Join Cantor Erin Frankel, ACC Director of Member Services, and a panel of colleagues who have negotiated their contracts to hear an overview of what goes into these contracts and how some of our colleagues have navigated the process. If you are within 15 years of retirement, you will learn from this session! Contact Erin with any questions, efra...
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
Save the Date: Financial Literacy for Cantors with Cantor Jamie Marx and Cantor Erin Frankel
Come learn about a few key financial literacy topics that are particularly important for cantors. We’ll be focusing primarily on parsonage and how it works; the ACC’s 403(b) Retirement Plan and why it’s so important; and personal debt (including s...
Rancho Bernardo Inn, San Diego, CA: June 26-28, 2023 (ACC Board Meeting on June 29, 2023)
Rancho Bernardo Inn, San Diego, CaliforniaJoin us June 26-28, 2023 for the long-awaited San Diego convention. Relax, heal, learn, engage, and be inspired with colleagues and friends, old and new. Throughout the convention, we will explore the...
CCPD Programming: Mussar Va'ad with Rabbi Eric GurvisDirector of Chaverim & EngagementThe Mussar Institute
Rabbi Eric S. GurvisDirector of Chaverim & EngagementThe Mussar Instituteeric@mussarinstitute.org
CCPD Programming: Introduction to Mussar with Rabbi Eric GurvisDirector of Chaverim & EngagementThe Mussar Institute
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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.
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