What Were You Thinking?

Consulting, collaboration, and the value of difficult questions.

As a recipient of an Avi-Chai Foundation day school collaboration grant, my school in St. Louis has been working through the complexities of how we collaborate with another local day school to raise the level of quality in our program and supporting services while simultaneously managing expenses.

After what seems like a very long process, we just reached a positive new step by securing an extremely favorable licensing agreement for a donor relations and school management suite which will meet the shared needs of the Solomon Schechter Day School of Saint Louis in partnership with the Saul Mirowitz Day School-Reform Jewish Academy.

My day ends with an email from Avi-Chai, authorizing the release of funds to cover our implementation costs. Getting here was not an easy task. For details of some of the missteps we have made and lessons learned, please see my post on the Avi Chai Day School Cost Savings blog.