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helping to adapt it for the Detroit
area and serving as consultant.
The program is sponsored by the
Hermelin-Davidson Center for
Congregation Excellence and
Federation's Alliance for Jewish
Education, with additional sponsor-
ship from the William Davidson
Graduate School for Jewish Education
at JTS.
The Mandel Berman Foundation
will provide funding for a separate
family-education component.
Federation's new three-year strate-
gic vision names early education as a
top priority, said Harlene Appelman,
director of Federation's Alliance.
"This emphasis reflects a change of
attitude among educators," Appelman
said. "The most current research has
shown that the years from 0 to 4 are
crucial to a child's future develop-
ment. This is where we're coming
from."
Recommendations to Federation's
Board of Governors came from com-
mittees headed by experts in each
area.
"We want to start with our
youngest children because we know
what we teach at this age, with the
sights, the smells and the tastes, get
more firmly etched into their brains
than they do later on," said Joan
Lessen-Firestone, chair of the Families
with Young Children work group.
This is also when children are
forming their values and identities,
said Lessen-Firestone, an early child-
hood consultant with the Oakland
Schools. "Even if it seems sometimes
in their teenage years that they turn
away from these early values and
identities, research shows they come
back to them in later years."
Robins inaugurated the early child:
hood project through JTS. In New
York, the project involves teachers in
four congregational schools. Each
attends 20 consecutive classes a year,
plus four evening seminars in a cen-
tral location and two all-day work-
shops.
"Our goals," Robins said, "are not
for you to immediately teach every-
thing you have learned, but to open
areas of communication with rabbis,
leaders of synagogues and parents, to
change the culture of your school, to
become a little more Jewish."
Another goal is to build coopera-
tion and camaraderie among teachers
in a specific school, she said. Classes
Diana Lieberman can be reached at
(248) 354-6060, ext. 247, or by e-mail
at dlieberm@thejewishnews.corn