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Toyoko Nishikawa
Director, Dalton School Tokyo/Nagoya
Ms. Toyoko Nishikawa worked for a private kindergarten in early childhood education for 4- and 5-year olds. She grew skeptical of uniform education focused on group thinking in events and games during the critical early childhood period and resigned from the kindergarten to study how to nurture individuality and childrenfs abilities. She attended an early childhood education institute in Tokyo and became a qualified instructor.
Nishikawa-san then spent several years in early childhood education at the Kawaijuku Dalton School Nagoya. In 1984, she visited the New York Dalton School to study their educational programs and procedures.
In 1998, she was named director general. In 2002, she was appointed principal of the Tokyo and Nagoya Dalton Schools. In addition to her administrative responsibilities, she continues to work at educating the students, teachers and parents in the education philosophy of Dalton.
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