Educational Excellence

At the core of the work of Jewish day schools are the students and your deep commitment to providing them with the highest quality educational experience. Investing in educational excellence results in positive outcomes for all stakeholders and brings your school closer to actualizing the ultimate goal of success for all learners.

Mental Health: Student and Faculty Support

In a Jewish day school, education is not limited to the curriculum or classroom. Teachers and school professionals all play a role in fostering intellectual and spiritual growth alongside physical and emotional well-being. In recent years Prizmah has devoted significant resources to emerging needs in mental health education, supporting faculty as they model, promote, and teach healthy minds.

Cohort-Based Programs and Offerings

Mental Health Summit

Each Spring, Prizmah hosts The Mental Health Summit, an online gathering of hundreds of mental health professionals, learning specialists, and school leaders to engage in high-level learning and collaboration around mental health challenges and opportunities in Jewish day schools and yeshivas. Learn more.

School Counselor Cohort

During nine months of online cohort-based learning and network building, school counselors and mental health professionals from day schools across North America gain the practical tools, research, and knowledge needed to thrive as they support students, faculty, and families. Learn more.

Professional Development and Consulting

Supporting Mental Health In Jewish Day Schools Workshop Series

This community based program engages with a local partner to bring a series of workshops to school counselors and other school affiliated mental health providers from area day schools. It is an opportunity to provide meaningful professional learning for school counselors that is tailored to the unique and multifaceted role they play in supporting the social-emotional development and mental health of students. We will collaborate to select a topic that is relevant to the participants and elevates the vital work they do across the community’s schools. Learn more.

Designing Classrooms that Support All Learners

Prizmah experts will guide your team through a process of understanding how to design teaching and learning that incorporates research-based best practices. Together we will identify their schools strengths and needs, and collaboratively design an individualized plan for how to facilitate teacher growth in supporting all learners. Learn more.

Growth Plan for Educational Support Services

We partner with school leaders and educational support staff to identify multiple sources of data that will inform the process, including survey, interview, focus groups, classroom observation, and student assessment results. Our team collects, analyzes and interprets the data, and produces a comprehensive report with recommendations for moving forward. Learn more.

Jewish Life and Learning

Jewish life and culture is at the heart of our Jewish day schools. The seamless integration and infusion of Judaism is unique to day schools as it creates a fully immersive environment where students are surrounded by deep rooted traditions, values, and texts alongside their general studies curricula, fostering a strong sense of identity and knowledge.

Cohort-Based Programs and Offerings

Jewish Climate Leadership Collaborative

The Collaborative is a part of the Jewish Climate Leadership Coalition, a network of Jewish community organizations. Organizations develop Climate Action Plans outlining the strategic priorities of their climate work by setting goals for both reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and mobilizing broader networks around climate action in the coming year. When organizations join the Coalition, their chief executive or rabbi signs the Coalition Founding Statement and designates a staff liaison to coordinate their organization’s climate action work. Learn more.

Reshet Communities

Reshet communities are online forums for colleagues from Jewish day schools and yeshivas across North America to network, share resources, and collaborate. Find the Reshet that is right for you.

Judaic Studies Administrators
Learning Specialists
EdTech Professionals
Israel Education

Meetups

Meetups are recurring online facilitated programs that offer school professionals the opportunity to network, engage in conversations, strategize, access valuable tools and resources with colleagues from schools across North America. Register for a meetup today.

Judaic Studies Administrators
Learning Specialists
EdTech Professionals

Consulting

Judaic Studies Curriculum Mapping

Define measurable learning outcomes for your Judaic studies curriculum, and identify where these goals are taught and assessed within and across subject areas and grade levels. Learn more.

Jewish Life and Learning Mapping

Work with Prizmah experts to articulate goals around facilitating student development as engaged and committed Jews. Examine both curricular and cocurricular activities that support these goals, as well as identify any gaps or misalignment. Learn more.