Reggio Emilia-Inspired Classrooms and Programs

This article describes how some community-based organizations and public schools in Chicago implement the Reggio Emilia-inspired approach and gives ideas and reflections based on these experiences.

This article describes how one early childhood center successfully adapted the Reggio Emilia approach to its inclusion program for young children with disabilities.

This article describes how a preschool program integrated the ideas of Reggio Emilia, like an emergent curriculum, investigations, and flexible environments, into their classrooms.

This poem by Loris Malaguzzi, translated by Lella Gandini, describes the many ways in which children experience the world through the Reggio Emilia approach.

This article written by an early childhood educator for educators, explains how observation and documentation can be planned for and be visible in a diverse Reggio-inspired classroom.

The North American Reggio Emilia Alliance (NAREA) exists to connect early childhood educators and advocates together in discovering, interpreting, and promoting Reggio Emilia inspired education. NAREA believes in the inherent abilities and basic rights of children and adults, particularly with regard to their competence and right to actively construct relations, knowledge, feelings, and identity. NAREA works to mobilize educators, parents and policymakers to play a collective role in moving the value of early childhood education to a position of priority. Through conferences, networking, and resource sharing, NAREA is advancing an inspiring and innovative movement that is giving more quality and excellence to education.

This article highlights how Chicago Commons provides underserved children on Chicago’s Northwest side with access to developmental early education through a Reggio Emilia-inspired program, and helps to make Ideal Learning real for more children.

The Reggio Emilia Approach is an educational philosophy based on the image of a child with strong potentialities for development and a subject with rights, who learns through the hundred languages belonging to all human beings, and grows in relations with others.