS Gleanings; eJewish Philanthropy, and Jewish Family Education: A Casebook for the Twenty-first Century published by Torah Aura.  Shellie and her husband Phlip are proud parents to their three wonderful children and their spouses and they are very happy to spend meaningful time with their four grandchildren.