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Chai Preschool Director Esty Marcus sits with children at Chai Preschool in San Mateo on May 9, 2025, the day she was given the EarlyJ Impact Award. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
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Preschool director who ‘values excellence’ wins EarlyJ’s first award

Valerie Demicheva by Valerie Demicheva May 13, 2025May 14, 2025

Esty Marcus, founding director of Chai Preschool in San Mateo, designs her classrooms as oases of calm. They intentionally evoke the landscapes of Tzfat and Beersheva in Israel, with abstract […]

a woman kneels next to a child on a playground
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At Sherith Israel’s new preschool, the kids will stay outside 

Lillian Ilsley-Greene by Lillian Ilsley-Greene February 1, 2023
a boy reading
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Now that my 6-year-old is reading, he can’t get enough

Drew Himmelstein by Drew Himmelstein February 11, 2019
Shoshana Edelstein blows a shofar with help from Emma Schnur. Shoshana attends Gan Avraham Preschool at Temple Beth Abraham in Oakland, a participant in the Federation’s Jewish Resource Specialists program. (Photo/Rachel Regan)
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Millions in grant money helps elevate Jewish preschool education

Elissa Einhorn by Elissa Einhorn March 18, 2018March 19, 2018

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