Our approach
What Reggio-inspired means here
We borrow from the Reggio Emilia tradition and make no claim to be part of it. These are the three habits you will see in the studios.
- 01
The children's questions lead
A project starts with something a child wonders about. Teachers listen, ask the group what they think and plan the next week from the answers.
Projects run for weeks, not days
Groups that return to the work
- 02
The atelier is a place to think
Clay, paint, wire, paper and loose parts are out all week. Children use them to try an idea, see what happens and change it.
Real tools, with a teacher at the table
The atelierista sets out each week's materials
- 03
Teachers write it down
Notes, photographs and drawings go up on documentation panels, so that families can see how a project moved and talk about it at pickup.
No panel carries a child's name
Families see the thinking, not a grade
In the studios
Long mornings for long projects
A project can hold a group for a whole morning and come back the next day. The teachers keep the light table, the clay bench and the paint wall set up, so that children pick the work up where they left it.
Mornings with long, unbroken stretches for projects
The same materials, out all week
A teacher beside the children, taking notes
See a project in progress
A tour shows the atelier, the studios and the panels that are up that month.