It's intense. It's never the same two days in a row. I believe in it with all my heart and soul. And it's ultimately about enhancing people's lives. That's how I feel about my sacred work as a Jewish Day School admissions and recruitment professional. So, getting to spend two days thinking about the central dilemmas and exciting opportunities of this work with 27 other admissions professionals was delicious.
CJDS is currently one of 20 schools in North America that was accepted into the third cohort of a nationally recognized initiative, called “Atidenu," which means, "our future."
(Atidenu is a program offered by Prizmah, the center for Jewish Day Schools in North America.
https://prizmah.org).
Atidenu/ Our Future
Subsidized by the
AVI CHAI Foundation and offered by the talented coaches and consultants at Prizmah, the Atidenu program is an 18-month long intensive, designed to provide Jewish day schools with the knowledge and skills to bolster their recruitment and retention efforts; to ensure a strong a vibrant future.
The program launched this past summer by gathering me, along with 27 other admissions professionals from
24 Jewish day schools across North America, at
Rochelle Zell Jewish High School located in Deerfield, Illinois, just outside of Chicago. Our
2-day intensive training session covered several topics all related to day school admissions operations and recruitment: institutional best practices, word-of-mouth marketing, and day school data management. Participants’ levels of experience ranged from one day on the job, to over seven years of experience.
The strategies, insights, and reframing I was fortunate to study, will help me, and our whole team, introduce many more Jewish families in Central Ohio to CJDS. They all deserve to know about our rigorous academics, our probing critical thinking, combined in a warm learning community where every student is known and seen for his or her authentic self and is encouraged to stretch every day. Our Atidenu work will help to shape people's most important conversations around CJDS and the Columbus educational landscape.
#soproudtobeonteamCJDS.
Shabbat Shalom!
Jenny
P.S. If you want to learn more about Atidenu or get involved just let me know!
jglick@cjds.org
