Faculty & Staff
Nili Pearlmutter
Senior Education Specialist
Nili Pearlmutter is a Senior Education Specialist at the Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education at Brandeis University, where she teaches the Fundamentals of Teaching course and serves as director of field experiences for the DeLeT program. Nili has also been a part of the Induction Project team since its inception in 2005 and currently coaches the Lander-Grinspoon Academy in Northampton as part of that project. Nili began working with preservice and novice teachers at the Mandel Center in 2004 and over the years has served as a field instructor for pre-service teachers, taught the Reflective Teaching seminar in the MAT-JDS program, co-facilitated a Beginning Teacher’s study group, and worked with the Induction Project to help schools implement systems and practices that support and develop beginning teachers and make schools good places for all teachers to teach and learn.
Nili holds a Master of Science in Elementary Education from Wheelock College and a B. A. in Psychology from Yale University. She has taught at the elementary level at Cohen Hillel Academy in Marblehead and the Cambridgeport School in Cambridge.