2015 najdsc program

MARCH 8-10, 2015 | 17-19 ADAR 5775 | PHILADELPHIA, PA

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SUNDAY PAGE

1 pm – 2:30 pm Opening & Finding True Leverage: Ballroom 7 Unlocking Systems Intelligence

2:30 pm Minchah Mechitzah Minyan – JW Room

Conservative Egalitarian Minyan – Room 415

3 pm – 6 pm Constellation 1 14-19

6 pm Ma’ariv JW Room

6:45 pm Dinner Ballroom

Receptions 43

MONDAY

7 am Shacharit Mechitzah Minyan – JW Room


Reform Minyan – Salon J

7 am – 9 am Breakfast by Network PARDES – Salon J

RAVSAK – Salon H

SCHECHTER/Jewish Montessori – Salon L

YUSP - Salon G

9:15 am – 12:15 pm Constellation 2 20-27

12:15 pm – 1:15 pm Lunch Ballroom

1:15 pm – 2:30 pm The Jewish Advantage: Our Legacy Methodology Ballroom 7

2:30 pm Minchah Mechitzah Minyan – JW Room


3 pm – 6 pm Constellation 3 28-33

6 pm Ma’ariv JW Room

6:45 pm Dinner Ballroom

Receptions 43

TUESDAY

7 am Shacharit Mechitzah Minyan – JW Room


Reform Minyan – Room 415

7:45 am – 8:30 am Breakfast Ballroom

8:30 am – 9:15 am On the Road to the Future of Education Ballroom 7

9:30 am – 12:30 pm Constellation 4 34-39

12:45 pm – 1:15 pm Closing: Prepare for Reentry Ballroom 7

1:15 pm – 2:00 pm Lunch Ballroom

SEE PHILADELPHIA MARRIOTT DOWNTOWN FLOOR PLAN ON PAGE 45

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MARCH 8, 2015 17 ADAR 5775

Bruchim Ha-ba’im- Shalom!Welcome to the fifth North American Jewish Day School Conference, a partnership of PARDES, PEJE, RAVSAK,SCHECHTER, and YUSP. We are proud to bring you UNCOMMON CONNECTIONS, a conference devoted to unleashing thepower of the multiple systems that comprise our Jewish day schools. During the next three days, we will celebratethe contributions every member of your school makes and learn to maximize their impact, from the classroom to theboardroom, from the teacher’s lounge to the parents on the carpool line, from inside the building to the communitythat you serve.

Please use your time here to absorb as much knowledge and as many new ideas as you can. Connect with colleaguesold and new, ask questions, challenge assumptions, and take new perspectives. We know you will return to yourschools with concrete ideas for effective, long-term change. The conference offers countless opportunities toengage with those ideas and think about how they can apply to your school.

People process information in many different ways; in response, we designed workshops, sessions, and other opportunities to meet the needs of multiple learning styles and preferences. We are also thrilled to introduce threefirst-ever endeavors for this conference, all of which exemplify different types of learning. First, in recognition ofwhat lies at the center of our lives as Jews and what motivates us as both professional and lay day school leaders,we are offering ongoing opportunities for Torah study. Visit the Beit Midrash during any learning constellation tolearn with and from your peers. Second, to expand our educational experience beyond the walls of this conference,we have offered excursions to some of Philadelphia’s finest educational and cultural institutions. Finally, we areproud to have a track designed for small schools and small communities. We are grateful to JFNA for their supportand sponsorship.

Being at the conference demonstrates your commitment to providing the very best Jewish and general education to thenext generation. We are so pleased to be together as a field where the diversity of our experiences, melded with thecommonalities of our situations, helps to nurture the best of what the system of our Jewish day schools has to offer.

Please make the most of the uncommon connections you can create with the diverse array of professionals and layleaders gathered here. NAJDSC offers you the time and space to have the conversations you have been meaning tohave, and even some you didn’t yet know you needed.

So go forth and learn, connect, and contribute to the conversation. We hope you find UNCOMMON CONNECTIONSeducational, stimulating, thought-provoking, and inspiring. We are glad you are here and look forward to all the nextthree days offer.

A heartfelt thank you to our key sponsors and partners, The AVI CHAI Foundation and The Kohelet Foundation.

Dr. Jane West Walsh, PARDESAmy Katz, PEJEDr. Marc Kramer, RAVSAKDr. Jon Mitzmacher, SCHECHTERJane Taubenfeld Cohen, YUSP

W E L C O M E LETTER

COMMON EXPERIENCES

The conference begins and ends with us all together. At 1 pm Sunday, we launch our themeby beginning to make our JDS system visible inall of its parts and interconnections, and bylearning from Dr. Bill Isaacs, a systems intelligence expert from outside of our JDS domain, about how we can each find the leveragewithin a system to get the results we want.

Sunday night’s smorgasbord dinner provides a great selection of foods to try and a great selection of folks with whom to network.

After lunch together on Monday, we engage inJewish learning with dynamic teachers RabbiDavid Lapin, Ashira Lapin Gobrin, and Bruria LapinMartin, who help us deepen the connection of ourancient learning traditions with the educationaloutcomes we want for our students today. Wecome together once again after a rich day oflearning for a seated dinner in the Grand Ballroom.

Tuesday morning after sharing breakfast together,we hear from Grant Lichtman, an educator withexperience in the independent and public schoolworlds who uses a systems view to discernpossibility in the future of education.

We again gather together to close our conferenceby consolidating our learning and extending itinto next steps to take once we return to ourschool community.

See page 7 for details.

CONSTELLATIONS OF LEARNING

In between our common experiences, we havedesigned four Constellations of Learning. Withineach, choose from a variety of learning opportunitiesto suit your interests and learning preferences.You can use each three-hour Constellation tobest support your learning goals for this year’sconference, deepening your understanding of theconference theme of system intelligence, stimu-lating and refreshing yourself, and developingspecific strategies and resources for improvingyour work on behalf of your school. Pages 14-39support you in choosing your own learning adventure.

You can choose among any of the following Constellation options in each of the four Constellations. You schedule your own timewithin each Constellation and across all four to include as many or as few of the options asyou wish. Only the excursions require advancesignup, as they are space-limited and requiretransportation arrangements. Please note thatexcursions and Open Space sessions are notavailable in all Constellations (see schedule).

3-HOUR INTENSIVES

These are sessions that run the three full hoursof a Constellation. Intensives are an opportunity todelve deeply into one topic with other participantswho are choosing exploration into many facets ofthis one topic over broader, more varied learning.There will usually be four different intensives tochoose from in each Constellation.

80-MINUTE SESSIONS

During each Constellation you can attend two 80-minute sessions, with a choice of five to seventaking place concurrently. Among Constellation learning options, these are most similar to concurrent sessions at traditional conferences,involving a mix of presentation and hands-on orsmall group work on a specific topic chosen bythe presenter.

45-MINUTE SESSIONS

Three of these shorter sessions fit into eachConstellation, with two choices offered simulta-neously. These sessions offer a tighter focus ontheir topic, typically a presentation followed bysome Q and A. Some provide an overview that canserve as a good introduction to those unfamiliarwith the topic or to those wanting a quick reviewof some basics. Others offer a chance to go deepinto one aspect of a larger topic. Additionally, youmight hear an example of one particular way achallenge was addressed, a kind of case example.

4 O P P O R T U N I T I E S TO LEARN

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We are excited to offer NAJDSC 2015 participants the opportunity tocreate their own learning journey through this year’s conference. Our time together will be spent in Common Experiences, and in Constellations of Learning in which participants choose their ownpathway. We invite you to take what you learn in the Common Experiences to your particular journey through the Constellationsand, both together, to your team and back to your school.

SET-YOUR-OWN-AGENDA SESSIONS

During one 80-minute time block in some Constellations, experienced facilitators guideparticipants in setting up their own conversationsaround overarching topics of strategic importance.The topics have been chosen from those identifiedby the field in our Save-the-Date conference survey last summer. This is an opportunity for youto invite your conference colleagues to discuss asubject or question not addressed in other sessions.To add one of these sessions to your learningjourney, look for the words “Open Space” in thesession title.

Another way to invite interested colleagues to aconversation of your choosing is to post it on theWhite Board in the Playground. Be sure to specifya meeting time and place for the conversationand remember the principle of open space: Whoever come are the right people. Feel free toset up such conversations at any time during theconference. Also visit the White Board to look fora conversation in which you would like to take part.

UNCOMMON CONVERSATIONS

The face-to-face gathering of several hundredleaders and supporters of Jewish day school education offers, we think, a too-good-to-missopportunity for those who wish to imagine newpossibilities and new ways of thinking aboutperennial challenges to do so through real-timeinteraction. The emphasis here is on letting go ofassumptions and preconceptions to let newthinking emerge. These sessions are not aboutlearning what is working from those who havehad success or about learning solutions from experts; they are about opening yourself up tonew and heretofore unknown possibility, likelyresulting in a shift in your own thinking or perspective and generating new, emergentknowledge or pathways to new knowledge andpractice for the field. If you are up for a systematicand no-holds-barred, unapologetic unraveling ofall of the major assumptions that people currentlytake for granted, these conversations are foryou! We are scheduling at least 90 minutes forthese conversations, though we imagine somemay run for two hours.

THE BEIT MIDRASH

Enacting the value of Jewish learning that iscentral to our identity as Jews and to the identityof our Jewish day schools, we are dedicating aspace at the conference for Torah study, mostbroadly construed. Open throughout the Constellations for independent or small groupstudy, our Beit Midrash–literally “house of study” –also is the site for structured learning with talentedteachers from our Jewish Day School field.Three 45-minute opportunities to study a widerange of Jewish learning topics and texts havebeen planned for each Constellation.


THE PLAYGROUND

The Playground is open during each Constellation.The amazing learning spaces there – Campfire,Cave, Watering Hole, and Life – are designed byFielding Nair, architects of creative learningspaces the world over. In these spaces, you willfind a place to play with a variety of hands-onmaterials and experiences from cardboard todigital materials, from writers’ workshop to blendedlearning. Some stations are “up” throughout thePlayground; others are scheduled for specifictimes. See the posting at the Playground and online for this schedule. At the Watering Hole aresnacks and beverages as well as comfortablechairs arranged for your relaxation and conver-sational pleasure. Intrigued? Learn more aboutCampfire and Cave, Watering Hole and Life at theThornburg Center for Professional Development(www.tcpd.org) and be sure to include time in thePlayground in your conference learning journey.


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SMALL SCHOOLS

Uncommon Connections: Schools, Systems, andSuccess features a track specifically designed tomeet the needs of small schools in small communities.These sessions and networking opportunitiesare indicated as [SMALL SCHOOLS] in your program book and were designed based on feedback from small schools and developed with their needs in mind.

We are grateful to JFNA for their partnershipand sponsorship of a subsidy for pairs of Federation and day school leaders from thesesmall communities to attend the conference together in order to maximize the learning andnetworking impact.

Each of the five planning organizations hasdemonstrated its commitment to meeting theneeds of small schools through ensuring thatsmall schools are on the map of this nationalgathering. We are working together to respondto the unique challenges and opportunities oursmall schools are facing. While these sessionswere developed with the unique needs of smallschools in mind, all who are interested are invited to attend.

EXCURSIONS

The Jewish day school system includes institutionalpartners beyond the walls of each school. Amongthose that provide models and resources for staff,faculty, and students are a variety of academic,research, and educational institutions. Whathappens when Jewish day schools foster systemsintelligence through collaboration with such institutions, locally or across the world? Duringsome Constellations, you have an opportunity togo beyond the walls of the hotel to engage in experiential learning with world-class educatorsserving Philadelphia-based educational institutionswith an international footprint. Each excursionwill begin by framing your visit as a schoolleader with questions to ponder. Go to www.jewishdayschoolconference.org/excursionsto check for availablity.


Eric Petersiel [email protected]

Jodi May [email protected]

Rabbi Micah Lapidus, [email protected] Past President

Bill [email protected] Past Chair

MEMBER SCHOOLS:

In North America

The Leo Baeck Day SchoolBeth Am Day SchoolBeth Hillel Day SchoolThe Alfred and Adele Davis

AcademyTemple Emanuel Academy

Day SchoolJacobson Sinai Academy at

Temple Sinai of North DadePardes Jewish Day SchoolThe Rashi SchoolRodeph Sholom Day SchoolThe Shlenker School Temple Israel of Hollywood

Day SchoolWise School

In Israel

Leo Baeck Education Center

ASSOCIATE MEMBERS:

Brawerman Elementary SchoolBeth Emet Elementary School

PARDESDay Schools of Reform Judaism

SUNDAY, MARCH 8 – 1 PM-2:30 PM

Finding True Leverage: Unlocking Systems Intelligence

Dr. William Isaacs, Founder and President, DialogosToday we live at the intersection of complex and highly responsive ecosystems.Wrong moves can swiftly trigger negative responses, and creative moves can just asswiftly reap great rewards. The quality of our actions–individual and institutional–have impact, whether we are aware of it or not. The leverage points for impactingsystems emerge as we listen to and understand the story of the whole system ofwhich we are a part, and as we learn to change the tone, or state, out of which we act.

MONDAY, MARCH 9 – 1:15 PM-2:30 PM

The Jewish Advantage: Our Legacy Methodology

Rabbi David Lapin, CEO, Lapin Consulting International

Ashira Lapin Gobrin, SVP, Corporate Operations, Vision Critical

Bruria Lapin Martin, Consultant, Lapin Consulting International

Counterintuitively, the Talmud is modern! It is a linear text, filled with law, philosophy, and history thatalso contains hyperlinks and patterns throughout: a 1,500-year-old version of Wikipedia. Explore to-gether the talmudic methodology prized by our intellectual tradition and developed over two millen-nia. Through an introduction to the method and a text, independent study, and an interactivepresentation, discover how the Talmud is not only relevant, it is the tool most needed by both educa-tors and students for the modern age. See the interdisciplinary critical thinking, close reading, andadventure of Talmud study, independent of religious belief, observance, or prior experience.

