History & Founder

History
 
Our Junior Kindergarten School, Core Education & Fine Arts™, was founded in 1998 by Natacha V. Beim.
 
Having worked as an elementary school teacher as well as a Junior Kindergarten teacher in Europe before her return to Canada, Beim experienced firsthand the incredible effect of early academic exposure in young children.
 
As a school teacher, and in the years that followed, she worked to modify existing Junior Kindergarten curriculums to create a different approach, one that would not impose on the child's natural desire to explore, play, and learn by experimenting with the environment.
 
This finally resultet in the grand opening of Core Education & Fine Arts™ in 1998. Its unique gentle, yet challenging and stimulating, approach to education was a great success amongst Canadian families and surpassed the founder's goal of establishing one school.
 
The popularity of the approach, as well as the evident results in the children who had graduated from the school, resulted in the franchising of the school its educational philosophy cefa™ Educational Systems, in 2003.
 
In the next few years, more schools will open in Canada and worldwide.
 
Founder
 
Natacha Veronica Beim is a renowned writer, speaker and educational leader.
 
Born in Uruguay and raised in Montréal, Canada, she has traveled extensively and studied several countries' educational approaches.
 
As the founder and CEO of cefa™ Educational Systems, Beim is a pioneer in the field of modern early childhood education. She is furthering her studies in developmental psychology and has developed a Junior Kindergarten curriculum, which encompasses international standards and in many ways surpasses established Junior Kindergartens worldwide.