9:00am – 9:30am

9:30am – 10:30am

10:30am – 11:25 am

Arrival & Registration

B’ruchim Ha-ba-eem — Welcome

The Power of Personality  – Presenter: Merrick Rosenberg, Founder, Take Flight Learning and Team Builders Plus

Understanding and managing personalities at camp will strengthen your camp community by enabling campers to get along better, preparing counselors and staff to understand how to work more effectively together, and creating a great environment for everyone. Through Merrick’s method of linking personality to Eagles, Parrots, Doves and Owls, you will see yourself in his stories and will learn how to apply the personality styles to build stronger relationships, manage conflict, heighten camper involvement, and operate a more impactful and effective camp  

11:30am – 12:30 pm

Choose Your Adventure #1

• A View of Jewish Day Camp – Sara Sideman and Jared Kaufman will lead a group tour of JCC Camps at Medford
• Consultants & Sponsors available (Drop-in time – no pre-registration)

12:30pm – 1:15 pm

Lunch

1:30pm – 2:30pm

Choose Your Adventure #2

• Ready Set Go – Guide to Becoming ACA Accredited – Kyle Medeiras, ACA NY/NJ
• Create Raving Fans: Practical Tips to Deliver World-Class Customer Service – Roz & Jed Buck – Making your customers raving fans can propel your business to new heights.  This workshop will review the importance of super-serving customers and provide a series of practical actions and real-world examples that every staff member can easily use to consistently deliver world-class customer service

• Enrollment 101 – Aron Goldman, JCamp180 & Alanna Steinberg, Camp Ruach
• Consultants and Sponsors available (30 minutes time slots / pre-register)

2:30pm – 3:00pm

Break

3:00pm – 3:45pm

The Time is Now For Day Camps – Making the Case
Tom Rosenberg, President & CEO, American Camp Association

3:50pm – 4:40pm

Choose Your Adventure #3

• Ready Set Go – Guide to Becoming ACA Accredited – Kyle Medeiras, ACA NY/NJ
• Creating Your Day Camp Culture – Roz & Jed Buck – Every company has a culture, and according to Warren Buffett, “You cannot pay too much attention to company culture.”  With the fast pace of camp life, we often ignore our culture as we focus on our strategy and execution.  This hands-on, highly interactive session will explore the importance of your camp’s culture and how you can grow your culture (if you like it) or change and develop it (if you don’t like it).

• Enrollment 101 – Aron Goldman, JCamp180 & Alanna Steinberg, Camp Ruach
• Consultants and Sponsors available (25 minute time slots / pre-register)

4:45pm – 5:40pm

Panel Discussion #1:  What’s Next for Jewish Day Camps? – facilitated by Aaron Greenberg, JDCN

• Helene Drobenare, Camp Young Judaea
• Eileen Price, In the City Camps
• Beth Richman, Camp JCC Raleigh
• Evan Roth, Centre Day Camp
• Carla Rudow, Camp Veritans
• Genna Singer, Camp Settoga

5:45pm – 6:30pm  

6:30pm – 7:30pm

7:30pm – 9:30pm

9:30pm – ?   

Networking Happy Hour

Dinner

Full Court Comedy Sportz

Back to Hotel – Networking Continued

7:45 am – 8:15 am

Optional Morning Activities (at Camp)

• Tool Time with Maplewoodshop
• Walk the Trails

8:30 am – 9:30 am

Boker Tov!

9:30 am – 11:00 am

Strategic Vision Session #1 (by Cohort)

• Veteran Camp Directors (5+ years) – How research guides Jewish Day Camps and helps build community  – facilitators: Phil Liebson, Camp JCC and Rabbi Stacy Rigler, FJC
• Camp Directors (Under 5 years) – facilitators: Jodi Sonenshine, Marcus JCC Day Camps and Rachael Speck, Camp J & R
• Assistant / Associate Camp Directors – facilitated by Stacy Deems, JCamp Baltimore

11:15 am – 12:30 pm

Find Your Own Adventure

• “Find yourself a Rabbi, Acquire for yourself a friend" (Pirkei Avot) – keeping this famous quote in mind, connect with someone to network with.  Meet at amphitheater to be paired up.  
• Day Camp Roundtable – facilitators: Kim Subrin, Shemesh Camp and Jamee Smith, JCC Apachi Chicago
• Consultants and sponsors available (20-minute time slots)

