The mission of JCDS, Boston's Jewish Community Day School, is to provide a premier education that:

• nurtures each student's capacity for intellectual discovery and decision-making within a respectful, pluralist, bilingual Hebrew-English environment.

• gives our graduates the ability to create their futures informed by Jewish values, texts and culture, and to make a difference in their communities and the world.

• kindles the flame of life-long learning in all its constituencies and serves as an inspirational model of innovative, effective and joyful teaching and learning beyond the school.

JCDS is committed to creating an environment that nurtures the whole child and enables each child to reach his or her highest potential. The school strives to empower children to acquire knowledge and academic skills in a variety of disciplines, develop intellectual curiosity, experience the excitement of learning and exploration, gain understanding and respect for self and others and build physical and emotional well- being. The school provides an environment of academic excellence and cultural integration in which Hebrew and English are spoken throughout the day. It emphasizes awareness and appreciation of individual and group differences, teaches Jewish social and moral values and promotes a strong Jewish identity. The school is non-denominational and attracts participation across the spectrum of Jewish life.

The school recognizes each child as an individual learner in terms of talents, capabilities, styles of learning, personality characteristics and needs. Hence, the school provides both individual and group contexts in which children can study at their own levels and develop their personal strengths and self-esteem while being challenged to excel in a dynamic community. JCDS is committed to excellence in both secular and Jewish education. The success of each depends on the same strategy: encouraging and challenging the curiosity of our children in an open, supportive and respectful environment.