The Jewish Educator Portal

At the onset of the Corona pandemic, the Jewish Education Project – which serves Jewish educators through resources and professional development – found that educators were struggling to find the resources that they needed. Like other organizations, its entire portfolio of opportunities for educators was moving from in-person to online. This disruption fast-tracked a project idea that had been brewing for some time: a user-driven centralized repository – a “portal” – for resources and opportunities for Jewish educators.

The chief design challenge was to make it easy for users to find the content that they were looking for among hundreds of individual resources, and at the same time, entice them to join the community of educators in sharing and discussing resources and their uses. The site allows users to upload their own resources to share, join networks of like-minded professionals, and register and pay for online opportunities for professional development. Admins of the site can curate collections of content, such as thematic materials, podcasts, or webinar series, to present to users for specific campaigns.