We read slowly, never more than one chapter per month; sometimes we repeat a chapter, if we don’t feel finished with it. The dispositions we strengthen include close reading, careful listening and thoughtful conversation. Each meeting, we form a flexible learning group without a fixed destination, with the intention of cultivating a context for uncertainty, diversity and complexity.

To support our Network focus on The Wonder of Learning, and our planned trip to the exhibit next spring, we have decided to insert The Wonder of Learning: The Hundred Languages of Children, into to our scheduled reading list. Beginning in October, we will be reading this title, which is a visual catalogue of the exhibit, a collection of essays, and documentation of the work of both children and adults. 

Books can be ordered from:

https://www.store.reggioalliance.org/

The Reggio-Inspired Network of Minnesota's DOCUMENTATION LABS continue to offer educators an opportunity to study traces of children's actions - photographs, video clips, transcripts of conversations and children's own work, sketches - as a way to learn in collaboration with colleagues. 

There are now documentation study groups in three regional metro areas.These gatherings are always FREE and open to anyone, whether you are new to the idea of documentation or whether it has been part of your practice for a long time

Information about the Roosevelt Library: https://www.hclib.org/about/locations/roosevelt 

If you have traces of children's work you'd like to share contact jesser@blakeschool.org

The Reggio-Inspired Network of Minnesota's DOCUMENTATION LABS continue to offer educators an opportunity to study traces of children's actions - photographs, video clips, transcripts of conversations and children's own work, sketches - as a way to learn in collaboration with colleagues. 

There are now documentation study groups in three regional metro areas. These gatherings are always FREE and open to anyone, whether you are new to the idea of documentation or whether it has been part of your practice for a long time. 

The newest Documentation Lab is located the Northern Metro area and will be held on the 1^st Sunday of each month at the Shoreview Library from 1:00 to 3:00 PM.

Educators will come together to reflect on and interpret children’s work, words, pictures, dialogues, and actions through their own reflections and shared dialogues with colleagues.  This process is, in part, the essence of teacher-as-researcher and has the possibility of leading to great learning for the educators involved. Participating in a Documentation Lab will help support educators in learning how to confirm and validate evidence of children’s learning in a social-constructivist setting.

If you have questions, email:

Stephanie Ponticas

heartsandmindsdaycare@gmail.com

Deb Schein

schein.deborah@gmail.com

At Friends School of Minnesota, a K-8 progressive elementary school in St. Paul, classroom teachers work collaboratively with the visual arts and music specialists to follow teachers' themes and children's interests to create in-depth projects.

How can the arts provide space for deeper thought, creativity, and engagement throughout the curriculum? Join us to explore ways that teachers can work together to create a holistic child-centered experience for students that also energizes teachers, and to discuss ways to deepen collaboration within your educational context.

Facilitated by Marshall Anderson, kindergarten teacher and Laura Pereira, Art Specialist

Friends School of Minnesota 

We read slowly, never more than one chapter per month; sometimes we repeat a chapter, if we don’t feel finished with it. The dispositions we strengthen include close reading, careful listening and thoughtful conversation. Each meeting, we form a flexible learning group without a fixed destination, with the intention of cultivating a context for uncertainty, diversity and complexity.

To support our Network focus on The Wonder of Learning, and our planned trip to the exhibit next spring, we have decided to insert The Wonder of Learning: The Hundred Languages of Children, into to our scheduled reading list. Beginning in October, we will be reading this title, which is a visual catalogue of the exhibit, a collection of essays, and documentation of the work of both children and adults. 

https://www.store.reggioalliance.org/

The Reggio-Inspired Network of Minnesota's DOCUMENTATION LABS continue to offer educators an opportunity to study traces of children's actions - photographs, video clips, transcripts of conversations and children's own work, sketches - as a way to learn in collaboration with colleagues. 

There are now documentation study groups in three regional metro areas. These gatherings are always FREE and open to anyone, whether you are new to the idea of documentation or whether it has been part of your practice for a long time. 

The newest Documentation Lab is located the Northern Metro area and will be held on the 1^st Sunday of each month at the Shoreview Library from 1:00 to 3:00 PM.

Educators will come together to reflect on and interpret children’s work, words, pictures, dialogues, and actions through their own reflections and shared dialogues with colleagues.  This process is, in part, the essence of teacher-as-researcher and has the possibility of leading to great learning for the educators involved. Participating in a Documentation Lab will help support educators in learning how to confirm and validate evidence of children’s learning in a social-constructivist setting.

If you have questions, email:

Stephanie Ponticas

heartsandmindsdaycare@gmail.com

Deb Schein

schein.deborah@gmail.com

We read slowly, never more than one chapter per month; sometimes we repeat a chapter, if we don’t feel finished with it. The dispositions we strengthen include close reading, careful listening and thoughtful conversation. Each meeting, we form a flexible learning group without a fixed destination, with the intention of cultivating a context for uncertainty, diversity and complexity.

To support our Network focus on The Wonder of Learning, and our planned trip to the exhibit next spring, we have decided to insert The Wonder of Learning: The Hundred Languages of Children, into to our scheduled reading list. Beginning in October, we will be reading this title, which is a visual catalogue of the exhibit, a collection of essays, and documentation of the work of both children and adults. 

https://www.store.reggioalliance.org/

We read slowly, never more than one chapter per month; sometimes we repeat a chapter, if we don’t feel finished with it. The dispositions we strengthen include close reading, careful listening and thoughtful conversation. Each meeting, we form a flexible learning group without a fixed destination, with the intention of cultivating a context for uncertainty, diversity and complexity.

The Logic of Action: Young Children at Work by Frances Hawkins
ISBN-10: 0870811614
ISBN-13: 978-0870811616

David Hawkins and the Pond Study, documented by Elizabeth Kellogg
ISBN-10: 1450031129
ISBN-13: 978-1450031127

Loris Malaguzzi was influenced by the writings of David Hawkins, an American philosopher interested in science and education. Among other concepts, Hawkins insisted that teachers need to be learners, as well as children. In turn, David Hawkins was deeply influenced by the work of his wife, Frances Hawkins, who was committed to documenting and studying children’s learning processes. Malaguzzi and Hawkins met in 1988. “Both believed in the importance of seeing children’s processes of learning through action and also of renewing oneself with an open mind. Upon such a common base each was able to learn from the other” (Gandini, 2008).

We read slowly, never more than one chapter per month; sometimes we repeat a chapter, if we don’t feel finished with it. The dispositions we strengthen include close reading, careful listening and thoughtful conversation. Each meeting, we form a flexible learning group without a fixed destination, with the intention of cultivating a context for uncertainty, diversity and complexity.

The Logic of Action: Young Children at Work by Frances Hawkins
ISBN-10: 0870811614
ISBN-13: 978-0870811616

David Hawkins and the Pond Study, documented by Elizabeth Kellogg
ISBN-10: 1450031129
ISBN-13: 978-1450031127

Loris Malaguzzi was influenced by the writings of David Hawkins, an American philosopher interested in science and education. Among other concepts, Hawkins insisted that teachers need to be learners, as well as children. In turn, David Hawkins was deeply influenced by the work of his wife, Frances Hawkins, who was committed to documenting and studying children’s learning processes. Malaguzzi and Hawkins met in 1988. “Both believed in the importance of seeing children’s processes of learning through action and also of renewing oneself with an open mind. Upon such a common base each was able to learn from the other” (Gandini, 2008).