Dr. Lisa Dack

Vice President, Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Education, UJA Federation of Greater Toronto

Dr. Lisa Dack is Vice President, Education, Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Education, at UJA Federation of Greater Toronto. Her focus is on building capacity in Toronto’s Jewish day schools, with a current emphasis on day school affordability, building a teacher and leader pipeline, improving Hebrew proficiency, and planning for day school space. She is also supporting Jewish education and engagement more broadly in the community by, leading the team working on UJA’s strategy to support Jewish students and staff in public schools. Lisa is a faculty member at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto, where she teaches graduate education students. Lisa does extensive research and writing around professional learning, data-based decision making, and educational leadership, and she is the author of two best-selling books in the field.