As we mark the season of Easter in the days after spring break, the classroom is full of joy and learning as teachers and student reconnect. Joy is the spirit of this season in many ways. And joy is a high value for all learners in the Reggio Emilia approach to education. We hope to encourage in our classrooms a habit of joyfulness and delight.

Enjoying movement and music with Ms. Mauldin.

Nothing without joy.

Children expect adults to bring forth joy.

They expect everybody to be bearers of joy.

-Loris Malaguzzi

(Reggio Emilia director and school leader)

Effective early childhood teachers are aware

that joy and learning are not opposite ends

of the teaching spectrum.

-Lisa Fiore

Assessment of Young Children:

A Collaborative Approach

Through paying close attention to children and what they do, we find pleasure and joy, wonder and curiosity

in the new things that come out day by day.

-Louise Boyd Cadwell

Bringing Learning to Life:

The Reggio Approach to Early Childhood Education

"You are really good at that!"

Children can give us the strength of doubt and the courage of error, of the unknown.
They can transmit to us the joy of searching and researching,
the value of research, as well as the openness
toward others and toward everything new
that is produced by the encounter with others.
-Carlina Rinaldi
The Hundred Languages of Children:
The Reggio Emilia Experience in Transformation