In preschools across the world, "Reggio Emilia" is now synonymous with an educational approach that gives children autonomy over how they learn. The model was developed after World War II by Loris ...

+ 43. The Reggio Emilia Approach was created in the post-WWII period at the initiative of widowed mothers and under the coordination of journalist and educator Loris Malaguzzi. In a time of ...

Reggio Emilia is a city in northern Italy famed for the innovative approach of its publicly funded preschools. It gained a following in the United States about 15 years ago, and its child-centered ...

The Reggio Emilia approach spread internationally, in part thanks to a 1991 Newsweek article heralding the schools, and today there are 1,200 individual members — educators and advocates — of ...

Reggio Emilia’s preschools have been broadly recognized as one of the “best top ten schools in the world” During recent years, many preschools around the world have been adopting the so ...

But Reggio also has one big advantage: Because it's an approach to children and teaching rather than a rigid curriculum or set of exercises, lessons learned from Reggio can be applied in many schools.

“Reggio Emilia is a project-based approach, and we value what we call the ‘100 languages of children,’ ” says Elle Harvey, founder and executive director of A New Leaf.