Penny and Palmer - English mastiffs weighing 200 lbs. apiece - are the official Scandia Consulting mascots. Besides serving as our protectors, they frequently offer their keen canine insights into our work. (Sample recommendation: "How about an iPhone app that helps us locate neighborhood squirrels?")

If you'd like to learn more about the rest of the Scandia team, please call 401.566.3000 or email info@scandiaconsulting.com.

New Client: The Torit Language Center signs with Scandia for new Internet and technology initiaitves.

The Torit Language Center has decided to partner with Scandia to complete it's upcoming Web site redesign and deployment. Our consultants will assist with Information Architecture, graphical design, custom development, CMS implementation, and general technology initiatives.

About Torit
At Torit Language Center Montessori, it is our mission to provide the tools to excel in the life's work of our students' own choosing. We believe the forging of these tools happens long before high school or college. Rather the tools of independence, creativity and interconnectedness must be as innate as walking and talking, necessitating their genesis simultaneously. To help us in the creation of the whole child, we subscribe to these broad ideals:

Acuity of observation of the child, facilitated by the Montessori method, allows development according to the child's own pace and temperament. The Montessori method's thoughtful and non-domineering guidance promotes innate independence and allows the expression of creativity of the individual that may be unwittingly suppressed by traditional teaching.

Interconnectedness with global fellow citizens, facilitated by the mastery of each other's native means of expression (languages) and interest in each other's referential backdrop (culture), will allow the broadest reach for each child's self-chosen life's work. Our short playgroup-format foreign language classes renew our optimism about our global future.

Independence, creativity and interconnectedness are facilitated by balance within the family. We serve children by serving their parents with numerous unique opportunities for busy or working parents.