About the Conference
2nd Annual North American
Jewish Day School Conference
Follow-up to last year's watershed event
Professional and lay leaders from Jewish day schools from across the spectrum of practice will come together for the second annual unified educational conference this coming February 2011 in Los Angeles. Jointly planned by RAVSAK: The Jewish Community Day School Network, the Institute for University-School Partnership at Yeshiva University, 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, case studies, intensive workshops, peer-to-peer learning and network-specific meetings.
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The Conference was an unprecedented experience for me personally and professionally. The collaboration with other Schechter administrators was interesting and valuable. I reestablished contact with former Heads from the Memphis school and enjoyed the contact with administrators from different movements. I look most forward to attending again this year with our new Head of School, Allan Dalfen.
The joint conference will be held from Sunday, February 6, 2011 through Tuesday, February 8, 2011 at the Westin LAX, located a few short minutes from the Los Angeles Airport. Conference program details will be available in early autumn 2010. To receive information as it becomes available please send your name, title and day school or organization contact information to info@jewishdayschoolconference.org.