JCDS, Boston’s Jewish Community Day School, was founded in 1995 serving K-8. The mission of JCDS 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 in the world. JCDS kindles the flame of lifelong learning in all its constituencies and serves as an inspirational model of innovative, effective and joyful teaching and learning beyond the school.