Parents - Can’t Live with Them, Can’t Live without Them!
The participation of tw/teens in Jewish youth education and engagement programming is highly impacted by the role their parents play as a supporter, promoter, sharer, social networker, and more. This workshop will: (1) learn the difference between parent involvement and parent engagement and the role each has in Jewish youth education and engagement programming, (2) explore a variety of ways that parents can be programmatic partners, even as their own constituency, and (3) with the creative energy of colleagues, begin mapping out ways to implement a parent involvement and parent engagement plan for the 2023-2024 year and explore how engaging and involving parents leads to tangible teen participation results.
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- After School and Beyond
- Educator Training
- Camp
- Congregational Learning
- Day Schools and Yeshivas
- Teen Engagement
- Webinar
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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