Kaleidoscope: The Prizmah Monthly, read the brand new issue of HaYidion: The Prizmah Journal on Remodeling

In This Issue

HaYidion: The Prizmah Journal
Letter From the Editor, Elliott Rabin
Mazel Tov Moments
Prizmah Programming: Don’t Miss the First Prizmah Perspectives Session TONIGHT
Jewish Day School Perspectives and News
Prizmah Associate Spotlight: ParentLocker

HaYidion: The Prizmah Journal

Fall Issue: Remodeling

Read about how schools are adapting to the challenging circumstances of conducting business during the COVID-19 pandemic. Articles explore ways that school leaders are managing to organize stakeholders in a crisis; that schools are collaborating with each other and internally as a community to strengthen all systems; that educators are reinventing Jewish education by using online tools and shifting their pedagogies. Authors seek to find changes in the present that may have lasting value for a future, post-Covid reality.

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Letter From the Editor, Elliott Rabin

There is no gainsaying the challenges that schools have faced this year. Illness, tuition, expenses, technology, mental health… Each word conjures a thousand pictures of heroic efforts made across the school to support, adapt, persevere. No one has gone unscathed, and no scathe has one unnoticed and unattended by school professionals. More...

HaYidion Featured Articles

Good News on Alternative Tuition Programs

by Amy Adler and Dan Perla

About a decade ago, alternative tuition programs began to proliferate as individual schools, federations and donors realized that new, more creative approaches to tuition setting were necessary to underscore and demonstrate a clear

commitment to day school affordability. Many of these first-generation tuition segments of a school population would lead to improvements in both recruitment and retention. More…

Collaborating to Serve Schools Better

by Sharon Freundel

In 2019, several philanthropic partners initiated a new type of remodeling project in the Jewish day school field, one that could significantly change the impact coming from the professional development sector. Arnee Winshall, founder and

then CEO of Hebrew at the Center, approached the AVI CHAI Foundation and JEIC with an idea that had never been implemented before: creating a professional learning community (PCL) composed of different educational providers who develop embedded expertise in day schools, ranging from pedagogy and curriculum to leadership development and culture change. More…

What Should Assessment Look Like in a Pandemic and Beyond?

by Bracha Rutner

This past spring, as our living rooms turned into classrooms, we shifted our teaching, learning new technologies such as Trello boards and Kahoot and creating Bitmoji classrooms to

engage our students. One question we all struggled with was how to assess our students authentically in this less-than-ideal teaching and learning environment. More...

Mazel Tov Moments

We are so proud of Prizmah’s founding board chair Kathy Manning who was elected by the residents of the 6th District of North Carolina to represent them in the U.S. Congress. For decades Kathy has served as a leader in the Jewish community, serving twice as the board chair at B’nai Shalom Synagogue Day School in Greensboro, NC and

strengthening the work of our Jewish day schools and yeshivas across North America through her work with Prizmah. Kathy also served as the first female chair of The Jewish Federations of North America. More...

Prizmah wishes Mazel Tov to the recipients of the 2020 Covenant Award, and the 2020 Pomegranate Prize. Amanda Pogany, Head of School at Luria Academy of Brooklyn, is

one of three recipients of the 2020 Covenant Award and Rabbi Jordan David Soffer, Head of School at Striar Hebrew Academy, is one of five of the Pomegranate Prize recipients. Learn more and meet the recipients here.

Mazel Tov to our very own Prizmah staff member, Sara Loffman, and her family—all day school graduates—on the recent launch of their social justice initiative, Challah Back Girls. Learn more about Sara and her sisters here.

Share your “mazel tov moments” with us at [email protected] for a chance to be featured in our next newsletter!

Prizmah Programming: Don’t miss the first Prizmah Perspectives session TONIGHT

Jewish Day School Perspectives and News

How Jewish Schools Changed During COVID By Nathan Posner
How to Reduce Stress and Increase Learning: The Power of Professional Networks During COVID By Naava Frank and Ziva Mann
Jewish Schools Learn as They Go By Jan Jaben-Eilon
Meet The Bakers Who Introduced Zach Banner to Challah By Irene Katz Connelly
Meet the Woman Behind Snapchat’s Push to Register Over 1 Million Voters By Marc Rod
Resilience in the Face of Adversity By Rabbi Yehudah Potok
Tech Help for Teachers By Flora Rosefsky
The Time is Now for Future Planning in Jewish Education: An Existential Crisis for Jewish Schools By Melissa Rivkin & Ariel Lapson

Prizmah Associate Spotlight: ParentLocker

ParentLocker is a leading provider of school management (SIS) software, helping schools consolidate all their systems into one integrated platform. Their new K-12 business suite includes tuition management, payment processing, DocuSign agreement signing, and robust financial reporting - fully integrated with the Admissions, Student Information, LMS, and Communication Suites.

Rated the 2020 “Best Value” and “Best Ease-of-Use” system by Capterra, ParentLocker is now 20% off - exclusively for the Prizmah network - for new schools that join by December 1st. Visit https://www.parentlocker.com/go/prizmah to take advantage of this offer today.

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