June 2020: Schools and the Coronavirus

December 8, 2025

The Mesivta of Greater Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA

Rosh Mesivta and Head of School Role Overview The Rosh Mesivta Head of School is the institution’s chief educational, spiritual, and executive leader, responsible for the Torah mission, academic excellence, faculty culture, student experience, finances and […]

November 17, 2025

Hebrew Academy of Long Beach, Woodmere, NY

HALB Middle School General Studies Principal 1. Introduction HALB is seeking a thoughtful, collaborative, and student-centered educational leader to serve as our next Middle School General Studies Principal, beginning July 2026. This is a meaningful leadership […]

November 17, 2025

Torah Day School of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA

TDSA Limudei Kodesh Principal, To begin in the summer of the 26/27 School Year General Job Description: Torah Day School of Atlanta is in search of a Limudei Kodesh Principal to begin in the fall of […]

July 15, 2025

THINK TANK RECAP

School leaders, Jewish educators, and lay leaders from around 100 schools, coming from New York to Tucson and from Miami to Seattle, gathered last week for the 12th annual Summer Think Tank, which has emerged as […]

June 26, 2025

Torah Leadership: Guiding a Group of Diverse Individuals

Based on an address delivered by Rav Sholom Kamenetsky at the Principals Think Tank in the summer of 2021. Leadership presents many challenges, but perhaps the biggest is being able to guide a group of people […]

March 5, 2025

Maayan Torah Day School, Portland, OR

School Leadership About the Position Maayan Torah Day School is seeking a capable educator ready to grow into a leader. Our vision is for the person in this role to become Head of School for 2026-2027. […]

June 3, 2020

Communication: Better Leadership

By Paul S. Oberman, PhD At my school in Houston, Texas, we shifted immediately from classes on campus to online classes in the middle of March. Teachers used their weekends to familiarize themselves with video conferencing […]

June 3, 2020

Searching During COVID – Lessons Learned About Recruiting and Hiring

By Rabbi Maury Grebenau The panic set in just before we ended school for Pesach break. While in the process of hiring a teacher, we made the decision to close school and move to the Zoom […]

June 3, 2020

Why Finals? Why Now? A Critical Look

by Rabbi Eliezer Y. Lehrer, M.Ed. Students feel that they should be commended for attending their online classes each day. They profess that they are too stressed to think about finals. Others bring up the fact […]

June 3, 2020

COVID-19 and the Important Role Our Community Day Schools Play

By Tania Levenstein When one hears the term community day school, one often thinks about the campus, the buildings, and the classrooms. One may wonder what AP classes are offered, what the early childhood philosophy is, […]

June 3, 2020

Confronting the Assessments Challenge

Rabbi Baruch Noy, MEd, CETL While leading professional development for schools taking on a new virtual reality, there are certain recurring themes that were expressed. These expressions came from such a varied crowd – new teachers […]

June 3, 2020

The Benefits of Daring to Lead in Times of Uncertainty

By Mrs. Rivkie Gottlieb Assuming the role of principal comes with a host of challenges, including among others the very common “imposter syndrome.” This feeling of being an imposter feels like a constant, though it occasionally […]

June 3, 2020

What Will Our Children Remember From the Spring of 2020?

By Rabbi Yaakov Sadigh It was a beautiful spring day in 1979 when I boarded the bus to return home from my school in Tehran, Iran. As always, my mom had some cookies and milk ready […]

June 3, 2020

Wonder in the Age of COVID-19

By Rabbi Jordan D. Soffer COVID-19 and the resulting period of extended school-building closures have popularized debates vis-a-vis the purpose of schooling that had previously been limited to pedagogues and academics. The sudden prominence of this […]

June 3, 2020

Summer Programming: A Modest Proposal

By Rabbi Avrohom S. Moller These past months have been challenging to us as individuals and as a community. One of the casualties of the COVID-19 pandemic has been our ability to plan ahead with any […]

June 3, 2020

Social Skills and Social Challenges in Jewish Education: Pandemic and Beyond

By Rona Milch Novick, PhD When the coronavirus crisis forced school buildings to close, remarkable flexibility and innovation allowed for a proliferation of models and methods to keep students’ academic knowledge and skills growing. As it […]

June 3, 2020

Technology in Jewish Education: Values and Accessibility

By Dr. Henry Abramson Jewish colleges and universities and departments of Jewish studies may be guided by the core values of traditional religious texts, but their specific tools for survival in the post-COVID-19 era will probably […]

June 3, 2020

The Rebellious Son and the Fundamentals of Education

By Rabbi Zev Leff Editor’s Note: During these past few months, parents have been thrust into a constant chinuch role, managing their children’s education and growth more closely than they usually do when children are in […]

June 2020: Schools and the Coronavirus

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