The Charlotte Jewish News - February 2013 - Page 25
CJP Thrives Through Partnership
By Elka Bernstein, Director
I have always been taught that
we are partners with God. God
ereated this beautiful world. It is
our job to work with God to main
tain and eontinue God’s beautiful
work. From the very beginning,
we are taught the strength of part
nerships. The Charlotte Jewish
Presehool uses the strength of
partnership to provide a sehool
with an exeeptional early ehild-
hood edueation program. As most
people know, CJP is a partnership
of Temple Beth El, Temple Israel,
and the Sandra and Leon Levine
Jewish Community Center. Rabbi
Murray Ezring, Rabbi Judy
Sehindler, Rabbi Jonathan
Frierieh, and Rabbi Noam
Raueher provide strong guidanee,
ereative programming, training,
and daily interaetion with our stu
dents to ensure that the Judaie eur-
rieulum is fully immersed into the
elassroom eurrieulum. Phil
Berman’s strong team at the LJCC
provides professional support to
the administration and teaehers of
CJP, as well as exeellent enrieh-
ment programming for our stu
dents.
The founding members strive
with CJP eaeh year to ereate a
quality program for our young
Jewish families. Our founding
members are represented by the
partieipation in our sehool, as well
as representation on CJP’s Board
of Direetors. Our Board of Diree-
tors works hard to provide the
sehool strong leadership and di-
reetion. Leading our Board of Di
reetors this year are:
Brian Bernhardt, President
Brando Levine, VP Administra
tion & Seeretary
Susanna Goldberg, VP Finanee
& Seholarship & Treasurer
Jennifer Collman, VP Fund De
velopment
In addition to the exeeutive
eommittee, we are thankful to all
our board members: Barry Bo-
brow, John Box, Andrea Davids,
Ken Golder, Matt Goldstein, Jodi
Greenwald, Jaek Levinson, Staei
Mond, Tamar Raueher, Joe
Steiner, Erie Wisotsky, Debby
Weiss, Raegan Wright, and Julie
Rizzo, Immediate Past President.
However, the support does not
end here. CJP is infused with par
ents dedieated to providing their
ehildren with a loving, nurturing
and edueational environment.
CJP’s Parent Teaeher Organiza
tion (PTO) is an internal partner
making sure the needs of our stu
dents are met. CJP’s PTO is not
just a group of moms that get to
gether every onee and a while to
plan book sales, but play a vital
and influential role in the sueeess
of CJP.
Our PTO is driven to provide
soeial eonneetions for our pre
sehool eommunity, as well as fi-
naneial support. Thanks to the
PTO, the teaehers have eontinued
to reeeive elassroom supplies and
materials to enhanee the quality of
elassroom instruetion. The PTO’s
eontribution also eontinues to
allow CJP to have a minimum of
two teaehers per elassroom; a lead
teaeher and an assistant teaeher.
For example, the state ratio of
teaeher to students in a two year
old elassroom is 1:10. Imagine
one teaeher managing to teaeh 10
two year olds. At CJP, PTO’s eon
tinued support allows CJP to
maintain to provides three teaeh
ers to a elassroom with 15 two
year olds; a 1:5 ratio. Quality is
what drives our fabulous Parent
Teaeher Organization. Leading
the PTO this year are:
Jodi Greenwald - President
Liz Greenhagen - Viee Presi
dent
Mae Philpott - Treasurer
Jessiea Demeter - Seeretary
When walking through our
halls, you ean see the PTQ eom-
mittees and ehairpersons hard at
work. Some of the faees you will
see are:
Art By Me, Karen Spiegler
Book Fair, Jen Kiel & Ilyssa
Rubenstein
Challah, Stephanie Ward
Citipass Fundraiser, Miehelle
Saltzman
Goodie Getters, Seott Browder
Grandparents Day, Tammy
Hawa
Graduation, Marisa Jaekson &
Bonnie Kunkel
Green Team, Jessi Harris
Joined in Edueation, Andrea
Davids
Prospeetive Parent Open
House, Debby Weiss
Purim Carnival, Mareie Jaeobs
Soeial Committee, Megan Gef-
sky & Candaee Serbin
Sunshine Committee, Jenny
Charlotte Jewish
Preschool
Tueker
Teaeher Appreeiation, Katie
Berman & Andy Taylor
Yearbook, Andy Tueker
The leadership represented in
the above list is supported by an
additional 176 families all in pur
suit of the same goal; to provide
students with a foundation in the
Jewish faith within a safe, nurtur
ing, edueational environment. By
design, parents of Charlotte Jew
ish Presehool students experienee
an open-door environment that re
volves around a “whole
ehild/whole family” approaeh to
edueational, personal and family
growth.
The Charlotte Jewish Presehool
weleomes you to join our partner
ship. At our sehool, you will dis-
eover the beauty of our CJP
family, the quality of our teaehers,
magnifieent faeilities and a seeu-
lar and Jewish edueation that eon-
neets presehoolers to the
eommunity and prepares them for
the future.
For more information about at
tending our sehool or enrolling
your ehild in the eurrent year,
please eontaet Alyson Kalik, CJP
registrar, at 704-944-6777 or aka-
lik@shalomeharlotte.org. ^
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fate of all the Jews hy heing in the
king’s palace. For if yon will remain
silent at this time, relief and salvation
will come to the lews from another
sonrce, and yon and the honse of yonr
father will be lost. And who knows if it
was not for snch a time that yon
reached this royal positionP”
-Megillat Esther, 4:13, 14
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