California International Reggio Center (CIRC)
Welcoming educators from around the globe to deepen their understanding of the Reggio Emilia Approach® through professional development.
"To make a lovable school, industrious, inventive, livable, documentable, and communicable, a place of research, learning, re-cognition and reflection, where children, teachers and families feel well - is our point of arrival."
- Loris Malaguzzi, Founder of the Reggio Emilia Approach®
The fundamental principles of the Reggio philosophy are centered upon the image of the child, the hundred languages of children, the role of the teacher, reciprocal relationships, a pedagogy of listening, and the environment as a third teacher. Learn more about this approach at this workshop!
The Hundred Languages is a pedagogical strategy for the construction of concepts and the consolidation of understanding, a way of structuring knowledge and organizing learning. The Hundred Languages are described as being expressive, communicative, symbolic, cognitive, ethical, metaphorical, logical, imaginative and relational. Learn more about this approach at this Reggio Emilia workshop hosted by La Scuola International School.
Design / "progettazione" is a working strategy whereby teachers, rather than planning a course beforehand, formulate hypotheses, expectations, predictions, and possibilities, open to the encounter with children, and which take on form in this relation. Learn more about the strategy at this workshop.
Pedagogical documentation is a fundamental working tool and strategy for teachers, seeking to make visible and understand what takes place during pedagogical work, how much, and what, children know and can do. Documentation is a process of shared observation and interpretation. Why should we document? Learn more by registering for this workshop!
Please join us at our roundtables in 2025 – we are very excited to welcome you all in person! The roundtables are an opportunity for exchange, learning, dialogue, and participation at each school, with fellow educators and colleagues.
Please join us at our roundtables in 2025 – we are very excited to welcome you all in person! The roundtables are an opportunity for exchange, learning, dialogue, and participation at each school, with fellow educators and colleagues.
Please join us at our roundtables in 2025 – we are very excited to welcome you all in person! The roundtables are an opportunity for exchange, learning, dialogue, and participation at each school, with fellow educators and colleagues.
Please join us at our roundtables in 2025 – we are very excited to welcome you all in person! The roundtables are an opportunity for exchange, learning, dialogue, and participation at each school, with fellow educators and colleagues.
Join our expert CIRC team at La Scuola International School. Sessions held at La Scuola are an opportunity for educators to be inspired by our Reggio Emilia spaces, explore pedagogy in action, and deepen their understanding of the Reggio Emilia Approach®. Explore our upcoming events to learn more!
CIRC Roundtables, led by the CIRC team and held at schools throughout the Bay Area, present educators with the opportunity to network, learn, and exchange ideas with like-minded individuals on the topic of the Reggio Emilia Approach. Explore our upcoming events to learn more!
CIRC offers schools and all educators professional development consultancy that is tailored to your needs. Our professional development inspired by the Reggio Approach to education includes a focus on these principles:
- The Hundred Languages of learning
- The Image of the child
- Pedagogy of Listening
- Documentation
- The environment as the third educator
- Teacher as researcher
- The role of the atelierista
- The role of the pedagogista
- Bridge between theory and practice and social constructivism
Please contact us if you would like to discuss with us your ideas for professional development for your staff.
Stefano Fabro is a Preschool Teacher and Pedagogical Coordinator at La Scuola International School.
Federica Lentini has been working in educational leadership for more than a decade, specializing in early childhood. Currently, her work focuses on collaborating with teachers and administrative staff to design, implement, and evaluate developmentally appropriate Reggio-inspired curriculum and programming.