Meet our Head of School

Sarah Shulkind, EdD, is the Head of School at Milken Community School in Los Angeles, a nationally recognized independent Jewish community School with over 775 students from sixth through twelfth grade. Before coming to Milken in 2019, Sarah served as the Head of School at Sinai Akiba Academy for seven years and served as the Middle School Director at Milken prior to that. Sarah also helped start Wildwood School's secondary campus and worked as a teacher and division leader there for five years. She received the National Association of Secondary Schools Dissertation Award for her research on Middle Level Advisory Programs. Sarah has presented on curricular integration, reading comprehension, student-led conferences, advisory programs, academic achievement, parent education, personalization, differentiation, and service learning in local and national conferences. She has published articles in Education Leadership, Principal Leadership, and The Middle School Journal. Sarah is the President of the CAIS Board of Directors, serves on the Board of Camp Ramah in Wisconsin, and  serves on the Board of Trustees at Curtis School. Sarah and her husband Andrew are the proud parents of four children.