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New York City Wonder of Learning

Exhibit Final Report July 2015

"This exhibit makes me think about what I can do for children so that they can explore the world as they want. I wish every child will

learn through exploration with their parents, teachers, and communities support."

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Monthly Host Report Template

Exhibit Host Report

Name of School/Organization Hosting Exhibit: Teaching Beyond the Square

Date: July 31, 2014

• Venue: Williamsburg Northside School building construction is currently right on time. The 8th floor where a majority of the exhibit will be has incredible light with entire wall of windows on one side. The 7th floor where a couple sections of the exhibit will be and the two studios have views of Manhattan. I am scheduled to walk through with Gina in August of the space.

• http://www.willnorth.org/lower_school/299_north_7th_street_construction_updates • Intallation: Eric Winston and his company from SFDS will be installing the exhibit. Many

of you had the chance to meet Eric at both the deinstallation in South Carolina and the installation in New Mexico. He participated in many aspects of both deinstallation and installation in both cities and feels quite familiar with the exhibit. He has suggested technological updates that his company could do if approved which would not only protect the integrity of the future of the exhibit, but also help host cities in terms of technology replacement during the run of the exhibit. I know that this is under discussion and I wanted to know if there was any possibility in supporting this important goal in some way.

• Pack up: Eric or Kyle( his second in command on installation) are planning to go to New Mexico for the pack up. He would like to be familiar with where things are being put so that when the crates arrive in New York the installation could be as seemless as possible.

• Date of Installation: We have discussed date of receiving the exhibit from New Mexico on December 22, 2015 and at this point Eric is going to visit Northside to see if we want to receive the shipment there or at his shop. The current plan is to begin installation in December so that much of it can be done while no one is in the school

• Exhibit • Visits/Public Response: N/A • Physical condition: N/A

• Technology: N/A

• Funding: At this point we have our funds in place for the entire cost of the contract, installation/deinstallation, shipping, insurance, opening and closing ceremonies, and public relations. The group thus far that have funded the exhibit are current Beginnings Nursery School families and alumni. I have reached out to some corporate sponsors, but have not had much luck there. We have a goal to reach $100,000 and I believe we will meet that by the end of October with a fundraiser that we will be having in the fall.

• Contract: Teaching Beyond the Square has filled out the contract questionnaire and we are currently waiting on signing and we are ready to send the deposit upon signing.

• Promotion/Marketing/Public Relations: LeeAnn Valvano (Director of Special Events at Beginnings) and myself have had two meeting with Alissa Neil of Alissa Neil PR and her team that consist of Jocelyn Nubel and Stephanie Gormly. In addition Alissa was at our last full committee of NYCERE in May. They are currently working on an ambassador program where they are reaching out to 50 educational representatives in the tri state area that will commit to reaching out to their contacts about the exhibit that is coming to NYC. In exchange for their time they will each receive a reduced admission to our materials conference and day in April. They are putting together their media list and press release. They had a meeting last week with the chairs of our documentation committee who are going to be running the social media campaign. They are finding groups for us to like on

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our NYC facebook page and will be helping us link important things happening in the education world that would be good to place on our page.

• Internal Marketing: We send our first save the date to our contact list of over 3,000 people on June 11th. Included in this list were all colleges/universities that have education departments from Vermont to Virginia. We plan to send an update next week to those contacts again with more specifics about our first professional development initiative in November as well as getting people to go to the NYCERE website to sign up for private visits to the exhibit.

• Advertising: We are working on adds for Time Out Kids, NY, Big Apple Parents, NY Family, Brooklyn Family magazines and online, Google word ad campaign, banner ad campaign along the 14th street in Manhattan which is the L train subway line to Williamsburg as well as North 7th Street in Brooklyn which covers both the Bedford Station and the Lorimer (the stop closest to the exhibit), another contact of mine is also working on subway ad campaign (but that won’t happen if we can’t get it at a discount!) Posters are going to be printed in different sizes and will be distributed to schools, stores, and posted on walls (hopefully people won’t take them down) in Manhattan and Williamsburg.

