HeyJaredLeadership Lenses with Barry Kislowicz
Leadership Lenses is a new podcast designed for Heads of School, Principals, Menahalim, Roshei Yeshiva and anyone who wants to improve Jewish day school and yeshiva education. These podcast episodes will come out in weekly installments designed for busy leaders.
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Rethinking How We Teach Israel with Noam Weissmann (opens the original)
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Three years after October 7th, most Jewish day schools agree that Israel education matters. Far fewer have figured out where it actually belongs in the curriculum, or how to teach it with real depth.In this episode of Leadership Lenses, I speak with Noam Weissmann, Executive Vice President of Open Door Media and host of Unpacking Israeli History, the most downloaded Jewish podcast in the world. We explore why Israel education so often gets relegated to a hallway display or a single day on the ca
Building a School Rooted in Joy with Dr. Rachel Harari (opens the original)
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What if academic rigor and warmth were not opposites, but requirements for each other? In this episode of Leadership Lenses, I speak with Dr. Rachel Harari, head of school at the Sam School on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, about building a school where students run through the doors excited to learn. We explore what it looks like to weave Sephardic tradition into a warm, non-judgmental approach to Jewish life, why she waits for the right teacher rather than rushing to fill a position, and ho
Sitting on the Same Side of the Table with Jane Taubenfeld Cohen (opens the original)
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Being partners with parents sounds simple. Actually doing it, especially in the middle of a hard conversation about a struggling child, is one of the harder things school leaders and teachers face.In this episode of Leadership Lenses, I welcome back returning guest Jane Taubenfeld Cohen to talk about her widely shared piece on parent partnership. We explore why so many school meetings unintentionally become about getting the parent to do something rather than solving a problem together, why nami
Lessons from Launching a New School Abroad with Rabbi Rick Schindelheim (opens the original)
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What does it take to build a brand new school program from scratch, and get it right in year one?In this episode of Leadership Lenses, I speak with Rabbi Rick Schindelheim about the lessons he learned launching a new educational program in Israel from the ground up. We explore why clarity of mission matters more than trying to please everyone, how to build genuine community among students who are living away from home for the first time, and why structured time for reflection can be just as impo
Having the Hard Conversation Before It's Too Late (opens the original)
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Every school leader has had that one employee in the back of their mind, the one whose performance has been slipping, the one you are quietly wondering whether you can bring back next year. The problem is most of us avoid that conversation until March, April, or May, when it is far too late to actually help.In this episode of Leadership Lenses, I talk through why the beginning of the school year, not the end, is the moment to have that direct and caring conversation with an employee whose job ma
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