K-12 Educators: Join Our Interfaith at Work Cohort
November 30, 2022

Interfaith at Work Cohorts provide a space for members of the Emerging Leaders Network to build relationships with other professionals in your sector who are interested in promoting interfaith cooperation.
Interfaith at Work is a place to be creative and collectively impact your professional sector to be inclusive of the religious diversity that makes our community great.
All members of the Emerging Leaders Network are welcome to join a cohort focused on the professional sector that you work in or hope to work in the future. As a part of the cohort, you will have access to virtual group sessions three times a year, funding support to attend annual in-person convenings with fellow members of the network at a professional conference or professional development opportunities such as the Conference on Medicine and Religion, and one-on-one coaching with a cohort lead. You will also have access to networking with dozens of interfaith leaders in your specific professional sector.
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Join us on December 7
Are you a K-12 educator?
The Interfaith Education Cohort’s next event will be on December 7 from 6-7 p.m. Central. The focus of this gathering will be “Interfaith within your education expertise” and current Emerging Leaders can invite guests as well.
In our session we will:
- DEVELOP models of what interfaith action and education can look like within your classroom and larger school community.
- LEARN how to integrate interfaith education in your curriculum, content area, and across grade levels.
- WORKSHOP new ideas for interfaith events and learn strategies to overcome common obstacles.
The Interfaith Education Cohort is a community of teachers, principals, counselors, curriculum writers, and other education professionals dedicated to interfaith action. We provide a place for education leaders to collaborate, build interfaith awareness and literacy within their school communities, and develop an interfaith lens within their grade level, content area, and education expertise.
Matthew Segil and Melanie Young co-lead the primary and secondary education cohort. Matthew was a middle school math and science educator in Massachusetts for over four years. During his time as a teacher, he hosted interfaith dinners for his fellow educators centered around the Jewish practice of Shabbat to build an inclusive community focused on education, joy, and cultural exchange. Melanie, a Philadelphia based educator, is the founder of Infinite Mind Tutors and Math Girl Movement. Before launching Infinite Mind Tutors, Melanie was a teacher and tutor working in Philadelphia’s public schools for over nine years. During this time, she coached two NBA Math Hoops National Championship participants and was awarded the Sixers Youth Foundation Game Changer Award in 2018 and the University of Pennsylvania Woman of Color Award in 2014.
Interfaith Education Cohort