Creativity seems to emerge from multiple experiences, coupled with a well supported development of personal resources, including a sense of freedom to venture beyond the known. – Loris Malaguzzi We welcomed a new student this week…as one of our students said, “We are already friends.” This week’s feature is reflection …
The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done. -Jean Piaget Dear Families, Please read about November Park Days (drop off and pick up are at different locations) and don’t …
“All children have preparedness, potential, curiosity and interest in constructing their learning, in engaging in social interaction and in negotiating with everything the environment brings to them.” -Lella Gandini Greetings Gardeners!Please be sure to read about How To Teach Math (Parent Teacher section) and our Community Reminders. A Froggy search …
22 September 2012 Week 3 News & Information “Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.” — Karl Menninger We are artists, needle …
The Knowing Garden From under our big tree… 15 September 2012 Week 2 Information & Resources “Out beyond ideas of right doing and wrong doing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about. Ideas, …
INNOVATIONS In early education: the international reggio exchange/ September 2001 THE PEDAGOGY OF LISTENING: The Listening Perspective from Reggio Emilia By Carlina Rinaldi Carlina Rinaldi is the Pedagogical Consultant for Reggio Children and was formerly the Pedagogical Director of the Reggio Emilia Municipal Early Childhood Centers. Car/ina is currently on …
by Gwen Dewar, Ph.D. ParentingScience.com Years ago, it would have been science fiction. You get diabetes because your grandfather didn’t get enough to eat as a child? You suffer from clinical anxiety because your father was a stressed-out teenager? But thanks to the study of epigenetics, these scenarios have become …
