M Sha-3c-Musical Presentation
…M Sha-3b-A Mind Shift Revolution
Explore Rav Shlomo Hoffman's approach of כמים הפנים לפנים and connect with the hard-to-reach student. Experience riveting case-study videos within a two-way interview with Rabbi Menachem M. Karmel and Rabbi Meir Simcha Stein. Real People, Real Testimonials & Strategies: Mrs. Surele Buchinger, Mrs. Chana ChanelesM Sha-3a-Shailos U’Teshuvos for Chinuch HaBanos
…M Sha-3-Melava Malka for Women
…Sha-5b-Live Questioner Panel for Women
… Fri-7a-Special Shiur
… Fri-8b-Kumzitz
…Fri-8a-UNIQUE MESSAGES FOR CHINUCH HABANOS
… FRI-5a-DIVREI BRACHA – Rabbi Nojowitz
… Fri-3b-EMPOWERING OUR NEW TEACHERS – Mrs. Chumi Levitansky, Mrs. Baily Stefansky, Mrs. Rochel Zimmerman
This special session is tailored to our newest moros - with 0-5 years of experience - to check in, discuss, and share mindsets and skill sets that have worked well in the classroom. FRI-3-CONCURRENT WORKSOPS 2
Lower Elementary Boys
Developing Systems:
Empowering Educators and Students to Reach Their Classroom Goals
Rabbi Yosef Shalom Horowitz
Systems help create clarity and procedures to achieve goals. By implementing effective systems, teachers can better support students who need more assistance, enhancing overall class success.
Upper Elementary Boys
Empowering Educators:
Teaching Healthy Boundaries to Children and Teens
Rabbi Shmuel Tenenbaum, MSMFT
Explore the tools and strategies to teach children and teens the importance of setting and respecting boundaries.
Mesivta
Contemporary Challenges Facing Our Talmidim:
A Panel Discussion
Rabbi Simcha Cook & Rabbi Chanoch Posy
Discover the tools educators and parents need to address the most pressing challenges facing high school students today, offering tips and strategies to support their emotional, social, and academic well-being.
Leadership (Men)
How the Perception of Our Talmidim (and Faculty!) Impacts Their Performance
Rabbi Meir Simcha Stein
Explore how educators’ perceptions and expectations influence student motivation and performance. Provide strategies for fostering a more empowering and supportive learning environment.
Early Childhood
The Preschool Experience: Part 2
Tried and True Tips and Tricks for Running a Successful Early Childhood Classroom
Mrs. Rivka Dear, Mrs. Chani Silverstein
This interactive workshop will keep participants involved and engaged throughout the experience. From practical tips to elevate daily preschool activities and routines to understanding and shifting challenging behaviors, this workshop will allow participants to fill their Teacher Toolbox with new tools through a child’s lens and a teacher’s lens.
Lower Elementary Girls
Is it Chutzpa?
Understanding Children with Anxiety, Autism, ADHD, and Defiant Behaviors
Dr. Leah Dembitzer
Even in a well-run classroom, teachers can encounter children who act out defiantly. In this workshop, participants will learn some possibilities of what may be behind the defiance. Anxiety, Autism, ADHD, and defiance can look similar but may need different approaches. Participants will learn practical strategies for addressing the needs of these students within the flow of the classroom.
Upper Elementary Girls
My Student Can’t Focus. Now What?:
Managing Attention Disorders in the Classroom
Mrs. Zahava Deutsch
Participants will gain insights into student behaviors and learn to implement strategies that work to help them stay focused effective classroom strategies and tools for managing attention disorders, which will help students stay focused, engaged, and successful.
Girls High School
A Mental Health Panel - Bilvavi Mishkan Evneh:
The Power of a Teacher’s Mindset, Words, and Attitude
Mrs. Esther Gendelman, Dr. Marcy Forta, Mrs. Cheryl Epstein
Participants will explore the power of teacher mindset language and reactions to the shaping of their motivation, resilience, and levels of anxiety.
Leadership (Women)
Team Genius:
Using Working Genius to Take Your Team to the Next Level
Rabbi Elie Tuchman, Ed.D.
This session will focus on enhancing team communication and creating a positive interdependence among the members of your team. You will learn to ensure that the right people are at every meeting and to make meetings more targeted and effective. Through interactive exercises, you’ll acquire practical tools to nurture each of the Geniuses and increase your team members’ engagement and productivity. This session assumes familiarity with the Working Genius™ Model. It is recommended that participants have a formal Working Genius profile. For those that do not yet have one, the assessment takes approximately 10 minutes and is available at workinggenius.com for a nominal fee ($25).
General Studies (Women)
Brains On / Thinking Classrooms
Strategies to Develop Higher Thinking
Mrs. Leah G. Lefkowitz
In this workshop, participants will be introduced to the teacher mindsets and strategies that build higher levels of thinking in the classroom, opportunities will be given for participants to apply the strategies in the subject area they currently teach.