12:30 pm – 1:30 pm

Lunch

1:30 pm – 2:15 pm

Strategic Vision Session #2

• Veteran Camp Directors (5+ years) – facilitators: Adam Benmoise, Camp Twelve Trails and Emily Stern, JCamps Baltimore
• Camp Directors (Under 5 years) – How research guides Jewish Day Camps and helps build community  – facilitators: Jodi Sonenshine, Marcus JCC Day Camps, Rachael Speck, Camp J & R and Rabbi Stacy Rigler, FJC
• Assistant / Associate Camp Directors – facilitated by Stacy Deems, JCamp Baltimore

2:15 pm – 2:30 pm

Break

2:30 pm – 3:15 pm

One Last Adventure of Your Choice

• 2022 Reset – Camp 365 Year Round Engagement
• Applying a Racial Equity Lens to Camp: Living Your Values – Jenni Zeftel and Rabbi Stacy Rigler, FJC
• The Why and How of Effective Camp Committees – Robby Etzkin, Camp Marci Lynn
• Developing meaningful connections to Israel at camp – Assaf Grumberg, CampWithUs – Israel is small in size but rich in history, culture, and significance. This session provides opportunities for camps to facilitate meaningful Israel programs and develop a connection to Israel through conversations and personal experiences.

• Special Events Brainstorm – What’s New Out There?

3:15 pm – 4:00 pm

Panel Discussion: Next Steps

• Adam Benmoise, Camp Twelve Trails
• Helene Drobenare, Camp Young Judaea
• Robby Etzkin, Camp Marci Lynn
• Beth Miller, JCC Apachi Chicago
• Emily Stern, JCamps Baltimore 

4:00 pm

L’Hitraot

9:00am – 9:30am

Arrival and Registration

9:30am – 10:30am

B’ruchim Ha-ba-eem – Welcome

10:30am – 11:25 am

The Power of Personality  – Presenter: Merrick Rosenberg, Founder, Take Flight Learning and Team Builders Plus

Understanding and managing personalities at camp will strengthen your camp community by enabling campers to get along better, preparing counselors and staff to understand how to work more effectively together, and creating a great environment for everyone. Through Merrick’s method of linking personality to Eagles, Parrots, Doves and Owls, you will see yourself in his stories and will learn how to apply the personality styles to build stronger relationships, manage conflict, heighten camper involvement, and operate a more impactful and effective camp  

11:30am – 12:30 pm

Choose Your Adventure #1

A View of Jewish Day Camp – Sara Sideman and Jared Kaufman will lead a group tour of JCC Camps at Medford

Consultants & Sponsors available (Drop-in time – no pre-registration)

12:30pm – 1:15 pm

Lunch

1:30pm – 2:30pm

Choose Your Adventure #2

Ready Set Go – Guide to Becoming ACA Accredited – Kyle Medeiras, ACA NY/NJ

Create Raving Fans: Practical Tips to Deliver World-Class Customer Service – Roz & Jed Buck – Making your customers raving fans can propel your business to new heights.  This workshop will review the importance of super-serving customers and provide a series of practical actions and real-world examples that every staff member can easily use to consistently deliver world-class customer service

Enrollment 101 – Aron Goldman, JCamp180 & Alanna Steinberg, Camp Ruach

Consultants and Sponsors available (30 minutes time slots / pre-register)

2:30pm – 3:00pm

Break

3:00pm – 3:45pm

The Time is Now For Day Camps – Making the Case
Tom Rosenberg, President & CEO, American Camp Association

3:50pm – 4:40pm

Choose Your Adventure #3

Ready Set Go – Guide to Becoming ACA Accredited – Kyle Medeiras, ACA NY/NJ

Creating Your Day Camp Culture – Roz & Jed Buck – Every company has a culture, and according to Warren Buffett, “You cannot pay too much attention to company culture.”  With the fast pace of camp life, we often ignore our culture as we focus on our strategy and execution.  This hands-on, highly interactive session will explore the importance of your camp’s culture and how you can grow your culture (if you like it) or change and develop it (if you don’t like it).

