We asked our CEDS parents, “What do you like most about the program?” Here is a sample of what they had to say:

• The administration, teachers, community, curriculum, values
• The caring and sensitive nature of the teachers and staff
• We love the warmth and community feeling – we feel like our family is really known.
• Caring nature of all staff
• Kind and caring teachers, new friends, parent/community events
• Community feel! Warm/welcoming
• Our daughter is excited to go to school and the emails with photos are really nice.
• The teachers and the community!
• The lovely teachers
• Just overall vibe – warm community, effective communication
• Thoughtful, attentive teachers and program
• The tight knit community
• Teachers. Culture. Leadership.
• Warm, welcoming atmosphere, parent involvement, loving teachers, flexibility for individual student needs
• The community
• The entire mission, framework and value system of the school! The commitment to
• helping grow and develop kind, thoughtful, generous humans while not sacrificing quality
• and dynamism of a more traditional education is so evident in each aspect of the CEDS
• experience. We love how this carries through from the administration to staff to
• classroom approach and school facilities and extracurricular community gatherings.
• CEDS is the package deal — it is a self selecting community of down to earth, diverse
• teachers, parents, and students who are all here for the same type of educational
• experience. You can feel the energy in any CEDS room — so many intelligent, caring,
• successful, driven, and personable people. It feels like automatic family and a beautiful,
• safe place inside and out for kids to learn how to love learning in such an effortless way.
• Stellar teachers and environment and overall community. We hope that while the school
• continues to experience growth that it never loses sight of what it is and what makes it so very special!
• The warmth
• We love the emphasis on social and emotional development. It’s also great that the 2s program has a sports and music class once a week. We love seeing the art work outside the classrooms, as well.
• Teachers, facilities, activities
• Variety of activities, emphasis on kindness and understanding emotions, structure of the day and learning how to be in school