National Quality Standards for Kindergartens - The Development Process

In 2024–2025, a process for the development of quality standards for kindergartens was carried out at the initiative of the Early Childhood Education Division of the Ministry of Education, in collaboration with the Myers-JDC-Brookdale Institute. This process aimed to establish a unified professional framework for evaluating the functioning of kindergartens.

At the conclusion of the process, six core values were chosen: safety and security, quality human capital, self-expression, learning, community-oriented approach, and inclusion. For each value, quality standards and measures for each standard were developed to serve as a values-based compass and a foundation for assessing kindergarten practices. This framework will form the basis for developing tools for supervision, learning, and continuous improvement.This document reviews the development process, the core values that guided it, and the quality standards formulated as part of it.

Citing suggestion: Asulin, M., Dolev, H., Turgeman, M., & Paz, O. (2025). National Quality Standards for Kindergartens – The Development Process. Ministry of Education, Pedagogical Administration, Division A for Early Childhood Education and Myers-JDC-Brookdale Institute. (Hebrew)