There are days when I feel like all I do is run around the building, handling a million things a minute, all the while hearing people call out my name. I call those days Sundays. And while I am one of those people who thrives on a little chaos, the downside is that I often don't have the chance to sit down and talk to people, especially parents.

Feedback is vital in my ability to do my job well. I take comments from Temple Micah members of all ages very seriously and when it comes time to make change, I draw on that feedback to create a religious school experience that, I hope, meets the needs of all our learners. While it always is wonderful to hear how satisfied people are with our program, it's also very important to hear what people have concerns about or where they feel there is room for improvement.

Feedback finds me in a number of ways. People leave me voice-mail messages and send me e-mails, they make appointments to meet during the week and, occasionally, they catch me in a rare moment of quiet during religious school. Sometimes I solicit opinions about a specific topic, like the Family Minyan survey I sent out a few months ago, and I'm always awed by the honesty and thoughtfulness of the answers I receive.

One of the things I've always wanted to do is have a regular forum for religious school parents to drop in and just talk about the school with me and with one another. I think the time has come to give that idea a try, so I'm officially declaring the first Tuesday afternoon of every month Religious School Roundtable.

We'll meet during midweek Hebrew in the sanctuary and talk about the school, about what works and what needs tweaking. I'll bounce ideas off of you and you'll do the same for me. We won't have any fixed agenda and we won't have any illusions of instant change. What we'll have is a dialogue, a continuing conversation about the important, sacred work that is our children's religious education. I hope that those of you who participate (and I hope there will be a lot of you) will enjoy this experience and will see the value in it. And I hope it will also help you to feel more connected to one another and to the larger Temple Micah community.

So join us, from 5-6:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 7, for the first Religious School Roundtable. I look forward to seeing you there.