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.

COVID-19 Resources

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Coronavirus

Must See Resources for Board Chairs and Board Members

By: Ilisa Cappell

Purposeful Leadership, Board-Head of School Partnership, Governance, Board Roles & Responsibilities

Prizmah Podcasts: What Do Students Really Think of High School Talmud?

By: Elliott Rabin

JDS Research, Judaics/ Kodesh, High School

Abraham Joshua Heschel and Martin Luther King Jr

Talking to Students about George Floyd and Racism

By: Odelia Epstein

Ethics/Middot

Portrait of Jewish Day Schools & Yeshivas: 2020 Benchmarking Report

By: Odelia Epstein

Thought Leadership, JDS Research, Affordability Other, Schedules, Annual Campaign, Finance & budget, Other

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

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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

Ask Me Anything: Socially Distant Donor Engagement and Stewardship

October 22, 2020

Fundraising & Development

Video and notes from Ask Me Anything: Development Socially Distant Donor Engagement and Stewardship, a conversation with Barbara...

Rituals from Afar and Judaic Administrator Check In Notes

October 21, 2020

Coronavirus, Judaics/ Kodesh, Informal Education

Recent Notes Judaic Administrator Check Ins: Ongoing meeting notes Judaic Administrator Check In Archive Meeting notes on...

COVID-19 Resources

October 21, 2020

Coronavirus

Shared School Materials Peer-to-Peer Meet-Ups Back To School Teaching and Learning Social and Emotional Learning Pulse Survey...

COVID-19 Heads of School Weekly Call

October 20, 2020

Coronavirus, Professional Leadership

In effort to support school leaders Prizmah is regularly convening Heads of School. Here are the notes from these meetings for...

Prizmah Podcasts: Reflecting on and Learning from Jewish Day School Boards

October 19, 2020

Thought Leadership, Purposeful Leadership, Board-Head of School Partnership

Research Encounter series Daniella Presner Moshe Werthan Ilisa Cappell Alex Pomson Daniella Pressner and Moshe Werthan, head of...

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