Friday November 12 & Saturday 13 2021

9:00am to 3:30pm PST

The West Coast Collaborative invites you to join us for a two-day, virtual conference to inspire and reconnect as we come back together with Reggio Educators and the West Coast Collaborative.

Morning sessions will be streamed live from Reggio Emilia:

Tiziana Filippini– Pedagogista and Loretta Bertani– Atelierista

Afternoon breakout sessions will be streamed live from the West Coast Collaborative schools:

Branches Atelier – Culver City, Bright Start – Santa Barbara

Growing Place – Santa Monica & The New School West – Los Angeles

Friday November 12 

9:00am-9:15am: Welcome & Opening

9:15-10:45: Tiziana Filippini and Loretta Bertani: Fundamentals through the lens of interconnectivity

10:45-11:00: Break

11:00am-12:30pm: Continued- Tiziana Filippini and Loretta: Fundamentals through the lens of interconnectivity

12:30pm-1:00pm: Lunch Break

1:00pm-2:30pm: WCC teachers presentations- Breakout sessions

Participants sign up for one of the four sessions:

1 Growing Place Ocean Park, Santa Monica Amy Dickens, Teacher: The Bread Shop: Creating a place to build connections

2 Bright Start, Santa Barbara  Marcela Caceres-Gelinas, Director/Pedagogista & Liliana Hensel, M.A.: Building a Culture of Well-being & Community 

3 The New School West, Venice  Cindy Nelsen, Atelierista & Flora Toro, Teacher: From Pods to Performers, a tale of building relationships through materials.

2:30pm-3:30pm: Q&A as large group

3:00pm-3:30pm: Closing and Reflection

Saturday November 13

9:00am-10:45am Tiziana Filippini and Loretta Bertani: Presentations through the lens of interconnectivity

1:45am-11:00: Break

11:00am-12:30pm: Continued-Tiziana Filippini and Loretta Bertani: Presentations through the lens of interconnectivity

12:30-1:00: Lunch Break

1:15-2:30pm: WCC teachers presentations- Breakout sessions 

Participants sign up for one of the three sessions:

1 Bright Start, Santa Barbara                        Michelle Lagunas, Teacher and Elise Wellington, Teacher: Herbs and Alchemy: Cultivating ecological thinking through empathy and the hundred languages

r2 Branches Atelier, Culver City
Patricia Hunter McGrath, Atelierista/Executive Director & Berenice Vallejo, Assistant Director : “All living things need love”…An exploration of ecology through sound, paint and narrative.

3 The New School West, Venice  Susan Kim, & Cynthia Vazquez Transformation and Relaunch

4Growing Place Marine Park, Santa Monica

Beth Nakatsui, Infants Teacher & Julia Vasquez, Infants Teacher: Bridging Boundaries and Ecosystems: Everything is interconnected

2:30pm-3:30pm: Q&A as large group

3:00pm-3:30pm: Closing and Reflection

Cost

$100 Early Birds (until Nov 2nd) 

$135 General Admission

$75 One day only

$50 Student Discount (with current ECE ID)

Ellen Khokha Scholarship 

 -Write a letter and send to allison@branchesatelier.com for review 

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About the presenters:

Loretta Bertani is an atelierista in the Robinson Crusoe Preschools and Infant Toddler Center, Istituzione of the Municipality of Reggio Emilia since 1996.

Loretta graduated at Instituto d’arte (Art College) of Reggio Emilia. From 1991 to 1995, she worked as an educator with the municipality of Reggio Emilia in local education groups, an experience addressed to pre-adolescent age groups and to the support of boys and girls with difficulties in school.

Loretta collaborated with the theater group “Teatro Gioco Vita” of Piacenza for designing and leading workshops on expressive languages and shadow theatre addressed to primary schools, as well as for street entertainment events for children and youth.

Tiziana Filippini is a pedagogista who collaborates with Reggio Children with regard to research, conferences and consultations in Italy and abroad.

From 1978 to 2015, Tiziana worked as a member of the Pedagogical Coordinating Team of the Istituzione of Preschools and Infant Toddler Centers of the Municipality of Reggio Emilia.

Tiziana is currently one of the curators of the new version: “The Wonder of Learning: The Hundred Languages of Children.”

In addition to her work with the municipality, Tiziana was part of the original research group of Making Learning Visible, a collaboration between Reggio Children and Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. The collaboration resulted in a book, “Making Learning Visible: Children as Individual and Group Learners,” which became very well known in North American Early Childhood Education.

Bright Start Presenters: Michelle Lagunas and Elise Wellington: Herbs and Alchemy: Cultivating ecological thinking through empathy and the hundred languages

Bright Start Presenters: Marcela Caceres-Gelinas, & Liliana Hensel: Building a Culture of Well-being & Community 

Growing Place, Ocean Park Presenter: Amy Dickens: The Bread Shop: Creating a place to build connectio

Growing Place, Marine Park Presenters: Beth Nakatsui and Julia Vazquez: Bridging Boundaries and Ecosystems: Everything is interconnected

Branches Atelier  Presenters: Patricia Hunter McGrath and Berenice Vallejo: “All living Things Need love”… An Exploration of Ecology Through Sound, Paint and Narrative

The New School West  Presenters: Cindy Nelsen & Flora Toro: From Pods to Performers, a tale of building relationships through materials

The New School West Presenters: Susan Kim, & Cynthia Vazquez Transformation and Relaunch

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