Ivybrook Academy's Transformational Teaching Using the Reggio Emilia Curriculum

There is no clear vision for the value of young children or the role of childhood in our collective lives.  We don’t give them respect for who they are right now.  We overlook their insights, their voices, their capabilities, their capacity for compassion and curiosity, and in general push children out of sight in favor of a more adult-structured world.  But there is a significant place for children in our world.  And we as teachers, parents, and communities have a responsibility to give every child the best opportunity to develop to their highest potential, at an early age, so they embody adults who are critical thinkers, confident in themselves, curious about the world and cultures around them, and in turn foster that same opportunity for their children.

It is fair to say that currently our education system is fraught with “teaching to the test”, standard assessments, singular curriculum that clearly doesn’t fit all students, and quite frankly, leaning towards teacher burnout which is lessening the impact of learning for our students.  Ivybrook Academy is fostering within the US a transformational early childhood educational approach rooted in our teacher’s keen awareness of the individual student.  Teaching opportunities are created though observational awareness and open opportunities for children to shape a personal curriculum suited to the child’s stage of development.  Ivybrook Academy’s individual, child-specific curriculum is crafted towards each child’s personal propensity for learning based on their interests vs. forcing a standardized curriculum, therefore enabling our teachers to truly see and hear each child.

Ivybrook Academy’s transformational curriculum is inspired through the schools and teaching of Reggio Emilia in Italy, which have also inspired similar teaching around the world.  Now starting to move into the United States, the Reggio Emilia way of teaching focuses on the child’s words, feelings, experiences and thought processes, while integrating their family and cultural background and influences.  Through teacher observation we have found that teaching can be transformed into lesson plans with more meaning and relevancy for the children and the educators themselves.  Ultimately the curricula of inquiry, awareness, and observation leads to the very same learning outcomes listed in conventional lesson plans, but with the child’s learning stemming from a teaching practice based on the teacher’s deep respect for children and their curiosity about who they are.

This is what your child will expereince in an Ivybrook Academy Preschool curriculum and approach.

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