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For 27 years, the Canaan Ridge School has embraced and taught the young children of Connecticut and New York. My personal training in Montessori and early child development is reflected in everything our children learn and use everyday. We are proud to say that all of our teachers have degrees and a depth of experience that makes them unique in their approach to children of all dispositions and needs. We welcome and offer children of characters and temperaments a place to learn, have fun and celebrate their individuality. The Canaan Ridge School is a diverse community with a personalized and intimate approach to early education, which seeks to develop an individual s sense of self-esteem. Our school remains steadfast to its philosophy: to concentrate, to listen and to express oneself.
As a graduate of Ms. Sarvalon's school, it is a great honor to say that my development started early thanks to this institution. She and her staff sped my learning processes and facilitated my becoming a well balanced person. I have since been educated by the Jesuit's at Santa Clara University earning a bachelor's degree in Art History. I continued on to become a chef with the Culinary Institute of America. I can only now understand how her base teachings and ethical lessons compound her idealistic principals of concentration, sharing and expression. These lessons have deeply manifested themselves in my adult personality and enriched my life. I am now the steward of a property in Montana. As a graduate of one of her early classes, it is with great pleasure and adulation that I recommend her and the school with the highest esteem.
The Canaan Ridge School is a magical place. A longstanding experienced Headmistress adds a dimension to the academic and learning environment that is both innovative and nurturing. The emphasis on the world as a whole, not only the immediate community, introduces the children to a love of learning on a global scale. Arts and music are interwoven into the basic academic program providing a whole subject perspective to learning.
I concur with the 2004 review of Canaan Ridge preschool - while Canaan Ridge has great facilities, impressive extracurricular activities, wonderful philosophy, and enthusiastic principal, it feels at times that the school spends more energy impressing the parents rather than caring for the students.
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