• Hosting Committee: We have not had a full steering committee meeting since May, however LeeAnn and I are in contact with our steering committee heads. We purchased a year contract with shiftboard.com which is a platform for organizing volunteers. Our volunteer chair searched out many different ideas for this and this is one where we were able to get the most support while supporting the numerous opportunities we will need. One of our largest is a commitment to having 2 volunteers on each exhibit floor during the open hours of the exhibit. Which is approximately 144 volunteers for only that responsibility. The opening ceremony committee is in planning stages and first on the agenda is getting Mayor Deblasio at the opening. Through a parent who works close with the Mayor I drafted a letter which went out on July 15th. Although it is early to get in his calendar for January my contact will be monitoring and giving me an update. He was headed to Italy for vacation this month. Of course my hope was that it included a visit to Reggio Emilia! With all challenges of working with a volunteer committee there have been ones who have contacted me this summer who for reasons of one another will not be involved moving forward. This is always a difficult challenge, but I am confident that with my entire staff knowing that this is a commitment of ours this year that I will be able to get someone at Beginnings or one of my other colleagues at a school nearby to help.

• Community Collaborations/Events/Impact: N/A yet, but I anticipate the first initiative in November will bring this to the surface. I have been contacted by many who received our save the date how excited they are that the exhibit is coming back to NYC.

• Professional Development

Dialogue of Two Cities: The first initiative in November is at the 92nd Street Y. The donation of the space comes with it challenges of the promotion of it. It is hard because there have been changes in the wording of what is on their website that cannot be directly be changed by the organizer so there has been some waiting on that. We currently have our list of break out groups for the conference and are waiting for them to launched on the site.

Narea Winter Conference: Myself, Anna Fiore, Patty Randall, and Lauren Dap had our first introductory meeting in June where we began to talk about scheduling ect. At this time Anna will be leaving NYC so I will take on the organization with a large group of volunteers here on the ground in NYC. We are just at the beginning of discussions, but thus far we have a hotel block secured (though not many rooms have been reserved and it appears either many signing up live in NYC or have friends to stay with). We discussed having dine arounds following the visit to the exhibit and formats for presentations by the schools that

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attendees will be visiting. And because I anticipate that many of the attendees will be from NYC I suggested we ask if visitors want a metro card and or a subway escort to school visits. There will be an entire volunteer group at the exhibit devoted to helping people navigate the subway system. Upon suggestion from Patty we added useful apps to our around town tab on the NYCERE website.

University Professor Panel: This is a free event that will take place at Stephen Wise Synagogue. Lori Schneider and Miriam Kalmar, co-chairs, had there first meeting in May regarding thoughts and discussion with the professors about format. It was a difficult time with the semester ending for many of them. Another meeting is planned for July 30th. After using google hang out with Patty and Lauren for our meeting in early July I am thinking that this will be a good way to get full participation from the professors.

Materials Conference and Day: Amy Miller, chair of the event, is finalizing break out sessions and schedules at this point. We have secured space for storage for the materials which will begin being collected by volunteers on her committee in September. The plan is to obtain a street permit for North 9th street in front of the exhibit for April 18th. If there is rain we will be inside the Northside School. This event will be participatory for parents, children, educators, and the community. There is a detailed description on the NYCERE website and registration will open in September. Our max number for the conference is 310 and there is no cap for materials day.

School/Center Participation/Impact: Clearly there is impact on the Beginnings level. Current parents and teachers know how excited and time consuming bringing the exhibit is to NYC. There are many pitching in and wanting to help out next year. It holds a prominent place on our parent volunteer form for the fall and we are thinking now what kind of ongoing display we will have at Beginnings. I know that the impact will be huge for Williamsburg as well and Gina is definitely thinking in the same direction. It comes up in every conversation so that the message will be heard how wonderful this is going to be for NYC, education, teachers, and schools next winter. On a larger scale I think we will be able to see what this will look like and how it takes shape in the fall.

