Mariashi Groner

Mariashi Groner, Director, has more than twenty years of experience in school administration and classroom teaching. She received her training in Judaic teaching at Beth Rivka Seminary, Brooklyn, New York. She learned school administration from the ground up as the founder of a combination Jewish preschool/day school in Charlotte more than twenty years ago. The school grew and expanded one grade per year in each of the early years. The school’s successful preschool program later broke off and became The Jewish Preschool on Sardis, while the day school moved its campus to its present location at Shalom Park. Later, Mrs. Groner was approached by Charlotte Jewish leaders seeking to form a community day school built upon the existing school. Charlotte Jewish Day School was the final result of their and Mrs. Groner’s combined efforts to build a community day school of excellence. Mrs. Groner’s educational goals include:

• meeting individual needs within the classroom environment
• teaching children with a range of abilities to achieve a high level of critical thinking and thereby proving that children are capable of more than we might think
• weaving Jewish values into the fabric of school life
• producing students who are proud Jews and can function in society with utmost confidence about their heritage.

She recently received a grant from Avi Chai to attend an institute at The Principals’ Center, Harvard Graduate School of Education. She actively participates in RAVSAK, the Jewish Community Day School Network, and seeks out networking opportunities with other educational professionals throughout the country. Mariashi lives in Charlotte with her husband, Rabbi Yossi Groner. She is the mother of ten children, who all have attended (or currently attend…or will soon attend….) CJDS.