FRI-2-CONCURRENT WORKSOPS 1
Lower Elementary Boys
Ten Ways to Empower Your Students by Reducing Their Stress
Rabbi Moshe Weinberg
Learn practical strategies to help students manage stress, boost resilience, and improve their overall well-being for academic and personal success.
Upper Elementary Boys
Ready, Set, Grow:
Navigating Social and Emotional Changes from Child to Teen
Rabbi Shmuel Tenenbaum, MSMFT
Understand and support the critical social and emotional transitions that children experience as they move into adolescence.
Mesivta
Identifying the Emotional Struggles of Today’s High School Students
Rabbi Chaim Kolodny, LCSW
Learn to identify the emotional struggles of today’s high school students and explore ideas that can help, even with challenges we don’t recognize or discuss.
Leadership (Men)
Girsa d’Yankusa and the Elementary Kodesh Curriculum Goals
Rabbi Aryeh Sherwinter
The things learned when a child is very young have a deep quality that later knowledge cannot match. Learn how to help your students meet their educational goals.
Early Childhood
The Preschool Experience: Part 1
Tried and True Tips and Tricks for Running a Successful Early Childhood Classroom
Mrs. Rivka Dear, Mrs. Chani Silverstein
This interactive workshop will keep participants involved and engaged throughout the experience. From practical tips to elevate daily preschool activities and routines to understanding and shifting challenging behaviors, this workshop will allow participants to fill their Teacher Toolbox with new tools through a child’s lens and a teacher’s lens.
Lower Elementary Girls
My Student Can’t Focus. Now What?:
Managing Attention Disorders in the Classroom
Mrs. Zahava Deutsch
Participants will gain insights into student behaviors and learn to implement strategies that work to help them stay focused effective classroom strategies and tools for managing attention disorders, which will help students stay focused, engaged, and successful.
Upper Elementary Girls
Is it Chutzpa?
Understanding Children with Anxiety, Autism, ADHD, and Defiant Behaviors
Dr. Leah Dembitzer
Even in a well-run classroom, teachers can encounter children who act out defiantly. In this workshop, participants will learn some possibilities of what may be behind the defiance. Anxiety, Autism, ADHD, and defiance can look similar but may need different approaches. Participants will learn practical strategies for addressing the needs of these students within the flow of the classroom.
Girls High School
Until the Light Ascends of Itself:
Pathways to Fueling Students Engagement and Motivation
Dr. Oshra Cohen, Ph.D.
Explore strategies and techniques to create a classroom culture that fosters student engagement, motivation, and active participation in learning.
Leadership (Women)
K’mayim Hapanim El Panim
The Transformative Power of Leadership Intention
Rabbi Meir Simcha Stein
Journey through the five transformative education principles. The late Rabbi Shlomo Hoffman articulated and practiced these principles with unprecedented success, captured in the newly published book KMAYIM.
General Studies (Women)
Tackling the PM Classroom Challenge:
Shift Afternoon Antsiness into Peak Engagement
Mrs. Ruti Hertz
Afternoon classes often bring fidgety, tired, unfocused students with dwindling attention. Discover actionable strategies to shift waning focus into dynamic participation. Unleash the power of your afternoon class.
THU-3B-HESPED-Rabbi Shlomo Halioua, zt”l
… THU-2-MAJOR ADDRESS – Rabbi Hillel David, shlita
… M Sha-2-SHAILOS U’TESHUVOS
… M Sha-1-KEYNOTE ADDRESS
… Fri-7b-TISH & ONEG SHABBOS
… Fri-5b-Major Address-Rabbi Feldman
… Fri-4-MAJOR ADDRESS-Rabbi Bender
… Sun-2-MAJOR ADDRESS
… SHA-7-SHALOSH SUEDOS
… SHA-6-SHALOSH SEUDOS
… SHA-5-CHINUCH PANEL
… SHA-4-THE SHABBOS GET-TOGETHER FOR WOMEN
A valuable opportunity for Mechanchos to share their Hashkafic passion, hear their peers, and leave refreshed with new insights. SHA-3-ROSHEI YESHIVA MEET WITH TALMIDIM
… SHA-2-ADDRESS #2
… SHA-1-Address #1
… THU-8-Bringing the Message to Reality-Mr. Ronnie Adjmi
… FRI-1-NETWORKING BREAKFAST
…THU-7-A Strategy for Our Next Generation-Rabbi Ephraim Shapiro
… THU-6-TECHNOLOGY: LET’S FIGURE IT OUT
…THU-5-SHAILOS U’TESHUVOS PANEL-
… THU-4-MAJOR ADDRESS-Rabbi Chaim Y. Hoberman, shlita
… THU-1-DINNER AND AWARDS
The Dr. Joseph Kaminetsky, Z”TL Memorial Award Recipient: Rabbi Ephraim Leizerson The Rabbi Dr. Joel Rosenshein Chinuch Mental Health AwardRecipient: Rabbi Shlomo Sabo The Mrs. Chaya Newman, A”H, New Teacher Appreciation AwardRecipient: Mrs. Malky GoldsteinTHU-3-LESSONS FROM THE LIFE OF A GADOL:-Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs, shlita
… 1-RR-3-Turning on the Turned-Off Learner- Perlow-Miller
Join the discussion focusing on the purpose and the gift of struggle, how to build a culture where different levels of learning can thrive simultaneously, and which techniques and mindsets give every child a chance to reach his/her potential.
