Please join us at our roundtable May 2023. We are very excited to welcome you all in person. The roundtables are an opportunity for exchange and learning at each school. A tour of the school creates interaction with the life of the school.

Our focus for the roundtables this Spring is Connection and New Beginnings. Our research questions for reflection at each roundtable are:

• What have we learned from the last years of the pandemic?

• What are our strengths going forward?

• How do the Reggio principles sustain our work with children and families?

EVENT DETAILS:

WHEN: Saturday, May 6, 2023 at Presidio Knolls Preschool (map)
TIME: 9:00am - 12:00pm
COST: $20

Tickets are limited. Our virtual box office closes on Wednesday May 3, 2023 at 11pm (PST).

Please join us at our roundtables April - May 2023. We are very excited to welcome you all in person. The roundtables are an opportunity for exchange and learning at each school. A tour of the school creates interaction with the life of the school.

Our focus for the roundtables this Spring is Connection and New Beginnings. Our research questions for reflection at each roundtable are:

• What have we learned from the last years of the pandemic?

• What are our strengths going forward?

• How do the Reggio principles sustain our work with children and families?

EVENT DETAILS:

WHEN: Saturday, April 22, 2023 at Aquatic Park School (map)
TIME: 9:00am - 12:00pm
COST: $20

Tickets are limited. Our virtual box office closes on Wednesday April 19, 2023 at 11pm (PST).

UPCOMING EVENTS:

May 6, 2023 at Presidio Knolls Preschool

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Please join us at our roundtables March - May 2023. We are very excited to welcome you all in person. The roundtables are an opportunity for exchange and learning at each school. A tour of the school creates interaction with the life of the school.

Our focus for the roundtables this Spring is Connection and New Beginnings. Our research questions for reflection at each roundtable are:

• What have we learned from the last years of the pandemic?

• What are our strengths going forward?

• How do the Reggio principles sustain our work with children and families?

EVENT DETAILS:

WHEN: Saturday, March 18, 2023 at La Scuola International, San Francisco (map)
TIME: 9:00am - 12:00pm
COST: $20

Tickets are limited. Our virtual box office closes on Wednesday March 15, 2023 at 11pm (PST).

UPCOMING EVENTS:

April 22, 2023 at Aquatic Park School
May 6, 2023 at Presidio Knolls Preschool

Visit our Eventbrite and join our Mailing List to purchase future event tickets.

Please join us at our roundtables February - May 2023. We are very excited to welcome you all in person. The roundtables are an opportunity for exchange and learning at each school. A tour of the school creates interaction with the life of the school.

Our focus for the roundtables this Spring is Connection and New Beginnings. Our research questions for reflection at each roundtable are:

• What have we learned from the last years of the pandemic?

• What are our strengths going forward?

• How do the Reggio principles sustain our work with children and families?

EVENT DETAILS:

WHEN: Sunday, February 19, 2023 at The Scandinavian School in San Francisco (map)
TIME: 9:00am - 12:00pm
COST: $20

Tickets are limited. Our virtual box office closes on Wednesday February 15, 2023 at 11pm (PST).

UPCOMING EVENTS:

March 18, 2023 at La Scuola International, San Francisco
April 22, 2023 at Aquatic Park School
May 6, 2023 at Presidio Knolls Preschool

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You’re invited for an in person Apertivo to mingle with the ITP community of Teachers, Directors, and Educators as we kick off 2023! The gathering will take place on Saturday, January 21, 2023 from 4pm-7pm at Indie Wine and Beer Bar in San Francisco (175 Green St). Noshes included, no host bar.

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In this year long virtual roundtable series, we will dialogue around Vea Vecchi’s book entitled ‘Art and Creativity in Reggio Emilia: Exploring the role and potential of ateliers in early childhood education’. Together in this work, we will explore the role of creativity, art and of ateliers (art spaces) in early childhood contexts and the potential of the aesthetic languages in our work with children. In every session, we will focus on a theme from Vea Vecchi’s book and we will discuss how such themes  relate to our day to day practices in the school. 

This is a digital event - via Zoom. One ticket gives you an "All Access" into eight (8) sessions 2022-2023. The series occurs October 2022 through April 2023 - on Mondays from 5:30pm-7:00pm. One ticket per person. We require attendance to all the sessions. Access details will be provided via email. Cost: $200 for the entire Roundtable series of eight (8) sessions. It is recommended, though not required, that you buy the book “Art and Creativity in Reggio Emilia: Exploring the role and potential of ateliers in early childhood education” by Vea Vecchi.

