While headmaster at Cape Fear Academy (NC), I developed a few theories about how to teach high school students in way that would prepare them for leadership. The founding trustees of a new Conservative Jewish school in Bergen County, New Jersey offered me the opportunity to concretize my ideas and supported me with unfailing enthusiasm, a brilliant partner, and several million dollars; together we developed a school whose mission was
To prepare young men and women for a lifetime of individual accomplishment, Jewish commitment and community leadership.
Note the important last phrase, “community leadership;” that was my specialty. Rhonda Rosenheck, my very equal co-head of school, brought her expertise in Jewish education. Together with a wonderfully fine faculty, we helped each student reach his and her own high level of individual accomplishment. Among Rhonda’s many talents was her ability to encourage others, in my case through her suggestion that I bring our story to the upcoming Melton Center conference on Jewish Education, scheduled at Hebrew University, Jerusalem, the summer of 2006.
After the conference, some of the papers were gathered and published under the title of Jewish Day Schools, Jewish Communities: A Reconsideration, edited by Alex Pomson and Howard Deitcher.
My chapter, through a series of anecdotes, describes how Schechter Regional High School’s signature technique, the Town Meeting, worked to develop leadership.
The book is finally available from Littman publications (UK) as part of the Littman Library of Jewish Civilization.
ISBN 9878-1-90413-74-7 $24.95
To prepare young men and women for a lifetime of individual accomplishment, Jewish commitment and community leadership.
Note the important last phrase, “community leadership;” that was my specialty. Rhonda Rosenheck, my very equal co-head of school, brought her expertise in Jewish education. Together with a wonderfully fine faculty, we helped each student reach his and her own high level of individual accomplishment. Among Rhonda’s many talents was her ability to encourage others, in my case through her suggestion that I bring our story to the upcoming Melton Center conference on Jewish Education, scheduled at Hebrew University, Jerusalem, the summer of 2006.
After the conference, some of the papers were gathered and published under the title of Jewish Day Schools, Jewish Communities: A Reconsideration, edited by Alex Pomson and Howard Deitcher.
My chapter, through a series of anecdotes, describes how Schechter Regional High School’s signature technique, the Town Meeting, worked to develop leadership.
The book is finally available from Littman publications (UK) as part of the Littman Library of Jewish Civilization.
ISBN 9878-1-90413-74-7 $24.95
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