TUESDAY, MARCH 10 – 8:30 AM-9:15 AM

On The Road to the Future of Education

Grant Lichtman, Author, #EdJourney: A Roadmap to the Future of Education andThe Falconer: What We Wish We Had Learned in School

The rate of change in the world demands that we re-imagine and restructure thefoundational learning relationship between students, teachers and knowledge. Schoolorganizations that successfully innovate to meet this challenge build all-school cultures

and systems that align their precious resources of time, people, space, and money with a forward-leaning vision that differentiates their school in an increasingly fluid education marketplace. Theystrategically reimagine the traditional elements of "school" along two major axes: the core elementsof great learning and the organizational elements of a school system. As schools seek to maintainrelevancy in a rapidly changing world, we must challenge ourselves to ask foundational questions thatwill differentiate “good” from “great,” and “comfortable” from “leading.”

TUESDAY, MARCH 10 – 12:45 PM-1:15 PM

Closing: Prepare for ReentryLet’s enhance our capacity to bring our conference learning home by joining our fellow participants togive voice to the sense we each have made here; to the outcomes “right now” of our personal journeys;and to the questions and conversations we wish to pursue. Pause, before we go home, to take a look,together, at our Jewish day school system now–now, post-conference, with the benefit of new systemsthinking tools and dispositions, new learning, new collaborations, and leaders, refreshed and inspired,who have found a new sense of their place and what is possible within that system.

C O MM O N E X P E R I E N C E S -SPEAKERS 7( )

These presentations are in the Grand Ballroom.

T H A N KYOUWe extend our heartfelt gratitude to our conference planning committees for their workin bringing the NAJDSC from a vision to reality.

COMMUNICATIONS TEAMJim BlanksteinIlisa CappellRobin FeldmanElliott Rabin, PhDDonna Von Samek

LEADERSHIP TEAMIlisa CappellJane Taubenfeld CohenDr. Idana GoldbergAmy KatzDr. Jane West Walsh

OPENING VIDEO TEAMJim BlanksteinShira Heller

OPERATIONS TEAMSharon EaganRobin FeldmanShira Zamir

PROGRAM TEAMIlisa CappellSharon HaselkornShira HellerSusan KardosDina RabhanElliott Rabin, PhDDevra Weiss

Thank you to Maxwell Guberman for the creation of our “Right Now” opening video. [email protected]

Design: Denise Sternburg/[email protected]

Strengthening the Sustainability and A�ordability of

Jewish Day Schools for 18 Years

200+Number of schools we

have worked with over the past ten years

65# of schools wehelped establish 59,396

coaching hours to the field

helped JDS to raise

$36+millionin endowment funds

9,492Number of JDS professionals

and volunteers whohave attended our events

18 years

of service

National Revenue Programs, Dedicated to Strengthening Your School’s Future With matching enrollment funds from The AVI CHAI Foundation, each program focuses on a key revenue

stream. PEJE's proven system of delivering knowledge, providing coaching, and o&ering dedicated programsupport makes your school’s participation one of the best investments a school can make.

ATIDENU GOVERNANCE & GENERATIONS (RECRUITMENT FUNDRAISING (ENDOWMENT) AND RETENTION) ACADEMY

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SUNDAY, MARCH 8

3:00 pm-3:45 pmMultiple Intelligences in the HaggadahDebbie Bornstein, Coordinator of ExperientialJewish Learning, Atlanta Jewish Academy

What are the four sons really asking? What answers are we truly giving them? Explore thesons through the text of the Haggadah. Each oneof the sons symbolizes a different personality;which one/s are you? People of all levels welcome.

4:20 pm-5:05 pmCourtroom Dramas: What Can the Talmud Teach Us?Rabbi Joseph Schreiber, Principal of JudaicStudies, YULA Boys High School

Study the concept of פטור בדיני אדם וחייב בדיני שמים,one who is exempt in human court, yet obligatedin Heavenly court. What is an example of thisconcept? What is its relevance and what mightbe an application? This study is appropriate forthose with a working knowledge of Hebrew andsome experience with talmudic texts and the talmudic process.

5:15 pm-6:00 pmThe Unspoken Connection Between the Deathsand Lives of Biblical Leaders Rabbi Eric Grossman, Head of School, Frankel Jewish Academy

Study texts describing the deaths of biblical figures as clues to understanding their lives asleaders. Explore various modalities of biblicalleadership to provide a paradigm for understandingleadership models for the contemporary Jewishworld. People of all levels welcome.

MONDAY, MARCH 9

9:15 am-10:00 amEssential Small Systems and Their ImpactDr. Susie Tanchel, Head of School, JCDS,Boston's Jewish Community Day School

Our shared ancient texts have modern resonance.Through exploring select biblical and talmudictexts, we discern learnings for how to improveour school's smallest systems: a team or aclassroom. This session is appropriate for anyone who believes our sacred texts can support multiple interpretations; people of alllevels welcome.

10:35 am-11:20 amAbraham and Moses: System Disrupters Tikvah Wiener, Co-Founder and Director,IDEASchools Network; Chief Academic OfficerMagen David Yeshivah High School

Explore the way Abraham and Moses were systemsdisrupters who approached their civilizationswith ideas that challenged the status quo. Peopleof all levels welcome.

11:30 am-12:15 pmJewish Sources and Contemporary Fundraising:Exploring the ConnectionRabbi Yossi Prager, Executive Director, The AVI CHAI Foundation

Investigate how Jewish sources inform contemporaryfundraising. To what degree does our traditionembrace giving for selfish reasons? Do thesources encourage or discourage fundraising byappealing to the human desire for recognitionand kavod? This study is appropriate for participantsof all levels with diverse Jewish educationalbackgrounds who are interested in consideringthe application of Jewish values to the moderncontext.

3:00 pm-3:45 pmThe Amidah:The Central Pillar of Jewish LiturgyDr. Shimshon Hammerman, Director, Formal Education Department, Bronfman Jewish Education Centre

Who wrote the Amidah? When was it written?Why was it written? Does it have a central theme?Is there a Babylonian and an Israeli version? Ifthere are 19 brachot, why do we call it ShmonehEsreh, and which is the 19th brachah? Attempt tofind answers using sources from the Mishnah,the Talmud, research literature and from withinthe Amidah itself. People of all levels welcome.

4:20 pm-5:05 pmWhat Does the Talmud Say About How TeachersCan Influence Students?Rabbi Dr. Mitchel Malkus, Head of School, Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School

Study a talmudic text that raises profound questions about the impact teachers can makeon students. Bring your excitement for learningand discussing. People of all levels welcome.

5:15 pm-6:00 pmLev: Out of Our Heads and Into Our HeartsRachel Lewin, Head of School, Temple Israel of Hollywood Day School

We cultivate our ability to be in the present moment,increasing our capacity to function in a variety ofrelationships and to perform as a collective.Through experiential secular mindfulness practicesand facilitated conversations, we notice thosequalities which enable us to function holisticallyand effectively within systems. People of all levelswelcome.

TUESDAY, MARCH 10

9:30 am-10:15 amBlessing Our Work: The Message of "Ko Tivarchu" for Jewish EducatorsAmy Katz, Executive Director, PEJE

Blessings are central in Jewish observance. Wemake blessings upon awakening, blessings uponseeing a rainbow, blessings before and after eating, blessings that precede Torah study. Butwhat blessing might we make upon embarking onthe important work of educating Jewish children?An unlikely source provides a possible answer,suggesting that there are three critical elementsin Jewish educational leadership. Familiaritywith Torah texts preferred; Hebrew knowledgehelpful but not necessary.

10:30 am-11:35 amModern? Or Orthodox?Rabbi Yaakov Green, Head of School, Epstein Hebrew Academy

Delve into the identity struggle of the Jewishpeople, of our denominations and movements, ofour schools, and of our very own familes. Tracethis vital debate through the pages of history, bothancient and modern, and discuss the implicationsfor the Jewish future and the future of the field ofJewish education. People of all levels welcome.

11:45 am-12:30 pmIndigo Children and the Art of DreamTendingSamuel Klein, Lead Project Educator, Re-Imagining Jewish Education Through Art

Discover uncommon connections between CarlRogers, Julie Cameron and Joseph, a dreamersome found precocious and others found unnerving.We study the story of Joseph as a pathway intoexploring how we address the needs of those whodo not readily fit in to the classroom. How do wenurture their dreams? People of all levels welcome.

B E I T MIDRASH 9( )

Our Beit Midrash is located inRooms 411-412.

P L AY G R O U N D 11( )

✱ WATERING HOLE

Grab a snack and share news of the day at this meet up spot.

■ CAMPFIRE

Craving some instruction, pull up a seat around the fire.

● CAVE

Need a quiet moment to reflect? Step into a cave and away from the hustle bustle.

▲ LIFE

The place to be if you want to try out something you’ve learned about: find a problem – solve a problem – test a solution.

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✱The Playground is located inFranklin 11-13.

MONDAY 9:30 AM-12:30 PM

Science Leadership Academy (SLA)“How do we learn?” “What can we create?”“What does it mean to lead?”

SLA is built on the notion that inquiry is the veryfirst step in the process of learning. Developed inpartnership with The Franklin Institute and itscommitment to inquiry-based science, SLA providesa vigorous, college-preparatory curriculum witha focus on science, technology, mathematics,and entrepreneurship. Students at SLA learn in aproject-based environment where the core valuesof inquiry, research, collaboration, presentation,and reflection are emphasized in all classes.

The NAJDSC excursion to SLA will explore the“uncommon connections” developed and nurturedby SLA through its unique educational philosophyand understanding of its own ecosystem. SLAcharts a new course, exploring what it means tobe a school in the 21st century and engages allstakeholders and perspectives in its system. NAJDSC excursion participants will witness first-hand a school that is engaged with its communityand has designed a program that goes beyondengagement of local resources (The Franklin Institute) and conferences (EdUCon) to fully integrate these resources as an extension of theschool and central to the lives of its students and their families.

Register for a tour, visit classrooms in action,and talk with educators to learn and see how, atSLA, learning is not just something that happensfrom 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., but a continuous processthat expands beyond the four walls of the class-room into every facet of its students' lives.

Science Leadership Academy, 55 North 22ndStreet, Philadelphia, PA 19103www.scienceleadership.org/

Max # of participants: 30Excursion offered again on Tuesday

TUESDAY 9:30 AM-12:30 PM

National Museum of American Jewish History:Jewish Day Schools and the American JewishExperience

Join conference colleagues and friends for thisengaging excursion guided by Ronit Lusky and ateam of educators from the National Museum ofAmerican Jewish History. Starting with a brief introduction at the Marriott, we will walk or taxi tothe museum. Then, using a new program designedfor NAJDS conference participants, in small groups,we will reflect on selected exhibits using additionalsources, texts, and personal stories to consider important contemporary and historical influenceson our schools and communities today.

This is an active learning program that will involvewalking through the museum with limited seatingavailable for the duration of the program. In addition, because of its close proximity, thisgroup will walk to and from the museum fromthe Marriott Hotel, approximately seven blockwalks each way, unless other arrangements arerequested. When you register for this session,please note any accommodations you will need.

Ronit Lusky is the Manager of Education Programsat the National Museum of American Jewish History. Ronit has a long history of work experiencein developing and leading educational programs,including museum-based activities, and hasserved as a lecturer, workshop facilitator, andconsultant over the past years. She obtained herMA degree in Jewish History at the University ofHaifa in Israel, and served as the Director of the TelAviv branch of the Ben-Gurion Heritage [email protected]

National Museum of American Jewish History101 South Independence Mall E, Philadelphia, PA19106, (215) 923-3811, www.nmajh.org

Max # of participants: 30


Rare and Precious Judaica from the Library atthe Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaica

A rare opportunity for NAJDS conference partici-pants to visit the world-famous collection of rareJudaica housed at The Library at the Herbert D.Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at theUniversity of Pennsylvania. Participants will explorethe history of the Jewish book as a material textfrom the origins of writing to contemporary times,including cuneiform tablets dating back 4,500 years,the oldest Haggadah in the world, medieval Hebrew manuscripts, beautifully illuminatedscrolls, and an extraordinary selection of the firstgeneration of printed Hebraica, and importantdocuments representing early American Jewishprinting and culture, including the personal libraryof Isaac Leeser.

If you will need special arrangements for seating,please let us know ahead of time.

Dr. Arthur Kiron is the Schottenstein-JesselsonCurator of Judaica Collections at the Universityof Pennsylvania Libraries and an Adjunct Assis-tant Professor of History at Penn. He overseesmultiple national and international partnershipsto provide integrated online access to significantcollections of Judaica and develops a variety ofpublic programs of education and outreach, suchas exhibitions, publications, lectures, concerts,and workshops. He is the Director of the Jessel-son-Kaplan American Genizah Project and is theeditor of Constellations of Atlantic Jewish His-tory: The Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collectionof Early American Judaica (2014).

University of Pennsylvania, Library at the Her-bert D Katz Center for Advanced Jewish Studies,420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PAwww.cjs.upenn.edu/

Max # of participants: 25


Science Leadership Academy (SLA)“How do we learn?” “What can we create?”“What does it mean to lead?”

