Episode 3 features guest Dr. Sharon Blumenthal-Cohen. For 30 years Dr. Blumenthal-Cohen has helped students from grammar school through graduate school appreciate literature, develop their rhetorical and creative writing skills, and better organize and complete tasks. A central goal of her work is empowering clients with strategies they can make use of on their own. In addition to teaching & coaching, she has spent more than 15 years offering professional development to schools & supporting and mentoring teachers in a variety of educational settings.

Episode 2 features guest Antonio Viva, Partner at Leadership + Design. Antonio served as the Executive Director of Artisans Asylum, one of the oldest and largest makerspaces in the United States. Prior to his role at Artisans, Antonio spent 12 years as the Head of School at Walnut Hill School for the Arts in Natick, MA. He is a sought-after speaker addressing topics such as understanding global risks, fostering creativity, design, and effective leadership. Antonio has been featured by numerous regional independent school associations across the United States and works as an executive coach and advisor.

Season 2: Episode 1 features guest Rashi Brashevitzky, Director of Judaic Studies at Strelitz International Academy, to introduce the new Let Grow Experience that SIA will roll out in the next two weeks.

Episode 18 features guest Lenore Skenazy, President and Co-founder of Let Grow. After her newspaper column “Why I Let My 9-Year-Old Ride the Subway Alone” landed her on NPR, Fox News and everywhere in between, Lenore went on to write Free-Range Kids, the book-turned-movement. She has been profiled in The New Yorker, hosted the reality show, “World’s Worst Mom,” and has lectured everywhere from Disney to Microsoft to schools across the country — and the Bulgarian Happiness Festival. Lenore predicts that one day every school will be doing The Let Grow Experience, which she describes as the fastest – and most fun – way to keep childhood anxiety at bay.

Episode 17 features guest Naomi Limor Sedek, President and CEO of the Tidewater Jewish Foundation. Naomi will share her expertise on the power and impact of philanthropy, not only for SIA but the greater community.

Episode 16 features guest Lelia Grinnan, Director of Accreditation, for the Virginia Association of Independent Schools. Ms. Grinnan will share her expertise on private school accreditation, the purpose, process and protocol.

Episode 15 features guest Erica Perl, award winning author of more than forty popular and critically-acclaimed
books for children and teens. Ms. Perl has received fellowships from the Virginia Center on the Creative Arts, the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, the Yiddish Book Center, and PJ Library.

Episode 14 features guest Burt Segal, licensed Clinical Social Worker, with Fairfield Psychological Associates. Burt shares his expertise related to Co-Parenting Dynamics and strategies to support families through challenging transitions.