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The Berman Center for Research and Evaluation. The Berman Center conducts state-of-the-art evaluations of educational programs to help sponsors improve these programs and to assess their effectiveness and impact. The Berman Center also works with program providers to help them improve their abilities to conduct and utilize evaluations and to build a culture of data-driven decision-making throughout the continental system.
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The Learnings and Consultation Center (LCC). The LCC disseminates knowledge to communities and institutions about what works in Jewish education and under what circumstances and helps them to apply this knowledge through one-on-one consultations, communities of practice, demonstration projects, web resources, publications, and special projects (such as educator awards).
- The Lippman Kanfer Institute. The Lippman Kanfer Institute identifies and analyzes promising new directions in educational practice and policy and engages leaders to think about how to implement these innovations more widely.
Substantively, JESNA’s work addresses the major educational challenges and opportunities facing local communities and North American Jewry as a whole. Our programs today focus on
- Complementary education, which encompasses traditional synagogue schools and community Hebrew high schools as well as other innovative models for engaging non day-school children and families,
- Educator support and development, serving teachers and educational leaders in a wide array of settings, across denominations, and throughout North America, and
- Building the capacity of central agencies for Jewish education to serve their communities with proven products, innovative solutions, and peerless professionalism
- Studying and building on the momentum of the social entrepreneurship movement to develop new opportunities to improve Jewish education
JESNA also continues to respond to communities' needs and requests for information and guidance (including via community visits) on a broad range of educational issues.