Tal is the former Vice President and Day School Education Specialist of the Center for Israel Education (CIE), with over 30 years of experience in the field of education. Today, she heads TGDConsulting LLC and serves as a consultant for special projects at CIE. In July 2011, she became the Elementary School Principal of the Epstein School in Atlanta, GA. She earned her doctorate from Capella University in 2011 in Curriculum and Instruction, an M.Ed. in Educational Leadership and Administration from the University of Portland in 2006 with honors, a Bachelors of Education in the Advanced Teaching Certification Program focusing on English as second language at Beit Berl Teacher Education College, Kfar Saba, Israel from 1997-1999, and a B.A. from Boston University in 1995. She is certified in differentiated instruction and in Talented and Gifted education (TAG).

In 2005, she came from the Portland Hebrew Academy to join the Emory University Institute for the Study of Modern Israel as the senior research associate and curriculum designer. From 2005 to the present, Tal has led and conducted the content and pedagogy portions of the ISMI/CIE one-week Israel Education Teacher Workshops.  While principal of The Epstein School, she started several Israel-related initiatives to train teachers locally and from the University of Haifa.

Tal also worked in Israeli high schools, specializing in matriculating at-risk teens, and training and mentoring teachers from Beit Berl College.  She has also worked in multiple congregation schools in Portland, OR teaching Judaics and Hebrew, and guiding administration on best practices.  She provided professional development to Portland Public Schools in the area of curriculum mapping and curriculum design.