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Monthly Host Report Template

Exhibit Host Report

Name of School/Organization Hosting Exhibit: Teaching Beyond the Square

Date: September 24, 2014

• Venue: No more construction updates! I attended the ribbon cutting for Williamsburg Northside’s building on September 13th. It was a really great ceremony http://www.willnorth.org/lower_school/lower-school-new-building-updates/ You can see some of the great pictures here. Gina’s speech included references to the Wonder of Learning and myself as being instrumental in bringing the exhibit to NYC (I didn’t even know she was going to say this). Harold Levy, former chancellor, was also there speaking about the impact the exhibit will have on the city!

• Intallation: We just received new plans from Reggio and I am happy to say that the exhibit will fit on floors 7 and 8. Right now I am working on talking Gina into giving us a room on the 6th floor for the Ray of Light Studio. Fingers crossed this will work!

• Date of Installation: We are beginning to set up volunteers for the weekend of December 19th, the week of the 29th, and the week of January 5th. These volunteers will support the installers and Eric.

• Exhibit Visits/Public Response: So far we have scheduled the following schools and organizations for private visits. We have added the following to our list: City and Country, Barrow Street, Academy of St. Joseph, Avenues, Edducational Alliance and 14th St. Y, Scheduled Visits:

-The Jewish Education Project

-Temple Beth-El of Great Neck Early Childhood Center

-Beginning Years Early Childhood Center of Beth El of NW

-Brotherhood Nursery School

-CECE

-Columbia Greenhouse Nursery School

-Australia Study Group

-The Chai Center

-Smith College Center for Early Childhood Education

-Buckle My Shoe Preschool

-Community Synagogue ECC

-The NYC Association for the Education of Young Children

-Early Childhood Department, Jewish Life and Learning Jewish Federation of Greater Washington

-Monclere Preschool

-Williamsburg Northside School

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Organizations I'm in touch with to make reservations (incomplete submissions):

-UFT Charter School

-Rabbi Barry Greene Early Childhood Center Camp

-TBJ

-Congregation Agudath Israel Early Childhood Center

-The Family Annex Nursery School

-Preschool of the Arts

-Brooklyn Free Space Preschool

-Chabad Garden School

• Funding: Parents from Beginnings are receiving their letter next week for our Halloween Fundraiser.

• Contract: Teaching Beyond the Square has signed and sent two copies of contract to Margie • Promotion/Marketing/Public Relations: Alissa Neil PR are sending letters to targeted

Ambassadors this week. Their job is to both blog and communicate the importance of the exhibit a minimum of three times to their families, staff, and friends. In exchange they will receive complimentary admission to the keynote speakers at our materials conference in April.

• Internal Marketing: Next mail chimp is scheduled for this Friday, September 26th. We will feature links to sign up for the materials conference in April in which registration opens Friday and links to sign up for private visits.

• Advertising: We have the banner for the fence on the side of the building in Williamsburg being printed as we speak. We have also decided on 5 kiosks that follow the L train in Manhattan and Brooklyn that will exhibit the same vertical banner. The light poles as I had originally planned don’t allow for an address and I thought that would be a problem. The kiosks will run for 16 weeks of the exhibit. We are printing posters that will be both posted and distributed to schools. The sizes we are going to be ordering are 25 24x36, 50 18x24, and 100 11x17.

• Hosting Committee: We our having our next steering committee meeting on November 3rd. At that time the chair of the Dialogue of Two Cities will be gearing up for the Saturday conference. We also just found out that Carla Giulini has accepted my proposed budget to come to the event. We are also now organizing the opening of the exhibit. I have lots people with various connections giving Mayor de Blasio my letters and requests to attend our opening and have a lunch set up with Deputy Mayor Richard Buery, who was in charge of the launch of the Universal Pre-K program in NYC this past fall to get him to speak to him as well.

