HIGHLIGHTS OF 2009-10

• CLC consolidated 7 of its 14 sites around the community, establishing a new state of the art facility called CLC Maple Avenue Child Development Center !  

• Our Child Development classrooms at Westover, Franklin Commons and Yerwood all received top NAEYC accreditation scores.  

• CLC partnered with the Stamford Public Schools and our instructional coordinators to complete ESI (Early Screening Inventory) assessments for every CLC child entering kindergarten in the Fall of 2010.

• Please check out our new video on our home page of our new music enhancement program, Symphony Sprites, which that was piloted at Palmers Hill this year! Taught by professional musicians and trained teaching artists from the Stamford Symphony, CLC preschoolers learn both the vocabulary and fun of musical selections and instruments of the orchestra.  

• CLC also partnered with the Trailblazers Academy in establishing two new programs
• a reading program to benefit both the Trailblazers middle- schoolers and our preschoolers
• the creation of a common garden space where our preschoolers observe and assist the Trailblazers students in planting, weeding, watering, and harvesting a local garden on the campus.

• Two special events this year earned us nearly $100,000!   The Magical Music for Life Foundation and CLC partnered to bring a “Russell the Crab” theater performance to our community for children between the ages of 4 and 12; and we held our 6th Annual Alphabet Ball with a Masquerade theme.  

• We continued our Legg Mason Reading Program at Palmers Hill and introduced a new Pitney Bowes Reading Program at our Maple Avenue facility.  

• With the support of our tuition assistance program, (83%) of our teaching staff have obtained their CDA's or college degrees, steadily decreasing the numbers of teachers with entry level credentials, and moving us closer to NAEYC mandates for 2015.

• During the Week of the Young Child, CLC preschoolers entertained major political celebrities, including State Senator Andrew McDonald, U.S. Representative Jim Himes, and U.S. Congressman John Larson.

• CLC CEO Barbara Garvin-Kester was chosen as a representative for Early Childhood Education at a Educational Forum held at Norwalk Community College with Secretary of Education, Arnie Duncan.