In this episode, Dr. Darla Shaw takes on the role of Mabel Cleves, an early education specialist who was educated at Columbia University, studied with Dr. Maria Montessori, and was the first certified public kindergarten teacher in Connecticut. The Veteran’s Park Elementary School auditorium is named after her.
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This little notebook opens another window into the life at the Peter Parley/West Lane Schoolhouse.
Third grade students from Branchville experience a one-room school with educators from the Ridgefield Historical Society
The virus came to town in September of 1918 and claimed the lives of Ridgefielders.
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