Repeat from Monday

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VISIT www.jewishdayschoolconference.org/excursions TO CHECK FOR AVAILABLITY.

All excursions will meet in theJW Room located just above thelobby. Please bring your coats andouterwear with you to breakfast.

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3:00pm 4:00pm 5:00pm 6:00pm

Identity at the Core: Systems and Wholeness – 3 pm-6 pm Franklin 1

The Leadership Partnership: Board President and Head of School Just for You – 3 pm-6 pm Franklin 9-10

A Systems Approach to Prayer Education – 3 pm-6 pm Franklin 8

Teacher Rounds: A Systems Intelligence Approach to Whole School Change – 3 pm-6 pm Franklin 2

Playground – 3 pm-6 pm – Explore. Engage. Discover. Page 11 Franklin 11-13

Uncommon Conversations: Enacting Our Schools’ Jewish Mission – 3 pm-4:30 pm.Franklin 3

Developing 21st Century Learning and Teaching Skills through Online Courses3 pm-4:20 pm Franklin 7

Harnessing the Power of Market Research and Word of Mouth Marketing 3 pm-4:20 pm Room 401

Harnessing the Wisdom of Small Schools and Small Communities – 3 pm-4:20 pm.(SMALL SCHOOLS) – Rooms 407-409

Propelling Day School Boards to the Next Level – 3 pm-4:20 pm Franklin 6

Uncommon Connections, Big Questions: How Research Gets Answers for Your School – 3 pm-4:20 pm Franklin 5

Use Your School’s Jewish Learning to Attract Families & Funders – 3 pm-4:20 pmRoom 413

Want More Income? Build Your Endowment – 3 pm-4:20 pm Franklin 4

7 Things Jewish Day Schools Can Learn From Google – 4:40 pm-6 pm Franklin 6

A DIY Approach to Marketing, Recruitment and Retention(SMALL SCHOOLS) – 4:40 pm-6 pm Room 405

Empowering People for Successful Board Leadership and Transitions 4:40 pm-6 pm Franklin 7

Federation Roundtable (SMALL SCHOOLS) – 4:40 pm-6 pm Room 406

Growing the Teacher Leader: Developing Systems for Teacher Growth Within Your School– 4:40 pm-6 pm Franklin 5

Small Schools and the Multiage Classroom (SMALL SCHOOLS) – 4:40 pm-6 pmRooms 407-409

Successfully Managing Multiple Layers of School Change for Sustainable Impact 4:40 pm-6 pm Room 401

Using System Maps to Diagnose and Resolve Organizational Challenges 4:40 pm-6 pm Room 413

A Whole School Change Model – 4:40 pm-6 pm Franklin 4

Creating an Innovative Culture in a Jewish Day School – 3 pm-3:45 pmRoom 402

Beit Midrash – 3 pm-3:45 pmRooms 411-412 See page 9

Moving from Chaos to Congruence: An Enrollment Management Framework4:20 pm – 5:05 pm Room 402

The Power of Who You Know4:20 pm – 5:05 pm Room 403

Beit Midrash – 4:20 pm – 5:05 pmRooms 411-412 See page 9

A New Approach to Affordability5:15 pm –6 pm Room 403

Systems Intelligence: Game On5:15 pm –6 pm Room 402

Beit Midrash – 5:15 pm –6 pmRooms 411-412 See page 9

SMALL SCHOOL sessions are open to all.

3-HOUR SESSIONS:❏ Identity at the Core: Systems and Wholeness

❏ The Leadership Partnership: Board Presidentand Head of School Just for You

❏ A Systems Approach to Prayer Education

❏ Teacher Rounds: A Systems Intelligence Approach to Whole School Change

90-MINUTE SESSIONS:

3:00 pm – 4:30 pm❏ Uncommon Conversations: Enacting Our

Schools’ Jewish Mission

80-MINUTE SESSIONS:

3:00 pm – 4:20 pm❏ Developing 21st Century Learning and

Teaching Skills through Online Courses

❏ Harnessing the Power of Market Researchand Word of Mouth Marketing

❏ Harnessing the Wisdom of Small Schoolsand Small Communities (SMALL SCHOOLS)

❏ Propelling Day School Boards to the NextLevel

❏ Uncommon Connections, Big Questions: How Research Gets Answers for Your School

❏ Use Your School’s Jewish Learning to AttractFamilies & Funders

❏ Want More Income? Build Your Endowment

4:40 pm – 6:00 pm❏ 7 Things Jewish Day Schools Can Learn

From Google

❏ A DIY Approach to Marketing, Recruitmentand Retention (SMALL SCHOOLS)

❏ Empowering People for Successful BoardLeadership and Transitions

❏ Federation Roundtable (SMALL SCHOOLS)

❏ Growing the Teacher Leader: Developing Systems for Teacher GrowthWithin Your School

❏ Small Schools and the Multiage Classroom(SMALL SCHOOLS)

❏ Successfully Managing Multiple Layers ofSchool Change for Sustainable Impact

❏ Using System Maps to Diagnose and ResolveOrganizational Challenges

❏ A Whole School Change Model

C O N S T E L L AT I O N 1 3 : 00PM-6 : 00PM 15( )

45-MINUTE SESSIONS:

3:00 pm – 3:45 pm❏ Creating an Innovative Culture in a Jewish

Day School

❏ Beit Midrash

4:20 pm – 5:05 pm❏ Moving from Chaos to Congruence:

An Enrollment Management Framework

❏ The Power of Who You Know

❏ Beit Midrash

5:15 pm – 6:00 pm❏ A New Approach to Affordability

❏ Systems Intelligence: Game On

❏ Beit Midrash

SESSIONS BY TIME

SESSIONS IN ALPHA ORDER

3-HOUR SESSIONS

A Systems Approach to Prayer EducationDr. Saul Wachs, Rosaline B. Feinstein Professorof Education and Liturgy, Gratz College

Gain a heightened awareness of the critical importance of prayer experiences of theyoungest grades through older pupils. Reviewyour own goals for a comprehensive prayer program and for providing access to meaningfulprayer experiences. Gain a deeper understandingon how to use staff learning and peer observationto enhance the climate of prayer and prayer education in your school. Also receive model lessons for different age groups.

Identity at the Core: Systems and WholenessDr. William Isaacs, Founder and President, Dialogos

Explore the four thresholds leaders must crossto produce and sustain remarkable results: understanding the disciplines and practices foracting as a system, deepening and enlivening thequality of thinking in themselves and others, intensifying the depth and breadth of the dialogueand spaces for innovation they create, and unveilingthe core of identity that energizes who they areand what they wish to create. Work with yourpractical challenges to begin to apply a set of toolsfor navigating each of these leverage points forchange.

The Leadership Partnership: Board Presidentand Head of School–Just for YouMarcy Balogh, President, Ba-Lo Consulting

Your school is very fortunate to have you as leaders.Individually, you bring incredible strengths toyour respective roles. The future of your schoolrests in your (four) hands. Wouldn’t it be amazingif you could supercharge your partnership to accomplish even greater things? This session focuses on this partnership: your roles (just ashort review), styles (you’ve got style), legacy (articulate your goals), and ways to work (gettingpractical). Board presidents-elect are welcome.

Teacher Rounds: A Systems Intelligence Approach to Whole School ChangeVivian Troen, Director, Power of Teacher Learning

Key to the improvement of instruction is changingschool culture to one of collective learning inwhich all teachers are accountable for teacher

and student growth and achievement. Teacherrounds has proven to be an effective means ofachieving this goal. How does a school develop aprofessional development culture for a robustprogram to thrive? Take away tools and strategiesto bring a mindset of reflective practice and collaborative learning among teachers in orderto improve student performance.

90-MINUTE SESSION

Uncommon Conversations: Enacting Our Schools’ Jewish MissionRabbi Daniel Alter, Head of School, Denver Academy of TorahHadar Dohn, Head of School, Hebrew Day School of Ann ArborDr. Alex Pomson, Director of Research and Evaluation, Rosov ConsultingDr. Mark Smiley, Director of Education, Associated Hebrew Schools of TorontoDr. Jack Wertheimer, Professor and Researcher,The AVI CHAI Foundation

Buffeted by competing needs and shortages ofresources, Jewish day schools face great challengesin sustaining their Jewish mission. Examine howthree schools in a case-study project wrestledwith them. Participants are invited to share storiesthat both align and contradict these real schoolexperiences. Looking for commonalities in schools'experiences, and aiming to uncover the conditionsthat underlie these commonalties, we seek togenerate new and systemic ways of thinkingabout how to confront these pervasive challenges.

80-MINUTE SESSIONS

7 Things Jewish Day Schools Can Learn FromGoogleSimon Brief, Large Customer Sales Lead, Google

Learn about some of the strategic frameworksthat keep Google thinking about big impact, thecultural values that breed success through collaboration and competition, and the “tactical”rewards and policies that help Google motivateits best employees. Explore how some of theseideas might be applicable to Jewish day schools.Walk away with one framework and one practicalidea to bring to your school.

Developing 21st Century Learning and TeachingSkills through Online CoursesLiz Pape, Consultant, Pape ConsultingChana German, Director, Lookstein Virtual Jewish Academy, The Lookstein Center, Bar-Ilan University

Learn why students and teachers need to develop21st century teaching and learning skills, andhow online courses can support that skills development. Discover where to obtain onlinecourses, teaching and program quality indicators,and how to apply those indicators to the develop-ment of a quality 21st century education forteachers and students. The presenters, expertsin online course development and delivery, guideparticipants through the identification of qualityonline courses, with demonstrations of onlinecourse lessons, activities, and discussions.

A DIY Approach to Marketing, Recruitment, andRetentionDr. Harry Bloom, Strategy Manager Day SchoolSustainability, PEJEDr. Jon Mitzmacher, Executive Director,Schechter Day School Network

How can a small school leverage technology and21st century learning to market itself effectively?What tools can small schools employ to ensuremaximum impact with limited financial and personnel resources? Explore how small schoolscan leverage market segmentation, parent ambassadorship, and other tools to effect positive change and growth.[SMALL SCHOOLS]

Empowering People for Successful Board Leadership and TransitionsNanette Fridman, Principal, Fridman Strategies

Empowering people for leadership starts withidentifying and cultivating the best leaders for your organization and designing valuable onboarding and board development trainings.Learn the key components and behaviors of empowered boards and their leaders, and become aware of red flags and pitfalls that discourage active leadership. Discover how youcan invest in future leaders to ensure a “deepbench” for succession. Explore best practices for handing over the reins and setting leaders up for success during transitions.

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Federation RoundtableMarilyn Forman Chandler, Executive Director,Greensboro Jewish FederationMark Goldstein, Executive Director, Jewish Federation of the Lehigh Valley

A group networking opportunity for representativesof Jewish federations. Dialogue with leadershipof the Jewish Federations of North America initiative on sustainability of Jewish day schoolsin smaller Jewish communities. Discuss issuesand opportunities relating to federation’s uniquecommunal role to enhance the viability of Jewishday schools in smaller communities. [SMALL SCHOOLS]

Growing the Teacher Leader: Developing Systemsfor Teacher Growth Within Your SchoolMelanie Eisen, Associate Director of Professional Development, YU School PartnershipShira Loewenstein, Associate Director of NewTeacher Support, YU School Partnership

Explore the definition and purpose of teacherleadership, and further your vision for howteacher leaders can shape the landscape of yourschool. Using center-based learning, partici-pants engage with teacher leaders from differentJewish day schools as they describe their work.Leave with a concrete vision of what teacherleadership can be and a personalized action planfor next steps.

Harnessing the Power of Market Research andWord of Mouth MarketingDr. Harry Bloom, Strategy Manager Day SchoolSustainability, PEJELaura Sheridan, Founder and President, Viva La BrandLynn Blaustein Weiss, Director of Admissionsand Enrollment, Solomon Schechter Day Schoolof Metropolitan Chicago

A key challenge of many day schools is fillingempty seats. Learn from real school successstories told by expert practitioners how marketsegmentation, focused market research, andword-of-mouth marketing are building new enrollment and sustaining existing enrollment.Apply emerging best practice to your school’ssituation.

Harnessing the Wisdom of Small Schools and Small CommunitiesIlisa Cappell, Associate Executive Director,Schechter Day School NetworkDr. Marc Kramer, Executive Director, RAVSAK

About one-third of all day schools in NorthAmerica are “small schools” with enrollment under150, many located in small Jewish communities.Despite their size, small schools are key to thefuture of their Jewish communities; they are ledby talented lay and professional leaders; and theyare thinking in creative ways to meet the challengesand opportunities facing them. Walk away witheffective tools for networking and learning. Shareideas in a customized way. Identify how to maximizeconference learning and professional growth aswe explore the role small schools play in thesystem of Jewish life. [SMALL SCHOOLS]

Propelling Day School Boards to the Next LevelRabbi Dr. Josh Elkin, Founder, Josh Elkin Coaching and Consulting

Learn how board governance functions as an integrated system, including the board-headpartnership. Explore the desired relationship between the committee on trustees and the headsupport and evaluation committee. Focus oncapturing your board doing well, rather than alwaysdwelling on what is not working. Learn how tocreate a well-functioning committee structure toaccomplish the main work of the board. Discoverother aspects of exceptional board performance.Come to this session, whether you are a boardmember or a professional. Teams are welcome.

