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.
2-ED-1b-Managing Your Board-Kramer
Learn how to define the board’s role, when to bring them in, and how to empower them without losing power.
1-AA-Opening Address-Ashreinu Mah Tov Chelkeinu-R-Lopiansky
1-ED-3-Kumzitz-Levine
1-ED-2-Expo
1-ED-1-Behind Closed Doors-Lieberman-Harary
Who Sets the Budget?
Leveraging Your Positions for “Relationship Development”
Protocols
Territorial People
Raising Salaries
Expectations and Understanding
What to do when you disagree
Am I being responsible or cheap?
Awarding Days Off
Defining Lanes and Learning How to Merger
Bridging the Gap
2-MH-3-Q&A-R-Hoberman
Delve into the critical role of school therapists in navigating the complex
dynamics of the educational environment. This involves tackling unique
challenges and offering practical recommendations to develop a healthy
atmosphere that aligns counseling principles with schools’ specific needs.
Through case studies and discussions rooted in clinical expertise, you’ll gain
insights into balancing therapeutic objectives with educational demands,
promoting a supportive and holistic approach to student well-being.
2-MH-2-Beyond Behavior-Perlman
Discover how IFS can provide you with a unique framework for working with clients to help them heal past traumas, reduce anxiety symptoms, improve their ability to engage in a more active and connected relationship, and become more comfortable with their essential self and environment.
Full of specific skills, knowledge, techniques, and insight-building, Dr. Perlman will empower you to:
Use simple steps and guided exercises to get started with IFS in your practice
Work with anxious parts in the IFS framework to reduce their intensity
Provide clients with a sense of inner stability
Release emotional and physical trauma stored in the body with IFS techniques
Integrate IFS with other treatment modalities you already use
Enhance your therapist skills and join the thousands of others who have discovered IFS’s transformative power.
2-MH-1-The Role of School Therapists-Perlman
Delve into the critical role of school therapists in navigating the complex
dynamics of the educational environment.
This involves tackling unique
challenges and offering practical recommendations to develop a healthy
atmosphere that aligns counseling principles with schools’ specific needs.
Through case studies and discussions rooted in clinical expertise, you’ll gain
insights into balancing therapeutic objectives with educational demands,
promoting a supportive and holistic approach to student well-being.
1-MH-2b-Helping Teens Navigate Emotional Distress-Rosenwasser
1-MH-2a-Mastering the Art of Conversation-Fagin
Key Topics:
1. Disclosures and Responses
2. Psychological Topics
3. School-Wide Response
4. Collaboration with Parents and Therapists
1-MH-3-Exploring the Relationship Between Learning and Audio-Neural Processing-Granier and Katz
Addressing common issues faced by our students, such as:
1. Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD)
2. Focusing Challenges
3. Language Disorders
4. Emotional Disorders and Anxiety
5. Reading Diffculties
6. Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
7. Sensory Overload
These issues are frequently rooted in an auditory processing issue. When
that is the case, typical therapies don’t deliver the expected results, and
students are frustrated at their lack of progress.
Learn how the ear-brain connection, which is behind all audio processing,
can be strengthened. Delve into methodologies that reinforce audio
processing and build on the foundational audio-neural connection to help
reduce sensory issues, empower kids to focus, and set students on a
pathway to growth.
1-EC-2 The Power Of Connection
1-EC-1-Divrei Chizuk-Feiner
2-RR-3b Helping Our Students Remember:
Neuroscience research has revealed much about the stimuli and circumstances that increase memory construction, accuracy, durability, and retrieval.
Discover how the brain connects new information to existing knowledge for effective learning retention. Explore research linking neuroplasticity, patterning for memory enhancement, and mental strategies for long-term memory storage, retention, and transfer.
2-RR-3a-Building a Culture of Problem Solving in the Math Classroom-Atwood
Learn to create a thinking classroom for math learners, focusing on problem-solving. Engage students, break down problems, develop vocabulary, use models, and encourage peer learning. Infuse joy, curiosity, and fun into each lesson.
2-RR-2-Now We’re Talking!-Oppen-Farbstein
Learn to recognise and support deficits in higher level language skills. This workshop will introduce you to research based strategies for remediating language weaknesses.
2-RR-1-Building Critical Thinking Skills-Atwood
Learn to boost students’ critical thinking skills in any classroom! This workshop offers practical strategies for comparing, reasoning, analyzing, and evaluating so teachers of all subjects can effectively engage and challenge students.
2 Making change happen, Thursday November 7
1 Can things change? Wednesday, November 6
2-MM-2-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.
2-MM-1-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 Thursday, November 7
1 Wednesday, November 6
1-MM-1-School Refusal-Kurtz
School refusal refers to students consistently avoiding school due to emotional distress. For a child struggling with it, the mere thought of attending school brings intense stress or panic, turning emotions into physical symptoms like headaches, stomachaches, or other complaints that vanish outside of school. School refusal requires a dynamic, multidisciplinary approach that brings together parents, teachers, and mental health professionals.
1-RR-1a-School Refusal-Kurtz
School refusal refers to students consistently avoiding school due to emotional distress. For a child struggling with it, the mere thought of attending school brings intense stress or panic, turning emotions into physical symptoms like headaches, stomachaches, or other complaints that vanish outside of school. School refusal requires a dynamic, multidisciplinary approach that brings together parents, teachers, and mental health professionals.
1-RR-1b Moving Students Past Frustration and Boredom-Willis
Gain new insights about how emotions and stress impact learning and practical strategies to unlock the stress blockade that prevents the brain from doing its best work. Learn interventions to promote motivation and perseverance by applying principles from neuroscience. Explore ways to boost brain power and learner engagement: encourage buy-in, make it personally relevant, predict outcomes, set achievable challenges, offer various paths to mastery, and acknowledge each student’s progress step by step.
You will leave this session better prepared to empower your students and guide them from challenges to achievements in academics, emotions, and cognition.
