Sarah Shulkind

Dr. Shulkind is the Head of School at Milken Community School in Los Angeles, a nationally recognized independent Jewish community school with over 750 students in Grades 6-12. Before assuming her current position at Milken in 2019, Dr. Shulkind served as the Head of School at Sinai Akiba Academy for seven years and was the Middle School Director at Milken prior to that. She also helped to start Wildwood School’s secondary school campus and worked as a teacher and division leader there for five years. Dr. Shulkind completed her undergraduate work at the University of Pennsylvania, her master’s degree in teaching and curriculum at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education, and her doctoral degree in UCLA’s Educational Leadership Program. She received the National Association of Secondary Schools Dissertation Award for her research on Middle Level Advisory Programs. Dr. Shulkind has presented at local and national conferences on a wide variety of topics, including curricular integration, reading comprehension, student-led conferences, advisory programs, academic achievement, parent education, personalization, differentiation, and service learning. Her published work appears in Education Leadership, Principal Leadership, and The Middle School Journal. She is the incoming president of the Board of Directors of the California Association of Independent Schools (CAIS) and serves on the board of Camp Ramah in Wisconsin as well as on the advisory board of UCLA’s Women’s Executive Leadership Academy. 

Dr. Shulkind and her husband, Andrew, have four adored children, Lucy, Olivia, Sadie, and Curtis Cougar Oscar ’28.