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Standards of Excellence
Early Childhood Education Task Force Benchmarks of Excellence
A high quality Early Childhood Jewish Education program has not yet been defined in our region. In the JESNA study that was commissioned by the Endowment Fund in 2006, it states:”This study did not include a formal assessment of the quality of current offerings in Jewish ECE, which would require a very different time frame and approach.” Standards of excellence in ECE are available in the world of general education. There are several measurements of quality that are widely accepted in the field:
- National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) has a rigorous accreditation system which only 3 of our schools currently have employed.
- The Early Childhood Environmental Rating Scale (ECERS) is used as an assessment tool by many schools, including Preschool for All (PFA) in San Francisco.
- ITERS is the Infant/Toddler version of ECERS.
- High Scope has a rating scale that is widely available, but not widely utilized in our area.
In the arena of Jewish Education, the following work has been done on standards of excellence:
- Several communities, including Boston, Washington DC, Los Angeles, and Chicago have identified elements of excellence and have adopted an accreditation or commendation system, often linked to salary.
- The Jewish Early Childhood Education Initiative (JECEI) is developing standards of excellence which should become available later this year.
- The Coalition for the Advancement of Jewish Education (CAJE) has developed a draft statement in defining excellence in early childhood Jewish education.
- The Jewish Community Center Association has guidelines of excellence for their centers.
- The Union of Reform Judaism and the united conservative synagogues are beginnng to look at standards.
- The Chabad movement has developed standards of excellence in Judaic education for their preschools.
Our community has the opportunity to glean from the work that is being done nationally to create benchmarks of excellence that will inspire each school to be examples of best practice in early childhood Jewish education.
Information Compiled by Janet Harris.
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