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Renaissance Village Family Learning Center has as its focus the entire family, providing Montessori Nurseries for children and other activities that enhance well being and parenting skills for adults. Our goal is to help create and support happy, secure families.

Renaissance Village is Member of American Montessori Society and licensed by New York City Department of Health and by the State of New York.

The founder of Renaissance is Dr. Tatjana Matano, fourth generation educator in her family. Tatjana has over twenty years of experience in education as University teacher, trainer in whole brain and accelerated learning for adults and seniors and an early childhood educator. In 2001 she started a special, enriched Nursery program in Hudson Heights which evolved into a center by 2007. As a mother of two children she herself knows the struggles of parenting and the importance of choosing the right educational environment during early years.

Tatjana has assembled a team of devoted teachers and assistants who share her own dedication to the early childhood as the most important period for the fulfillment of one’s potential and also her dedication to parenting community as a whole.

The Education Director and Head Teacher of Renaissance Village is Ms. Jean Caswell, a veteran of Montessori teaching with over 32 yrs of experience. Ms. Olga Schmukler is her partner, an early childhood educator with outstanding talents in the areas of Music and Art and with over 20 yrs of experience in the classroom. Our program has four Montessori Assistants who make sure the Montessori philosophy of respect and trust in the child is present throughout the day and beyond the class time.

Dr. Matano and Ms. Caswell are dedicated to continuous and thorough training of the entire staff in the principles of Montessori work. In addition, the Assistants are trained in Health and Safety, CPR, First Aid, Control of Infectious Disease, Child Abuse Prevention and Food Protection.

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