Azrieli SP Blog

On Tuesday evening, March 9^th, the School-Partnership organized a welcome reception for Na’amit Sturm-Nagel, who is participating in its GiveBack Fellowship at the Maimonides School in Boston.  Community lay leaders and professionals from around the greater Boston area gathered at the home of Zev and Risa Gewurz to hear about her work at the school.

After a dessert reception, participants were welcomed to the event by Doodie Miller who then introduced Joey Small to talk about the creation and development of the fellowships. The main speaker of the evening was Na’amit who shared her experiences as a young, novice teacher at the school and answered questions from the community including topics such as steps the school/community can take to recruit more talented young teachers.

After taking questions from the audience, Dr. Scott Goldberg, Director of the School-Partnership, discussed the work that Yeshiva University is engaged with not only in their local neighborhood, but also serving schools across North America.  The Boston community is excited to continue its partnership with Yeshiva University and to continue to turn to YU to help them recruit, train and support talented educators.

If your school is interested in hosting a fellow please fill out the following application here.

We welcome you to contact our interest group leaders (as indicated below) to be added to their list of group members. Our interest groups were chosen based on feedback we received of most relevant topics. Because of the overwhelming interest in Instructional Leadership, we subdivided this group to facilitate arranging joint meetings within a similar time zone. The four new interest groups are:

Instructional Leadership-Midwest and East Coast

Led by: Jeremy Kahan and Maureen Mintz

E-mail: jkahan@icja.org and mmintz@sassds.org (Please e-mail Maureen to be added to this group.)

Instructional Leadership-West Coast

Led by: Peggy Kasloff and Bat Sheva Miller

E-mail: pkas@comcast.net and batohds@gmail.com (Please e-mail Peggy to be added to this group.)

Differentiated Instruction

Led by: Karen Feller and Chani Maybruch

E-mail: fellerk@dkja.org and chani.maybruch@yu.edu (Please e-mail Chani to be added to this group.)

Maximizing Technology

Led by: Judy Cahn and Avi Greene

E-mail: judycahn@yahoo.com and avigreene@yahoo.com (Please e-mail Judy to be added to this group.)

Once you have e-mailed the interest group leaders, you will receive information from your group leaders regarding scheduling the first videoconference for your interest group.

In a groundbreaking gathering representing collaboration and common purpose among Jewish religious streams, nearly 600 leaders and educators at Jewish day schools across the U.S. and Canada met for the North American Jewish Day School Leadership Conference on January 17th, 2010 at the Glenpointe Marriott in Teaneck, NJ.

Click here to view Video and Photos from the conference

The Institute is pleased to launch Case and Commentary, discussions of current challenges facing Jewish educators and lay leaders followed by proposed solutions from experts in the field. Through our partnerships with Jewish day schools across North America, educators and lay leaders have shared with us some of the most challenging situations they face in their positions. The notion of Case and Commentary originated from a retreat that the Institute hosted for a group of young principals in the winter of 2008. At the retreat, the principals discussed and documented a few of the complex dilemmas with which they were grappling.  These real life scenarios have been stripped of identifying information, modified, and sometimes embellished to enhance their usability as learning tools. The first of the series, The Choice, addresses the dilemma a young promising head of school, raising a family in a small community outside the New York area, faces when he is offered a higher paying position in a New Jersey School.  Should he relocate? Expert commentary from Rabbi Pinchos Hecht, Head of School at Fuchs Mizrachi, Rabbi Chaim Feuerman, Ed.D,  Azrieli Graduate School professor, and Rabbi Ronald Schwarzberg, director of Career Development and Rabbinic Placement at the Center for the Jewish Future, follow providing perspective and advise on the issues at hand.

Click here to download The Choice. 

Share your thoughts and personal experiences with others in the field in the blog comment box below.

Comments? Feedback? Interested in having a challenge you face be featured in Case and Commentary?

Contact Lori Arfe Perelmuter at 212-960-5400 x6943 or email larfe@yu.edu 

We are very proud that this year Yeshiva University will host two exciting opportunity for principals to meet YU students and graduates (RIETS, Azrieli, Revel, YC and Stern) interested in teaching. On November 16th and 17th, schools from outside the tri-state area are invited to YU for On Campus Chinuch Recruitment where we will highlight opportunities for our graduates to work and teach in communities across North America.

 
Please consider all available job opportunities you will have for the 2010-2011 school year now and register for the event by completing this form (click here) and returning it together with a job description to Joey Small at jsmall@yu.edu or by faxing it to 212-960-5390. While on campus, you will have the opportunity to interview potential employees whose resumes you have screened beforehand.
 
In addition to the actual opportunities to meet with students at these events, the Institute and CJF will host panels at both the Wilf and Beren campuses for administrators to discuss the specific challenges and opportunities of Chinuch outside the tri-state area. There will also be networking opportunities for administrators and a professional development opportunity with Dr. Jeffrey Glanz.

Click here to view the full program schedule. 
 
We look forward to your participation and to working with you to make this a successful recruiting season.

Professional and lay leaders from Jewish day schools from across the spectrum of practice will come together in a first-ever unified educational conference this coming January 2010 in the Metropolitan New York area. Jointly planned by  , the Institute for University-School Partnership at Yeshiva University RAVSAK: The Jewish Community  Day School Network, the Solomon Schechter Day School Association, and PARDeS: The Progressive Association of Reform Day Schools, the shared conference represents ground-breaking work in cost-effectiveness and community building among Reform, Conservative, Community and Orthodox day schools.

Historically, each day school network has hosted its own annual professional development conference.  Elements of duplication of service were seen as secondary to the need for each organization to serve their constituent schools.  The rapid change in the economy, which has shaken the day school world to its core, inspired the heads of the various networks to collaborate in new ways, resulting in a conference model which capitalizes on knowledge-sharing and meta-issues in leadership while making possible new alliances among the schools. Conference programming will include keynote sessions by leading-edge thinkers including Alan November, Erica Brown, Lee Shulman and Jonah Lehrer,  case studies, intensive workshops, peer-to-peer learning and network-specific meetings.

To learn more and to register click here http://www.jewishdayschoolconference.org/

We invite you to browse our newly launched website which highlights the four major pillars of our work: Research and Knowledge Sharing, Continuing Education and Professional Development, Strategic Planning and Performance Improvement, and Educator Recruitment and Placement.

New features include a media gallery which archives resources, learning materials and programs and blogs such as this one so that we may partner with you in communicating and learning. Stay tuned to the Events Section located on the right hand side of the website to learn more about our free upcoming Continuing Education sessions and other exciting Institute happenings.

Institute for University–School Partnership