2-ED-5-Expo #3
… 2-ED-4-Elevator Pitch-
Five Executive Directors will have 120 seconds to pitch their newest initiative, campaign, or project for a chance to win $10,000
($5k for the Mossad & $5k for YOU).
A panel of philanthropists will choose the winner.
2-ED-3-BEING THE BOSS-Scheiner-Herzka
“I entered my position to give 100% of myself and 80% of my efforts goes into managing my staff.”
Become the leader you NEED to become.
2-ED-2-Getting IN with the Guys Who Are IN-
We all want to get ‘face-time’ and form relationships with the wealthy, popular, and influential. Discover tips and tools from those who are getting the job done.2-ED-1a-A Senior Moment: Learning from the Veterans-Gottdiener-Lefkovitz-Levin
Challenges, Triumphs, and Hadracha from the Gedolim
Rabbi Yitzchok Gottdiener
Executive Director, Yeshiva and Mesivta Torah Vodaath
Rabbi Yehuda Lefkovitz
President, Talmudical Academy, Baltimore, MD
Rabbi Yitzchok Z. Levine
Executive Vice President, Chaver Hanhalla, Telshe Yeshiva Chicago 2-EC-3-The Power of your Perception-Udman
We're often pulled in different directions, and many count on school leaders for guidance. While we can't control the entire school day, we can shape our perception, impacting those around us. Join our workshop for a new take on handling challenging situations.
2-EC-2-The Power Within You-Fertig
As a preschool director, you always give to your staff, students, and parents. Empower, affirm, and ignite the strength to continue devoting yourself to the school and team while prioritizing self-care.
2-EC-1-The Power Of Together-Shapiro
Build a strong team! Foster collaboration, empower teachers as leaders, celebrate achievements, and nurture a vibrant culture of improved teacher performance and retention.
2-GS-2-Working Lunch-From Theory to Application
…2-GS-1-The Instructional Leader-Altabe #2
Empowering principals to lead with clarity, purpose, and impactful vision.
This three-part workshop will focus on:
Leadership for Principals – You Make a Difference: Understanding the power of leadership with a clear "WHY."
Identifying essential skills and knowledge for YOUR 8th-grade graduates
Actualization – Crafting Goals for Your Ideal Graduate: Developing actionable goals for student outcomes
1-GS-2-Q&A-R-Lopiansky
Our yeshivos are committed to imparting Torah and mitzvos to our talmidim and talmidos. However, the typical yeshiva day also encompasses an afternoon general studies program. How can we best utilize this time, and is there a chinuch prerogative shaping the vision for these departments?
Rabbi Aaron Lopiansky, shlita
will offer a Torah perspective on structuring our afternoons and address pre-submitted questions from the audience.
1-GS-3-Real Questions & Solutions from the Trenches-Forster-Schwartz-Dachs
Leading a general studies department in a yeshiva presents unique challenges, such as balancing a dual curriculum, recruiting and retaining top-tier teachers, motivating fatigued talmidim who may not appreciate the value of these subjects, and sourcing quality curricula that align with yeshiva needs and values. However, these challenges also offer opportunities for growth and innovation.
Join a dynamic panel discussion with experienced principals and menahalim as they share practical strategies that have revitalized their General Studies programs. Leave the session with fresh, actionable ideas developed through our panel and honed through vigorous discussions!
2-MS-2-Lead Team Talent-Tuchman
School leaders face challenges of team dynamics, productivity, and talent utilization. Recognizing one's own unique talents and those of your team members leads to improved collaboration and productivity.
This interactive workshop will introduce Patrick Lencioni's Working Genius Model. After exploring your Geniuses, you can apply this model to your team's leadership practices, increase energy and productivity, and limit frustration zones.
Through interactive individual and group exercises, you'll acquire practical tools and insights to transform your team.
Learn how to:
Identify and nurture your staff's strengths, increasing their engagement and passion for their work, minimizing frustration, and preventing burnout.
Get the right people in the right seats and build a well-rounded team.
Improve team communication, making meetings more effective and productive.
2-MS-1-The Principal Resource-Jones
Discover proactive classroom management tools that empower learners for lasting success. Alleviate educator stress and burnout with these effective strategies.
The book "Tools for Teaching" is a required resource. It will be distributed at the session.
