Welcome to The Civility School

Teaching Respect for the Comfort and Convenience of Others.

The Civility School offers year-round Modern Manners classes, private social skills instruction, as well as business etiquette and other workshops to children and young adults.  Each class follows a developmentally appropriate curriculum created specifically for its age group.

The Jefferson Cotillion, presented by The Civility School, offers a traditional cotillion season, where children in sixth through ninth grades benefit from dance instruction, as well as dance floor and dining etiquette, culminating in a parent/child dinner dance.
The goal of The Civility School is to teach social skills, modern social and business etiquette, and traditional manners within a context of empathetic intention.  Children and young adults are taught what empathy is and how to use their empathetic strengths to think of how their actions affect those around them.

This combination of skills learning, coupled with an emotional focus, enables students to literally and figuratively travel “outside their comfort zones” to adjust to different and ever-changing cultural expectations.  This is a must in today’s world. The Civility School is conveniently located at 1415 Blue Ridge Road, which is near the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia.