Bringing Reggio to the US

03/11/2011

Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.
Louis L’Amour, 1908-1988, novelist

In today's World Forum Radio segment, our intrepid correspondent, Michael Kalinowski, interviews Susan Lyon. Susan was intrigued by a small child's conception of the word "city", and began pondering how children think, eventually visiting Reggio Emilia and then bringing the "The Hundred Languages of Children" exhibit to the San Francisco Bay area on two occasions. She initiated the Innovative Teacher Project, and began working with the Presidio Child Care Center and the San Francisco public schools. Currently she is working with an Italian architect to rehab a San Francisco structure into the first Italian immersion preschool.

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