30minute-Seder™ Supports Jewish Day Schools
RAVSAK, the organization for Jewish day schools, is having their first ever unified conference in January and 30minute-Seder™ has been invited to lend support to this very important, ground-breaking event. “Education funding of all types has become hard to come by due to the current economic climate. It is our privilege to help the teachers of these wonderful schools by providing a fun, educational activity for their younger students”, says Rob Kopman, Publisher of 30minute-Seder™.
To help sponsor the conference, 30minute-Seder™ will be donating downloads of our Chanukah and Passover coloring placemats. All teachers attending the conference will be given special access to go online and download any of our placemats and print them out in-house. For Chanukah, there are 6 different pictures to color including a “make your own dreidle” kit. For Passover, there are 6 different pictures to color including our favorite- Let My People Go! depicting Moses leading the Jewish slaves to freedom.
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.
Contact RAVSAK for more information or visit: http://www.jewishdayschoolconference.org