ACC-CA-GTM Midwinter Retreat
Palm Springs, CA
Details coming soon!
Professional Development
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Great cantors never stop learning. There are always more skills to master, more questions to ask, more scholarship to digest, more melodies to sing! The ACC seeks to engage our members in the continual process of improving ourselves and our craft through a comprehensive program of professional development – and that program is centered here.
CLASSES AND SEMINARS
January 25, 2022: 12:30pm - 2:00pm - 2:00pm
Save the dates for this four-part program
January 25, February 8, February 22, and March 8, 2022
12:30 p.m. to 2 p.m. EST
Moral Voices: Enabling white clergy to acknowledge their positional power and use their moral voices to address oppression inside our Jewish communities
For those of us who are white Jews, the deep...
February 22, 2022: 12:30pm - 2:00pm - 2:00pm
Save the dates for this four-part program
January 25, February 8, February 22, and March 8, 2022
12:30 p.m. to 2 p.m. EST
Moral Voices: Enabling white clergy to acknowledge their positional power and use their moral voices to address oppression inside our Jewish communities
For those of us who are white Jews, the deep...
March 8, 2022: 12:30pm - 2:00pm - 2:00pm
Save the dates for this four-part program
January 25, February 8, February 22, and March 8, 2022
12:30 p.m. to 2 p.m. EST
Moral Voices: Enabling white clergy to acknowledge their positional power and use their moral voices to address oppression inside our Jewish communities
For those of us who are white Jews, the deep...
June 7, 2022 - June 8, 2022
Convention Programming
We are excited to announce that we are planning an ACC-GTM summer gathering for June 7-8, 2022.
The ACC leadership team who spent time at the end of the 2021 Plenary discussing future gatherings heard your feedback that you want to be together! While we are committed to finding ways to strengthen our regional connections, you were clear t...
June 26, 2023 - June 28, 2023
Rancho Bernardo Inn, San Diego, CA: June 26-28, 2023 (ACC Board Meeting on June 29, 2023)
Covid-19 Vaccinations: Understanding the Legal Concerns and Best Practices for Community Outreach
While guidance is ever-changing, we are sharing information on the latest guidance for gatherings. We will review what we know now and how to take the best practices of infectious disease control and safety measures and put it into practice so we can once again gather and sing together safely.
How can we provide multi-access worship and communal gathering as we head into another season of complicated and ever-changing modalities of synagogue living? In what ways can we shift our thinking about space and time to be equipped to plan holistically for the many choices ahead?
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This workshop is a crash course in Sibelius with a focus on creating lead sheets. We’ll cover setting up new scores, basic note entry, and adding lyrics and chords.
This workshop is a crash course in Sibelius with a focus on creating lead sheets. We’ll cover setting up new scores, basic note entry, and adding lyrics and chords.
Join us for A Taste of Resetting the Table, with Eyal Rabinovitch: We will introduce participants to a few core principles and one key skill to support conversations across political divides/disagreements, especially on contentious issues.
Ma'alot Limmud: Professional Development Recognition
The ACC recognizes its members who engage in continuing study. You will get credit for what you are already doing by simply letting us know!
External Resources
Grow Jewishly
Institute for Jewish Spirituality
Hebrew College – Online Master of Arts in Jewish Studies Program
The Davvenen' Leadership Training Institute
HUC-JIR AlumniLearn (not restricted to alumni of HUC-JIR)
HUC-JIR eLearning
HUC-JIR Symposium
Grow Musically
The North American Jewish Choral Festival
Songleader Boot Camp
Hava Nashira
Westminster Choir College Conducting Institute
Grow Pastorally
The Association for Clinical Pastoral Education
Neshama: Association of Jewish Chaplains (NAJC)
Grow Professionally
American Jewish University – Rabbinical Management Institute
Grow Pedagogically
Melton Centre for Jewish Education at Hebrew University – One Year MA in Jewish Education
Boston Hebrew College – Online MA in Jewish Education