AVI CHAI concluded its general grant making on December 31, 2019.
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Bringing New Young Families Into Our Day Schools
By: Nili Simhai What does it take for someone to feel welcome in a new space? What does it take for someone to think of themselves as part of a new social circle? These questions may not seem relevant to the issue of growing day school enrollment, but they are at the...
Five New Year’s Resolutions for the Jewish Day School Field
By: Dr. Harry Bloom It is that time of year. Secular New Year’s resolution time. Since I spend most of my waking hours managing the PEJE Atidenu Recruitment & Retention and Governance & Fundraising Academy programs (co-funded by The AVI CHAI Foundation), my...
Supporting New Leaders: Lessons Learned
This post is cross-posted from eJewishPhilanthropy. By Dr. Elliot D. Spiegel and Lynn Raviv Three years ago, RAVSAK launched the Head of School Professional Excellence Project (HoSPEP), a program that creates fellowship cohorts of new heads of school (“Fellows”), each...
Watch the Webinar: AVI CHAI's Online/Blended Learning School Case Studies
Last week, AVI CHAI held a webinar featuring two case studies released by the Foundation. These cases discuss the experiences of two Jewish day schools experimenting with blended/online learning models. The webinar was presented by the cases’ author, Dr. Leslie Santee...
Aim Higher: An Address to the DSLTI Alumni Retreat
We are pleased to share AVI CHAI Program Officer Dr. Michael Berger’s address to the Day School Leadership Training Institute (DSLTI) alumni retreat currently underway in Florida. DSLTI, an AVI CHAI grantee, is a program of the Davidson School of Jewish Education at...
New Blended/Online Learning Case Study: Ma’arav, A Long-Established Orthodox High School
AVI CHAI is documenting and studying the experiences of Jewish day schools that are experimenting with blended/online learning models through releasing a series of case studies. You can read about the rationale and set of guiding questions for these cases here. We...
Rabbinics Standards & Benchmarks: Collaboration Begins
In an atmosphere of anticipation and excitement, a group of Jewish day school educators, scholars of Rabbinics and education and experienced Jewish educators has begun to collaborate on a compendium of Standards and Benchmarks for the study of Rabbinics in Jewish day...
Pushing Against the Tefillah Ceiling
Last spring, AVI CHAI released 20 case studies exploring how Jewish day schools enact their Jewish missions. We have been further delving into the issues which the studies bring to life through a series of webinars, hosted by Dr. Jack Wertheimer, Director of AVI...
Feeding the Fire: Nourishing and Sustaining Heads of School
This post is cross-posted from eJewishPhilanthropy Being a Head of School can be a challenging and strenuous job. The Day School Leadership Training Institute (DSLTI) of the William Davidson Graduate School of Jewish Education of JTS, an AVI CHAI grantee, serves to...
Hack Jewish Education
Behrman House and MindCET are launching a new pilot accelerator program designed to jump-start the creation of new, Jewish educational technology. Supported by a grant from AVI CHAI, the program will identify and provide support to a North American-based development...