Early Childhood Center

About the ECC

With a philosophy and curricula that nurtures each child’s unique growth and development, TBJ’s mission is to foster a love of learning in every child. TBJ’s warm, welcoming and inclusive environment serves children ages 4 months through 6 years.

Our Philosophy

Everything in our Early Childhood Center is intentionally designed to foster a passion for learning, intellectual curiosity, and the development of meaningful and healthy relationships with others.

 

We Believe:

Children develop into their best selves in an environment where they feel safe, loved, and are exposed to curriculum with clear intentionality.

That’s why our curriculum is play-based, experiential, and designed to spark curiosity and discovery. We believe that “children must be taught how to think, not what to think”.

Connections make learning more meaningful.

This is why our curriculum is integrated, and spirals beautifully beginning with our Transition to Two’s program and ending with our graduating Pre-K 4’s and Kindergartners.

Appreciation of the natural world and our responsibility toward Tikkun Olam, repairing that world, is central to our children developing into happy, resilient members of our sacred community.

We consistently challenge students to take risks in their learning and to participate in a wide variety of activities that teach them to be responsible, confident, compassionate citizens and members of the larger Jewish community.

Happy children have a strong sense of self and emotional intelligence that is paramount in the learning process.

Our classrooms are social skills laboratories and children are constantly practicing their expressive language abilities, friendship skills, and conflict resolution skills. We know that understanding, managing, and expressing emotions effectively is vital in the development of healthy, confident, resilient, loving, and joyful children. These virtues are modeled and practiced daily by their teachers, administrators, clergy and peers.

Character Education is the most important gift to give a young child.

As children grow, they learn more about the character strengths of kindness, responsibility, perseverance, gratitude, bravery, honesty, teamwork, and compassion, as these virtues are modeled and practiced inspiring children to flourish. Our clearly defined character strengths are weaved into everything we do, from our Transition to Two’s to our Kindergarten.

Early Childhood Center