Knowledge Center

Welcome to the Prizmah Knowledge Center

Explore our extensive library of resources, templates, and videos curated and created for Jewish day school professional and lay leaders. Content is updated regularly.For questions or feedback contact Odelia Epstein at OdeliaE@Prizmah.org. User guide is available here.

Yom HaZikaron & Yom HaAtzmaut

By: Elliott Rabin

Judaics/ Kodesh

Development Pulse Survey Results

By:

Traci Stratford and Odelia Epstein

JDS Research, Coronavirus, Fundraising & Development

Jewish Day School Boards: Snapshots of the Field

By: Ilisa Cappell

Governance, Board Evaluation, Thought Leadership, JDS Research

COVID-19 Resources

By:

Odelia

Epstein

Coronavirus

Fall 2020 Enrollment Survey Results

By:

Odelia Epstein and Amy Adler

Coronavirus, Thought Leadership, JDS Research, Recruitment and Retention, Admissions

Affordability

Middle income affordability, creative tuition models and other affordability resources.

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Coronavirus

Resources to help schools deal with the implications of coronavirus

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Finance & budget

Sustainability and other finance and budget resources.

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Fundraising & Development

Annual campaign, endowment campaign, marketing, federation and more resources.

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Governance

Purposeful leadership, board roles, committees, board-head partnership, search, strategic planning and more resources.

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Human Resources

Hiring, job descriptions, recruitment of teachers and more resources.

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Prizmah Thought Leadership

Prizmah created content including research, blogs, podcasts, data and benchmarking reports.

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Professional Leadership

Instructional leadership, community building, vision, personnel development and more resources.

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Recruitment and Retention

Admissions, recruitment, retention, impact of day school and more resources.

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Research

Research on Jewish day schools

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School Policies and Procedures

Additional resources will be forthcoming.

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Teaching and Learning

Pedagogy, PD, Hebrew, Israel, judaics/ kodesh, general studies, inclusion and more resources.

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Latest Resources

Raising A+ Human Beings With Dr. Bruce Powell and Dr. Ron Wolfson

April 20, 2021

Personnel Development & Empowerment, Vision/ Direction Setting

On April 20, 2021, Dr Bruce Powell and Dr Ron Wolfson joined Prizmah’s Debra Shaffer Seeman in conversation about their new book...

Jewish Living Podcast: A Discussion on Yeshiva Tuition

April 13, 2021

Affordability, Affordability Other, Middle Income Affordability

The Jewish Living Project Podcast speaks Dan Perla, Senior Director of Catalyzing Resources at Prizmah, about how tuition in...

Prizmah Podcasts: Gender, Class and Young Jewish Women

April 7, 2021

Thought Leadership, JDS Research

Research Encounter series How do we support girls in the transition from middle school to high school? Joni Fishman, middle...

Yom HaZikaron & Yom HaAtzmaut

March 25, 2021

Judaics/ Kodesh

Yom HaZikaron Masa Israel is again holding its annual ceremony, the largest one held in English, on Facebook . The Israeli...

Community-based Middle Income Tuition Programs

March 24, 2021

Affordability Other, Middle Income Affordability

Dozens of schools across North America now offer tuition reduction programs for middle income families. At least three...

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