Lisa Micley
Silver Academy graduate 1969
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Lisa Isaacman Micley is currently the Program Director of the Online Judaic Studies Consortium (OJSC). She has been in the field of Jewish education for more than forty years. The OJSC is an AVI CHAI funded project which works collaboratively with Jewish day schools across North America to build and facilitate online Judaic studies courses for students in Grades 8-12. Lisa would be delighted to welcome students and teachers from the Silver Academy into the OJSC. Please be in touch with her if you would like to learn more about this program. (lmicley@vhslearning.org)
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Lisa has visited Silver Academy since her graduation several times in various Jewish education roles. She enjoyed seeing the students studying Hebrew using the Tal AM program on a visit several years ago to the school. Many things looked the same to her and many things have changed since her graduation from the Yeshiva Academy in 1970.
After graduation from YA, Lisa attended William Penn High School for one year and then Susquehanna Township High School. She studied at Columbia University and the Jewish Theological Seminary and did a master’s in education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Lisa taught Talmud and worked with teachers in a pedagogic center at the Solomon Schechter School of Greater Boston for 28 years.
Lisa lives in Newton Center, MA, where she raised three sons, Jeremy, David and Joshua, with her husband, Bruce. All of her sons are grown and doing interesting things. Jeremy is in the start-up world, David directs the Tamid Summer Fellowship in Israel and Joshua teaches history in a high school in Brooklyn.
Lisa has many favorite Silver Academy memories. Most of them center on the wonderful teachers she had at the school, who may have been the reason she chose to make a career in Jewish education. Pictures of Miss Koplovitz reading Bambi to the class in second grade Mar Dimant drilling her in dikduk at his home on Shabbat afternoon, Rabbi Shlomo Stein teaching with one foot on a chair and one on the ground, Rabbi Goldberg in his Sukkah, Mrs. Schapira correcting her grammar, Mrs. Hoffman helping her learn more about the world around her come to mind. These are just a few of the wonderful teachers who served as mentors and role models during Lisa’s time in the school.
After graduation from YA, Lisa attended William Penn High School for one year and then Susquehanna Township High School. She studied at Columbia University and the Jewish Theological Seminary and did a master’s in education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Lisa taught Talmud and worked with teachers in a pedagogic center at the Solomon Schechter School of Greater Boston for 28 years.
Lisa lives in Newton Center, MA, where she raised three sons, Jeremy, David and Joshua, with her husband, Bruce. All of her sons are grown and doing interesting things. Jeremy is in the start-up world, David directs the Tamid Summer Fellowship in Israel and Joshua teaches history in a high school in Brooklyn.
Lisa has many favorite Silver Academy memories. Most of them center on the wonderful teachers she had at the school, who may have been the reason she chose to make a career in Jewish education. Pictures of Miss Koplovitz reading Bambi to the class in second grade Mar Dimant drilling her in dikduk at his home on Shabbat afternoon, Rabbi Shlomo Stein teaching with one foot on a chair and one on the ground, Rabbi Goldberg in his Sukkah, Mrs. Schapira correcting her grammar, Mrs. Hoffman helping her learn more about the world around her come to mind. These are just a few of the wonderful teachers who served as mentors and role models during Lisa’s time in the school.
