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Professional Leadership
That first year of being a head of school, I didn’t feel like I was living my own life. I had to make enormous decisions with little information and without the opportunity to build trust with my team first. I was used to...
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Professional Leadership
The conversation I had most frequently at this year’s Prizmah conference was about sustainability—or rather, the lack of sustainability—in the headship of Jewish day schools. During my first few years in this role, I would...
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Governance, Professional Leadership
Emotional labor is the unpaid part of the job, the invisible work we do to keep those around us comfortable and happy. When embarking on a headship, no one talks to you about the emotional labor. No one recognizes the amount...
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Governance, Professional Leadership
Among the items found in the job description of heads of school in Jewish day schools are technical skills such as budget review and management, fundraising, strategy development and implementation and problem solving. A...
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Governance, Professional Leadership
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Fundraising & Development, Professional Leadership
Relationships are the engine of the Jewish day school world. They drive our students’ work, our parents’ support, our administrative efforts, and the philanthropy of our donors. And never before have the relationships that...
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Fundraising & Development, Professional Leadership
In North America, there are approximately 900 Jewish day schools with nearly 300,000 students. With few exceptions, these schools face significant, and in some cases, existential, challenges. Among the most prevalent of these...
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Prizmah Thought Leadership, Professional Leadership, Research, Teaching and Learning
Learn how a leadership team structure that is aligned with institutional values has the capacity to effect impactful and sustained change within a school environment. Explore the process by which the organizational structure...
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Prizmah Thought Leadership, Professional Leadership, Research, Teaching and Learning
How can Jewish schools ensure that their graduates go on to be stewards of democracy? And how can Jewish educators teach students to connect Jewish ethics to the practices of citizenship? The Brandeis School of San Francisco...
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Professional Leadership
In Hebrew, the root of the word imagination is ד.מ.ה, and the root of the word “human” is א.ד.מ. The similarity between the roots of the words imagination and of humanity is not surprising. One of the things that makes us...