Prizmah: Center for Jewish Day Schools offers three podcast series: 1. Research Encounter, hosted by Elliott Rabin, Prizmah‘s director of thought leadership, presents a discussion between a researcher and a day school leader about a recent work of scholarship. 2. Prizmah Podcasts Live showcases innovative and transformative initiatives taking place in Jewish schools. Each episode includes a presentation, conversation and audience q&a. 3. Start-up Day School, hosted by Josh Gold, middle school principal at HAFTR, Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaways in Lawrence, New York, offers a give-and-take on matters of contemporary educational leadership in Jewish schools. Prizmah envisions a vibrant, passionate, knowledgeable, and committed Jewish community, empowered by Jewish day schools, for generations to come. Our mission is to strengthen the North American day school field. We are the network for Jewish day schools and yeshivas, enhancing their ability to excel and thrive, by deepening talent, catalyzing resources, and accelerating educational innovation.
Episodes
Tuesday Nov 12, 2024
Prizmah Podcast Live: How AI Can Help Jewish Education
Tuesday Nov 12, 2024
Tuesday Nov 12, 2024
AI may be the greatest thing to happen to Jewish education since unicode. And it may even be bigger than that. AI is still in its infancy, and it's already allowing teachers to do so much. Join this podcast to dive into how AI can help with note-taking, studying, essay writing, and more – and why that's a good thing. We talk about how it can help teachers present information in more exciting ways. And how it can help personalize education for every student. And the best is yet to come.
Special guest presenter: Rabbi Binyomin Segal has been involved in technology and education for many years. In the 80s, he was responsible for Davka’s first educational software for the Apple Macintosh. He began teaching at Ida Crown Jewish Academy in 1993. While there he earned an Ed.D. from Loyola University Chicago. In 2015, he became the Instructional Technology Coordinator for Ida Crown. He continues to teach Tanakh courses as well as coding and computer science.
Tuesday Oct 01, 2024
Research Encounter: Teaching Israel
Tuesday Oct 01, 2024
Tuesday Oct 01, 2024
This podcast, based on the volume Teaching Israel: Studies of Pedagogy from the Field, edited by Sivan Zakai and Matt Reingold, focuses on Israel teachers in the classroom. Who teaches our students about Israel, and in what contexts? How do Israel educators think about their role--as an "explorer" or "exemplar"? What happens when a "micromoment" arises, when a student struggles to understand or is deeply troubled by something they've learned? And how are Israel classrooms adapting to the reality of our post-October 7 world? What has changed, and what hasn't, in this work? (Recorded on 9/27)
Special guests
Sivan Zakai is the Sara S. Lee Associate Professor of Jewish Education at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion and a Senior Editor of the Journal of Jewish Education.
Matt Reingold is a Jewish educator with over 16 years of in-class experience teaching Jewish and Israeli history in Toronto Jewish day schools. In addition to co-editing Teaching Israel, with Sivan Zakai, he is the author of four books about Jewish and Israeli comics and graphic novels.
Lisa Exler is Director of Jewish Studies and Ivrit at Beit Rabban Day School in Manhattan.
Rebecca Boim Wolf serves as Coordinator for Israel Education and teaches history at SAR High School in the Bronx, NY, a modern Orthodox Jewish day school.
Jeremy Toren is the ECC-12 Director of Jewish Education at San Diego Jewish Academy.
Thursday Aug 29, 2024
Community Collaboration: Raising All Boats
Thursday Aug 29, 2024
Thursday Aug 29, 2024
Ari Sussman is a day school consultant to Combined Jewish Philanthropies, Boston's
Aimee Close is the director of Stronger Together, a Boston-based initiative of Prizmah.
Tuesday May 21, 2024
Tuesday May 21, 2024
ADDRESSING THE PIPELINE PROBLEM: MAIMONIDES FELLOWS PROGRAM
Explore an initiative that aims to address the national issue of fewer and fewer talented and inspiring adults choosing to become teachers or stay in the field of education.
