More than 300 Jewish day school educators participated in edJEWcon.

Day school educators from all over the Chicago area participated in edJEWcon , a groundbreaking joint professional development day, on Wednesday, Nov. 11.

Over 300 faculty members representing Akiba Schechter, Solomon Schechter, Chicago Jewish Day School, Chicagoland Jewish High School, Hillel Torah and Bernard Zell Anshe Emet Day School studied the work of noted psychologist Dr. Carol Dweck on Growth Mindset and how they can structure their schools and classrooms to better develop a growth mindset for faculty, administrators and students.

“It was invigorating and inspiring to see the networking and collaboration of ideas between educators from different schools,” said Rabbi Menachem Linzer, principal of Hillel Torah and a member of the day school leadership council that collaborated on the program. “We look forward to building on this exciting opportunity to work together to strengthen Jewish Day School education across Chicago”.

The conference was sponsored by the Schechter Network with funding from the Crown Family Philanthropies and Avi Chai.