Hi All...

I'm learning a great deal from my study of the Reggio Inspired identity and have a question and provocation for you all!

What is the significance of the trip to Reggio?

Can't wait to hear what you think and feel!

Jackie

In one word, RELATIONSHIPS!

Is it, engaged, respectful researchers, collaborating, while discovering in environments filled with comfort and beauty. A community, we individually work on and refine with the image of the child, and their potential, abilities and interests being the main focus of our observing, and documentation. A system with meaning and ownership of all involved earning value, as we build on prior knowledge constructed by each gift……….A Child!

My journey has me juggling regulat… Continue

As some of you may already know, my thesis work has been focused on understanding the way in which teachers and administrators build and negotiate both individual and collective Reggio-Inspired identities. Right now I am in the process of analyzing the data that I have collected and beginning to think about the direction that my research has taken. With this in mind, I think it only fitting to open up the discussion to this community and get your views on what it means to be Reggio-Inspired, how… Continue

http://www.examiner.com/x-10971-Early-Childhood-Education-Examiner~y2009m5d27-Remembering-Mr-Rogers-compliments-of-Reggio-Inspired

In March, my co-teacher with whom I had been working for over two years, left us to start her own preschool. This sent us into the search for a new colleague. I'm pleased that we found Chandra Bocci to work with us. We didn't have to look far. She has been nannying for a family that used to go to our full-day program. The children in this family ended up going to the same charter school as my daughter, so I'd bump into Chandra at the school from time to time. When I saw her there one day in Marc… Continue