This podcast dives into how the Maimonides School, a Modern Orthodox school in Brookline, Massachusetts, decided to invest in young talent, even before these talented students made the decision to work in education. Featuring Rabbi Yaakov Green, Head of school at Maimonides School. Learn about the initial results of this innovative initiative and the promises they see for the future of the field.
Monday Apr 08, 2024
Research Encounter: Educating About Israel Since October 7
Monday Apr 08, 2024
Monday Apr 08, 2024
How have our educators been impacted by, and adapted to, the horrific attacks against Israel that took place on October 7 and the ensuing war in Gaza? The starting point for this conversation is the study "Responding to This Historical Moment: Jewish Educators, Clergy, Engagement Professionals and the War in Israel." Hear about the emotional challenges that these educators have faced, and the educational dilemmas that continue to shadow their work in the classroom, during these traumatic times featuring guests Clare Goldwater, Dr. Ezra Kopelowitz, Dr. Alexandria Fanjoy Silver, and Rabbi WIll Keller.
Clare Goldwater is chief strategy officer at M²:The Institute for Experiential Jewish Education. She is based in Jerusalem.
Ezra Kopelowitz is the CEO of ReST: Research, Success, Technologies and a fellow at the Center for Jewish Peoplehood Education.
Dr. Alexandria Fanjoy Silver is a Jewish history teacher at TanenbaumCHAT, a Jewish high school in Toronto.
Rabbi Will Keller is the head of school at the Hebrew Day School of Ann Arbor in Ann, Arbor, Michigan.
Tuesday Mar 26, 2024
Tuesday Mar 26, 2024
What does it take to build a school from scratch? Especially a school as sophisticated as a Jewish day school. In this podcast, we sit down with Rabbi Dr. Gil Perl, who throughout his career has taken three schools from concept to reality. Most recently, in August 2023, he helped open the Jewish Leadership Academy in Miami, Florida.
The Jewish Leadership Academy is a highly selective Jewish middle and high school dedicated to developing the skills, curiosity, and potential of Miami’s most ambitious students for a life of purpose, commitment, and service. Hear lessons learned from Rabbi Dr. Gil Perl, and stories shared from each of his successful schools.
Monday Jan 22, 2024
Bearing Witness
Monday Jan 22, 2024
Monday Jan 22, 2024
Four heads of school from the Bay Area talk about a mission they took together to Israel during the current war. They depict what it's like in their schools during this time, with heightened antisemitism and anti-Israel sentiment in the region. Their schools are serving as places of refuge, as centers of Jewish pride where people organize opposition to pro-Hamas political proposals. The heads describe the conversations and images in Israel that are seared in their memories, the people they met who are "the traumatized serving the traumatized." They share what they have been communicating with their school since their return.
Wednesday Jan 10, 2024
Prizmah Podcast Live - The Milken Way
Wednesday Jan 10, 2024
Wednesday Jan 10, 2024
Learn about the The Milken Way, a unique set of ideas and values that guides how Milken Community School, one of the largest Jewish day schools in North America, operates and thinks about customer service.
As Maya Angelou said, “People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” Customer service has become the most important factor in consumer decisions. In fact, recent studies have shown that 73% of people point to customer service as a key factor in significant decisions. Yet rarely do schools invest in customer service as a primary function of their recruitment and retention strategies. Learn about the customer service model of the Milken Community School in Los Angeles, and how it’s implemented across campus, in everything they do.
Monday Nov 27, 2023
Prizmah Podcast Live: The Tikkun Project - Living Out Our Mission
Monday Nov 27, 2023
Monday Nov 27, 2023
School mission statements articulate a hope that through our educational programs, help students gain the knowledge, skills and inclinations needed to make positive change. By putting Tikkun Olam at the core of K-8 programs, Leo Baeck Day School in Toronto has learned how to help students learn to connect their actions to Jewish values. Learn how and why the Tikkun Project at Toronto’s Leo Baeck Day School came to be and hear examples of the powerful learning that emerges when students think critically about themselves and their responsibilities to the world around them.
Monday Jul 31, 2023
Monday Jul 31, 2023