PEJE periodically produces publications on critical aspects of Jewish day school education. Some are available for online reading; most are available as printed booklets for a nominal fee from the PEJE office. See below for a description of each title. If the publication is available for online reading, just click on its title below. PDF files will open in a separate window.
To order a publication fill out an order form and mail it with a check to the PEJE office.
See also the full Publications Catalog.
Online and Hardcopy Publications
10 Years of Believing in Jewish Day School Education
A collection of essays commemorating PEJE's 10th Anniversary
All About Using Consultants
Written by the Management Assistance Program for Nonprofits, this guide
helps an organization optimize its use of a consultant. Time saving tips
include sections on: hiring, contracts, and IRS policies as well as a sample
consulting proposal, consulting agreement and Request for Proposals.
Creating a
Case Statement for a Jewish Day School
This handy booklet guides you along the process of creating marketing materials
that attract support for your school.
[Only available online.]
Education for Freedom: The Mission of Lay Leadership in This Generation by Rabbi Irving Greenberg
Delivered at the February 2003 Donor Assembly, this powerful speech places
the function of Jewish education's volunteer leadership in the context of
Jewish history with insight and inspiration.
Financial Resource Development & Management in
Tough Times
This hands-on guide uses the structure of a typical day school budget to
offer fundraising and cost-saving strategies geared specifically for a
changing economic reality.
From Dream
to Reality: A Guide to Planning a New Jewish Day School
This booklet is designed for groups starting a new elementary school. It
provides an overview of topics such as vision, board development, professional
leadership, strategic and financial planning, fundraising, and marketing, along
with annotated lists of additional resources. A suggested timeline is included.
Guide to Resources
for Educational Excellence in Jewish Day Schools
This publication outlines domains of educational excellence for Jewish day
schools and provides an array of resources that may be helpful to both day
school professionals and lay leaders.
The Impact of Day School: A Comparative Analysis of Jewish College Students, by Fern Chertok and Len Saxe at Brandeis University's Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies.
Employing both quantitative and qualitative methods, this study contextualizes the experiences of students from day schools through comparison with Jewish undergraduates from private and public school backgrounds.
Executive Summary
An
Introduction to Marketing for Jewish Day Schools
This practical guide provides marketing wisdom and tips from an experienced
marketing consultant. Chapters include: how and when to use marketing research,
how to build a marketing plan, communication channels available to day schools,
and a sample marketing calendar for the year.
The
Jewish Day School Head Search Process: Strategies and Resources
This publication is a collection of resources and lessons learned from schools
who have been through the head search process. The publication includes sample
job descriptions, interview questions, consultants who can help with the process,
suggested places to post a job, and strategies for managing the process and using
it as an opportunity for reflection and growth.
Lech L'cha/Going Forth: A Guide to High School
Graduations
Based on research from eleven Jewish high schools, this guide offers planning
suggestions, sample calendars and budgets. Also includes a CD-ROM compilation
of actual ceremonies and a seminal article by Walter Ackerman z"l, "Graduation:
Motifs and Meanings."
Making the Case for Jewish Day Schools: A Compilation
of Advocacy Writings, Volume I
This work consists of a sampling of twenty compelling articles, selected research,
and advertisements that promote the importance and benefits of Jewish day schools.
Making the Case for Jewish Day Schools: A Compilation
of Advocacy Writings, Volume II
This advocacy compendium can to be used as a tool for day school leaders to
interact with potential funders, parents, and communal funding agencies to better
advocate and "make the case" for Jewish day school education. It can also be used
as a recruitment tool, as it contains articles that address concerns which are
shared by many prospective parents. Like Volume I, this collection includes
theoretical and news articles, high school-related articles, research, testimonials,
and advertisements, all promoting the need for and value of Jewish day schools.
Volume II includes new sections on affordability and federations as partners.
Noteworthy Practices in Jewish Day School Education
Volume I:
Tzedakah, Tikkun Olam, and Hesed
The Noteworthy Practices series was created to celebrate the work of day school
educators and to serve as an idea exchange. Each volume features curricular and
extracurricular practices in a particular content area, ranging from discrete
projects to pervasive components of the school environment. Elementary, middle,
and high school practices are included, representing a diversity of denominational
affiliations and geographic regions in North America. Noteworthy resources, such as
curricula, books, and web sites, also appear in each volume. This first volume of
the Noteworthy Practices series focuses on what is called "service learning" in the
general school world-the study and practice of social action, community service,
and charitable giving.
Noteworthy Practices in Jewish Day School Education
Volume II: Tefilah
This second volume focuses on the study and practice of prayer.
Noteworthy Practices in Jewish Day School Education Volume III:
Trends in Growing Enrollment
This third volume presents synopses of dozens of initiatives that have increased enrollment at various Jewish day schools.
Noteworthy Practices in Jewish Day School Education Volume IV:
Serving Diverse Learners in Jewish Day Schools
This fourth volume includes information from 22 schools and programs that serve diverse learners in day schools.
PEJE Series on Affordability
These booklets feature expertise and learning from the field about practical ways
schools can improve the way they can become and appear more affordable and accessible
to more families.
Portrait of Educational
Excellence
This document highlights domains of excellence for Jewish day schools, details key
components of each domain, and suggests indicators of excellence in each of the domains.
Selected Summaries of the 2002 PEJE Grantee Conference
Briefly reported descriptions of some key sessions at the November 2002 Grantee Conference,
including references and resources.
Self-Assessment Tool Kit for Jewish Day Schools
This publication is a compilation of survey instruments for use with schools'
various constituencies: board, parents, faculty, students. It is designed to
simplify the complex process of conducting a school-wide, comprehensive,
self-assessment. Our belief is that decision-making is improved when buttressed
with data drawn directly from those who know the school first-hand. Instruments
have been adapted for use by Jewish day schools and include surveys to measure
school climate, parent-school communication, board, head and teacher evaluations.
This document comes with a computer disk so that you can quickly customize the
surveys for your own use.
Suggested
Guiding Principles for Jewish Day Schools
This document summarizes PEJE's learnings over the past three years, touching
on topics relating to both institutional strength and best classroom practices.
Toward
a Proactive, Comprehensive Admission Program: What Every Head of School Should
Know About Supervising the Admission Director by Rheua S. Stakely
From one of the leading experts on day school admission, this step-by-step
handbook guides the Head of School in hiring and supervising the Admission
Director in order to strengthen the school's capacity to build enrollment.
Visions of a Jewish Community of Learners: Expanding
our Horizons and Energizing our Schools
In February 1999, PEJE held the first conference for its day school grantees.
During this conference three leaders in the Jewish community and general education
field gave thought provoking presentations which have been reproduced in this
publication. Rabbi Nathan Laufer, President and CEO of the Wexner Heritage
Foundation, and Adina Hamik, former Director of Synagogue 2000, both gave
presentations that focused on the theme, "What We Know is Who We Are: The Case
for Jewish Cultural Literacy". The third presenter, Roland S. Barth, former
Director of the Harvard Principals' Center, spoke to the group about "Creating
a Community of Learners."
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