Enrollment 101 – Aron Goldman, JCamp180 & Alanna Steinberg, Camp Ruach

Consultants and Sponsors available (25 minute time slots / pre-register)

4:45pm – 5:40pm

Panel Discussion #1:  What’s Next for Jewish Day Camps? – facilitated by Aaron Greenberg, JDCN

Helene Drobenare, Camp Young Judaea

Eileen Price, In the City Camps

Beth Richman, Camp JCC Raleigh

Evan Roth, Centre Day Camp

Carla Rudow, Camp Veritans

Genna Singer, Camp Settoga

5:45pm – 6:30pm  

Networking Happy Hour

6:30pm – 7:30pm

Dinner

7:30pm – 9:30pm

Full Court Comedy Sportz

9:30pm – ?   

Back to Hotel – Networking Continued

7:45 am – 8:15 am

Optional Morning Activities (at Camp)

Tool Time with Maplewoodshop

Walk the Trails

8:30 am – 9:30 am

Boker Tov!

9:30 am – 11:00 am

Strategic Vision Session #1 (by Cohort)

Veteran Camp Directors (5+ years) – facilitator: Phil Liebson, Camp JCC

Camp Directors (Under 5 years) – facilitators: Jodi Sonenshine, Marcus JCC Day Camps and Rachael Speck, Camp J & R

Assistant / Associate Camp Directors – facilitated by TBD

11:15 am – 12:30 pm

Find Your Own Adventure

“Find yourself a Rabbi, Acquire for yourself a friend" (Pirkei Avot) – keeping this famous quote in mind, connect with someone to network with.  Meet at amphitheater to be paired up.  

Day Camp Roundtable – facilitators: Kim Subrin, Shemesh Camp and Jamee Smith, JCC Apachi Chicago

Consultants and sponsors available (20-minute time slots)

12:30 pm – 1:30 pm

Lunch

1:30 pm – 2:15 pm

Strategic Vision Session #2

Camp Directors – How research guides Jewish Day Camps and helps
build community; Facilitators: Adam Benmoise, Camp Twelve Trails
and Emily Stern, JCamps Baltimore

Assistant / Associate Camp Directors – Facilitated by Aliza Glatter,
Camp JCC Rockville and Marla Parnes, JDCN Conference Coordinator

  2:15 pm – 2:30 pm

Break

 2:30 pm – 3:15 pm

One Last Adventure of Your Choice

Applying a Racial Equity Lens to Camp: Living Your Values – Jenni Zeftel, FJC and Jared Jackson, Jews in All Hues

The Why and How of Effective Camp Committees – Robby Etzkin, Camp Marci Lynn

Developing meaningful connections to Israel at camp – Assaf Grumberg, CampWithUs – Israel is small in size but rich in history, culture, and significance. This session provides opportunities for camps to facilitate meaningful Israel programs and develop a connection to Israel through conversations and personal experiences.

Consultants and sponsors available

3:15 pm – 4:00 pm

Panel Discussion: Next Steps

Adam Benmoise, Camp Twelve Trails

Helene Drobenare, Camp Young Judaea

Robby Etzkin, Camp Marci Lynn

Beth Miller, JCC Apachi Chicago

Emily Stern, JCamps Baltimore

Stefan Teodosic, In the City Camps

Stefan Teodosic, In the City Camps

Stefan Teodosic, In the City Camps

Stefan Teodosic, In the City Camps

Stefan Teodosic, In the City Camps

Stefan Teodosic, In the City Camps

Stefan Teodosic, In the City Camps

Panel Discussion: Next Steps

Adam Benmoise, Camp Twelve Trails

Helene Drobenare, Camp Young Judaea

Robby Etzkin, Camp Marci Lynn

Beth Miller, JCC Apachi Chicago

Emily Stern, JCamps Baltimore

Stefan Teodosic, In the City Camps

Stefan Teodosic, In the City Camps

Stefan Teodosic, In the City Camps

Stefan Teodosic, In the City Camps

Stefan Teodosic, In the City Camps

Stefan Teodosic, In the City Camps

Stefan Teodosic, In the City Camps

4:00 pm

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