Longtime AARC member, Dr. Marcy Epstein will be serving as our new Beit Sefer Director. (Read more about Marcy and her plans for the 2022-23 school year here.) Marcy has taught English, composition and rhetoric, literature, language arts, and disability studies for over 25 years. She holds a Ph.D. in English Language and Literature with post-doctoral specialization in disability research and rehabilitative psychology After becoming Associate Professor of General & Developmental Education at Baker College in Flint, Michigan, Dr. Epstein served for years as Associate Publisher and Senior Editor of the award-winning Moment Magazine and Center for Creative Change. Currently she teaches in the University of Michigan Comprehensive Studies Program, as well as 826Michigan and FlyArt, two innovative and free writing, art, and problem-solving regional programs for youth.
Aaron Jackson is a passionate and experienced Jewish educator who has worked in the field for the past sixteen years. He strives to make each classroom experience as engaging and fun for students as possible. His interests/hobbies include board games, hiking, record collecting, comics, video games and more. This will be his fifth year teaching for Beit Sefer.
Shani Samuel, a University of Michigan student, will be teaching Hebrew at the Beit Sefer this year. It’s her second year back since she was a madricha (assistant teacher) to the Yeladim class during two of her high school years. Shani strives to make Hebrew learning as active as possible for her students, so that they are truly engaging with the language during lessons.
