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Meet a Day School Leader: Chaim Greenwald
by Deborah Fishman | Oct 13, 2015 |
Who are the leaders ensuring the Jewish education of our children in day schools across the country? This series features selected school leaders – including those from Community, Orthodox and Schechter schools from across the US and Canada. We asked them about their...
Lee Shulman Talks Assessment in eRAVSAK: Video
by Guest | Sep 18, 2015 |
RAVSAK is revamping its newsletter for the new year, and the new format will include a video interview in each monthly installment. The first interview features Dr. Lee Shulman, Professor Emeritus at Stanford University and chair of the advisory board of the...
Ancient Jewish Wisdom for the Health of the Jewish Nonprofit Field in 5776
by YossiPrager | Sep 9, 2015 |
Cross posted from eJewishPhilanthropy By Yossi Prager The Jewish nonprofit world has been my professional home for over 20 years. I am proud to have as colleagues very many passionate and talented professionals serving the Jewish community. And yet, as I look back on...
Meet a Day School Leader: David Sultan
by Deborah Fishman | Sep 3, 2015 |
Who are the leaders ensuring the Jewish education of our children in day schools across the country? This series features selected school leaders – including those from Community, Orthodox and Schechter schools from across the US and Canada. We asked them about their...
The Great Migration: Back to School 2015-2016
by Guest | Aug 20, 2015 |
Cross posted from Rabbi's Pen The month of August ushers in one of the greatest of all human migrations: the migration back to school. It’s a migration not only for students but for parents, teachers, administrators, and the countless other people that make schools...
Meet a Day School Leader: Helene Lubel
by Deborah Fishman | Aug 18, 2015 |
Who are the leaders ensuring the Jewish education of our children in day schools across the country? This series features selected school leaders – including those from Community, Orthodox and Schechter schools from across the US and Canada. We asked them about their...
ISTE 2015 with the DigitalJLearning Network
by Deborah Fishman | Aug 11, 2015 |
This year, the DigitalJLearning Network (DJLN) sponsored 15 educators from 15 different institutions to attend the annual International Society for Technology in Education Conference (ISTE 2015), which took place from June 28-July 1 in Philadelphia. The premier...
Cultural Leadership for Transforming Organizations
by Deborah Fishman | Aug 10, 2015 |
Culture can be a major determining factor in the success and happiness of a school’s teachers, students, and parents. The good news is that a school’s culture can be malleable, and what leaders do makes a difference. School leaders from across the country heard this...
Learning to Change the World at Leadership: An Evolving Vision
by Michael Berger | Aug 6, 2015 |
By: Michael Berger In an earlier blogpost on AVI CHAI’s program to help leaders advance their schools’ Jewish missions, Deborah Fishman wonderfully captured the essence of the Harvard Summer Institutes which serve as a launching pad for school change. The elements...
New Case Study Available: Zafon Elementary School: A Station-Rotation Model for Supporting 21st Century Learning
by Deborah Fishman | Aug 5, 2015 |
As part of AVI CHAI’s investment in the field of blended and online learning, we are excited to share with you the first in a series of four cases that study and document the experiences of day schools introducing and implementing this mode of learning. Our goal is to...