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Cayuga Heights Montessori House offers a traditional Montessori Prepared Environment in a beautiful home setting in the heart of Cayuga Heights. We will provide your child with the opportunity to interact with an environment rich in specially designed materials that will call to his spirit and mind. Our nurturing home setting invokes the spirit of the original Casa Dei Bambini (Children’s House), the first Montessori School founded by Maria Montessori in 1907. For more information contact Ailish by email or call Director and Head Teacher, Ailish McKeever,
was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland. She attended Sion Hill Montessori
College in Dublin, where she completed a three year intensive training
course and received her A.M.I. certification for the Montessori
education of children from the ages of three to six years, six to
nine years, and nine to twelve years of age. She also holds the
Benin Casa Diploma for Special Education. Ailish has 16 years
of teaching experience in both Primary and Elementary environments,
as well as a year in the Special Children's Center in Ithaca.
Teachers Assistant Karen A. McCaffery, grew up in Geneseo, N.Y. She holds a Ph.D. in Crop and Soil Science and a Masters in Horticulture from Cornell University. Karen has lived and worked in Senegal and the Brazilian Amazon and is conversant in French and Portuguese. She loves studying nature, gardening, baking and working with children. She lives in Ithaca with her husband Ben and their two sons Sean, 4 and Brian, 2. Karen is pursuing her Montessori Early Childhood Teacher Certification through the Northeast Montessori Institute.
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