• Community Collaborations/Events/Impact: Lella Gandini has accepted our invite to speak at the opening and Ben Mardell will also most likely be there. We are hoping for representation from the Brooklyn Borough that will link us in with the community where the exhibit will be.

• Professional Development

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Dialogue of Two Cities: So far the conference has 250 attendees, but there will certainly be more by December. Lella will be translating for Carla and the break out sessions have all been confirmed.

Narea Winter Conference: Sold out! We are now trying to figure out which size chair to use to keep the chair limit at 465 and have room to move. I am also anxiously awaiting finding out who the speakers will be and whether they will approve our agenda. We would like visits the morning of the second day and visit to the exhibit afternoon of the first day.

University Professor Panel: The chairs of this committee have decided that each professor will have 8 minutes to talk about:

a. Connection to Reggio—what brought you here

b. A topic of particular interest relating to Reggio

c. Provide up to 3 images that illustrates the topic and a favorite book about Reggio. They will also cover the following topics:

Wendy—social and historical beginnings of Reggio

Liege—making Reggio authentic to your setting/environment. The dangers of transplanting the Reggio Approach

Amy—the aesthetic point of view

Andra—the values piece

Beth—Swedish Reggio inspired schools

Materials Conference and Day: We have formalized the break out sessions and are opening up registration on Friday. With reservations and comps we only have 190 spots available. We do have many more seats available for morning keynotes and will be offering these seats to public school teachers as soon as the rest of the event is fully registered.

School/Center Participation/Impact: Robin Koo is scheduling the first drop of materials for the studios in October. We are collecting for both the materials day as well as the rotation of materials in the studios. We lost our studio spaces to the exhibit, but we have access to two small rooms on the 8th floor and perhaps a teachers lounge on the 6th floor.

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Exhibit Host Report

Name of School/Organizing Hosting Exhibit: Teaching Beyond the Square

Date: November 26, 2014

• Venue: Waiting on technical layout for NYC. Hopefully we will receive by December 15th. Natural materials studio schedule is attached. Drop offs at Northside school occurred on November 16th. Walk through with Claudia Giudici happened on the evening of November 15th.

• Installation: Eric is flying to NM on November 30th and Will (who is the lead with Eric’s supervision is flying out December 1st. Eric is returning the 3rd and Will the 4th.

• Date of Installation: Load in will be on December 19,20,21st with installation December 29, 30, Jan.2nd, Jan. 3rd, 5th-9th if necessary. We have 6 volunteers in 4 hour shifts 9-1 and 2-6 each day.

• Exhibit: We have scheduled private visits for the following schools (please see attached document). We have started double booking visits because of more requests. Each time we ask if it is okay with the other group. Because the exhibit is spread out we believe it will be fine. For private visit days Jane Racoosin will be there Thursday’s, Robin Koo (studio teacher at Beginnings and Program Director, Teaching Beyond the Square) will be there Friday’s, and Betsy McKenna, former director New Canaan Country School preschool and Town School lower school head will alternate with Kim Turnbull (Beginnings teacher) and others from New York Encounters with Reggio Emilia.

• Funding: We met our goal of raising 45,000 dollars at Beginnings Halloween Fair. We are still getting donations from various parents from Beginnings and alums.

• Promotion/Marketing/Public Relations: Please see roll out timeline attached from Alissa Neil PR. This includes ambassadors and media outreach.

• Internal Marketing: Save the date went out to 600 people on November 13th and mail chimp went to Beginnings parents November 26th. Please see attached. Synopsis of Dialogue of Two Cities.

• Advertising: Banner went up on fence of building of Williamsburg Northside on November 19th. CBS outdoors has confirmed and sent proof of artwork (same poster that Judith created). It will be on 120 buses that travel 14th street in Manhattan east to west and 120 buses that travel on Bedford Ave(most populated street in Williamsburg). We also have the subway entrance on Bedford for 12 weeks. If there is no one moving into those ad spaces it is possible we can get it extended for free. If we want to run for longer we will have to pay more money.

