Leadership Lenses with Barry Kislowicz
Leadership Lenses with Barry Kislowicz
Podcast Description
Leadership Lenses is a new podcast designed for Heads of School, Principals, Board leaders and anyone who wants to improve day school education. These podcast episodes will come out in 15 minute installments designed for busy leaders. Each one will address a dilemma submitted to us by our listeners and provide our thoughts and hopefully some helpful insights.
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The podcast covers various leadership dilemmas and education challenges, with episodes addressing topics like how to manage negativity in the workplace, the importance of communication between school leaders and board members, and strategies for delivering tough news to teachers. Specific focus areas include emotional resilience, relationship-building in school culture, and fostering constructive environments in response to student behavior.

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. Each one will address a dilemma submitted to us by our listeners and provide our thoughts and hopefully some helpful insights.
Affordability is one of the most urgent challenges facing Jewish day schools today. But what is actually driving the cost of tuition, and what can school leaders and communities realistically do about it?In this episode of Leadership Lenses, I speak with Melissa Rivkin, Director of Day School Strategy at the Samis Foundation in Seattle, about a new study examining the structural factors behind the affordability gap in Jewish day schools. We explore the four key drivers of cost, which ones are non-negotiable parts of our mission and which ones school leaders can actually influence, and what decades of affordability work in Seattle have revealed about what moves the needle.Melissa also shares why community-wide initiatives outperform school-by-school approaches, what the research says about class size and student-teacher ratios, and why the number you put on your website matters more than most schools realize.It is a data-driven and practically grounded conversation about one of the most important challenges in Jewish education today.I can't wait to hear what you take away from this conversation.
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🌐 Website: https://samisfoundation.org/✉️ Email: [email protected]
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