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Enhancing Excellence and Access in Boston's Jewish Day Schools

The Initiative for Day School Excellence aims to foster a system of outstanding and accessible Jewish day schools in the Boston area. Guided by three key goals—Excellence in education, Access for students across diverse backgrounds, and Community support—this initiative focuses on improving teaching, curriculum, leadership, special education, and organizational health. It addresses various areas, including special needs education and organizational effectiveness, while building capacity among educators and the community to ensure a vibrant Jewish education framework.

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Enhancing Excellence and Access in Boston's Jewish Day Schools

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  1. The Initiative for Day School Excellence aims to support a system of excellent and accessible Boston-area Jewish day schools in the context of CJP’s community-wide agenda.

  2. 3 Goals Guiding the Initiative • Excellence.Assist Jewish day schools in providing an excellent education to students • Access.Enable students across geographic, religious, economic, and learning spectra to attain a Jewish day school education • Community.Support a vibrant, healthy, growing community of Jewish Day Schools in greater Boston

  3. Areas of Focus • Teaching, curriculum, and teacher professional development • Special education • Recruitment and enrollment • Leadership development • Organizational effectiveness • Governance and fiscal health • Affordability

  4. Approach to Special Education • Direct services to students • Capacity building among special needs teachers • Capacity building among all teachers • Capacity building among school Heads and leadership teams • Supporting the improvement of organizational structures and school cultures

  5. Special Education for Jewish Day School Students in Greater Boston • Work of classroom teachers and individual schools • Special needs track of BJE PD Day • Professional development work of Sandy Miller-Jacobs/BJE • Work of special educators through Gateways (A merger of JSEC and Etgar L’Noar) • Special needs coordinators in schools • Special needs materials • Emphasis on special needs in strategic planning • Ongoing assessment of Special Needs Initiative

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