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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
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. Participants will practice this skill in conversation with one another across some lines of politica...
Ancient & Modern: Notating Minhag AngliaPresenter: Dr. Danielle Padley
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The British custom of Jewish worship (known as "minhag Anglia") has been interpreted in multiple different ways. Said to have developed with the Chief Rabbis Nathan Marcus Adler and Herman Adler during the mid-to-late nineteenth century, th...
Times and details to be provided soon! June 27-30, 2021 with the ACC Plenary concluding the session on Wednesday, June 30.
ACC-GTM Mission to Israel
Tentative Dates are June 27-July 5, 2022
Want to create your own virtual choir video? This webinar is for ACC Members who have a relatively new Mac, Final Cut Pro and recording software (Logic Pro X recommended). We will go through the basic steps of creating a virtual choir video with Q&A at the end.
Talk on Singing Risks and Mitigation With Dr. Ed Septimus. Dr. Septimus can be reached via email here.
This session is open to members in good standing of the ACC and GTM.
Cantor Michael Shochet explains this technology to help make your Zoom services and programs with music more successful.
The time to get started on making virtual choir videos for the High Holidays is RIGHT NOW! Judy Adelman Gershon and David Gershon will walk us through the steps of making physically-distanced videos for choirs and other ensembles.
Hosted by David Shukiar. Presented by Joe Eglash and Cantor Leigh Korn
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