Exploring the Fundamentals of the Reggio Approach

The West Coast Collaborative presents:

EXPLORING THE FUNDAMENTALS OF THE REGGIO APPROACH

Building relationships and connections

Featuring: Tiziana Filippini, Loretta Bertani, and members of The West Coast Collaborative

Friday & Saturday

November 12th & 13th, 2021

9:00am to 3:30pm (PST)

We invite you to join us for a two-day, virtual conference to inspire and reconnect as we come back together with Reggio Educators and the West Coast Collaborative to Explore the Fundamentals of the Reggio Approach.

Morning sessions will be streamed live from Reggio Emilia

Afternoon breakout sessions will be streamed live from:

•Branches Atelier - Culver City

•Bright Start - Santa Barbara

•Growing Place - Santa Monica

•The New School West - Los Angeles

Tiziana Filippini is a pedagogista who collaborates with Reggio Children with regard to research, conferences, and consultancies in Italy and abroad.

From 1978 to 2015, she worked as a member of the Pedagogical Coordinating Team of the Istituzione - Preschools and Infant Toddler Centers of the Municipality of Reggio Emilia.

Tiziana is currently one of the curators of the new version, "The Wonder of Learning: The Hundred Languages of Children.”

In addition to her work with the municipality, Tiziana was part of the original research group of Making Learning Visible, a collaboration between Reggio Children and Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. The collaboration resulted in a book, Making Learning Visible: Children as Individual and Group Learners, which became very well known in North American early childhood circles and all over the world.

Loretta Bertani is an atelierista in the Robinson Crusoe Preschools and Infant Toddler Centres, Istituzione of the Municipality of Reggio Emilia since 1996

Loretta graduated at Istituto d’arte (Art college) of Reggio Emilia. From 1991 to 1995 she worked as an educator with the municipality of Reggio Emilia in local education groups, an experience addressed to pre-adolescent age groups and to the support of boys and girls with schools difficulties.

Loretta collaborated with the theatre group “Teatro Gioco Vita” of Piacenza for designing and leading workshops on expressive languages and on shadow theatre addressed to primary schools, as well as for street entertainment events for children and youth.

Friday November 12th 9am to 3:30pm

9:00 - 9:15am: Welcome & Opening

9:15 - 10:45am: Tiziana Filippini and Loretta Bertani: Fundamentals through the lens of interconnectivity.

10:45 - 11:00am: Break

11:00am - 12:30pm: Continued - Tiziana Filippini and Loretta Bertani: Fundamentals through the lens of interconnectivity.

12:30 - 1:00pm: Lunch Break

1:00 - 2:30pm: WCC teachers presentations - Breakout sessions Participants sign up for one of the three sessions:

1

Growing Place Ocean Park, Santa Monica:

Amy Dickens, Teacher

The Bread Shop: Creating a place to build connections

2

Bright Start, Santa Barbara

Marcela Caceres-Gelinas, Director/Pedagogista & Liliana Hensel, M.A.

Building a Culture of Wellbeing & Community

3

The New School West, Venice

Cindy Nelsen, Atelierista & Flora Toro, Teacher

From Pods to Performers, a tale of building relationships through materials

2:30-3:00pm: Q&A as a large group

3:00-3:30pm: Closing and Reflection

Saturday November 13th 9am to 3:30pm

9:00 - 10:45am: Tiziana Filippini & Loretta Bertani: Presentations through the lens of interconnectivity

10:45 - 11:00am: Break

11:00am - 12:30pm: Continued - Tiziana Filippini & Loretta Bertani: Presentations through the lens of interconnectivity

12:30 - 1:00pm: Lunch Break

1:00 - 2:30pm: WCC teachers presentations - Breakout sessions Participants sign up for one of the four sessions:

1

Bright Start, Santa Barbara

Elise Wellington, Teacher & Michelle Lagunas, Teacher

Herbs and Alchemy; Cultivating an ecological thinking through empathy and the hundred languages

2

Branches Atelier, Los Angeles

Patricia Hunter McGrath, Atelierista/Executive Director

& Berenice Vallejo, Assistant Director

“All living things need love”... An Exploration of Ecology through Sound, Paint, and Narrative.”

3

The New School West, Venice

Susan Kim, Teacher & Cynthia Vazquez, Teacher

Transformation and Relaunch

4

Growing Place Marine Park, Santa Monica

Beth Nakatsui, Infant teacher & Julia Vazquez, Infant teacher

Bridging Boundaries and Ecosystems: Everything in interconnected

2:30-3:00pm: Q&A as a large group

3:00-3:30pm: Closing and Reflection

This event is Hosted by the West Coast Collaborative.

Cost:

Early Birds (until Nov 2nd) - $100

General Admission - $135

Student Discount (with current ECE ID) - $50

To apply for the Student Discount,

please email: Mail@BrightStartOnline.com

Questions: Allison@BranchesAtelier.com