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Family Education

To educate a child without educating and involving the parents
and the entire family system can be compared to
heating a house while leaving the windows open.
Mordecai Kaplan

The Family Education program at Temple Shir Tikva is part of the curriculum of the Religious School program. All programs are grade specific and are taught in conjunction with what children are learning in class. Please refer to the Religious School calendar for dates of your children’s family education programs.

Goals of Family Education

- To increase parent involvement in their child’s Jewish learning process through:

- parent and child home study

- increased parent and child interaction at Shir Tikva

- parent-only learning sessions

- To facilitate a sense of community among families, the Shir Tikva educational staff and clergy.

- To provide parents with opportunities to reflect on their own Jewish identity.

- To provide parents with a framework for Jewish parenting – for seeing the world through a “Jewish lens”.

- To engage parents’ Jewish learning needs.

- To enable families to enhance their Jewish home rituals.

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