The Innovative School Kehilla Approach™

Описание: Kehilla Approach™ | Our Values:

Kindness

Within our Jewish tradition, it is a mitzvah to do acts of loving kindness. At the Innovative School of Temple Beth Sholom, connections and relationships are at the core of our philosophical, pedagogical, and ethical practices and approaches. We want to raise our children to be kind, respectful and socially competent.

Empathy

Within our social constructivist practices, we believe that social and emotional competency development is critical to understanding the self. Achieving this benchmark is an essential goal to nurturing interdependent relationships. We know that when our learners understand their own personal feelings, they are open to receiving the feelings of others. We strive to nurture caring, responsive, and empathetic community members.

Honesty

Open, honest, and transparent communication is critical to growing a healthy community where members feel safe and trusted. We believe that embodying an honest disposition means that our learners can constructively approach even the most difficult of situations with integrity, strength, and resonance.

Integrity

We strive to create sacred space and time within our school community, where our learners grow to respect one another. Our unique approach to developing interdependent dispositions ensures that each individual’s needs are met appropriately and effectively.

Life-Long Learners

Building the disposition to become a life-long learner starts very early on, and the adults in a young child’s life have the incredible opportunity to model life-long learning habits. The development of strong mindsets that include habits such as persistence, motivation, curiosity, and agency can lead to a lifetime of joyful learning.

Acceptance

We live in a world where differences often invoke fear. Our learners develop an awareness of differences at an early age, and it is our responsibility to help them to naturally think about how other people feel and think. We want to nurture our learners’ dispositions towards seeing different perspectives within a world that includes everyone. Awareness, respectfulness, fairness, and justice provide substance for creating common threads of acceptance and appreciation of differences.