Event Schedule:

• October 3rd, 2022, 5:30-7:00

• October 24th, 2022, 5:30-7:00

• November 14th, 2022, 5:30-7:00

• December 12th, 2022, 5:30-7:00

• January 9th, 2023, 5:30-7:00

• February 27th, 2023, 5:30-7:00

• March 20th, 2023, 5:30-7:00

• April 24th, 2023, 5:30-7:00

Presenters:

• Dr. Susan Lyon, Founder, Executive Director, The Innovative Teacher Project

• Beatrice Balfour - Principal PreK-1st Grade, Escuela Bilingue International

Our virtual box office closes on Sunday, October 2, 2022 at 10pm (PST).

We hope you join us!

Bridging Isolation: Parent participation at the time of Covid 19

Relationships are at the basis of all learning. Relationships in a school extend to parents, children and teachers. In this workshop, we invite parents from different Reggio Emilia inspired schools in the Bay Area to share their experiences of having their child in school at the time of Covid, and about new initiatives, opportunities and experiences that developed during this time in their respective schools. This dialogue seeks to spark reflection, and inspire practices, on how to increase parents participation in each of your schools at the time of Covid 19

PRESENTERS:

• Federica Lentini, Director of Early Childhood Preschool- 3rd Grade, La Scuola International

• Beatrice Balfour, Principal PreK-1st grade, Escuela Bilingue International

Date: Saturday | April 2, 2022
Time: 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Cost: $25

Collaboration versus isolation: Strengthening and building relationships in the schools during the time of Covid

About the Event:
Roundtables offer an environment for participants to engage, listen and interact with the faculty of the school and make interpretations to their own work, together and individually, on the core principles of the Reggio Emilia Approach.  The Roundtable is a professional development opportunity for both the attendees and the staff that hosts the Roundtable. It is aimed at building understanding and awareness of the meaning and methods of high quality early childhood education, the particular educational project at the school as it relates to the Reggio Emilia principles, and the specific competencies of the professional roles of the teachers and the directors in Reggio Emilia inspired schools.

This is a digital event - via Zoom. One ticket gives you an "All Access" into a three (3) part roundtable series. The series occurs once a month - March through May - every Monday from 5:30pm-7:00pm. One ticket per person. Access details will be provided via email. Cost: $80 for the entire Roundtable series.

PRESENTERS:
Dr. Beatrice Balfour, Principal PreK-1st grade, Escuela Bilingue International
Dr. Susan Lyon, Executive Director, The Innovative Teacher Project

ALL ACCESS SCHEDULE:

1. Monday, March 21, 2022 from 5:30pm - 7:00pm -- Three protagonists of learning: children, teachers and families

2. Monday, April 11, 2022 from 5:30pm - 7:00pm -- Environments, spaces, and relationships

3. Monday, Mayr 16, 2022 from 5:30pm - 7:00pm -- Neighborhoods, cities, and the school

From Isolation to Collaboration: A dialogue among Leaders inspired by the Reggio Approach

This event is for all educators who consider themselves in leadership positions inspired by the Reggio Approach to Early Childhood Education.  Reflection, practice and interpretations will be shared among leaders in both public and private early childhood settings.  Our intentions is to understand more deeply our participation  in the time of Covid 19.

Presenters:

• Maria Allis, Site Supervisor - Friends of St. Francis Childcare Center, San Francisco

• Darcy Campbell, Executive Director - Cow Hollow School, San Francisco

• Simona Chongo, Head of Preschool - Presidio Knolls School, San Francisco

• Danielle Loughridge, Site Principal -Junipero Serra Early Education School, San Francisco
  

Date: March 15, 2022
Time: 5:30pm - 7:00pm
Cost: $25

"L'intelligenza dei bambini e l'intelligenza della scuola" The intelligence of children and the intelligence of school

The intelligence of children and the intelligences of school

In this webinar, we will try to convey our reflections on and about giving visibility to the autonomous culture of children and their creative strategies to learn and understand the world around them. We will try to underline how the intelligence of children must correspond to an intelligences of the school, and how the school must be aware of the various ways of learning of each of the children it welcomes in order to build contexts where they can evolve their competences, and cultivate their individual and collective curiosity with pleasure and interest.

This is a digital event and collaboration between Innovative Teacher Project, Reggio Children, and La Scuola.

