Article Link: http://exchangepress.com/article/standards-of-excellence/5024146/
Imagine an easy-to-use tool early childhood managers and educators could use to improve performance in educational practice, marketing, enrollment conversion, and family satisfaction and retention. How would a center benefit if this tool could help teams assess current performance, drive action plan development, build strong leadership teams, and encourage staff involvement in quality program delivery? This vision, question, and a teacher’s request for help rating the quality of early childhood educational programs based on standards, sparked the creation of the Standards of Excellence for Jewish Community Centers and Synagogues with Early Childhood Education Centers. (https://rcfdenver.org/blog/standards-excellence-jewish-community-centers-synagogues-early-childhood-education-centers/)
This comprehensive resource is the result of a decade of work, and millions of dollars invested to enhance and improve Jewish early childhood education and family engagement in synagogues and Jewish community centers in the Denver/Boulder Colorado area.
“The Standards of Excellence is a landmark publication for all who work in Jewish ECE and care deeply about the next generation,” says Lisa Farber Miller, senior program officer at Rose Community Foundation, which supported the development of the publication. “It’s one thing to talk about exemplary practices, but the SOE paints a clear and rich picture of what high quality Jewish ECE ...