Housatonic Valley Waldorf School Presentation Wednesday

The Housatonic Valley Waldorf School is hosting a free community lecture open to the public by Doug Lyons, PhD, executive director of the Connecticut Association of Independent Schools on Wednesday, September 29, at 7 pm, at the grade school campus of the Housatonic Valley Waldorf School, 1 Jacklin Road, Newtown.

Dr Lyons will speak about “how independent schools provide a mission-driven, student-centered, nonbureaucratic model and its advantages over the increasingly compliance-driven model that characterizes the ‘No Child Left Behind’ era,” according to a press release from the school.

Dr Lyons has seen the difference of both schooling methods after serving in public education for more than 20 years, and then moving to independent schooling, eventually becoming the headmaster of the Greenwich Country Day School.

The Connecticut Association of Independent Schools, founded in 1950, is a voluntary association of 97 nonprofit independent schools serving 30,000 students from all Connecticut towns and many other states and countries. CAIS is approved by the Connecticut State Board of Education as an accrediting agency, and is affiliated with the National Association of Independent Schools and the New England Association of Schools and Colleges.