Small Schools and the Multiage ClassroomDr. Devora Steinmetz, Faculty, Drisha Institute

Multiage classrooms are often implemented insmall schools for practical reasons of enrollmentand staffing. But many educators see multiageclasses as the preferred way to group children inschools. Look at the educational rationale formultiage classrooms and discuss ways to meetthe needs of each child in these settings.(SMALL SCHOOLS)

Successfully Managing Multiple Layers ofSchool Change for Sustainable ImpactAmy Katz, Executive Director, PEJERabbi Dr. Barry Kislowicz, Head of School, Fuchs Mizrachi SchoolRuth Gafni, Head of School, Solomon SchechterDay School of Bergen County

In these challenging economic times, manyschools embark on ambitious change programsdesigned to increase sustainability. Regrettably,many boldly conceived programs fail because of the complexity of simultaneously managingimprovement in multiple areas. Hear from theleaders of Solomon Schechter of Bergen Countyand Fuchs Mizrachi Day School how they havesurmounted these challenges and successfullyrepositioned their organizations for sustainability.Using the 7-S framework developed by McKinsey,take lessons learned and work to develop amodel for change in your own schools.

Uncommon Connections, Big Questions: HowResearch Gets Answers for Your SchoolDr. Amy Sales, Senior Research Scientist, Brandeis University

Many deliberations and decisions require systematic data on people’s experiences, feelingsand opinions about your school. Based on principlesof action research, plan a study you can implementthis year. Decide what you want to learn, fromwhom, and how. Learn how to craft good questionsand how to design and conduct interviews orfocus groups. Consider how to use the process of research to engage the school’s current andpotential stakeholders and to uncover the com-plexity of views that exist within the system.

Use Your School’s Jewish Learning to AttractFamilies & FundersDr. Zachary Lasker, Director, Melton Research & Davidson Education Projects, Davidson School

Day schools can optimize their work in recruitment,development, and marketing through the Jewishlearning and activity under their own rooftop. Judaic studies leaders and teachers routinelyencounter successes and challenges, but how do you translate these stories from “education-speak” to the language that institution leadersspeak with a wide variety of constituents? Comehear featured triumphs and struggles from innovative educators in the field; then, workhands-on in real or simulated school leadershipteams to best leverage such stories for yourschool’s advancement.

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Using System Maps to Diagnose and ResolveOrganizational ChallengesPearl Mattenson, Senior Project Leader, Rosov Consulting

Become your own diagnostician. Develop a visualmap (constellation) of your system with respectto a particular challenge you are facing, analyzeand diagnose the scenario, and begin to map outa more ideal set of interrelationships betweenplayers in the system that will move you towardresolution of the challenge. This session drawson left- and right-brain thinking. No artisticskills needed; technology is optional.

Want More Income? Build Your EndowmentJill Goldenberg, Strategy Manager, Endowment & Legacy, PEJEMiriam Prum Hess, Director, Donor and Community Relations, BJE: Builders of Jewish Education

Apply lessons learned from Generations, PEJE’snational endowment building program, to buildyour endowment and sustain your school foryears to come. Learn how to strengthen yourculture of philanthropy and move your schoolfrom school-centric fundraising to donor-centricdevelopment. Using a newly created assessmenttool, discover how to move along the Transactional-Relational spectrum and leave with an actionplan to implement what you’ve learned.

A Whole School Change ModelDr. Alan Oliff, Director, Jewish Learning and Engagement, Combined Jewish PhilanthropiesJane Taubenfeld Cohen, Executive Director, YU School PartnershipBeth Crastnopol, Director of Professional Development, Gateways: Access for Jewish Education

Open your minds to ideas for changing practiceswithin your classroom and schools. Explore thepotential for using a growth mindset approach,professional development, and examples of realschool experiences to create transformationalchange. Come away with ideas and next steps forimplementing schoolwide changes that will makea difference for all students. Participants receiveaccess to a practical toolkit that is adaptable tospecific school and/or community needs.

45-MINUTE SESSIONS

Creating an Innovative Culture in a Jewish Day School Rabbi Ari Segal, Head of School, Shalhevet High School

Clayton Christensen has compared the work ofschool improvement to changing the wing of anairplane while in mid-flight. Explore what ittakes to create an entrepreneurial and innovativeculture in a Jewish day school. Most importantly,present and share the systems we have in placethat help foster and incubate that environment.

Moving from Chaos to Congruence: An Enrollment Management Framework Rebecca Egolf, Consultant, Rebecca Egolf ConsultingOrna Siegel, Director of Enrollment and TuitionAssistance, Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School

Does your school struggle to align market perception to your school’s reality? Are schooladministrators, faculty and parents actively engaged in supporting recruitment and retentionefforts? An enrollment management frameworkcan help your school move from mismatchedmessages to consistency and from the admissiondirector doing it all to a collaborative enrollmentteam. Heads, admission directors and otherschool leaders explore enrollment managementprinciples and learn from real school examplesto positively impact recruitment and retention.

A New Approach to AffordabilityShira Wohlberg, Director of Communications andPlanned Giving, Perelman Jewish Day SchoolAlan Joffe, Director of Finance and Operations,Perelman Jewish Day School

The rising cost of Jewish day school education is an obstacle for many families. Tuition afford-ability programs have been established in manyschools around the country in an effort to attractmore families and sustain or stimulate enrollment.Hear how Perelman Jewish Day School respondedto the challenge by launching the Cozen ScholarsAffordability Program. Explore the reasons thatled to the creation of the program as well as theprocess, implementation, and preliminary outcomes.

The Power of Who You Know Peter D. Lucash, Faculty, Gratz College

The cliché “It’s not about what you know, it’sabout who you know” is being turned on its head.Systems thinking and network theory leads us toa new paradigm: WHO we know drives WHAT weknow. As individuals and as organizations, we livein a network of relationships. These relationshipsrepresent actors with whom we collaborate, conduct transactions (buy and sell, solicit andreceive donations, recruit and enroll students),and mutually learn and share information. Byfusing research and application, we all learn,thrive and survive.

Systems Intelligence: Game OnRabbi Reuven Margrett, Chair of Rabbinics,Frankel Jewish Academy

An average young person plays games for 21,000hours before they turn 21. What can we learnfrom this? What if the 2D physical text becomesa 3D learning experience, a complex landscapeof text previously unimaginable? Consider the intersection of rabbinic texts and gaming, a potent model for systems intelligence pedagogy.Learn more about gaming in theory and practiceand its interplay with text learning. Be challenged,inspired, and enjoy a sneak peek of our newestfree rabbinics learning game, Sparks of Eternity II.

20 C O N S T E L L AT I O N 2 MONDAY , MARCH 9

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9:15am 10:15am 11:15am 12:15pm

An Ecosystem Perspective on Innovation: The Case of STEM Education in Israel – 9:15 am-12:15 pm Franklin 4

Organizational Alignment: Accomplishing Ambitious Goals in Complex Systems – 9:15 am-12:15 pm Franklin 8

Planning for Uncertainty: A New Approach to Strategy – 9:15 am-12:15 pm Franklin 7

The Power of a Growth Mindset for Adult School Professionals – 9:15 am-12:15 pm Franklin 1-2

Excursion: Science Leadership Academy – 9:15 am-12:15 pm Page 13 Meets in the JW Room

Playground – 9:15 am-12:15 pm – Explore. Engage. Discover. Page 11 Franklin 11-13

Uncommon Conversations: Holding the Unspoken Conversation – 9:15 am–10:45 amFranklin 3

Building and Maintaining a Culture of Philanthropy – 9:15 am–10:35 am Franklin 5

A Communal Understanding for the Teaching and Learning of Rabbinics9:15 am–10:35 am Room 402

Digital Citizenship: What Every Educator Needs to Know – 9:15 am–10:35 amFranklin 10

Faculty Compensation and Faculty Culture – 9:15 am–10:35 amRoom 401

Finding Jewish Studies Teachers and Materials for Your School (SMALL SCHOOLS) – 9:15 am–10:35 am Room 407

Flipped Learning: A Model for Whole-School Change – 9:15 am–10:35 am Franklin 9

How Experiments in Tuition Impact the School and the System 9:15 am–10:35 am Franklin 6

Imagining the Role of Parents and Parent Leaders in Our JDS Systems (SMALL SCHOOLS) – 9:15 am–10:35 am Room 406

Strategies for Common Small School Board Challenges (SMALL SCHOOLS) – 9:15 am–10:35 am Room 405

Adolescent Spirituality: Igniting the Spark Within –10:55 am-12:15 pm Room 402

Delivering an Outstanding Customer Experience Throughout Your Institution10:55 am-12:15 pm Room 403

Innovative STEAM: Balance Between the Whole and Its Parts 10:55 am-12:15 pm Franklin 10

The Paradox of Pluralism: Diversity as the Foundation for Community10:55 am-12:15 pm Room 401

Open Space: Making Our Schools Work – 10:55 am-12:15 pm Rooms 408-409

Secrets to Increasing Investment in Your School – 10:55 am-12:15 pm Franklin 3

Small School + Small Community = The Right Dollars (SMALL SCHOOLS) – 10:55 am-12:15 pm Room 406

Supporting the Needs of Diverse Learners (SMALL SCHOOLS) – 10:55 am-12:15 pm Room 405

Toward Truly Blended Schools: Visualizing Implementation Progress10:55 am-12:15 pm Franklin 5

Governance and Operations: The Dynamic System of Leadership9:15 am–10:00 am Room 414

Parents: One Relationship, Many Roles9:15 am–10:00 am Room 413

Beit Midrash – 9:15 am–10:00 amRooms 411-412 See page 9

Collaboration in the Age of Hyper-Personalization – 10:35 am–11:20 amRoom 414

Engaging Parents of Diverse Learners in the Education Conversation10:35 am–11:20 am Room 413


The Creation of the Internet and Its Impact on Day School Systems 11:30 am-12:15 pm Room 413

School Partnerships in Philanthropy: A Deeper Dive – 11:30 am-12:15 pmRoom 414

Beit Midrash – 11:30 am-12:15 pmRooms 411-412 See page 9


3-HOUR SESSIONS:❏ An Ecosystem Perspective on Innovation:

The Case of STEM Education in Israel

❏ Organizational Alignment: AccomplishingAmbitious Goals in Complex Systems

❏ Planning for Uncertainty: A New Approach to Strategy

❏ The Power of a Growth Mindset for AdultSchool Professionals

❏ Excursion: Science Leadership Academy

90-MINUTE SESSIONS:

9:15 am – 10:45 am❏ Uncommon Conversations:

Holding the Unspoken Conversation

80-MINUTE SESSIONS:

9:15 am – 10:45 am❏ Building and Maintaining a Culture of

Philanthropy

❏ A Communal Understanding for the Teachingand Learning of Rabbinics

❏ Digital Citizenship: What Every EducatorNeeds to Know

❏ Faculty Compensation and Faculty Culture

❏ Finding Jewish Studies Teachers and Materials for Your School (SMALL SCHOOLS)

❏ Flipped Learning: A Model for Whole-School Change

❏ How Experiments in Tuition Impact theSchool and the System

❏ Imagining the Role of Parents and ParentLeaders in Our JDS Systems (SMALL SCHOOLS)

❏ Strategies for Common Small School BoardChallenges (SMALL SCHOOLS)

10:55 am – 12:15 pm❏ Adolescent Spirituality:

Igniting the Spark Within

❏ Delivering an Outstanding Customer Experience Throughout Your Institution

❏ Innovative STEAM: Balance Between theWhole and Its Parts

❏ The Paradox of Pluralism: Diversity as theFoundation for Community

❏ Open Space: Making Our Schools Work

❏ Secrets to Increasing Investment in Your School

❏ Small School + Small Community = The Right Dollars (SMALL SCHOOLS)

❏ Supporting the Needs of Diverse Learners(SMALL SCHOOLS)

❏ Toward Truly Blended Schools: VisualizingImplementation Progress

45-MINUTE SESSIONS:

9:15 am – 10:00 am❏ Governance and Operations:

The Dynamic System of Leadership

❏ Parents: One Relationship, Many Roles

❏ Beit Midrash

10:35 am – 11:20 am❏ Collaboration in the Age of

Hyper-Personalization

❏ Engaging Parents of Diverse Learners in the Education Conversation

❏ Beit Midrash

11:30 am – 12:15 pm❏ The Creation of the Internet and Its Impact

on Day School Systems

❏ School Partnerships in Philanthropy: A Deeper Dive

❏ Beit Midrash

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SESSIONS BY TIME


3-HOUR SESSIONS

An Ecosystem Perspective on Innovation: The Case of STEM Education in Israel Dr. Orit Hazzan, Head, Department of Educationin Science and Technology, Technion

The mission of the Department of Education inScience and Technology is to promote internationalexcellence in research on learning, teaching, andassessment in the fields of STEM, in order toshape educational leadership in the formal edu-cation system and beyond. We commit to trainand provide world-class excellent leadership,ongoing in-service preparation, and support forthe Israeli teaching and learning community inSTEM, offering our know-how internationally toall interested parties. Develop a STEM initiative foryour organization with the guidance of Technionexpertise.

Organizational Alignment: Accomplishing Ambitious Goals in Complex SystemsDr. Ebony N. Bridwell-Mitchell, Assistant Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Schools have many diverse, interdependentcomponents. Decisions or actions taken to accomplish one particular aim inevitably affectother parts of the school, often with unintendedconsequences. Gain the conceptual and analyticaltools to understand schools as complex adaptivesystems. Learn the principles of organizationalalignment, which make it possible to more effectively accomplish goals in complex systems.Through personal reflection, collegial discussion,and hands-on activities, practice applying thesetools and principles to accomplishing ambitiousgoals in your schools.

