Efshar is Hiring a Pedagogical Coach – Learn More

Core Offerings

Educator Support

School leaders, both current and emerging early childhood educators who serve in or aspire to leadership roles, have unique access to wraparound support through individualized coaching, peer learning experiences, leading-edge leadership development, and innovative programmatic opportunities.

Offerings Information

Annual Colorado Jewish ECE Conference

Celebrate learning and connect educators around Jewish ECE values and best practices.

Educator/Director Selected Orchard Learning Community with Group Coaching

Engage motivated educators to participate in semester long learning experiences through a national program supplemented with time for local educators
to participate in group coaching to reflect on learning and apply concepts in their own classrooms.

School-Based Coaching with Pedagogical Coach

Provide individualized, in-classroom coaching guided by the ECE Director guided by Jewish values and . All coaching counts towards Colorado Shines hours.

Jewish Holiday Series

A series of five holiday-focused sessions—live or pre-recorded—with innovative content and edited recordings designed to support both new and returning
faculty.

Pre-K (UPK) Kinder Readiness Framework

Efshar has developed an assessment tool specifically designed for play based, constructivist, and Reggio-inspired schools that do not follow a prescribed curriculum. This tool integrates a constructivist philosophy, developmental milestones, and the Colorado Early Learning and Development Guidelines to measure children’s growth and progress. It enables schools to fulfill the formal curriculum requirements
of Universal Pre-K while maintaining alignment with their educational philosophy.

Teacher Leader Fellowship

Empower educators and directors to engage in shared leadership opportunities that are aligned with program priorities. Teachers selected will receive support, lead initiatives, build confidence, and foster school-wide impact.

Through these offerings, The Efshar Project expects to support professional development while increasing ECE capacity, increase family engagement, and school readiness. 

Upcoming Events for Leaders

“We so appreciate this pivot.... everything from the weekly Directors meetings, guest speakers at zoom and the thousands of other things the Efshar team has done!!”
— ECE Director

Downloads

COJECE Foundations Class

2018-19 (pdf)