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Here is a snapshot of data collected through the Board Self-Assessment (BSA), a tool designed for Jewish day schools and administered by BoardSource in partnership with Prizmah. It is a leading practice for boards to engage...
I have been so impressed with the determination, resilience and creativity of our day school community in attacking the challenge of returning to in-person instruction and/or providing the best-possible virtual learning. And...
Winston Churchill once said, ““Never let a good crisis go to waste.” We who work in the Jewish day school world are familiar with crises, both large and small. All of them offer opportunities to learn. Our particular crisis a...
A substantial body of literature supports the claim that strong board leadership, and in particular, strong volunteer-professional partnerships, make a difference to the effectiveness of schools. This study seeks to...
Thousands of day school believers devote countless hours each year to board meetings and committee work, all of it with a passion for their school, all of it as volunteers. How can we make the most of this precious resource...
A Data Informed Framework for Board Leadership helps boards to identify the primary tasks of boards, the structures and practices that lead to healthy board governance and the capacities and dispositions of board leadership...
Think about your past year of service as a board member. Is there a special project, a task or a goal related to your service that you wish you had achieved but did not? For example, did you hope to update the board handbook...
The Prizmah Knowledge Center developed a pulse survey to collect and harness the knowledge and thinking of Jewish day school and yeshiva leaders to provide data and support for their scenario planning conversations for the...
A New Tense for Hebrew: Past, Present and Possible 20 case studies of Jewish day schools about how schools enact their Jewish missions, entitled "A New Tense for Hebrew: Past, Present and Possible " authored by Tali Zelkowicz...