Pat Rackliffe, Neighbor

Pat is the Director of the Westport Weston Co-operative Nursery School, which is located in Westport, CT.  She started as an assistant teacher in 1990, and worked with all age groups at the Co-op before becoming a lead teacher in a three year old classroom.  In 2000, Pat became Director of the school while she continued to teach.

Pat’s second home is the classroom, where emotional, social, physical, and cognitive growth of each individual child is fostered. The Co-op is dedicated to the premise that encouraging an intellectual curiosity that views the world as a laboratory keeps one a life-long learner.

Pat has a B.S. degree from the University of Bridgeport and a MS Ed from Bank Street College of Education in NYC.

“I am continually amazed by the spontaneity of young children. Their ideas, their questions and sense of wonder teach me the importance of being in the moment and looking at things as if for the first time. Children keep me young at heart.”