As Creating Connected Communities (CCC) has grown, we have worked to collect data on the impact of our Jewish Teen Leadership Development Program (LDP) as our teens matriculate through the curriculum. This data informs our understanding of the areas that need improvement as well as provides a showcase of the skills our teens learn, experiences they remember, and the long-term affect the program has on developing our next generation of Jewish community leaders.
LDP is designed as a 4-track program where students can begin in January of their 8th grade year and continue through December of their 12th grade year. Each year of our spiral, experiential curriculum provides more depth and breadth of the content areas and objectives as well as increased leadership responsibility.
Each year, our new teens take a pre-survey to assess a baseline of skills and experiences (Track 1). In December, all teens in Tracks 1-4 take a post-survey to assess how they rate those same skills and abilities, sense of Jewish identity and impact of their experiences with CCC each successive year. Below is survey data from our 2020 cohort.
Track 1 – 100 teens (71 responded to the survey)
Track 2 – 60 teens (49 responded to the survey)
Tracks 3 & 4 – 30 teens (17 responded to survey)
