Jaya Sri Radhe Dasi Joins Bhaktivedanta Academy to Lead Middle School Program

Dear Friends,

As announced last spring, Bhaktivedanta Academy has plans to expand to 7th and 8th grade in August, 2013. The start of our middle school program will be the first stage of an upper level education program that we hope to ultimately build up to allow students to remain with our school until they are ready to begin attending college. We are looking to incorporate Montessori with the International Baccalaureate Program to ensure all our students receive a well rounded educational experience in an atmosphere infused with Krishna consciousness.

In preparing for our move to middle school it became clear that our new program will only be great if we hire an individual who is not only experienced working with children in the classroom but who is also a proven organizer and inspirational figure.  I am happy to announce that we have found that person and that she has committed to join Bhaktivedanta Academy - Jaya Sri Radhe.

Jaya Sri Radhe is an experienced teacher and school administrator who has been part of the Alachua Learning Center since its inception.  She is synonymous with the summer bus tours and has been a spiritual mentor and inspiration to countless young people.  I see it as the Lord's blessing that everything has come together for Jaya Sri Radhe to join Bhaktivedanta Academy at such a crucial time in its history.  We are poised to start a venture into upper level education and I can think of no one better then her to help lead it to success.  

Jaya Sri Radhe will begin serving as a member of the Bhaktivedanta Academy staff on a part-time basis for the 2012-13 school year and will join us full-time as the middle school lead teacher and director of our upper level program starting in the summer of 2013. 

I am extremely excited to have the opportunity to work together with Jaya Sri Radhe to take Bhaktivedanta Academy to new heights. I hope you are also encouraged by this news and will be inspired to join the effort to provide a quality spiritually-based education to Srila Prabhupada's children from pre-kindergarten all the way through high school.

Please stay tuned for more information. I will be talking more about our plans in subsequent emails and gatherings.

Yours in service,