A Message from the Transitional Head of School
August, 2023
Dear CJDS Community,
I am honored to continue to serve in my role as the Transitional Head of School for the 2023-2024 academic year at CJDS. I am filled with excitement and passion to make this year a successful one for students, families, and everyone who cares deeply about this special school. I look forward to working together to ensure that the wonder, wisdom, vitality, and vibrancy of CJDS shines through in all that we do during the year.
CJDS is blessed with a talented and passionate faculty. Their dedication to our students and to the values we seek to impart is obvious in both large and small ways each and every day. I encourage everyone to come and walk through the halls of this school, stopping in classrooms, talking with students and teachers and appreciating what happens each day inside this school community.
Over the past 25 years, the impact of this school on the Columbus Jewish community has only grown. I’m not sure the school’s founders realized what gifts this school would provide the Columbus Jewish community and the community at large when they began this journey. The importance of ensuring that a vital and vibrant pluralistic and progressive Day School is a shared endeavor. Our lay leaders are committed to this work and are always interested in hearing from folks how we can strengthen our presence and impact.
I am humbled by the trust placed in me by your lay leadership, your administrative team, and your faculty. I have been blessed with many professional successes in my life. None has been more meaningful than the work I have done here at CJDS. As our Head of School search comes to a close this year, I am confident that our new HOS will be able to carry forth this school with grace, strength and vision.
As Proverbs (22:6) teaches: “We are to educate children in the way they should go so that even in old age they will not depart from those teachings.” It has been what we have done and will continue to be what we are called upon to do.