May, 2016

In May, I had the honor of hearing Amelia Gambetti and Lella Gandini speak at the Lesley University Annual Reggio Conference. Through Donors' Choose, a website designed to fund teachers' projects and professional development, two teachers and I were able to get our conference fees covered and traveled to Boston, Massachusetts to learn from these experts, who helped create and mold the Reggio Approach in Reggio Emilia, Italy. We attended materials workshops and learned new ways to use materials and new ways to document our student work.

In May, we also held our Exhibition of Learning. This year, the exhibition was entitled, Embracing Our Diversity. The exhibit featured cross-curricular projects from all of our grade levels.

Here is a link with photographs of the panels from the exhibition:

To Tour Our Exhibition, please click here.

As an opening to the exhibition, we had students travel throughout the school to tour the exhibit. Each classroom provided student docents to explain the projects and answer questions about their learning. This was the best part of the show, in my opinion. Watching children explain their learning to other children while having the viewing children ask questions and compliment the docents- this was an invaluable educational experience for the children.