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folds and our children and faculty return to school after the chagim, we are thinking of you. You play a critical role in supporting your head of school and their leadership of your school community—and we are here to support...
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Evaluating the Delivery of Values in a Day School Setting
How to Measure A+ Human Being Education As the newly renamed de Toledo (formerly New Community Jewish) High School embarked in 2014-15 on its bar/t mitzvah year, the Board of Directors inquired whether we are actualizing the...
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Betzelem Elohim: From Mission Statement to Disciplinary Policy
Shpall argues that a school’s discipline policy provides a platform for putting its mission statement into practice, thus connecting both student and administrator to the school’s values.
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God in the Christian Classroom: Lessons for Jewish Day Schools
According to the official website of the Protestant Reformed Churches of America, Christian schools date back many centuries, with early schools based on “the Word of God” and fostering a close connection with the Church...
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The Pluralistic Mission in Everyday Practice
Often one of the pillars of community day school mission statements, pluralism is an elusive value that can be hard to translate into practice. Lipsky presents ideas for schools take pluralism from the mission statement into...
In this issue of Kaleidoscope, we have the opportunity to hear from leaders of our Jewish day schools and yeshivot. We thank these leaders for their vulnerability in sharing their experiences so that together as a community...
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...
According to one recent article, the average tenure of Jewish day school heads is 4-5 years, whereas the same for heads of public or other private schools is 12-14 years—a staggering three times as long. In facing this...
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...