Our long-term priorities grow out of the meshing of a set of bold goals that we have for Jewish education as a whole with our focused strategy (Learnings - Dissemination - Application) for maximizing JESNA’s impact on the community’s capacity to achieve these goals.

1. To increase overall participation in the full range of Jewish educational experiences by making these experiences more attractive, accessible, and high quality ( by “overall participation” we mean a) expanding the numbers of participants, b) expanding the number of experiences that each individual and family participates in, and c) extending participation throughout one’s life).
2. As a vital component of this, to increase the recruitment and retention of outstanding educators.
3. To enable the Jewish educational system to operate with empirically-grounded knowledge of “what works,” a culture of cooperation, and the readiness to innovate that will ensure its ongoing dynamism and effectiveness.