I recently had the remarkable privilege of spending a week at Colegio Hebreo Tarbut, a Jewish school for children 6 months old through high school in Mexico City. Tarbut is an established school but is relatively new to Reggio inspiration (starting its fourth year)....
In my local newspaper today there is an article about a nearby school district considering a year-round school schedule. As one who is trying to figure out how to make meaningful changes in the public school context… how to provide for children an education that...
The journey on which I find myself…supporting teachers and schools working with principles of the Reggio Emilia approach…has many paths. I have learned that this is one story that does not have to start “at the beginning.” Or, rather, the beginning can be found in...
I taught Kindergarten and Junior Kindergarten (4’s and 5’s) in the same school for nearly 4 decades. For 26 years, essentially the entire time I was in JK, we were Reggio inspired. I had noticed early on a remarkable difference from my pre-Reggio...
A small group of children (all girls, as this is a story from a single-sex school) met to plan what to build next on the block platform. We had set up this protocol…planning together before building…to encourage collaboration and small group project work,...
