Zoom Book Study

We are continuing to read the Wonder of Learning, a visual catalogue of the traveling exhibit which many of us recently visited; it is also a collection of essays and documentation of the work of both children and adults from ReggioChildren.  No need to "catch up" Just join us for the discussion!  

There is no fee - ALL ARE WELCOME.

Please register for your individual ZOOM Link in advance of this meeting by following this link: Zoom Registration

We will send a reminder with page number one week in advance.

Questions? Contact reggioinspiredmn@gmail.com for more information.

Enter Encounter Engage: Boulder Journey School

Honoring the child: Cultivating social emotional support for the child, community and the collective

Certificate of Attendance available

Through interconnection, and by nurturing care and respect for individuals and for the collective whole of our communities, we grow as humans. Join us to examine strategies for cultivating the social emotional support we all need after this year of turbulence. Through the unpacking of stories and shared pedagogical documentation, we will deepen our commitments to truly honoring the rights of the child and how in turn, we honor all of our rights.

The conference includes 2 sessions (1 hour total) of pre-recorded presentations that you will view ahead of time and 2 hours of synchronous dialogue that will take place on October 9, 2021 beginning at 9 am Central Time.

The pre-recorded presentations will be available as early as Saturday, October 2.

Presenter: Alex Morgan
Community Outreach Specialist
Boulder Journey School
Boulder, Colorado

Location: Zoom

Students: Limited spots available at no cost for students - email Heidi Wolf for details and registration hwolf@bsmschool.org

Cost: $ 40| $45 after September 25, 2021

Virtual Documentation Lab

Reggio-Inspired Network of Minnesota monthly  DOCUMENTATION LAB discussion and follow up to the monthly gathering topic of honoring the child and supporting social emotional 

Using the Doc Lab protocol we will practice looking at documentation, analyze the learning together and wonder what steps could take place next. Participants with traces related to the current Monthly Gathering are encouraged to bring them, although this is not required. We will be using the attached protocol. You may find having a copy printed and ready for referencing during our discussion helpful.

Doc Lab Protocol (2).doc

We look forward to thinking and learning together!

Follow Zoom link here

All are welcome!

Reggio-Inspired Network of Minnesota invites you to participate in a New Initiative

“LET’S TALK”

Thursday, October 21 7:00-8:15 PM (CST)

“Let’s Talk” is an opportunity for conversation, provocation and question about our work with young children and the intersection of inspirations from the schools of Reggio Emilia.  Our goal is to create a space for networking the Network.  A facilitator will review a set of guidelines for open discussion at “Let’s Talk”, invite those who attend to introduce themselves, and then encourage topics from the group for discussion. This platform will allow for the emergence and sharing of ideas and perspective taking. 

There will be an opportunity to break into small groups for focused discussions on suggested topics if the group would like to move in that direction.  “Let’s Talk” is offered on the 3^rd Thursday of the month and is free to participants.

Click Here to register and receive a personalized Zoom link. 

Questions can be sent to reggioinspiredmn@gmail.com.   

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Using the Language of Movement to Build Culturally Inclusive Classrooms

Certificate of Attendance available

What if we could tap into the innate wisdom of our bodies to sense our connections - even across physical distance and cultural difference? This is not only possible, it’s absolutely necessary in the Reggio-inspired environment, and in our increasingly diverse neighborhoods and classrooms. Join Rie to learn and practice deep listening and sensing toward a new architecture of connection, clarity and courage. Bring the Pedagogy of Listening into your body to allow emergent learning for all your children!

Presenter: Rie Gilsdorf
Facilitator and Founder
Embody Equity
Twin Cities, Minnesota

Location: Zoom

Students: Limited spots available at no cost for students - email Heidi Wolf for details and registration hwolf@bsmschool.org

Cost: $20 | $25 after November 6, 2021

Unpacking Democracy and Education

Certificate of Attendance available

Malaguzzi said that education is “always a political discourse whether we know it or not. It is about working with cultural choices, but it clearly also means working with political choices.” The Reggio Approach welcomes differences as assets, values multiple perspectives and interpretations, integrates different disciplines and embraces complexity.

The Reggio-Inspired Network of Minnesota strategic plan states, “We envision a community that equips its people to invigorate democracy and expand the concept of learning.” How are democracy and education intertwined? What does this work look like? With examples drawn from local work as well as from Reggio, we will identify and discuss the practical strategies that support these values.

Presenter: Lani Shapiro
Consultant
Twin Cities

Location: Zoom

NO CHARGE, OPEN TO ALL

The Language of Story-Telling: Using the Paley Curriculum to Enhance Children's Ability to Play Pretend

Certificate of Attendance available

This presentation will share a year-long study conducted in a classroom of 3 year olds during the 2018-2019 school year at the University of Chicago Lab Schools. Tom Boyle spent the year carefully documenting how the use of Vivian Paley's story dictation and story acting protocol impacted the students' ability to engage in high-quality pretend play.

Join us as we think together on how to use the Reggio Emilia lens and help us better understand Paley's achievements? How can Paley's lifelong work give us a renewed understanding of what one of these 100 languages – in this case, the language of storytelling – actually consists of? There will be time to share ideas around what goes on in our classrooms. The presentation is intended for those familiar with story dictation as well for those who have never used it.

