Attending the Crisis of Leadership

Day school leadership, especially headship, confronts all kinds of crises: regular school crises, driven by finances or parents; short tenure (averaging 2.5 years); limited pool of qualified applicants; and an impossible workload with little room for family life. These articles analyze aspects of the problem and offer remedies that professionals and lay leaders might implement in their schools.

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Spring 2012

Articles From This Issue

Where Consciousness Meets Community: Clues from Camp about Jewish Leadership

Alex Pomson
Relationship-Based Leadership: The JFNA Approach

Rachel Ain
Ramah Provides Fertile Soil for Lifelong Leadership Development

Mitchell Cohen and Debbie Nahshon
Developing Leaders, Not Replacements

David Cygielman
Leadership from Within

Betty Winn and Larry Kligman
The Leadership Recruitment Challenge: Expanding the Pipeline

Daniel Alter
Preparing Our Next Professional Leaders: It Takes a Community

David Edell, Dara Z. Klarfeld, and Josh Elkin
Developing a Theory of Jewish Day School Leadership

Michael Berger
The Classroom Boardroom: Lessons from Wexner

B. Elka Abrahamson
From the Editor

Barbara Davis
Building a Diverse, Philanthropic and High Functioning Governing Board

Elizabeth Jick
Leading Through Crises: A Midrash on Two Lives

Laurence Scheindlin
Leadership Giving: The Board’s Role in Your School’s Financial Future

Diane Remin
It Doesn’t Have To Be “Lonely At the Top”: Developing High Functioning Leadership Teams

Marc Baker
A Beit Midrash Model of Lay-Professional Leadership

Yonatan Yussman and Maureen Dewan
Boredom: The Real Crisis in Leadership

Bruce Powell
Olami / Personal Essay: How to Survive Cancer at a Jewish Day School

Rhonda Rosenheck
In It for the Long Run: Keys to Head of School Longevity

Cooki Levy
Finding a Speaking Voice

Barbara Gereboff and Joelle Kaufman
The “All Chiefs” Crisis in Education

Erica Brown
Developing Leadership Competence and Commitment: Project SuLaM

Todd Clauer