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 * __Making Our Approach More Systemic:__**

1) Involving individuals/groups from throughout the congregation in activities. 2) Create learning opportunities for participants in many aspects of congregational life. (//1 and 2 together help form a symbiotic relationship between school and congregation//) 3) Create a similar style program for all ages/stages (gradually add more ages each year).


 * __Major Challenges/Potential Opportunities for Solutions:__**

1) Getting “buy-in” from less committed people: - Publicity - Using the most enthusiastic students/parents/teachers as ambassadors - Programs/Communication in congregation to recognize Etz Chaim and participants (//services to involve and honor; bulletin ads and articles; actual “Etz Chaim” in a highly visible location in congregation//)

2) Integrating Religious School and Day School students/families: - Create activities which simultaneously meet the needs of both groups (//retreats, services, havdalah, Shabbat dinne//rs) - Emphasize the importance of unity and the benefits to students/families (//greater critical mass; opportunity to meet more peers//) - Adapt curriculum (//which is flexible//) to the Religious School and Day School separately (//it becomes the entire curriculum for the Religious School, but for the Day School, aspects of the curriculum are integrated into what already exists//)


 * __Questions that arose from April 2007 meeting with 07-08 4th Grade Parents about Etz Chaim:__**

- How are credits weighted? - Are Hebrew and Service Attendance “worth” more than Art? - Does Kol Ruach (our junior choir) have any weight? - During the Shabbaton, can older siblings HELP, do jobs, get credit for their class for being there, etc? - How is Tuesday Hebrew class weighted? - Can a student come to Tuesday Hebrew, and not Sunday Hebrew, and still qualify to become a Bar/Bat Mitzvah at BHC? - Can a student gain credit for attending Toldot? Toldot Hebrew?

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