Advancing Our Schools: Building Systems of Alignment

This week, HaYidion, Prizmah’s journal of Jewish education leadership, published my article, Advancing Our Schools: Building Systems of Alignment.

The piece emerged from a question that has followed me throughout my career as a Head of School, network leader, mentor, and now consultant: Why do some moments of growth lead to lasting transformation while others fade?

Jewish day schools are experiencing a rare convergence of enrollment momentum, communal investment, and renewed urgency around Jewish identity. Yet opportunity alone does not guarantee lasting change. The article argues that our future success will depend less on growth itself and more on the governance, leadership, instructional, and data systems we build to sustain it.

I am grateful to the HaYidion editorial team for the opportunity to contribute to this important conversation.

[LINK TO ARTICLE]

Author: Jon Mitzmacher

Dr. Jon Mitzmacher is a Senior Director at Scott Goldberg Consulting (SGC). Jon is studying to be a rabbi at the Academy for Jewish Religion and is on the faculty of the Day School Leadership Training Institute (DSLTI) as a mentor. He was most recently the Head of the Ottawa Jewish Community School. He is the former VP of Innovation for Prizmah: Center for Jewish Day Schools.  He is the former Executive Director of the Schechter Day School Network.  He is also the former head of the Martin J. Gottlieb Day School, a K-8 Solomon Schechter, located in Jacksonville, FL, and part of the Jacksonville Jewish Center.  He was the founding head of the Solomon Schechter Day School of Las Vegas.  Jon has worked in all aspects of Jewish Education from camping to congregations and everything in between.