Presenters:

• Claudia Giudici, President of Reggio Children

• Vea Vecchi, Atelerista

When: Saturday, March 5, 2022 | 9am - 10:30am

Cost: $25,00

Connecting The Dots: The Hundred Languages of Children, Embodied Education and Shared Leadership that Cultivate School Community Resiliency and Capabilities

By interpreting the Hundred Languages of Children as our educational framework, this presentation will share a collaboration spanning over 15 years that began with support from California’s Senate Bill 65 (SB 65). Tim provided professional development focused on evidence based practices that cultivated school community resiliency. Tim worked at the state level as well as with staff at Sanchez Elementary School in San Francisco’s Mission District during Raymond’s tenure as principal. Sanchez School was involved in a network of schools at the district and state levels with SB 65 support that emphasized improving students’ Attendance, Attitude and Achievement. Sanchez students demonstrated significantly higher academic growth than the statewide average during Raymond’s tenure. Kamala Harris, who was San Francisco’s District Attorney, carefully studied Sanchez School’s approach to enhancing attendance because of the steady improvements attained.

Tim and Raymond will discuss their collaboration and share insights gleaned from neuroscience research as well as useful practices that can be readily applied through distance or in person learning. All participants will receive two useful manuals entitled Brain in Motion and 101 Energizers that Tim has developed. The manuals offer plenty of time-tested enjoyable and effective activities aimed at nervous system integration and deepened student engagement.

ABOUT THE PRESENTERS:

• Tim Burns, M.A. - In 2020, Tim and Dr. James Brown published Anatomy of Embodied Education: Creating Pathways to Brain-Mind Evolution. Tim is an educator and author whose background includes over forty years of experience as a teacher, counselor, adolescent and family drug-treatment program director, and university instructor

• Raymond Isola, Ed.D. - In 2019, Raymond and Dr. Jim Cummins published Transforming Sanchez School: Shared Leadership, Equity and Evidence. Raymond has been a bilingual public school educator for over forty years, serving as a teacher, principal and university professor.

The Hundred Languages of Children and Documentation - A Collabortaion with Reggio Children AND La Scuola

When: December 5, 2020
Time: TBD
Where: Online
Presenter: Vea Vecchi, Atelierista and Claudia Guidici, President of Reggio Children

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The New Challenges of Education Today — A collaboration with Reggio Children and La Scuola

When: November 7, 2020
Time: 9:00am - 10:30am
Where: Online
Presenter: Claudia Guidici President of Reggio Children

Please join us and three great educational protagonists who will be facilitating a new digital seminar on Saturday, October 24, 2020: Embracing the Reggio Principles of Participation and the 100 Languages of Learning from Preschool through Elementary grades: Sharing Insights from Sanchez Elementary School in San Francisco's Mission District. 

About the event:

Using the Reggio principles of Participation and the 100 Languages of Learning through shared leadership, the Sanchez School community engaged in a 13 year transformation that produced positive student academic achievement outcomes, deeper levels of engagement by parents/community members and stronger professional identities of staff members. Three of the educational protagonists involved in this transformation, will share useful insights from their experiences that can readily be applied to other school contexts.

This is a new digital Seminar - via Zoom - and we have a great line up of facilitators. Access details will be provided, via email, a day before the event. 

About the Facilitators:

Nancy Gittleman: Teacher on Special Assignment | Ceramic Specialist and Transitional Kindergarten Arts | SFUSD Visual and Performing Arts Department

     Nancy Gittleman has been teaching visual arts in San Francisco Unified School District from the preschool through elementary grades for over 15 years. Nancy taught visual arts at Sanchez School for 8 years. She is currently a teacher on special assignment focused on the language of clay and the integration of the arts in Transitional Kindergarten.

Dr. Helen Maniates: Associate Professor, Teacher Education School of Education University of San Francisco 

     Dr. Helen Maniates is Associate Professor at the University of San Francisco. Her research focuses on equitable teaching practices at the preschool and elementary level that extend access and ensure more equitable outcomes for all children.  Dr. Maniates was the USF faculty representative collaborating with Sanchez School staff to develop  a successful partnership. She and Dr. Isola co-wrote several articles that most recently included a chapter focused on the evolution of the Sanchez preschool program in Transforming Sanchez School: Shared Leadership, Equity and Evidence.

She is currently studying transitional kindergarten and community-based practicum experiences for teacher education candidates.

Dr. Raymond R. Isola: Former Principle Sanchez Elementary School 

     Dr. Raymond Isola has been a bilingual teacher and principal for over 40 years from preschool to the university, and in rural, suburban and urban settings. He was principal at Sanchez Elementary School for 13 years. The culmination of his 13 year tenure as principal at Sanchez School is the recent publication with Dr. Jim Cummins of Transforming Sanchez School: Shared Leadership, Equity and Evidence:.

Three of the chapters in this book relate to key areas of this professional development seminar: 1. Evolution of the Reggio-inspired Early Childhood Education Program; 2. Expressing the Self: Integrating the Arts across the Curriculum; 3. Shared Leadership and the Role of the Principal.

