With close to 30 years in education and educational leadership, Jason Ablin has served as a teacher, principal and head of school.  He holds national certification in leadership coaching and mentoring from the National Association of School Principals and has been supporting and mentoring new leaders throughout the country over 10 years. Jason has also developed curriculum and strategic planning to train young and upcoming leaders at all levels of primary and secondary schools in order to ensure excellence in schools and to rethink the development of leadership.

In 2008, in a sabbatical year, he also partnered with top developmental psychology and cognitive neuroscience researchers to bring research findings into the classroom and education. He has written for the prestigious journal, Mind, Brain and Education, about the research findings of Professor Mary Helen Immordino Yang of USC who examined the impact of two boys who received functional hemispherectomies and its impact on their capacity to learn.

As a lecturer at American Jewish University’s programs for teacher training and advanced master’s degrees in education and in school-based teacher workshops, he trains teachers on creating gender aware classrooms and has also taught year-long courses to teams of educators in schools as well as graduate level seminars regarding the relationship between cognitive neuroscience and education. He is also the Director of AJU's Mentor Teacher Training Program.

Jason Ablin now lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two daughters.

Dr. Tamar Andrews has been working in the field of early childhood education for over 30 years. She began her career as a classroom teacher and then moved into early childhood administration working in schools that were affiliated with Reform, Conservative, and Orthodox philosophies, and has served as the early childhood education director at Temple Isaiah in Los Angeles since 2003. As a university professor, Dr. Andrews has taught courses ranging from the theoretical foundations of growth and development to how social policies affect children and their education. As a consultant and trainer, Dr. Andrews has spoken at over 400 conferences and symposia where she has presented on curriculum models, theory and administration issues. A California Mentor Director and international consultant and trainer, she has worked both extensively in California, the United States as well as in countries as far away as Azerbaijan and China. Dr. Andrews was born in Israel and raised in Los Angeles and educated in our Jewish schools. She is married to Edward Andrews and has four grown children and one granddaughter.