Level Up Your Teen Program for 2025-2026
At the beginning of the program year, Jewish tween and teen serving professionals often engage in the process of imagining new programming to retain their current tweens and teens and recruit new tweens and teens. Whether your focus is Hebrew high or youth group or teen philanthropy or service learning or madrichim or confirmation or something in-between, this 2-part series will explore ways to invigorate your tween and teen education and/or engagement program.
Session 1:
- Learn about the national tween and teen landscape; explore challenges and opportunities.
- Group share what is working and what is not working in your organization.
Session 2:
- Explore 12 distinct programmatic areas of opportunity.
- Workshop programmatic ideas for your organization with colleagues.
- Educator Training
- Teen Engagement
Erica Hruby, M.A. is a Jewish educator with nearly 30-years of teaching, curriculum writing, and professional development experience in Jewish community, academic, and residential environments. Erica serves as Senior Manager, National Teen Education and Engagement at The Jewish Education Project. She is also the founder of Anchored Parenting, LLC where she serves as a parent educator and coach. Erica has an M.A. from Georgia School of Professional Psychology in Clinical Psychology with a focus on children and adolescents. She lives on the West Coast of Florida with her high school sweetheart with whom she shares two adult daughters.
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