About the Event:

This professional development seminar focuses on home visits, an evidence-based strategy, that is extremely relevant during this pandemic with the challenges that families and educators are facing. Now that most students’ classrooms have shifted to their homes, structured home visits provide school staff a more accurate means to identify educational assets in students’ homes to as well as a strategy to be responsive to learning impediments. The educational opportunities created by home visits will bridge the physical distances due to remote instruction and build the capacity of students’ families to more effectively support students’ steady learning growth. Participants will expand their capacity to partner effectively with a diversity of families in schools to support students’ developmental and academic growth.

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Facilitators include:

• Mr. Fernando Flores-Cardenas is a bilingual teacher in San Francisco. Fernando is a veteran bilingual teacher having taught at the elementary, middle and high school levels for 16 years. He recently completed graduate level course work at California State University San Francisco and earned his Administrative Credential and Master’s Degree in Education. Fernando moved deeper into engaging families in the educational process through virtual home visits during school closures last semester. 

• Dr. Raymond Isola has been a bilingual educator for over 35 years in California from the preschool to the university levels. He was a school principal for 20 years. His most recent tenure as principal was for 13 years at Sanchez Elementary School in San Francisco’s Mission District. At Sanchez School, a school-wide approach to home visits was successfully implemented with positive outcomes for students, family members and staff members.

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This is a digital event - via Zoom. Space is limited. One ticket per person. Access details will be provided the Wednesday before the first event. 

Please join a small thinking group to dialogue and reflect on the principles of the educational project in Reggio Emilia during this time when we are reimagining ECE in the time of Covid. 

The importance of sharing and listening among colleagues during this time is essential to our work with young children and families.  We hope you find this opportunity to engage with us for the professional development that is a key to quality education.  We will use the text of Indications Preschools and Infant-Toddler Centres of the Municipality of Reggio Emilia.

Please sign up for the education series in which we can create a community of educators in dialogue with the Reggio Emilia approach to early childhood education.

About the Event:

This is a digital event - via Zoom. One ticket gives you an "All Access" into a four (4) part roundtable series. The series occurs once a month - August through November. Space is limited. One ticket per person. Series includes small group work, readings and discussion. Access details will be provided the Friday before the first event. 

Facilitators include:

• Susan Lyon, EdD - Founder/Director of The Innovative Teacher Project

• Beatrice J. V. Balfour, PhD - Directora PK-1er Grado | Principal PK-1st Grade at Escuela Bilingüe Internacional

ALL ACCESS SCHEDULE:

1. Monday, August 31, 2020 from 5:00pm - 6:30pm -- The Hundred languages of Children

2. Monday, September 21, 2020 from 5:00pm - 6:30pm -- Environment, spaces and relations

3. Monday, October 26, 2020 from 5:00pm - 6:30pm -- Participation

4. Monday, November 23, 2020 from 5:00pm - 6:30pm -- Children are active protagonists of their growth and development processes

Description:

Black and white can be stark or subtle, and always sophisticated. Spend the morning exploring these harmonious opposites, and many shades of gray, using a wide variety media and materials.

About the Presenter:

Inspired by the Reggio Approach, Susan Thayer joined GeoKids 11 years ago as a classroom teacher, and has worked with children aged 3 months through 6 years. She feels lucky to have found a profession that combines her interests in the arts, creative process, and advocacy for young children. Currently, Susan has a dual role, serving as Studio Educator and supporting GeoKids staff with curriculum development and professional growth.

WHEN: Saturday, November 16, 2019
TIME: 9:00am - 12:00pm
COST: $50

We recommend this workshop for Elementary School Educators.

Description:

Delve into the acknowledgment of your body and thoughts in everyday life actions to gain a better understanding of the different micro journeys a child faces in a school environment.

Through hands on activities and storytelling, this workshop offers an opportunity to reflect and value the multilayered observations of the achievement of childhood developmental milestones.

This workshop will focus on the Reggio Emilia Approach. You will learn different strategies and tools for the observation of children in a classroom setting and how to make this visible through documentation.

WHEN: Friday, October 25, 2019
TIME: 9:00am - 4:00pm
COST: $200

We recommend this workshop for Preschool Educators.

Description:

Delve into the acknowledgment of your body and thoughts in everyday life actions to gain a better understanding of the different micro journeys a child faces in a school environment.

Through hands on activities and storytelling, this workshop offers an opportunity to reflect and value the multilayered observations of the achievement of childhood developmental milestones.

This workshop will focus on the Reggio Emilia Approach. You will learn different strategies and tools for the observation of children in a classroom setting and how to make this visible through documentation.

WHEN: Thursday, October 24, 2019
TIME: 9:00am - 4:00pm
COST: $200