Jacksonville Jewish Center

Welcome to the Bernard & Alice Selevan Religious School

 

We are excited to announce BIG changes in our school program for the 2009-2010 school year! 

 As a part of our recent strategic planning process in the Bernard and Alice Selevan Religious School, we identified a recurring desire by parents for a more condensed school week (two days per week instead of three), without compromising the educational value of the present program. 

 As a result, we consulted with the Department of Education of the United Synagogue for Conservative Judaism (USCJ) to ensure that we did not lose our current accreditation as a Framework for Excellence school.  USCJ offers several different curricular models within the Framework of Excellence program, and we eventually partnered with our parents to carefully choose one that will satisfy the needs of our families while still allowing our excellent staff ample opportunity to provide the best possible Jewish education for our children.

 Our new model meets on Sundays and Wednesdays.  An extra hour on Sundays for our younger students allows us to add a wider variety of experiential programs for this age group. By expanding our 2^nd grade into a 2 day per week program, we can seriously introduce the Hebrew reading and prayer curriculum at an earlier age. The addition of the 8th grade will allow us to structure a true, exciting middle school program for our older students. Of course, we will continue to encourage parental involvement in our popular family programming. 

 Our new schedule will look like this:

            Kindergarten:     9-12 Sundays

            1^st grade:           9-12 Sundays

            2^nd grade:          9-12 Sundays    4:30-7 Wednesdays

            3^rd grade:           9-12 Sundays    4:30-7 Wednesdays

            4^th grade:           9-12 Sundays    4:30-7 Wednesdays

            5^th grade:           9-12 Sundays    4:30-7 Wednesdays

            6^th grade:           9-12 Sundays    4:30-7 Wednesdays

            7^th grade:           9-12 Sundays    4:30-6:30 Wednesdays

            8^th grade:                                              4:30-6:30 Wednesdays

                    (note:  the 8^th grade will expand into Sundays in 2010-2011)

 

As always, we continue to incorporate art, music, computer technology and experiential programming into the curriculum.  All students will still be individually tracked, and a special education professional is on hand to work with children and teachers.  The school's signature family programs will, of course, continue to provide a rich blend of home and synagogue education.   Our children are the winners as our program continues to grow and flourish! 

 For more information, please do not hesitate to call Lois Tompkins, Principal, at 268-4200, ext. 146.