This was a wonderful edition of Community Collage. I especially liked the slide show; the photographs of beautiful classroom environments filled with natural materials and documentation were especially inspiring. I wish I could see more examples of infant and toddler rooms.
Thank you for this newsletter; I plan to share the information and photos with programs with which I consult.
Judy Wertheimer
Quality Improvement Coordinator
Delaware Valley Association for the Education of Young Children
Philadelphia, PA 19103
THANK YOU for this focus on what I have long believed is the most exciting thing in my 30 year career in early childhood education to happen for young children and their teachers around the world. The educators of Reggio Emilia are challenging us to rethink our image of the child and our approach to early childhood education.
It is certainly fitting that Community Playthings and your attention to designing beautiful furnishings from natural materials plays a big role in helping Reggio-inspired educators create aesthetically pleasing classrooms for young children.
I always thoroughly enjoy reading your Collage newsletters. This is one I will forward on to anyone I know working in my field.
Molly Thompson
Division Director of Early Childhood Programs
Breakwater School
Portland, ME
Thank you for a terrific resource site!
Darlene
Darlene Hochman, Professor
Education, Health & Human Services Department Chairperson
Education Programs Coordinator
Suffolk County Community College
Thank you so much for this edition of Community Collage. I have just begun receiving Collage and am very impressed by it. I am a director of a small faith based center in Lancaster County, PA. I also teach a CDA course and a Director's Credential course for the PA Keystone STARS system. This will be a wonderful source of information for every teacher and director. I have learned a great deal about Reggio from this.
Sincerely,
Christine Shebish.
Director
Sonshine Child Development Center
Lititz, PA 17543
I've been hearing a lot about Reggio Emilia recently and I can remember learning about it first a very long time ago. What strikes me most from reading this issue and from my occasional contact with schools that use Reggio as a model, is that so many of the important ideas from Reggio are simply good early childhood practice. Listening to children and following their lead, studying or learning about what is truly meaningful to the children, documenting with drawings, photographs and words and recognizing the importance of environment on learning should be the bottom line in any nursery school. From what I remember of a slide show about the actual school in Italy, it was a very beautiful and unique place.
Kate Delacorte
Director
Downtown Little School
New York City, NY 10038
Amazing article and slide shows! I work in Tulsa and have the pleasure of living close to the NSU Broken Arrow campus so will get to enjoy the 100 Languages of children. Additionally, we have a Reggio inspired center in our area that occasionally open their campus for tours – all children should have this experience.
I would also like to invite you to include information concerning an international infant-toddler conference to be held in Tulsa, OK in April. I have included the flyer and would be open to visiting with you should you have additional questions concerning this event.
Thank you for your service to children and those of us who love and care for them.
Retta Seger
Accreditation Specialist
Child Care Resource Center
For information on the International Infant-Toddler Conference in Tulsa, go to www.ccrctulsa.org. -ed
Dear Community Collage editor --
Your presentation on Reggio Emilia is one of the best articles that you have ever produced. I spent a day at the amazing Reggio Emilia exhibit when it came to Elyria, Ohio several years ago, and this update on Reggio programs in the U.S. and the bibliography are both interesting and useful.
Thank you so much!
Susan Scheps
Youth Services Manager
Shaker Heights Public Library, Ohio
Very good article.
Needs fixing:
MacDonald Montessori Child Care is beginning it's 24th year. Should read "its"
sonja
Sonja de Groot Kim, Ph.D.
Kean University
Department of Early Childhood and Family Studies
Thanks, Sonja, we fixed it! -ed
Thank you so much for putting this all together.
I work at a Montessori inspired school , but am Reggio trained and that is where my heart is.
It is wonderful to know that schools and teachers are also traveling on a similar journey. It is heartwarming to know feel I am not alone.
Again thank you for this magnificent work.
Georgie
Hi!
Thank you for the snap-shot of the Reggio Emilia. I found it informative and interesting.
Thank you for providing this resource.
Sarah Craggs
THANK YOU for this particular Collage - a focus on Reggio Emilia.
I particularly enjoyed the pictures and slideshows provided.
Do you have a professional early childhood magazine you could recommend?
Gratefully,
Amoriza Gunnink
Director, Kinderhouse of Springbank Hill
Calgary, AB, Canada
I am very pleased with this newsletter. Please keep me on the list.
Thank you
-Fern Amper
Great resource-thanks
Best regards,
Vicki L. Stoecklin
Education & Child Development Director
White Hutchinson Leisure & Learning Group, Inc.
I love the article and I believe that every classroom should belong to the children and not to the teacher. I believe that the classroom is where the children can be free to be whoever or whatever they want to be. I believe that teaching is a dance that I learn to do with the children. I'd like to know how do you incorporate that philosophy in a three hour program and 40 children in two sessions.
Veronica Tellez
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