If you’ve ever stepped inside Kavod Charter School, you sense that our school feels more like a home than just a school building. Everyone knows your name, from teaching staff to explorers to parents. We spend a lot of time together—our explorers are with us when learning the alphabet and multiplication tables, beginning Hebrew and all the way through the formative years of middle school. The sense of family cultivated in a TK-8 school is a powerful benefit of attending our tuition-free charter school.
1. Safe, Consistent Environment
By attending a TK-8 school, families have fewer transitions and students get to remain in a safe, developmentally appropriate environment that nurtures students right where they are, suggests a Harvard Education Magazine study. The familiarity of the buildings, scheduling, and the staff gives students confidence and knowledge as they grow. Also—who doesn’t love fewer drop offs when you have multiple kids in school?
2. Leadership, Agency & Confidence
Throughout the up to 10 years at Kavod Charter School, students are provided many opportunities to learn and practice our OLAM values like respect, communication and service. Our explorers develop agency through active participation in clubs and our rigorous language curriculum, as well as good citizenship through service learning. A 2016 study on the middle school experience for 6th graders found that students at a TK-8 school experience higher levels of self-esteem and academic achievement, setting them up for greater success in 9th grade than a traditional 6th-8th school model may. Our explorers feel comfortable being challenged, learning new things, and taking risks in a supportive atmosphere with trusted adults ready to help and guide.
3. Smooth Transition to Middle School
Joining Kavod at 4th or 5th grade is a great opportunity to reduce the “middle school transition” anxiety. Instead of starting 6th grade with a mix of nerves and excitement for the unknown, our explorers move up confidently and comfortably, with knowledge of our campus, expectations and foundational friendships. The safe community feel of Kavod also contributes to fewer discipline and behavior problems than a traditional middle school. And fewer behavior issues means less time pulled away from academics. Higher grades and greater involvement in extracurriculars are a pretty great benefit, too.
4. Culture of Community
Our TK-8 culture is built on positive teacher-student-family relationships. Families participate in activities, fundraisers and decision making. They strengthen the school-home connection by attending field trips, helping out in the classrooms and supporting our teachers. The consistent TK-8 school home also provides a sense of security. We often see students make special connections with an elementary teacher and come back to stop by the classroom as a seventh grader; just to check in.
Kavod Charter School is proud to offer the students of San Diego modern Hebrew and quality academics in a consistent, safe school family for 10 straight years. Rely on us to help create a solid foundation for your child. We are enrolling now for Fall 2023.
About Kavod
Kavod is a non-religious, tuition-free public school that teaches the modern Hebrew language to TK-8th grade explorers in San Diego. We value rigor, bilingualism and international education as a means to develop compassionate global citizens. Kavod means “Respect” in Hebrew- and our vision is for every explorer to respect themselves, each other, their community, and other cultures. Enroll with Kavod today!
