Rebecca (Bec) Moray

At Brawerman Elementary School of Wilshire Boulevard Temple West, lead kindergarten teacher Rebecca (Bec) Moray brings learning to life. Since beginning her career in education in 2001, Miss Moray’s passion for early childhood education led to exciting roles as a pre-K teacher and curriculum coordinator, ECE training mentor, floor time behaviorist, and more. Now bringing her experiences to kindergarten, Miss Moray leads students through engaging, multidisciplinary lessons that reflect her love of science, focus on the whole child, and incorporation of Jewish values.

In a lesson tied to Rosh Hashanah, students learn more about bees by role-playing the honey-making process. Students simulate other scientific phenomena using colored vests and props in class to represent cold air displacement, flower pollination, lava formation, and even physics concepts like balanced and unbalanced forces. The Chanukah story is reflected in class through an oil and water lava lamp activity, while Tashlich and Yom Kippur are taught through experimenting with bread’s reaction when dipped in various substances. Jewish concepts like ethical resource use, rebirth and renewal are taught through the KinderGARDEN, which students tend to year-round. Miss Moray is known for her interactive math games like lawn dart addition, balloon battle and fly swat numbers, as well as her puppet shows acting out stories from the Torah. Additionally, she is a teacher leader for STEAM nights and is a member of the instructional leadership team. Miss Moray holds a bachelor’s in education from National University.

Empowering students to explore and care about the world around them is something Miss Moray emphasizes every day: “The vehicles and roads may vary widely, but viewing ourselves, each other, and the world with curiosity is the best fuel.”