Planning for Uncertainty: A New Approach to StrategyAndrés Spokoiny, President & CEO, Jewish Funders Network

Using systems and network theory, the futurescenarios approach helps leaders craft strategiesfor uncertain and changing environments. Despiteits success in the corporate world, the philanthropiccommunity in general has not yet adopted thistool. Nonprofit leaders today operate in complexenvironments of non-causal, nonlinear relationin which traditional approaches to strategy areproving insufficient. Learn how the future scenariostechnique is a valuable tool for day school boardsseeking to improve their strategic planning, workmore effectively with funders, and strengthentheir school’s sustainability.

The Power of a Growth Mindset for Adult SchoolProfessionalsDr. John D’Auria, President, Teachers21

The field of education and nonprofit best practiceis changing rapidly. Adapting to new trends in organizational development, technology, brainscience, social-emotional learning, and the useof data are just a small number of the arenasthat educators and other school leaders need tolearn about and apply to their work. In order tomeet these new demands, school professionalsand even volunteers must go through cycleswhere they start as novices, learn from error,and practice new strategies before they incorpo-rate a different approach. Explore how to shift aculture to embrace and support these qualities.

90-MINUTE SESSION

Uncommon Conversations: Holding the Unspoken ConversationRabbi Marc Baker, Head of School, Gann AcademyDr. Ray Levi, Director, Day School LeadershipTraining Institute, Davidson SchoolCheryl Maayan, Head of School, Saul Mirowitz Jewish Community SchoolRabbi Micah Lapidus EdD, Director of Jewish and Hebrew Studies, The Alfred & Adele Davis AcademyJane Taubenfeld Cohen, Executive Director, YU School Partnership

Many topics critical to our success as day schoolleaders, and even to the survival of our schools,are often undiscussed. Through short, provocativepresentations, five leaders invite dialogue aroundsuch topics as how we define Jewish communityand lack of success in nurturing spiritual develop-ment. Bring your creative energies both to considercharacteristics of schools that result in thesesubjects being neglected in public forums andwhat we do to take the unspoken to conversation.

80-MINUTE SESSIONS

Adolescent Spirituality: Igniting the Spark WithinRabbi Micah Lapidus, Director of Jewish and Hebrew Studies, The Alfred & Adele Davis Academy

Any Jewish day school that does not harness thepower and potential of spiritual development islimiting the horizon of adolescents. The goal ofthis session is to gather a diverse cadre of dayschool professionals to engage in a conversationthat covers personal experience, theory, and thepursuit of best practices in adolescent spiritualengagement. Address the challenges of spiritualeducation, contemporary theories of spiritual development, and opportunities to transform our work in this area.

Building and Maintaining a Culture of PhilanthropyAmy Schiffman, Principal/Founder, Giving TreeAssociates

Who bears responsibility for improving yourschool’s attitude toward philanthropy? And whatdoes it really mean to build a culture of philanthropyanyway? Who must be involved in the effort? Is it measurable? Together, we identify the keycharacteristics of a strong philanthropic cultureand emerge with concrete tools and resources to either get you started or take your school tothe next level. As we examine storytelling, theboard’s role in development and the buildingblocks for success, we explore the attitudes, understandings, and behaviors that allow schoolsto meet, and even exceed, their long- and short-term fundraising goals. This session is designedas complement to 45-minute session: SchoolPartnerships in Philanthropy: A Deeper Dive. Attend one or both.

A Communal Understanding for the Teachingand Learning of RabbinicsCharlotte Abramson, Director, Jewish Day School Standards and Benchmarks Project, Davidson School Rabbi Elliot Goldberg, Head of School, SolomonSchechter Day School of Greater BostonDavid Stein, Faculty, Curriculum Coordinator,Shalhevet High SchoolNoam Weissman, Principal, Shalhevet High SchoolRabbi Iscah Waldman, Teacher of Rabbinic Texts and Coordinator of the Beit Midrash, Golda Och AcademyLend your voice to the direction of RabbinicsStandards and Benchmarks for the Jewish dayschool field. Consider three diverse position papers on the goals for teaching and learningrabbinics in the day school, or suggest alterna-tives. Participants’ reactions and responses willinspire and infuse our thinking as the Jewish Day School Standards and Benchmarks Projectembarks on developing a Rabbinic Standardsand Benchmarks Compendium, in collaborationwith 16 day schools and Mechon Hadar.


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Delivering an Outstanding Customer ExperienceThroughout Your InstitutionDan Levine, President and Founder, EngagingMinds Inc.

Delivering an outstanding customer experience iscritical to the enduring success of your institution.The customer experience ripples through the entire organization and leads directly to yourschool’s bottom line. Explore the key ingredientsof a systemwide, team approach to deliveringoutstanding customer service; examine how theresponsibility for the customer experience extendsacross your organization and is shared among allstakeholders; and identify actionable strategiesto strengthen the customer experience at yourschool immediately and over the longer term.Everyone with a day school role will benefit.

Digital Citizenship: What Every Educator Needsto KnowDr. Eli Shapiro, Director, The Digital CitizenshipProject

Explore the impact of technology on social, psychological, behavioral, and day-to-day functioning. As technology becomes more andmore present in the lives of our students and aseducation institutions shift from pencil and paperto tablet and smartboard, a more deliberativeapproach to managing student technology usebecomes critical. Through understanding thedata trends of technology use and related correlations, school leaders can better partnerwith students, parents, and community to maximize the benefits of technology while minimizing the inherent risks.

Faculty Compensation and Faculty Culture Rabbi Laurence Scheindlin, Consultant,Schechter Day School NetworkLinda Foster, Head of School, SolomonSchechter Day School of Metropolitan Chicago

Compensating teaching excellence is a thorny butdesirable enterprise. Traditional compensationpractices provide little flexibility for recognizingexcellence, or often create a sense of mysterythrough lack of transparency. Both can be counter-productive to a culture of professional growth.Learn about broadbanding models that supportfaculty learning, collaboration, leadership, andexcellence; about the relationship between thesemodels and both teacher evaluation and schoolgoals; and about the pitfalls and advantages ofthese systems, designed to recognize excellenceand support strong faculty cultures.

Finding Jewish Studies Teachers and Materialsfor Your SchoolDr. Susan Wall, Senior Staff, Pardes Center forJewish Educators

Join school and federation leaders from smallschools/communities to explore creative approaches for expanding the pool of Jewishstudies/Hebrew teachers and to capitalize onwhat resources currently exist. Investigate waysthat school and federation leaders can work together to meet these challenges and benefittheir communities. Take part in a “marketplaceof ideas” and learn from various presenters aboutapproaches that can strengthen your school’sJewish learning resources. (SMALL SCHOOLS)

Flipped Learning: A Model for Whole-School ChangeRabbi Joe Hirsch, Educator, Akiba Academy of Dallas

Flipped learning can unleash whole-school changeby shifting the focus from knowledge to experienceand revolutionizing the way day schools shape,size, and sell Jewish education in a competitivemarketplace. Through a simulation of an actualflipped classroom, explore the systems-wide effects of flipped learning on institutional advancement, teaching and learning, and IT infrastructure. Develop effective strategies to introduce flipped learning at your school and experiment with proven tools for creating high-impact video content.

How Experiments in Tuition Impact the Schooland the SystemDaniel Held, Executive Director, Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Education, UJA Federation of Greater Toronto

Schools across North America have begun ex-perimenting with alternative tuition models, in-cluding flex tuition, net tuition discounting, and avariety of middle-income programs. Considerseveral alternative tuition models and the wayseach impacts school finance, enrollment, andthe system at large. Learn about the fundingstructure, the impact on school recruitment andretention, and metrics for evaluation.

Imagining the Role of Parents and Parent Leaders in Our JDS SystemsSara Shapiro-Plevan, Lead Consultant, Rimonim Consulting

What would it take to reimagine the role of parentsas partners in our work? Together, we thinkdeeply about parents’ hopes and fears, examineour assumptions, and contemplate new ways ofstrengthening our connections with parents asintegral to our school and communal systems.How might we connect parents to the larger system and tap them as connectors, engagedparticipants, and leaders? The focus is specificallyon what makes this relationship unique in thecontext of small schools, but all are welcome.(SMALL SCHOOLS)

Innovative STEAM: Balance Between the Wholeand Its PartsDr. Nitzan Resnick, STEAM Chair and STEAMConsultant, Sage and iSTEAM

STEAM is an educational approach to learningthat connects individual disciplines as accesspoints for guiding students to take thoughtfulrisks, engage in experiential learning, persist inproblem-solving, and innovate and create. Thechallenge in implementing STEAM stands in the balance between teaching each disciplineseparately and as a whole. Through hands-onactivities and examples from the field, gain toolsfor implementing STEAM’s unique approach, andexplore its benefits to the school and students.

Open Space: Making Our Schools Work.Shira Loewenstein, Associate Director of NewTeacher Support, YU School PartnershipAmanda Pogany, Head of School, Luria Academy of Brooklyn

In Open Space meetings, experienced facilitatorsguide participants in setting their own conversationagenda. Gather around two distinct topics ofstrategic importance: 1) designing time andspace; and 2) making all the pieces work: affordability, sustainability, governance, andleadership. The issues to be raised within these topics are guided by you, the participants.Using Open Space methodology, everyone’s voice will be heard.




The Paradox of Pluralism: Diversity as theFoundation for CommunityDr. Michael Kay, Head of School, SolomonSchechter School of Westchester

Pluralism is a central component of the philosophyof many of our schools, yet there is little agreementabout precisely what it is, how it ought to be enacted, and what its benefits are. Discuss anddebate a definition of pluralism and explore howit is manifested in a variety of schools, the rolethat it plays in strengthening both individual andcommunal identity, the tensions and challengesthat it presents within school communities, andstrategies that school leaders employ to navigatethese challenges successfully.

Secrets to Increasing Investment in Your School Jill Goldenberg, Strategy Manager, Endowment & Legacy, PEJENanette Fridman, Principal, Fridman Strategies

Are you leaving money on the table? Strengthenyour development team’s ability to reach moredonors and maximize donations. Learn how tothink about your development team broadly andincrease philanthropy by placing development atyour school’s core. Both lay and professionalleaders learn how to dramatically improve devel-opment efforts from prospecting to stewardship.Determine implementable strategies to makeyour team, both lay and professional, far moreeffective and increase philanthropic investmentsin your school.

Small School + Small Community = The Right DollarsJennifer Weinstock, Senior Development Officer,Gann Academy

Explore the challenges and opportunities facingsmall communities, including what to do whenyou don’t have development staff, who does whatin fundraising for a small school, how to makethe most of your head of school’s limited time,and how to attract and retain lifelong donor relationships. Create a right-sized developmentplan for your school and community, includingtangible next steps for after the conference aswell as short- and long-term goals for yourschool.(SMALL SCHOOLS)

Strategies for Common Small School BoardChallengesNanette Fridman, Principal, Fridman Strategies

Tackle common challenges that small boardsface, including how to create a pipeline of leaders,plan for succession, establish healthy bound-aries between the board’s operational and gov-erning roles, deal with volunteer burnout,manage stakeholder and communal relation-ships, engage the board in development efforts,and train and develop the board. Discuss “bestpractices” and problem-solve real world scenar-ios together. (SMALL SCHOOLS)

Supporting the Needs of Diverse LearnersIlana Ruskay-Kidd, Head of School, Shefa School

Share the challenges your schools face in supportingthe needs of diverse learners. Discover a rangeof alternative ways to support these learners,with special consideration to differentiatedlearning, inclusion when possible, and uniqueprogramming to serve the students. Special attention is given to the particular challengesand opportunities of small to mid-range schools.(SMALL SCHOOLS)

Toward Truly Blended Schools: Visualizing Implementation ProgressDr. Leslie Siskin, Professor, NYURachel Mohl Abrahams, Senior Program Officer,The AVI CHAI Foundation

What does implementing blended learning looklike? Drawing from research in 30 day schools,new and established, working with AVI CHAI, welook at patterns across eight essential elements.Using “implementation wheels,” we visualizetheir progress, seeing how and why differentschools are moving by varying paths and at different pace. Use these rubrics and wheels tovisualize your own progress, and potential problems,and to identify systemic connections between thepurposes and contexts of different sites.

45-MINUTE SESSIONS

The Creation of the Internet and Its Impact onDay School SystemsDaniel Petter-Lipstein, Chief Love Officer, Jewish Montessori Society

The Internet, its origins, and development offer avaluable model for understanding the humanand social aspects of our day school systems.Explore the ways in which the Internet can serveas a model for peer learning and organizationalstructure.

Collaboration in the Age of Hyper-PersonalizationAvital Drori, Head of the Overseas Hebrew Studies Unit, Center for Educational TechnologyDr. Orly Fuhrman, Developer, Language Arts and Literacy Department, Center for Educational Technology

Technology offers “hyper-personalized” learningopportunities by adjusting method, pace andlearning objectives to the individual student,sparking motivation and promoting effectivelearning. But how can we strike the balance between personalized instructional design and a curriculum that connects students with theircommunities? Because Hebrew is a living languagethat connects communities of speakers, it presentsan especially potent opportunity to foster under-standing of and interaction with a wider ecosystem.Discover how thoughtful content and process design strike a balance between a personalizedand a systems-sensitive approach in education.

Engaging Parents of Diverse Learners in theEducation ConversationTammie Rapps, Head of School, Akiba Academy of DallasDr. Abigail Uhrman, Assistant Professor of Jewish Education, Jewish Theological Seminary

Examine case studies to uncover parent perspec-tives on the education of their child(ren) with diverse learning needs. Consider entry points for engaging parents/families and to identify potential challenges to including parents in theeducation conversation. Grapple with practicesto accommodate students with diverse learningprofiles and explore the realities of having tocounsel parents about future Jewish educationaloptions for students whose needs cannot be metin a traditional day school environment.


