Community News

04/03/08
Small-Schools Conference Scholarship

We are pleased to announce the inauguration of the RAVSAK Small School Professional Development Scholarship. This scholarship will make the training, networking and professional development opportunities of the RAVSAK Annual Leadership Conference accessible to educators from small Jewish day schools and small Jewish communities across North America.

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Job Market

Title: Head of School
School: The Akiva School
City: Nashville, TN

The Akiva School is the only independent elementary community day school of its kind in the region and has earned both local and national recognition as an outstanding academic institution. The school is located minutes from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, a culturally vibrant city...

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Featured School

The Paul Penna Downtown JDS

The Paul Penna Downtown Jewish Day School appreciates the diversity of contemporary Jewish life. Our Senior Kindergarten to Grade 8 curriculum presents children with a holistic view of the world, weaving together the Jewish and general facets of their lives. In this highly enriched learning environment, students develop excellent academic skills and a meaningful Jewish identity.
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Associate Member

The Alexander Muss Institute for Israel Education (AMIIE)
was founded in south Florida in 1972 to help teens better understand Israel's living history by using the country as its classroom. This innovative program revolutionized the way Israel was taught and rapidly spread to other communities.
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Bridges to Tomorrow:
Preparing For A Changing Reality

Jewish Day School Economic Summit

January 18 – 20, 2009, San Francisco, CA

Conference Schedule | Presenters' Biographies | Register Now!

Workshps Include:

  • Leadership and Change
  • The Paradox of Pluralism: Crafting Community Amidst Diversity
  • Weathering a Crisis: Lessons Learned
  • The Next 10 Years: Where the World is Taking Us
  • Education as a Commodity and How This Changes Everything We Think We Know About School Leadership
  • Changing How We Give Feedback
  • Evaluation as a Driver for Change
  • Changing How and What We Think About Tefillah
  • Admission’s Changing Landscape
  • Judaics Directors: Are You Delivering a Product or Leading a Process?
  • Facilitating a Change Process in Your Board and School
  • Special Needs and the Future of Day Schools
  • Using Logic Models to Support Educational Change
  • This is Your Brain on Hebrew: How Children of All Ages Learn Languages
  • Technology and How We Teach Today and Will Teach in the Future
  • Multiyear Financial Aid Plans
  • Video Conferencing in Jewish Education
  • Legal Issues, FMLA and Crisis Management
  • What Young Funders Want
  • Benchmarks/Standards for TaNaKh
  • How Evidence Can Sustain Change in Your School
  • From Whole New Mind to Whole New School

From the White House to our house, for better and for worse, change is upon us. The major impact the down-turned economy is having on our schools could continue for years. Come to the RAVSAK Annual Leadership Conference—the only major day school gathering this year—and take away gigabytes of concrete information about what your school can do not only to weather change but to thrive.

Conference Highlights

Day School Economic Summit
Featuring presentations by leading economists, financial planners, investors, and funders

Admissions and Retention
Strategy sessions

Financial Models for Schools
Workshops

Critical Examination
of Hebrew and tefillah education

Small School Symposium

Special High School Sessions

Telecast of Presidential Inauguration