Jacklyn Hayempour
Jacklyn Hayempour was born in Iran and moved to New York with her siblings where she put herself through college at the N.Y. Institute of Technology. She earned a B.A. in Interior Design and received a Gold Medal Award for her excellent performance. She worked in the field of design until she moved with her husband and children to Valley Village and began working in an elementary school and then preschool. Morah Jackie joined Yeshiva Aharon Yaakov/Ohr Eliyahu teaching the 2-year olds while continuing to extend her knowledge and skills by taking early childhood education courses through Valley College and attending workshops and seminars. She approaches her teaching with intentionality and a desire to foster children’s development where every day in her classroom is a new opportunity to grow.
Morah Jackie, as her adoring students call her, is committed to learning as much as she can so she can provide an educational environment that will provide the emotional, social, physical, cognitive, and spiritual knowledge and support where each child can develop in the most optimal ways. She understands what it means to collaborate with and support each teacher’s contributions to the classroom while always sharing ideas, modeling skills, and celebrating successes. Furthermore, she is valued for her commitment to excellence, and for her flexibility, cooperation, responsibility, creativity, sense of humor and joy of life. One of Morah Jackie’s greatest joys is observing the children’s cognitive development and witnessing their minds expanding as they begin using their imaginations and become more creative in their thinking. Among her strengths are her responsiveness to suggestions, her thoughtfulness of and for others, her ability to connect with her young students with a natural ease, positivity, understanding, knowledge, and skill, her lack of ego and total commitment to the children’s well-being.
Shayna Goldmann, Director at Ohr Eliyahu