Auerbach Central Agency for Jewish Education

NESS

The NESS Initiative

• Overview 

 

• Professional Profiles

 

• Professional Development Seminars for Teachers

 

• Parent and Family Engagement

 

• The Jewish School Assessment and School Improvement Process (JSASIP)

 

• Leadership Development Seminar (LDS)

 

• Program for Organizational Development (POD)

 

• Curriculum Development Project

 

• Program Evaluation

 

• Replication and Dissemination

 

• Advisory Committee

 

• Collaborating Organizations

 

• Successes of the Pilot Program

 

• Terminology used by the Penn Literacy Network and adapted by the NESS Program

 

• "NESS - A Synagogue School Transformation Initiative" - by Helene Z. Tigay and Shelley K. Rosenberg - article from Jewish Education News, Winter 2006

 

• "Making the Invisible Visible: Reflections on the Infrastructure of NESS" by Helene Tigay - article from Jewish Education News, Spring 2007

 

• Engaging and Retaining Jewish Youth Beyond Bar and Bat Mitzvah: An Action Research Study by Sharon Ravitch
   This study is also available for purchase as a booklet from our Publications area.

 

 

Please direct all questions to Anita Block, Director of the NESS Initiative, at 215-635-8940, ext. 1235 or ablock@acaje.org.

 

The NESS Initiative is supported in part by a grant from the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia.