INITIATIVE
Focus on Excellence in Early Childhood Jewish Education
What makes a school excellent? What makes a Jewish pre-school excellent? How do we measure success?
Working together with Jewish education programs, we are developing a set of guidelines that will characterize an excellent Jewish preschool.
Creating these benchmarks has the potential to help schools identify their strengths and weaknesses and work in the pursuit of excellence. The program will also serve as a guide for parents, community leaders and funders as we work to maximize the potential of Early Childhood Jewish Education.
The Focus on Excellence tool is currently being piloted in three programs: Gan Israel Preschool in San Rafael, Helen Diller Family Preschool / JCCSF, and Peninsula Temple Sholom Preschool in Burlingame.
Contact Ellen Brosbe, 415.751.6983 x 153.
Focus on Excellence in Early Childhood Jewish Education is a partnership between the BJE and the Early Childhood Education Initiative of the Jewish Community Federation. This project is made possible by a grant from the Jewish Community Endowment Kohn Fund of the SF-based Jewish Community Federation.
Links
Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties Early Childhood Education Initiative
JECEI: Jewish early childhood education initiative
URJ: Union for Reform Judaism
The Association of Jewish Libraries
Videatives
For more educator resources, please click here.
For a list of BJE-affiliated Early Childhood Education Programs, please click here.
