Faculty & Staff
- Faculty
- Jack Gillette
- Linda Cole-Taylor
- Adjunct Faculty
- Karen Campe
- Nancy Close
- Nick Fiori
- Carla Horwitz
- Nancy Levy-Konesky
- Michele Raynor
- Burt Saxon
- Staff
- Kendra Mack
Carla Horwitz
Lecturer and Director of Calvin Hill Day Care Center and Kitty Lustman-Findling Kindergarten
Carla Horwitz has been the director of Yale University's Calvin Hill Day Care Center for the past thirty-one years. The Center, a model educational preschool program, provides high quality, developmentally informed, affordable child care and education for the children of Yale and community families; it is also the site of early childhood student teaching and practicum placements for the Yale Teacher Preparation Program. She has a joint appointment in the Psychology Department and at the Yale Child Study Center where she teaches three courses in child development and methods. She received her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College, an M.S. from Yeshiva University in Urban Education, and an advanced Diploma in Education and Child Development from the Froebel Institute, Institute of Education, University of London, and a doctorate in Educational Leadership from the University of Hartford. She has taught at the undergraduate, elementary, and preschool level. She spent a year in England studying open classroom, integrated day infant schools, and is currently involved in studying and incorporating the practice of the progressive preschools of Reggio Emilia, Italy. Her research interests include the creation and implementation of progressive curriculum, developmentally appropriate early care and education, supervision and the professional development of teachers, and educational leadership.
