"Dialogues for Quality in Education" is a multi-year professional development series, which coincides with "The Wonder of Learning - The Hundred Languages of Children" exhibit, and is coordinated by NAREA,
in collaboration with Reggio Children and exhibit host communities.
This is the fifth initiative of this series. 

 

Amelia Gambetti was an educator in the Reggio Emilia
municipal preschools for 25 years. During those years, she shared
her experience in seminars and workshops in Italy and abroad.
Amelia also worked on the creation and consequent updates of
"The Hundred Languages of Children" traveling exhibition of the municipal infant-toddler centers and preschools of Reggio Emilia. Currently, she is part of the new exhibit, "The Wonder of Learning - The Hundred Languages of Children" Research Group. In fact, Amelia coordinates the North American version for Reggio Children.
 
Beginning in 1992, Amelia has led several professional development initiatives in Italy and abroad (North Europe, North America, Asia).
She is a pedagogical consultant to many schools, universities and colleges in North America, where she has visited more than
300 schools in almost 50 states in the United States.
 
Currently, Amelia is Reggio Children/International Centre Loris Malaguzzi, Responsible for Project Promotion and Development, International Network Coordinator, International Liaison and Consulting to Schools. She is a member of the Managing Coordinating Group of Reggio Children/International Center, and a board member of the Istituzione Scuole e Nidi d'Infanzia of the Municipality of Reggio Emilia. Amelia is also a member of the World Forum Foundation on Early Care and Education and the editorial board of Innovations in Early Education: The International Reggio Exchange, and is the Reggio Children Liaison for the North American Reggio Emilia Alliance (NAREA).
 
Many articles on Amelia Gambetti's experiences with educators, parents and children in Reggio Emilia and in North America have been published in early childhood education books and newsletters in the United States.

 

 

Beginning in 1979, Simona Bonilauri worked as a teacher for several years before becoming a pedagogista in the infant-toddler centers
and preschools of the Municipality of Reggio Emilia. Simona, who is a psychologist, has an ongoing collaboration with Reggio Children, and is involved in research and professional development projects. In particular, she coordinated the research project, "The city, theories, images and ideas," which contributed to the creation of the book,
Reggio Tutta: A Guide to the City by the Children.

Simona is part of the Research Group of the new exhibit, "The Wonder of Learning: The Hundred Languages of Children." She has also given her contribution as a speaker to many study groups, seminars, and national and international conferences in Reggio Emilia and in Europe,
especially in northern Europe and the United Kingdom.

Simona is one of the main curators of the historical exhibit,
"One city, many children: Memoirs of a present history," which is currently installed at the Loris Malaguzzi International Center in
Reggio Emilia, Italy. She has coordinated research projects on reading and writing carried out in the municipal infant-toddler centers and preschools, some of which are represented in a section of the
new exhibit titled, "The Enchantment of Writing."

Simona is the author of articles published in journals in Italy and abroad. She is also involved in ongoing research based on teaching and learning as part of the evolution of the concept "progettazione"
in the daily life of the schools.
 
 

Photos from Indianapolis

  

 

 

 

 A visitor to the exhibit studies the panel about

Dialogues with Material.

  

 

 

 

The view of the north face of the Indiana State House. 

 

 

 

 

 Kayla, a 5-year old from the Warren Early Childhood Center,

draws her view of the north face of the Indiana State House.