Governance and Operations: The Dynamic System of LeadershipMarcy Balogh, President, Ba-Lo Consulting

Many school leaders only focus on board-staff interface when something goes wrong. Yet bythen, it is too late. Explore five safeguards toachieve a healthy and effective board-staff dynamic, in a practical session for leaders, packaged for easy transport back to your school,enhancing formal meetings and informal interactions. A chance for trustees and their professional partners to boost their practice.

Parents: One Relationship, Many RolesAndrew Brommel, Director of CommunicationsConsulting, Campbell & Company

Parents are volunteers, donors, ambassadors,leaders, and more. Yet we must remember:they’re always parents first, and despite theirmany roles, there’s only one relationship—every-thing is connected. This makes independentschool parents the most passionate and powerful,complicated, and challenging stakeholder group.Engaging them effectively is among our most important responsibilities as professionals. Explore a range of ideas, principles and thought-starters to clarify and re-energize your work with parents. Designed as complement to Constellation 3: Parent Relationships: Systemsthat Work. Attend one or both

School Partnerships in Philanthropy: A Deeper DiveAmy Schiffman, Principal/Founder, Giving Tree Associates

What defines a successful partnership betweeneducators and the development team? What rolemight a teacher or department chair play inshaping a funding proposal or meeting with adonor? How can we better play to each other’sstrengths, skills, passions, and talents whenbuilding a vision for our school’s future and designing the funding model to support it? As we share examples of best practices in collabo-rative, inspired development efforts, we examinethe head of school’s (as well as the principal’s/ED’s/asst. head’s) role in fundraising and culturedevelopment. Designed as complement to 80-minute session: Building and Maintaining aCulture of Philanthropy. Attend one or both.


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3:00pm 4:00pm 5:00pm 6:00pm

Bridging the Gap: Maintaining Jewish Day School Relevance–3 pm -6 pm Franklin 7

The Language of Leaders: Communicating for Results in Complex and Dynamic Systems – 3 pm-6 pm Franklin 9

Shifting from Teaching to Learning – 3 pm-6 pm Franklin 1-2

Playground – 3 pm-6 pm – Explore. Engage. Discover. Page 11 Franklin 11-13

Uncommon Conversations: Let's Assume That All Our Assumptions About Day School Education Are Wrong – 3 pm-4:30 pm. Rooms 408-409

Case Studies of Small School Challenges (SMALL SCHOOLS) 3 pm-4:20 pm Room 405

Federation as Jewish Day School Partner (SMALL SCHOOLS) 3 pm-4:20 pm Room 406

The Genesis Cut-Outs: Midrash & Matisse @ MoMa – 3 pm-4:20 pm Franklin 3

Good Governance Leads to Abundant Philanthropy – 3 pm-4:20 pm Franklin 8

Hiring that Strengthens Schools – 3 pm-4:20 pm Franklin 4

How to Make The Best Integrated Approach to Online Learning: A Showcase of Hebrew Learning Today – 3 pm-4:20 pm Room 401

Maximizing Your Professional Development Resources in Small School Settings (SMALL SCHOOLS) – 3 pm-4:20 pm Room 407

Parent Relationships: Systems That Work – 3 pm-4:20 pm Room 403

Tools for Real Change: Systems Thinking and Mussar – 3 pm-4:20 pm Room 402

Building a Comprehensive System of Israel Education – 4:40 pm-6 pm Room 401

Creating Communal Systemic Change – 4:40 pm-6 pm Franklin 4

Enrollment and Beyond: Synagogue Partnerships with Day Schools4:40 pm-6 pm Room 402

How Parents "Do Jewish," How Schools Can Respond, How This Shapes Community – 4:40 pm-6 pm Franklin 6

The Integrated Ask Clinic – 4:40 pm-6 pm Room 403

Small School Summit: Yielding Big Results with Small Systems (SMALL SCHOOLS) 4:40 pm-6 pm Rooms 407-409

A Systems Approach to Bringing Positive Psychology to Schools4:40 pm-6 pm Franklin 3

Teacher Supervision and Professional Development: A Systems Approach 4:40 pm-6 pm Franklin 5

A 30,000 Foot View on Big Data and Predictive Analytics – 3 pm-3:45 pmRoom 414

The Collaboration Continuum: ExploringStrategies to Help Day Schools Thrive 3 pm-3:45 pm Room 413

Beit Midrash – 3 pm-3:45 pmRooms 411-412 See page 9

Engaging Institutions in Systemwide Change – 4:20 pm-5:05 pmRoom 413

Strategic Staffing for Today’s Development Office – 4:20 pm–5:05 pmRoom 414

Beit Midrash – 4:20 pm–5:05 pmRooms 411-412 See page 9

Data Visualization: Bringing School Data to Life – 5:15 pm–6 pmRoom 414

A New Pedagogy for Creating Personal Connection – 5:15 pm–6 pmRoom 413

Beit Midrash – 5:15 pm–6 pmRooms 411-412 See page 9


3-HOUR SESSIONS:❏ Bridging the Gap: Maintaining Jewish Day

School Relevance

❏ The Language of Leaders: Communicatingfor Results in Complex and Dynamic Systems

❏ Shifting from Teaching to Learning

90-MINUTE SESSIONS:3:00 pm – 4:30 pm❏ Uncommon Conversations: Let's Assume

That All Our Assumptions About Day SchoolEducation Are Wrong

80-MINUTE SESSIONS:

3:00 pm – 4:20 pm❏ Case Studies of Small School Challenges

(SMALL SCHOOLS)

❏ Federation as Jewish Day School Partner(SMALL SCHOOLS)

❏ The Genesis Cut-Outs: Midrash & Matisse @ MoMa

❏ Good Governance Leads to Abundant Philanthropy

❏ Hiring that Strengthens Schools

❏ How to Make The Best Integrated Approachto Online Learning: A Showcase of HebrewLearning Today

❏ Maximizing Your Professional DevelopmentResources in Small School Settings (SMALL SCHOOLS)

❏ Parent Relationships: Systems That Work

❏ Tools for Real Change: Systems Thinkingand Mussar

4:40 pm – 6:00 pm❏ Building a Comprehensive System of Israel

Education

❏ Creating Communal Systemic Change

❏ Enrollment and Beyond: Synagogue Partnerships with Day Schools

❏ How Parents "Do Jewish," How Schools CanRespond, How This Shapes Community

❏ The Integrated Ask Clinic

❏ Small School Summit: Yielding Big Resultswith Small Systems (SMALL SCHOOLS)

❏ A Systems Approach to Bringing PositivePsychology to Schools

❏ Teacher Supervision and Professional Development: A Systems Approach

45-MINUTE SESSIONS:

3:00 pm – 3:45 pm❏ A 30,000 Foot View on Big Data and

Predictive Analytics

❏ The Collaboration Continuum: ExploringStrategies to Help Day Schools Thrive

❏ Beit Midrash

4:20 pm – 5:05 pm❏ Engaging Institutions in Systemwide

Change: Innovations, Challenges and Best Practices

❏ Strategic Staffing for Today’s Development Office

❏ Beit Midrash

5:15 pm – 6:00 pm❏ Data Visualization: Bringing School Data

to Life

❏ A New Pedagogy for Creating Personal Connection

❏ Beit Midrash

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SESSIONS BY TIME


3-HOUR SESSIONS

Bridging the Gap: Maintaining Jewish DaySchool RelevanceDr. Idana Goldberg, Associate Executive Director,RAVSAK

Are Jewish day schools relevant to the experienceof American Jewish parents, particularly thoseoutside of the Orthodox community? The challengeof relevance is not simply a question of bettercommunication, but rather suggests a fundamentaldiscrepancy between the expectations of parentsand the realities of what Jewish day school offers.Interrogate relevance from various perspectivesand identify how the impact of this challenge differs depending on demographics, local environments, or competitive marketplace. Articulate strategies for schools to reimaginetheir value without compromising their essentialJewish missions.

The Language of Leaders: Communicating forResults in Complex and Dynamic SystemsRae Ringel, President, The Ringel Group

In order for a system to work efficiently, directand transparent communication is essential.Communication is fundamental to achieving excellence and desired outcomes because language is generative, creating new dynamics inevery relationship, conversation, and meeting.Examine your current communication style andunderstand how language frames your communica-tion approach. Practice deep listening skills, articulation through body language, and formulatingpowerful requests and offers. This session is relevant for all!

Shifting from Teaching to LearningDr. John D’Auria, President, Teachers21

For many years, how well teachers used “bestpractices” was the key to effective instruction.We now have come to understand that more important than what the adults do in a lesson isthe impact of their choices and strategies on thelearners. This sea change from teaching to learn-ing means that teachers must shift more of theirattention to assessing the impact of their strategieson their students. Discover ways that school culture,supervision, and assessments need to change inorder to support this transformation.

90-MINUTE SESSION

Uncommon Conversations: Let’s Assume That All Our Assumptions About Day School Education Are WrongJonathan Cannon, Lead Consultant, EducannonconsultingDr. Eliezer Jones, General Studies Principal, Valley Torah High SchoolTikvah Wiener, Co-Founder and Director ofIDEASchools Network, Magen David Yeshivah High School

While we try to wrestle with solutions to the enrollment and affordability crises, we tout thebelief that our students are receiving an “excellenteducation.” Is this a flawed assumption? One example of many: Given the raison d’être of Jewishday schooling, it makes no sense that 95% ofschools list two or more of Hebrew teaching, Judaic/Israel studies, or tefillah among their fivebiggest areas of weakness. Join a conversationamong those who are game to disrupt the currentoperating model to see if we can do it better.

80-MINUTE SESSIONS

Building a Comprehensive System of Israel EducationRabbi Dr. Joyce Raynor, Head of School, Golda Och Academy

As a school builds an integrated system of Israeleducation, it investigates the following questions:What is our goal? What Israel are we teaching,and how do we make Israel authentic? Whoteaches Israel, and how do we involve all teachers?How do we teach Israel? What resources areavailable to us? Also, discuss the impact of Israeleducation on Jewish identity formation and theenvironment for students, teachers, and parents.

Case Studies of Small School ChallengesDr. Marc Kramer, Executive Director, RAVSAK

Case studies can offer a powerful means for exploring school challenges and the variousstrategies for addressing them. This sessionuses case studies to delve into critical issuesparticular to small schools. Through collabora-tion and discussion, discover a wide range ofleadership styles and perspectives, identify bestpractices and new ideas, and expand your owncapacity to find creative solutions to the issuesconfronting your school. (SMALL SCHOOLS)

Creating Communal Systemic ChangeHolly Cohen, Executive Director, Kohelet Foundation

Discover models through which multiple schoolswithin the same community can work together toelevate the state of the day school field. Hearfrom teachers and administrators from a numberof Philadelphia’s day schools who collaborate onprograms in the areas of Israel education, specialneeds education, and technology, thereby enhancingeach school individually and the community ofschools collectively.

Enrollment and Beyond: Synagogue Partnerships with Day SchoolsRabbi Josh Franklin, Assistant Rabbi, Temple Beth ElohimRachel Kalikow, Director of Community Outreachand Partnerships, Gann AcademyAdrien Uretsky, Assistant Director of Admissionsand Recruitment, The Rashi School

Learn how a synagogue located in suburbanBoston is building relationships with a Jewish K-8 school and with a Jewish high school tostrengthen its own community, as well as supportthe growth and sustainability of local dayschools. Explore how to foster similar meaningfulconnections between synagogues and dayschools for your community. Partners from alocal synagogue, a Jewish day school, and aJewish high school discuss how their connectiongoes beyond what most communities typicallyexpect from such a relationship. Together, theyhelp reveal how day schools and synagogues canbuild mutually beneficial relationships.

Federation as Jewish Day School PartnerMarilyn Forman Chandler, Executive Director,Greensboro Jewish FederationMark Goldstein, Executive Director, Jewish Federation of the Lehigh Valley

The challenges faced by Jewish day schools insmaller communities are felt as acutely by thefederations that support them. How do we ensurethe day school’s role as an anchor institution?Why in a smaller community is partnership andcollaboration sine qua non with day school sustainability? Dialogue with federation and dayschool leadership from smaller communities toidentify how partnerships can be active, productive,and mutually empowering. (SMALL SCHOOLS)


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The Genesis Cut-Outs: Midrash & Matisse @ MoMaIlana Benson, Museum Educator, Yeshiva University MuseumSamuel Klein, Lead Project Educator, Re-imagining Jewish Education Through Art

Re-Imagining Jewish Education Through Artadapts an educational approach pioneered byLincoln Center Education. Experience first-handthe method and potential of this type of learning.Join our lead educator for an immersive art andtext experience as we discover how connectionsbetween Henri Matisse, modern art techniques,and the midrashim on Genesis reveal unexpectedways for interpreting our foundational texts withstudents in a classroom arts laboratory.

Good Governance Leads to Abundant PhilanthropyDr. Harry Bloom, Strategy Manager Day SchoolSustainability, PEJEZipora Schorr, Director of Education, Beth Tfiloh Dahan Community School

Certainly, there are schools that raise a greatdeal of money without adhering to the tenets ofgood governance. However, recent researchdemonstrates strong causal relationships betweena number of good governance practices andmaximizing a school’s success in philanthropy.Learn from recent research and specific schoolexperience about how a steadily growing adherence to strong governance practices canlead to significant success in annual, capital, and endowment fundraising.

