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The Partnership for Excellence in Jewish Education (PEJE), which aims to help day schools in facing multiple challenges around tuition, affordability, and the middle-class squeeze; about enrollment, attrition, and fundraising in the 21st century, has launched a new webzine. Sustained! Viable Jewish Day Schools for an Enduring Future is a bi-monthly resource for day school professionals and volunteer leaders with content that includes best practices, cutting-edge tools, resources and data, programs that make a difference, and practical advice. Sustained! is a new sort of PEJE publication, incorporating video, a social media column and even illustrated case studies.
Published: 2011
Updated: May. 11, 2011
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JESNA's Learnings & Consultation Center released a new issue of Quick Bytes on Complementary School Mergers. In it they report on two online surveys (in November 2009 and February 2011) with the members of the Association of Directors of Central Agencies (ADCA) to gather data about proposed and/or completed school mergers in communities throughout North America. The report highlights recurring themes and important variations and raises questions for discussion. A subsequent edition will focus on day school and Jewish communal institution mergers.
Published: 2011
Updated: May. 11, 2011
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The Jim Joseph Foundation made a $3 million challenge grant to the Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School -- the 5-year-old foundation's first direct grant to a rabbinical school. The money will be disbursed over a five-year period. The yeshiva will commit to matching $2.5 million of the grant on a one-to-one basis. The Jim Joseph grant is designed to permit the school to produce more pulpit and campus rabbis and Jewish educators, and to create a separate track for Jewish educators that will carry the same prestige as the pulpit track.
Published: 2011
Updated: May. 11, 2011
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With the power of a $3.1 million grant from the AVI CHAI Foundation over three years, the Partnership for Excellence in Jewish Education (PEJE) has stimulated a six-figure investment from three communities in North America to address the very real challenge of day school affordability. The Generations pilot program , a three-way collaboration between PEJE, a federation or central Jewish agency, and AVI CHAI, seeks to transform the way schools fund their budgets by raising endowment and legacy gifts. The Generations program offers communities and schools expertise in building endowments through customized coaching, local and national training programs, assistance with potential donor identification, cultivation and stewardship, and the establishment of a national knowledge center to share best practices.
Published: 2011
Updated: May. 11, 2011
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Julie Wiener, associate editor of The Jewish Week writes about the development of after-school Judaic studies programs for students from the new Hebrew charter school movement. These private, optional programs offer a chance to engage unaffiliated Jewish children while also compensating for what is, from the Jewish community’s perspective, a major shortcoming of Hebrew charter schools: their inability to teach Bible, prayer or other religious content.
Published: 2010
Updated: Mar. 09, 2011
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In this article, Howard Blas, Director of the Tikvah Program at Camp Ramah in New England and a member of the inaugural cohort of the Jim Joseph Foundation Fellows – Leading Educators Online, describes the challenges, successes and benefits of an online Community of Practice for directors of eight Ramah overnight and day camps in the United States and Canada.
Published: 2010
Updated: Feb. 09, 2011
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The Covenant Foundation is currently inviting applications for the 2011 Covenant Grants that focus on cultivating excellent, effective, and creative Jewish education in North America. Because it believes that education occurs in all settings and environments, The Covenant Foundation defines formal and informal Jewish education in its broadest possible terms, funding early childhood, youth, family, and adult Jewish education across all denominations and in all settings.
Published: 2011
Updated: Jan. 25, 2011
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The Avi Chai Foundation has given a $1.6 million grant to Yeshiva University to help Jewish day schools improve their financial situations.The grant will go to YU’s Institute for University-School Partnership to support its financial benchmarking work with 30 day schools in five different Jewish communities.The program is designed to help the schools with financial benchmarking and long-term financial planning, and it provides extensive consulting support for participating schools
Published: 2010
Updated: Jan. 05, 2011
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Dr. Gadi Rauner of Tel Aviv University in a Hebrew guest blog post discusses what he sees as a quiet yet revolutionary reform in Israel's education system. As part of the 'New Horizon' policy the Ministry is committed to implementing ongoing teacher assessment by school principals. The National Authority for Measurement and Evaluation in Education in cooperation with The Avney Rosha Institute have developed a teacher evaluation instrument for this purpose. After a pilot run, the instrument will soon be implemented by school principals.
Published: 2010
Updated: Nov. 02, 2010
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JData.com is a groundbreaking online database offering Jewish educators across North America unprecedented high-quality, reliable, and practical information. Sponsored by the Jim Joseph Foundation and operated by the Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies at Brandeis University, JData allows educational organizations to enter their data into a standardized profile form and to easily produce reports and analyses based on both their own organizations' data and the aggregated data of comparable organizations across North America. This previously inaccessible information can be used in planning, communications, public relations, and recruitment.
Published: 2010
Updated: Oct. 30, 2010