Eleanor Kolitz Hebrew Language Academy—generally known as EKHLA— is an open enrollment constitution faculty that provides instruction in Hebrew language and the tradition and historical past of Israel in an academic surroundings with excessive educational and behavioral requirements. On February 1, 2024, EKHLA will start accepting enrollment purposes for the 2024–25 faculty 12 months. Open enrollment will conclude on February 29, 2024. We have now put collectively a information that can assist you be taught extra about EKHLA and take steps to enroll your little one for the following faculty 12 months.
EKHLA’s mission is to organize assured college students by excessive educational and behavioral requirements, who’re grounded in Hebrew language and Israeli tradition.
As the one public Hebrew language Academy in South Texas, EKHLA serves college students in grades Ok–8. Their campus is situated at 11327 Dreamland Dr., San Antonio, TX 78230 (map). The principle cellphone quantity is 210-890-7267, and you’ll attain them by e mail at workplace@ekhla.org.
On their most up-to-date district report card and faculty report card, they earned a B ranking.
Obtain the free San Antonio Constitution Colleges app for an interactive map that features EKHLA and plenty of extra. You can too discover campus details about EKHLA (and plenty of different faculties of alternative) in our Information to Constitution Colleges in San Antonio.
Households can apply on-line to enroll their kids at EKHLA. Open enrollment for the 2024–25 faculty 12 months will start on February 1, 2024 and can proceed by February 29, 2024. The lottery might be through the first week of March 2024. Households can nonetheless apply for enrollment after the lottery, however they could be added to the ready record.
EHKLA is providing faculty excursions for adults at 9:00 AM on the next dates: February 2, 9, 16, and 13; March 1 and 22; April 5; Might 10; and June 7, 14, and 21, 2024. They’re additionally holding an open home—adults and kids welcome—on February 10, 2024. Reservations are required; save your spot by filling out the web type, emailing the college at workplace@ekhla.org, or calling 210-890-7267.
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As well as, please be part of the San Antonio Constitution Mothers dialogue group on Fb to publish questions and search earlier discussions about EKHLA. Households with college students who’re at the moment enrolled at EKHLA can remark based mostly on their experiences.
Eleanor Kolitz Hebrew Language Academy (EKHLA) is a Ok–8 open enrollment public constitution faculty with a partial immersion Hebrew language focus. They provide a wealthy and revolutionary curriculum, with passionate academics and extraordinary scholar help. Their devoted academics know their college students individually. They educate the entire scholar to be gracious, sort, and tolerant. Their objective is to develop curious lifelong learners who’ve a way of duty to the world. Their objective is to encourage their college students to know who they’re, what they need, and to have the boldness to realize their goals.
For sports activities, they at the moment supply soccer, volleyball, tennis, lacrosse, and basketball for grades 4–8. Of their after faculty enrichment program, they provide dance and tumble, chess, crochet, transition consciousness respiratory, making makers, storybook makers, and Spanish. They provide day by day after faculty care till 6:00 p.m.
Watch Kathryn Cohen, Principal/Superintendent at EKHLA, Tracy Smith, Vice Principal at EKHLA, Simran Jawanda, Vice Principal at EKHLA, and Gabriela Tawil, District Coordinator and Athletics Director at EKHLA, converse with Inga Cotton on Constitution Mothers Chats on February 1, 2024 at 4:00 PM Central reside on Fb and YouTube.
Kathryn Davis Cohen is the Principal/Superintendent at EHKLA. She obtained her B.A. in Interdisciplinary Research with a specialization in Arithmetic from the College of Texas San Antonio, adopted by her M.Ed. in Instructional Diagnostician from Texas Lady’s College. She has accomplished certifications in elementary arithmetic grades 1–8, elementary self-contained, principal, and academic diagnostician.
Ms. Cohen has 17 years of expertise working in schooling. She has labored as a center faculty math instructor, self-contained elementary instructor, instructional diagnostician, and numerous roles in administration. Ms. Cohen was instrumental in launching the Eleanor Kolitz Hebrew Language Academy.
Ms. Cohen can be concerned locally the place she has served on Boards on the Jewish Federation of San Antonio and Jewish Household Companies. She has three kids, likes to prepare dinner, and enjoys studying.
Tracy Smith is a Vice Principal at EKHLA. She obtained her Bachelor’s diploma in Normal Schooling and Particular Schooling from the College of Texas at Austin in 1991. She accomplished her Grasp’s diploma in Instructional Administration at Angelo State College in 2015.
Mrs. Smith has taught in Austin, Georgetown, and right here in San Antonio. She served within the subject of Particular Schooling for a number of years in quite a lot of settings. She transitioned into the function of classroom instructor, the place she taught language arts and social research in center faculty, in addition to in a number of elementary grades. Throughout her previous few years as a classroom skilled, she taught second and third grade. All through her 27 years of instructional expertise, she additionally labored as an academic advisor, conducting workshops for different educators throughout Central Texas. She has held a number of supervisory positions and is at the moment one of many Vice Principals at EKHLA, specializing in grades Ok–2.
She could be very fortunate to have all of her household right here in San Antonio, together with husband Wayne, daughters Jordann and Kassidy, and grandson Baylin. She enjoys cooking, gardening, out of doors actions, and writing. Some favourite instances are household recreation nights and holidays. Mrs. Smith says, “I really like instructing as a result of I actually take pleasure in seeing a scholar’s eyes gentle up after they get an ‘aha’ second and a brand new avenue of their thought course of opens up. I contemplate it a present to be part of these moments.”
Simran Jawanda is one the Vice Principals at EKHLA, specializing in center faculty grades. Mrs. Jawanda obtained her Bachelor’s diploma in Enterprise Regulation & Economics from the College of Alberta in Canada in 2003. She accomplished her Grasp’s diploma in Instructional Management at St. Mary’s College in San Antonio in 2010, and has her Texas instructing certificates in Math and Enterprise Schooling.
Mrs. Jawanda has been an educator for greater than 10 years, first as a center faculty Math instructor, then as each a center faculty Math and Language Arts instructor. She has been at EKHLA since 2015 and has been within the administrator function for nearly 4 years and continues to show Math, her favourite topic.
In her spare time, Mrs. Jawanda enjoys spending time together with her household, baking, cooking and organizing!
Gabriela G. Tawil has a bachelor’s diploma in Enterprise Administration from the College of Notre Dame with a minor in Accounting. She obtained her MBA in Worldwide Logistics from Texas A&M Worldwide.
She labored for a division of Normal Motors, Delphi Packard Electrical, as a Logistics Supervisor for ten years, touring internationally to Normal Motors automotive meeting vegetation and manufacturing cross docks all through Mexico, the USA, and Canada. Consulting and implementing ISO 9000 tips for Normal Motors led to her being based mostly in South Texas and engaged in Enterprise Options and Data System Options for the Michigan-based division on the border of Texas.
Gabriela, alongside together with her husband, James Tawil are elevating their six kids, 4 of whom are college students at EKHLA. Your entire household lives an energetic life-style of biking, climbing, operating, soccer, and touring. The good outside performs an important function within the household’s day by day lives, in addition to volunteering and serving all through the San Antonio neighborhood.
Gabriela is at the moment the District Coordinator and Athletics Director for EKHLA, the place she is obsessed with sports activities, high quality arts enrichment programming, fundraising, advertising and marketing and improvement for the college district, and neighborhood duty. She has labored at EKHLA since its first 12 months as a public constitution faculty in 2013–2014.
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