Hiring that Strengthens SchoolsRabbi Maccabee Avishur, Associate Director forTeaching and Learning, YU School Partnership

Hiring new teaching staff is repeatedly said to bethe most important thing any K-12 school leaderdoes. Yet chances are, you’ve never had time tostudy school hiring and implement what you’velearned. Explore some research about hiring andconsider its implications in your schools. Thendesign or modify actual hiring processes in yourschool based on what you’ve learned with accessto expert guidance as you create and refine.Bring a partner or team from your school.

How to Make The Best Integrated Approach to Online Learning: A Showcase of HebrewLearning TodayAvital Drori, Head of the Overseas Hebrew Stud-ies Unit, Center for Educational TechnologyDr. Orly Fuhrman, Developer,Language Arts and Literacy Department, Center for Educational Technology

The move from printed textbooks to online learning is re-inventing the role of the teacherand transforming the entire school ecosystem.Discover a flexible teaching model that can helpmake the best of this transition. Using new online Hebrew learning materials, explore how a balance between traditional, blended, and fullyonline learning can improve the learning processand its outcomes. School administrators, boardmembers, teachers, and parents alike should bea part of this discussion to ensure organizationalcollaboration and responsiveness to students’ needs.

How Parents “Do Jewish,” How Schools Can Respond, How This Shapes CommunityDr. Carmel Chiswick, Professor, George Washington University

Parents’ decisions about how they educate theirchildren, manage the demands of everyday life,and navigate their own Jewish journeys impact ourschools on multiple levels. Explore the parent’sperspective on the role schools and other institutions play. Discuss trade-offs between education, institutional affiliation, family life, andintergenerational transmission of values. Leavewith insights about value proposition, parent engagement, and the Jewish home-school connection. Ponder the fundamental question:How do we market to consumers of Judaism to consume more?

The Integrated Ask ClinicJennifer Weinstock, Senior Development Officer,Gann AcademySusan Appelbaum, Director of Institutional Advancement, Gann Academy

Soliciting major donors is a complicated process,especially when you are asking the donor to invest in your school in multiple ways. Join us todiscuss what we learned from our comprehensivecampaign, including conversations with donorsabout annual, capital, program, endowment, andlegacy gifts. Encounter authentic cases from ourcurrent campaign and talk about what workedand what didn’t. Discuss what it takes to get toyes! Bring your own complex cases so we canworkshop together in this interactive experience.

Maximizing Your Professional Development Resources in Small School Settings Melanie Eisen, Associate Director of ProfessionalDevelopment, YU School PartnershipRabbi Meir Cohen, Principal, Soille Hebrew Day School

21st century professional development practicesshould be reflective of the skills we hope toteach our students. Highlighting teachers’ voices,building a collaborative model for professionaldevelopment, and developing teacher leadershipskills are intrinsic components of 21st centuryPD. Investigate case studies involving smallerschools and their PD practices. Leave with anaction plan that will strengthen your sense ofcommunity, build on your teachers' successes,and provide meaningful PD. (SMALL SCHOOLS)

Parent Relationships: Systems That Work Andrew Brommel, Director of CommunicationsConsulting, Campbell & Company

Join an open conversation to explore creativeways to engage parents as partners in advance-ment. How can academic and advancement professionals best work together? How can wecommunicate in parents’ own language? Howcan we engage parents in the success of ourschool? Share your own success stories, raiseyour own questions, and learn from your peers.With all our ideas together, walk away with newtactics and tips to try. Designed to complementthe session Parents: One Relationship, ManyRoles in Constellation 2. Attend one or both.

Small School Summit: Yielding Big Results withSmall SystemsIlisa Cappell, Associate Executive Director,Schechter Day School NetworkDr. Marc Kramer, Executive Director, RAVSAK

Join together to network as a cohort of small-school and small-community leaders as we synthesize our learning and professional growthexperience during the conference. Share resources. Generate ideas. Chart the course forwhere we go from here. What have we learned?What opportunities can we mine for futuregrowth and collaboration? (SMALL SCHOOLS)




A Systems Approach to Bringing Positive Psychology to SchoolsDr. David Pelcovitz, Professor of Education,Yeshiva University, Azrieli Graduate School

Explore practical approaches to teaching studentsand faculty principles of positive psychology. Recent research has found that when a schoolsystematically teaches faculty, students, andparents positive psychology interventions suchas gratitude, forgiveness, or grit, wide-rangingpositive outcomes often emerge. Learn a modelfor teaching teachers and administrators how tobetter appreciate the benefits of positive psychol-ogy principles in their own life, together withstrategies for bringing these principles to theclassroom.

Teacher Supervision and Professional Development: A Systems ApproachDr. Steven Lorch, Head of School, SolomonSchechter School of ManhattanBenjamin Mann, Head of Middle School,Solomon Schechter School of Manhattan

Most methods of teacher supervision and evaluation were designed for quality control, to differentiate between incompetence and borderline competence. Challenging and supporting good teachers to become better isoutside their purview. How might teacher super-vision promote and build upon teachers’ intrinsicmotivation to grow professionally? Explore a newmodel that reconceptualizes supervision andprofessional development as a single function.Acquire tools with which to begin to transformsupervision and professional development inyour school.

Tools for Real Change: Systems Thinking and MussarDr. Marilyn Paul, Senior Consultant, Bridgeway Partners

In order to be systems thinkers, we need to developcertain character traits, middot, and developskills so that we can continually move from reactivity to inquiry and effective action. Learnsome key tools of systems thinking: ladder of inference, ladder of blindness, the iceberg, andthe archetype of fixes that backfire. Combiningsystems thinking with concrete Mussar practiceshelps to create more powerful Jewish learningcommunities and helps develop the ways to thinktogether systemically, not reactively, to solvechronic problems.

45-MINUTE SESSIONS

A 30,000-Foot View on Big Data and Predictive AnalyticsSacha Litman, Managing Director, MeasuringSuccess

Participate in a provocative and forward-thinkingpresentation about how big data can increase enrollment, fundraising, and personalized learning.Learn how to identify the best prospective-familyleads, maximize student learning and progress,and manage an ongoing relationship with familiesto boost their giving. We share case studies fromour work with independent schools, Jewish dayschools, and public schools.

The Collaboration Continuum: Exploring Strategies to Help Day Schools ThriveNanette Fridman, Principal, Fridman Strategies

Explore the growing collaboration trend and therange of collaborative options that exist fromstrategic alliances to mergers and everything in between. Discuss the tensions inherent in collaborating and look at factors for success.Participants will learn how to assess if they areready to collaborate and how to evaluate potentialpartners. In addition, review key planning stepsfor collaboration as well as formulate importantquestions for further exploration.

Data Visualization: Bringing School Data to Life Sacha Litman, Managing Director, Measuring Success

If you are one of the 120 schools that has participated in the PEJE-Measuring Successparent survey or ever conducted a survey of yourown, this session is for you! Discover the principlesof data visualization, which enables data to become intelligible and drive decision making.Learn how to access your school's data interac-tively and in real time over the Web, and how touse these tools in discussions with board, faculty,and parents. This session was made possible bythe Robin and Brad Klatt Fund.

Engaging Institutions in Systemwide Change:Innovations, Challenges, and Best PracticesChana German, Director, Lookstein Virtual Jewish Academy, The Lookstein Center, Bar-Ilan UniversityDana Keil, Director, Room on the Bench at Luria Academy of Brooklyn Lisa Lepson, Executive Director, Joshua Venture GroupTikvah Wiener, Co-Founder and Director of IDEASchools Network, Magen David Yeshivah High School

Change on a systemwide basis is incredibly challenging, yet is essential to create more effective education and educative environments.Joshua Venture Group supports entrepreneurialleaders who visualize change within their communities. Three of their fellows focused onday school innovation; discover their innovativeand impactful learning models—all of which put the student at the center of the learning experience—and their strategies for implement-ing systems change beyond the classroom.

A New Pedagogy for Creating Personal ConnectionRabbi Aryeh Ben David, Director, Ayeka: Center for Soulful Jewish Education

Ideally, we want not only to convey informationbut also to affect the lives of our students. Wewant to enable them to bring the content intotheir lives, to enrich and impassion their Jewishidentities. The Talmud said that a person onlylearns where the heart desires. The heart learnsdifferently than the mind. Discover a new paradigmof how to bring any subject matter into thehearts of our students and enable them to personalize the material.

Strategic Staffing for Today’s Development Office Mandy Wynn, Director of Development, Rodeph Sholom SchoolJonathan Ball, Managing Associate, Director of School Services and Marketing, Carney Sandoe & Associates

Office structure and healthy teamwork can bethe keys to your success. Learn to assess, focus,and optimize the size and scale of your program –and the strengths and skills already on your team –to produce better results. Develop intentionalmanagement techniques that stem from systemsawareness to work more efficiently and createbalance and stability for your office. Find out if anadvancement model is right for you. Appropriatefor development, communications, marketing,admissions professionals, heads, and trustees.

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9:30am 10:30am 11:30am 12:30pm

The 3-Hour MBA – 9:30 am-12:30 pm Franklin 8

Beyond Bullying: Creating Systems and Environments for Social Success and Responsibility – 9:30 am-12:30 pm Franklin 1

Enable, Envision, Empower: A Skills-Based Approach to Leadership – 9:30 am-12:30 pm Franklin 2

Planning for a Quality Personalized Blended Learning Program – 9:30 am-12:30 pm Rooms 406-407

Excursion: National Museum of American Jewish History: Jewish Day Schools and the American Jewish Experience – 9:30 am-12:30 pm Page 13 Meets in the JW Room

Excursion: Rare and Precious Judaica from the Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaica – 9:30 am-12:30 pm Page 13 Meets in the JW Room

Excursion: Science Leadership Academy (SLA) – 9:30 am-12:30 pm Page 13 Meets in the JW Room

Playground – 9:30 am-12:30 pm – Explore. Engage. Discover. Page 11 Franklin 11-13

Uncommon Conversations: Thinking Differently about Hebrew – 9:30 am–11:00 am Room 401

Adaptive Leadership and Cultural Change – 9:30 am–10:50 am Franklin 7

Connecting Vision to Value – 9:30 am–10:50 am Franklin 9-10

Evaluating Strategic Models for Development: The Donor Pyramid or Lifecycle Map – 9:30 am–10:50 am Franklin 6

Leading With A Coaching Hat: Unleashing the Capacity of Individuals and of Systems – 9:30 am-10:50 am Franklin 4

Social Media Is No Longer Optional – 9:30 am–10:50 am Franklin 5

Building Better Day School Teachers: Lessons from DeLeT and the Field11:10 am-12:30 pm Franklin 5

Building a Culture of Innovation – 11:10 am-12:30 pm Franklin 9-10

Building a Thought Leadership Team – 11:10 am-12:30 pm Room 403

Halakhic Analysis as a Catalyst for Day School Systems Thinking: The Case of Severance Pay – 11:10 am-12:30 pm Franklin 6

Havruta Thinking: Answering the 21st Century Call for Relationship-Centered Learning – 11:10 am-12:30 pm Franklin 4

One Ning to Rule Them All: The Transformational Promise of 21st Century Learning – 11:10 am-12:30 pm Franklin 7

Open Space: The Learners in Your School – 11:10 am-12:30 pm Rooms 408-409

Innovative Ways to Bring Israel Into the High School Classroom9:30 am–10:15 am Room 403

Personalizing Learning with Technology:Cutting Edge, or Just Good Teaching?9:30 am–10:15 am Room 402


Lessons Learned: BOLD Day Schools10:50 am–11:35 am Rooms 414-415

To Include Or Not? The Day School Dilemma – 10:50 am–11:35 amRoom 402


The Torah iTextbook Project 11:45 am-12:30 pmRoom 402

Beit Midrash – 11:45 am-12:30 pmRooms 411-412 See page 9

3-HOUR SESSIONS:❏ The 3-Hour MBA

❏ Beyond Bullying: Creating Systems and Environments for Social Success and Responsibility

❏ Enable, Envision, Empower: A Skills-BasedApproach to Leadership

❏ Planning for a Quality Personalized BlendedLearning Program

❏ Excursion: National Museum of AmericanJewish History: Jewish Day Schools and theAmerican Jewish Experience

❏ Excursion: Rare and Precious Judaica fromthe Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center forAdvanced Judaica

❏ Excursion: Science Leadership Academy(SLA)

90-MINUTE SESSIONS:

9:30 am – 11:00 am❏ Uncommon Conversations: Thinking

Differently about Hebrew

80-MINUTE SESSIONS:9:30 am – 10:50 am❏ Adaptive Leadership and Cultural Change

❏ Connecting Vision to Value

❏ Evaluating Strategic Models for Development: The Donor Pyramid or Lifecycle Map

❏ Leading With A Coaching Hat: Unleashingthe Capacity of Individuals and of Systems

❏ Social Media Is No Longer Optional

11:10 am – 12:30 pm❏ Building Better Day School Teachers:

Lessons from DeLeT and the Field

❏ Building a Culture of Innovation

❏ Building a Thought Leadership Team

❏ Halakhic Analysis as a Catalyst for DaySchool Systems Thinking: The Case of Severance Pay

❏ Havruta Thinking: Answering the 21st Century Call for Relationship-CenteredLearning

❏ One Ning to Rule Them All: The Transformational Promise of 21st Century Learning

❏ Open Space: The Learners in Your School

45-MINUTE SESSIONS: 9:30 am – 10:15 am❏ Innovative Ways to Bring Israel Into the High

School Classroom

❏ Personalizing Learning with Technology:Cutting Edge, or Just Good Teaching?

