The Caedmon School (New York), a Montessori school for children ages pre-school through grade five, opened the first licensed day care center for its faculty/staff in October 2009. The day care center is the first and only of its kind among New York independent schools.
According to school head Greg Blackburn, “Building the nursery enabled five of our teachers to remain at Caedmon and have child care while they taught and cared for the schoolchildren at
Caedmon.” He noted proudly that the school now has a 100
percent teacher 
return rate because of the facility.
For Blackburn, the day care “also gives the teachers peace of mind that their children are close by and are able to attend to their needs should something happen during the day.” Another plus is that the teachers can afford to remain in the classroom and not have to quit because child care is prohibitively expensive.
When the Caedmon day care center was built, it involved much of the school community. Caedmon parent and architect, Christine Spinelli, who has also designed many corporate daycare centers, designed the facility. Art teacher Kristina Bakker decorated the facility, former teacher Terry Morgan is the day care director, and Associate Head of School Miguel Gomez-Marshall supervised the completion of the project through all the government agencies and building departments.
This project was completed from start to finish in only six months, and Greg Blackburn hopes that the process the school followed through Gomez-Marshall’s leadership can serve as a model for other schools that wish to develop such a program for their faculty/staff.