About the Conference

Day School Leadership Conference to Include all Day School Networks

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  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 joint conference will be held from Sunday, January 17, 2010 through Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at the Marriott Glenpointe, just outside of New York City, in Teaneck, NJ. Conference program details will be available in late summer 2009 and registration will open in fall 2009. To receive information as it becomes available please send your name, title and day school or organization contact information to info@jewishdayschoolconference.org.