Presenter: Tom Boyle
Teacher and Director of Zhawenimikaang (“place of unconditional love,” in Ojibwe)
Bayfield area, Wisconsin

Location: Zoom

Students: Limited spots available at no cost for students - email Heidi Wolf for details and registration hwolf@bsmschool.org

Cost: $20 | $25 after December 26, 2021

Virtual Documentation Lab

Using the Doc Lab protocol we will practice looking at documentation, analyze the learning together and wonder what steps could take place next. Participants with traces related to the current Monthly Gathering are encouraged to bring them, although this is not required. We will be using the attached protocol. You may find having a copy printed and ready for referencing during our discussion helpful.

Doc Lab Protocol (2).doc

We look forward to thinking and learning together!

Follow Zoom link here

All are welcome!

The Hundred Languages of Humanity: Why the Reggio Way Works for Building a Better World

Certificate of Attendance available

Hundred+ Languages of Humanity & Relationships as IDENTITIES — The stories of who we are together and shared identities shape who we can be, what we can become and what we can achieve together. The mindful, intentional guidance of our relationships can create opportunities for growth and a more peaceful co-existence with the children we teach, our fellow educators, the administration we work for and the larger communities in which we live.

By connecting our shared history with theory and practice, you may find your own work with children reimagined, your conversations reinvigorated and your life purpose redefined. By rethinking key Reggio principles to emphasize our larger Human identity, you can go out into the world and make Humanity your classroom.

Presenter: Laurie Van Putten
Lead Preschool Teacher
Community Child Care Center
Stevens Point, Wisconsin

Location: Zoom

Students: Limited spots available at no cost for students - email Heidi Wolf for details and registration hwolf@bsmschool.org

Cost: $20 | $25 after January 29, 2022

Virtual Documentation Lab

Reggio-Inspired Network of Minnesota monthly  DOCUMENTATION LAB discussion and follow up to the monthly gathering topic of honoring the child and supporting social emotional 

Using the Doc Lab protocol we will practice looking at documentation, analyze the learning together and wonder what steps could take place next. Participants with traces related to the current Monthly Gathering are encouraged to bring them, although this is not required. We will be using the attached protocol. You may find having a copy printed and ready for referencing during our discussion helpful.

Doc Lab Protocol (2).doc

We look forward to thinking and learning together!

Follow Zoom link here

All are welcome!

Virtual Tour and Context Discussion: University of Chicago Lab Schools

Certificate of Attendance available

The foundations of the Reggio Emilia Approach were inspired by constructivist thinkers like Piaget and Vygotsky and progressive educators like John Dewey. John and Alice Dewey founded the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools in 1896. John Dewey believed that democratic child-centered classrooms and interaction with their communities would prepare the youngest citizens for living in a democratic society. Children's right to participate, to be a part of democracy, is central to the Reggio Emilia approach. In this presentation teachers from Lab Schools provide a window into their current expressions of the intersection of Dewey and the Reggio Emilia Approach.

Presenters: Meredith Dodd, Lead Teacher and colleagues from University of Chicago Laboratory School
Chicago, Illinois

Location: Zoom

Students: Limited spots available at no cost for students - email Heidi Wolf for details and registration hwolf@bsmschool.org

Cost: $20 | $25 after February 26, 2022

Virtual Documentation Lab

Reggio-Inspired Network of Minnesota monthly  DOCUMENTATION LAB discussion and follow up to the monthly gathering topic of honoring the child and supporting social emotional 

Using the Doc Lab protocol we will practice looking at documentation, analyze the learning together and wonder what steps could take place next. Participants with traces related to the current Monthly Gathering are encouraged to bring them, although this is not required. We will be using the attached protocol. You may find having a copy printed and ready for referencing during our discussion helpful.

Doc Lab Protocol (2).doc

We look forward to thinking and learning together!

Follow Zoom link here

All are welcome!

Virtual Tour and Context Discussion: All Seasons Preschool

Certificate of Attendance available

All Seasons is an intergenerational preschool housed inside of Lexington Pointe senior living residence. Living as "neighbors" in the same building supports the development of caring relationships between the children and the "grandmas and grandpas." All Seasons is a nature-based and arts-focused preschool that serves children ages 2 through 5 years.

The first All Seasons Preschool, in Inver Grove Heights, was founded in 2009. Last year, a second All Seasons Preschool with a similar philosophy and focus opened in Eagan, in the middle of the pandemic! Come tour our new indoor and outdoor environments and hear about how we are gradually establishing our intergenerational program with the seniors. View and discuss documentation of the growing relationships between the children and the new tenants of the senior building.

Presenters: Joanne Esser, Director with staff at All Seasons Preschool
Twin Cities, Minnesota

Location: Hybrid 

Zoom: link sent after registration

In-Person (if allowed)
All Seasons Preschool of Eagan
3385 Discovery Rd,
Eagan, MN 55121

Students: Limited spots available at no cost for students - email Heidi Wolf for details and registration hwolf@bsmschool.org

Cost: $20 | $25 after March 26, 2022

Limit 20 in-person participants (if allowed)

Virtual Documentation Lab

Reggio-Inspired Network of Minnesota monthly  DOCUMENTATION LAB discussion and follow up to the monthly gathering topic of honoring the child and supporting social emotional 

Using the Doc Lab protocol we will practice looking at documentation, analyze the learning together and wonder what steps could take place next. Participants with traces related to the current Monthly Gathering are encouraged to bring them, although this is not required. We will be using the attached protocol. You may find having a copy printed and ready for referencing during our discussion helpful.

Doc Lab Protocol (2).doc

We look forward to thinking and learning together!

Follow Zoom link here

All are welcome!