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The CCDS Way
Our Mission

At Canton Country Day School, students are empowered to recognize and optimize their full potential by cultivating an environment that prepares them to meet the challenges in a rapidly changing world with openness, enthusiasm, a willingness to problem solve, while developing respect for individual differences and community values. 

Approved by the Board of Trustees 2020

Our Vision

Canton Country Day School seeks to educate students through an individual lens, igniting them with confidence and character, while developing academic responsibility and rigor in an interactive and innovative environment to ready them for the next chapter of their lives. 

Approved by the Board of Trustees 2018

Our Teaching Philosophy
  • Canton Country Day School is a partnership of students, faculty, administrators, parents, staff, and Board of Trustees.
  • We believe that we all are learners, regardless of our ages, positions, abilities, attainments, or roles.
  • We believe educated individuals are needed to address the issues of our dynamic, complex, and interdependent world.
  • We believe our ability to adapt and apply basic skills and thinking processes empowers us to more effectively participate in society.
  • We believe cultural diversity and different perspectives and talents are essential to a rich and varied learning experience.
  • We believe feelings of self-worth enable us to maintain a healthy perspective when confronted with life’s successes, failures, and choices.
  • We believe the quality of our relationships with others powerfully affects our lives.
  • We believe initiative and steadfast effort is necessary for academic and personal success.
  • We believe knowledge, skills, talents, creative thinking and problem-solving abilities should be used to improve our lives and the lives of others.
  • We believe conscientious fulfillment of our obligations is a learned characteristic that enables us to grow personally and academically.
  • We believe creative expression is a fundamental human need.
  • We believe the search for knowledge and understanding is an innate and dynamic force that shapes our lives.
  • We believe the journey itself is the reward.