FIVE ADVANTAGES TO SENDING YOUR CHILD TO THE JEWISH ACADEMY

 

1. Academic Excellence – The Jewish Academy offers both challenging, integrated curriculum and low teacher to student ratio. This combination creates the perfect environment for qualitative individual attention from creative and dedicated teachers. Each child has a unique learning style, which our experienced faculty is able to identify and nurture. With our stress on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) as a learning platform, students benefit from the use of technology to challenge their imagination in all subjects of the core curriculum. With additional specialists in music, library, art, phys. ed. and dance, students receive a well rounded first rate education.

 

2. Education of the 21st century – NYS public schools measure success by the most extensive system of testing in the country. Although this can produce very knowledgeable students, it is learning for the 20th Century. Due to the fact that most students, by the year 2020, will own handheld pc’s with access to billions of facts and functions, this method is quickly becoming outdated. Quality education for the 21st Century needs to prepare our children for success in a global economy. It needs to focus on critical and higher order thinking, character development, creativity, leadership/life skills and teamwork. This education is what the JA offers, preparing students for high level opportunities in the future.

 

3. Judaic Literacy – Students learn Hebrew as a living language (with the nationally recognized TelAm curriculum), and grow to appreciate the depth and meaning of Jewish texts, beliefs and practices. Parents at the JA can expect that their child(ren) will excitedly teach them about our common Jewish heritage. Graduates of Jewish Day Schools find that their dual curriculum prepared them well for advanced study in the future, and expanded their capacity for learning. With that said the JA also guides its students to respect whatever level of Jewish practice parents maintain in their home.

 

4. Values – Many parents choose the Jewish Academy because it fosters identity development as well as a values system that is consistent with what they teach at home. In today’s society, with the challenges of parenting, fostering ethical behavior in school is more important than ever. By living Jewish concepts such as tikun olam (fixing the world), respect for parents, and gemilat hasadim (acts of kindness), JA students develop a healthy, positive self esteem, and become upstanding, moral individuals.  

 

5. Vibrant Community – A Jewish community is incomplete without a vibrant Day School, which has been the backbone of our people for millennium. As an institution dedicated to raising proud and knowledgeable Jews, Day Schools represent the vision for the future of the Jewish community. The Jewish Academy community is very diverse and represents Jews of all backgrounds and levels of observance. Parents truly feel a sense of family here, and families make friendships which hopefully will last a lifetime.

 

A Jewish Academy education is an important investment in your child’s future!