
Founded in 1963, Carden Hall is a learner-centered, independent, private, co-educational Pre-Kindergarten-Grade 8 day school devoted to educating the whole child through character development, social emotional literacy, and the highest standards of academic excellence anchored in timeless truths and treasured values.
We seek to inspire the love of learning, a dedication to virtue, a call to leadership, and a commitment of service to all. Carden Hall is devoted to cultivating hearts and minds in a joyful environment where learners flourish as they discover their unlimited potential for an honorable and courageous life of purpose, service, and leadership.
We seek to inspire the love of learning, a dedication to virtue, a call to leadership, and a commitment of service to all. Carden Hall is devoted to cultivating hearts and minds in a joyful environment where learners flourish as they discover their unlimited potential for an honorable and courageous life of purpose, service, and leadership.
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Faculty & Staff
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Carden Hall teachers are known for their caring ways, their remarkable teaching talents, their expertise in the Carden Method, and their ability to light the lamp of learning in each child. Our teachers hold degrees in a wide array of subjects, and the faculty boasts over 1000 years of combined teaching experience at Carden Hall.
The Carden Hall Handshake
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As we are united by our children and the hope for their bright future, The Carden Hall Handshake is a symbol of our parent-school partnership in preserving the timeless truths and treasured values which develop healthy, strong, caring, competent leaders. From ancient times the gesture of outstretched, open hands grasping one another has represented good faith when making a promise and sealing an agreement.
Mae Carden & The Carden Method
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Mae Carden was an extraordinary teacher and innovator. A recognized expert in the field of classical education, she operated her own school for fifteen years before devoting her time to training others in the use of her teaching method. She regarded each child as a unique individual with an enormous capacity to learn.
Leadership Legacy
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Concerned for the well-being of her own children and inspired by Miss Carden's vision of an education that enlightens students' hearts and minds, Mrs. Cullinane founded Carden Hall in 1963. This passionate, determined, inspiring, and gracious lady directed the school through its first fourteen years.
Academics
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Our curriculum seeks to develop students' quality of mind and thought, awakening their natural desire to learn and making them competent, eager learners, full of wonder at the richness of the world around them. We build a careful foundation that ensures success in learning. Our subjects are integrated and sequential, feeding inquiring minds as they move forward in their education.
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