Early Childhood Education

On these pages you will find a variety of approaches to teaching and honoring our young ones.  Childhood development experts continue to discover connections between the quality of a young child’s environment and its effect on that child’s future intellectual and emotional abilities.  If they are to succeed, a child must learn trust.  Their inherent belief in their own capabilities must be nurtured.  Young children have untapped abilities to empathize, behave rationally, creatively problem-solve and be reflective of feelings and actions.  More importantly, they are blind to our differences.  In all ways….young children represent our potential.


Much Too Early!
by David Elkind, PhD
"Children must master the language of things before they master the language of words"

No Way, The Hundred Is There
by Loris Malaguzzi
A poem from the founder of Emilio Reggio education
"The child has a hundred languages, a hundred hands, a hundred thoughts....."