❏ Beit Midrash

10:50 AM – 11:35 AM❏ Lessons Learned: BOLD Day Schools

❏ To Include Or Not? The Day School Dilemma

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11:45 AM – 12:30 PM❏ The Torah iTextbook Project

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The 3-Hour MBAYoni Heilman, Chief Operating Officer, Online Jewish Learning

As the line continues to blur between the for-profitand nonprofit worlds, more and more Jewish organizations are turning to the business worldfor frameworks, strategies, and best practices tohelp overcome the challenges they face. Acquirea high-level overview of business strategies asthey apply to Jewish organizations in general andday schools in particular. If you don't have anMBA on staff – and especially if you don’t thinkyou need one – this session is for you.

Beyond Bullying: Creating Systems and Environments for Social Success and Responsibility Dr. Rona Novick, Dean, Yeshiva University, Azrieli Graduate School

Explore systemic and social factors that supportrespectful, welcoming environments, and thosethat interfere, engaging in reflection and systemsassessment to relate it to their setting. Throughinteractive simulations, experience being a bully,victim, and bystander in the context of the system.The importance of all constituents, students, educators, and families, in developing social responsibility is underscored. Examine approachesto create and maintain socially healthy systems,with each participant constructing an action planto bring the conference learning to their setting.

Enable, Envision, Empower: A Skills-Based Approach to LeadershipYehudi Meshchaninov, Leadership Consultant,New American Initiative

Learn to leverage your school’s greatest asset:your staff. The only way to learn leadership skillsis to practice them. Acquire transformative lead-ership skills through role-playing and simulatedpractice. Use role-play to identify your reflexivecommunication and leadership behaviors.Identify blind spots and implications. Learn and begin to practice reflective communication.

Planning for a Quality Personalized BlendedLearning ProgramChris Rapp, Consultant, The AVI CHAI FoundationDr. Steven Brown, Program Officer, The AVI CHAI Foundation

Moving towards personalized blended learning isa systems challenge for day schools. Carefulmanagement of interconnected change is required.Learn about and discuss this transition through theexamination of key elements, including contentacquisition, technology alignment, teacher professional development, and administration.We consider the challenges of building communitysupport for blended learning. Attendance encour-aged for those at the beginning stages of thisprocess with limited blended experience.

90-MINUTE SESSION

Uncommon Conversations: Thinking Differently about HebrewDr. Alex Pomson, Director of Research and Evaluation, Rosov ConsultingRabbi Dr. Mitchel Malkus, Head of School, Charles E. Smith Jewish Day SchoolDr. Sharon Feiman-Nemser, Professor of JewishEducation, Brandeis University

What will it take to make serious headway withthe teaching of Hebrew? Few tasks are morechallenging for day schools. Whatever your rolein leading and supporting schools, join a conver-sation between researchers, practitioners, andfunders about what we need to know about Hebrew that, if we knew it, would lead to abreakthrough in Hebrew teaching and learning.Help set a powerful research agenda for the improvement of Hebrew language learning thattakes into account the cultural, ideological, andpractical challenges, and builds on the profoundinsights so far generated.

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Adaptive Leadership and Cultural ChangeRabbi Marc Baker, Head of School, Gann Academy

After reviewing key elements of Adaptive Leader-ship theory, apply these tools and this sharedlanguage to the concrete challenges associatedwith leading change in your school. Through aninteractive exploration and discussion of a shortcase study, unpack your own beliefs and assumptionsabout leadership and school culture, and look atdilemmas of practice and decision makingthrough the lenses of different stakeholders.

Building Better Day School Teachers: Lessons from DeLeT and the FieldDr. Sharon Feiman-Nemser, Professor of JewishEducation, Brandeis UniversityDr. Michael Zeldin, Senior National Director ofthe Schools of Education, Hebrew Union CollegeTeaching is a complex practice that can be taughtand learned. Teacher preparation begins theprocess; day schools must continue it. Drawingon participants’ experiences and findings from alongitudinal study of DeLeT alums, examine therole of JDSs in “building better teachers.” Participants consider what teachers need tolearn and what day schools are doing (and couldbe doing) to promote and assess teacher learningat every career stage.

Building a Culture of InnovationGrant Lichtman, Author, #EdJourney: A Roadmap to the Future of Education and The Falconer: What We Wish We Had Learned in School

Success in the past is not a guarantee of successin the future; organizations that do not develop acapacity for innovation can be overwhelmed byexternal factors. Learn how schools can developa greater comfort with innovative risk-taking;hire and develop faculty who are willing to becreative leaders in their own schools and beyond;and align precious resources more directly insupport of innovative practices. Leave withproven activities to try with your stakeholders.

Building a Thought Leadership TeamNora Anderson, Head of School, Carmel Academy

Every school team is made up of professionalswho, collectively, create a system of interrelatedideas, perspectives, and insights. Learn how toleverage the characteristics of effective thoughtleadership teams to further your school’s mission.Apply principles from Simon Sinek’s Golden Circle, use strategies such as storytelling, andcreate plans to go back to your schools and begintransforming your teams to become thoughtleaders in the field. For greatest impact, attendwith at least one other person from your school.


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Connecting Vision to ValueGrant Lichtman, Author, #EdJourney: A Roadmap to the Future of Education and The Falconer: What We Wish We Had Learned in School

A strong and differentiated value proposition isfound by deep engagement across a school community, which builds a vision of our highestfuture aspirations. The vision comes to lifethrough systems-wide alignment between thelearning experience and the school’s strategy,structures, and practices. Explore and share thenature of our customers; what our schools offeror might offer in the near future that is uniquelypowerful; and how we can reorganize strategicthinking processes to be more nimble, dynamicand focused on what makes the school mostvaluable. Practice four activities that you can re-create with your own stakeholders.

Evaluating Strategic Models for Development:The Donor Pyramid or Lifecycle MapDr. Deborah Polivy, President, Deborah K. Polivy & Associates

We all ask similar questions. How do we attractand keep donors? How do we raise more moneyfrom more people over time in order to increaseorganizational stability? How do we obtain endowment gifts? How do we measure success,and what are the respective roles of the head ofschool and board in advancing the developmententerprise? The answers depend upon creating astrategic development plan using building blocksor model: the donor lifecycle map or donor pyramid.Which works best?

Halakhic Analysis as a Catalyst for Day SchoolSystems Thinking: The Case of Severance PayRabbi Aryeh Klapper, Dean, Center for ModernTorah Leadership

Explore the issue of severance pay to model howrigorous, collaborative Jewish law-and-valuesanalysis of school policies can have broad positiveimpact on school culture. Understood in Jewishdepth, severance policy impacts issues as diverseas staff retention, professional development, andstudent religious identity formation, and reflectsand shapes a school’s broad conceptions of economic organization, employment, and the relationship of Jewish and Gentile society.

Havruta Thinking: Answering the 21st CenturyCall for Relationship-Centered LearningDr. Orit Kent, Director, Cook and Kent Educational ConsultingAllison Cook, Director, Cook and Kent Educational Consulting

How do we empower students and staff to createmagical moments of connection and learning inour schools? Through a multimedia case, we introduce fundamentals of “havruta thinking,” a relationship-based approach to teaching andlearning that allows us to intentionally fosterdeep learning and connection through specifictools, practice, reflection, and feedback. Have anopportunity to consider how this research-basedapproach can be a valuable tool for building relationships and vibrant learning communitiesthroughout your school, from the classroom tothe boardroom.

Leading With A Coaching Hat: Unleashing theCapacity of Individuals and of SystemsDr. Shira Leibowitz, Head of School, Solomon Schechter School of Queens

Leading with a coaching hat reframes the role ofschool leader from evaluator/visionary/managerto activator of the greatness within individualstudents, educators and lay leaders as well aswithin the school as an entire system. “Learningleaders,” shown by research to have a substan-tially more positive impact on school quality thaneither “visionary” or “instructional” leaders, utilize coaching techniques to activate systemsintelligence in order to dramatically enhance andeven redefine quality of learning and communityin our schools.

One Ning to Rule Them All: The Transforma-tional Promise of 21st Century LearningDr. Jon Mitzmacher, Executive Director,Schechter Day School Network

Sample virtual platforms and spaces, experience21st century learning pedagogies, share relevantexperiences, and take first meaningful steps totransform your classroom, school, foundation, ororganization. Try out new techniques, have a chanceto create new learning networks, and put theoryinto practice. Those who wish to go deeper/furtherhave an opportunity to continue the learningpost-session through a variety of media.

Open Space: The Learners in Your SchoolShira Loewenstein, Associate Director of NewTeacher Support, YU School PartnershipAmanda Pogany, Head of School, Luria Academy of Brooklyn

In Open Space meetings experienced facilitatorsguide participants in creating and managingtheir own agenda of parallel working sessionsaround a central topic of strategic importance. Inthis session, gather around two related topics: 1)the adults in your school as learners; and 2) thestudents in your school as learners. What con-versations about adult and student learning doyou need to have that will help you achieve, oreven surpass, your highest aspirations for theeducation your school provides?

Social Media Is No Longer OptionalAndrea Hernandez, Director, edJEWcon

Gone are the days of discussing the value of aschool’s social media presence. Parents, faculty,students, and potential families, vital to your organization, expect interaction, targeted infor-mation, and just-in-time news updates. Socialmedia has changed the way we communicate,curate, archive, and disseminate information.Schools no longer push out content as a one-sidedconversation. Whose job is it to oversee what isbeing said about your school online? How do schoolsuse the power of social media for authentic, collaborative, and networked communication,marketing, and learning?

45-MINUTE SESSIONS

Lessons Learned: BOLD Day SchoolsRachel Mohl Abrahams, Senior Program Officer, The AVI CHAI FoundationHolly Cohen, Executive Director, Kohelet FoundationJeff Kiderman, Executive Director, Affordable Jewish Education Project

This panel features three foundation staff, eachof whom is involved in managing the work intransforming five day schools into blended learn-ing schools. The foundations are co-funders ofthe BOLD Day Schools Project. This discussionfocuses on benefits and challenges observedduring implementation phase, and school readi-ness. Learn about seven lessons from our expe-riences so far, practical takeaways forsupporting implementations in your school. Dis-cover readiness factors schools need for suc-cess, and areas of school systems requiringattention before thinking about blended learningimplementations.




Innovative Ways to Bring Israel Into the HighSchool ClassroomMiri Kornfeld, National High School Program Director, StandWithUs

Learn about the importance of teaching about Israel in high school classrooms. Too often, ourJewish students are raised in a pro-Israel environment but do not know how to effectivelyshare their love of Israel on college campuses,where they often face anti-Israel campaignssuch as BDS and Israel Apartheid Week. Discussthe root of the problem and effective and innova-tive ways of ensuring that you can prepare yourstudents to be leaders for Israel now and ontheir future college campuses.

Personalizing Learning with Technology: Cutting Edge, or Just Good Teaching? Gary Hartstein, Director, DigitalJLearning Network, Jewish Education Project

Are traditional and blended classrooms at oddswith each other, or is all great teaching reallyabout personalizing learning? Hear about teachers’experiences combining online and in-person instruction. Learn how they give studentsagency, teach self-management, and developlifelong learners. Examine how data driveslearning and how today’s technologies make assessment and immediate feedback simpler forteachers. Explore how personalization throughblended learning is neither a fad nor a specifictechnology; it’s just great classroom practicethat actually works.

The Torah iTextbook Project Rabbi Dr. Mordechai Smolarcik, Chair, Torah SheBaal Peh Department, Hillel Day School of Boca Raton

The Torah iTextbook Project has developed acomplete library of curricular materials to enhance the teaching and learning of Gemara.This unique iPad and iMac based study tool allows students to explore relevant Talmud topicswhile building their Gemara skill sets. Discoverthe educational goals of the project, results ofthe project’s pilot study, and how your school canmake use of this highly effective tool developedwith the assistance of the Jewish Education Innovation Challenge Grant from the MaybergFamily Foundation.

To Include Or Not? The Day School Dilemma Beverly Bernstein, Educational Director, OROT

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Rachel Mohl AbrahamsCharlotte AbramsonRabbi Daniel AlterNora AndersonSusan AppelbaumRabbi Maccabee AvishurRabbi Marc BakerJonathan BallMarcy BaloghIlana BensonBeverly BernsteinDr. Harry BloomDebbie BornsteinDr. Ebony Bridwell-MitchellSimon BriefAndrew BrommelDr. Steven BrownJonathan CannonIlisa CappellMarilyn Forman ChandlerDr. Carmel ChiswickHolly CohenJane Taubenfeld CohenRabbi Meir CohenAllison CookBeth CrastnopolDr. John D'AuriaRabbi Aryeh Ben DavidHadar DohnAvital DroriRebecca EgolfMelanie EisenRabbi Dr. Josh ElkinDr. Sharon Feiman-NemserLinda FosterRabbi Josh FranklinNanette FridmanDr. Orly FuhrmanRuth GafniChana GermanRabbi Elliot GoldbergDr. Idana GoldbergJill GoldenbergMark GoldsteinAshira Lapin GobrinRabbi Yaakov Green

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ERB Pathways, your resource for teacher and student support services when used as part of an ongoing curriculum. Pathways helps build your students’ math, writing, and vocabulary skills with guided practice and tutorials.

Comprehensive Testing Program (CTP) and CTP Online, a rigorous assessment of student achievement and reasoning for Grades 1 to 11.

Writing Assessment Program (WrAP) and WrAP Online as well as the online Writing Practice Program (WPP) for evaluating and strengthening skills in writing for Grades 3 to 12.

Children's Progress Assessments (CPAA), a computer-adaptive assessment of essential academic skills in early literacy and mathematics for students in Junior Pre-K to Grade 2.

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