• Hosting Committee: Everyone volunteered at the Dialogue of Two Cities our first conference on November 15th. We will be gathering first week in January to discuss opening weeks. We divided up the time the exhibit will be in NYC to each school that is represented on the committee to be in charge of volunteers except for Beginnings which took over one month.

• Professional Development:

Dialogue of Two Cities: Sold out event. Over 600 people attended. It was highly successful and everyone who attended was very pumped for the exhibit to arrive. All of the speakers were incredibly well received.

University Professor Panel: Free Event. 200 have registered so far. We will be doing outreach to DOE schools to make them aware of the event. Please see the following about updates for an upcoming meeting for those involved on December 3rd. I want to welcome

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Sonja de Groot Kim to our group. Sonja is a professor at Kean University. She will be joining our panel and discuss how she helps students incorporate the Reggio philosophy into their work with children. In an effort to reformat the panel into more of a conversation, as opposed to a presentation, I am working on questions I will pose to you. I’d like to first facilitate a short discussion about the concerns you all have regarding the future of American education. This topic in fact led to the title of the panel. I will then address each of you so you have an opportunity to focus on your own area of interest. I think others should feel free to chime in, having more of a conversational style. However, we will need to be cognizant of the time—you all have a lot to say but I hope you will be sensitive to the fact that we will have 7 professors, with different focus points. Please send an outline or bullet points of your particular section to me or Miriam by Monday, December 1st. We will make copies and be able to give each other feedback. If you like you can send electronically to the group. Your notes will also help me find the best questions to pose to you during the panel conversation. NAREA Conference: We are now confirmed that we are running two simultaneous conferences. One in Manhattan at Broad Street Ballroom and one at St. Francis College in Brooklyn Heights. There will be approximately 625 attending. We are still waiting on who speakers will be from Reggio Emilia and confirmation of scheduling, but right now it is looking like. Thursday, the 12th morning speakers/afternoon visit to the exhibit/evening optional dine arounds. Friday: morning school visits/afternoon speakers, Saturday: cultural activity (story pirates), speakers, afternoon school visits.

Materials Conference and Day: So far we have 150 signed up with a maximum of 190 for the full day. We are giving free access to our ambassadors and to UPK teachers for morning keynotes. The morning sessions can hold 700 in the sanctuary at Brotherhood Synagogue.

Opening Gala: We sent save the date for opening and our actual invite will be sent out next week. I was told by Mayor de Blasio’s scheduler that I would find out if he could attend last Friday. But alas, I didn’t hear so I have continued to email my best friend in the office now (his scheduler Dorothy Cutler). At this point our speakers include: Lella Gandini, Ben Mardell (professor at Lesley College), Matt Goldman (co-founder Blue Man Group and Blue School), and me (though I don’t think I bring much cache to the rest of the group!). We are also putting together a film for the night to be shown. Our interview list has included: Lella, Ben, Karen Hewitt, Sonya Shoptaugh, Renee Dinnerstein, Barbara Berger, (video footage of Bruner from his speech at the Dialogue), Sonja de Groot, Amy Snider, teachers from Beginnings, parents from Beginnings, Blue School, footage of classrooms at Beginnings, Blue School, Williamsburg Northside, and a reggio inspired public school in the Bronx (hopefully if we can get permission). There will also be stop action animation of the history of the exhibit. We also have written responses from Jean Goldhaber, Dee Smith, Ellen Hall. And we welcome any write in’s from you all! Our filmmaker, who is also a Beginnings teacher, is hoping to be done by the week of December 14th so we can get to NAREA and Reggio Children for viewing.

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Exhibit Host Report


Date: January 1, 2015

• Venue: Hallway for exhibit attendees (which is different from front entrance) was finished this break. Tiling looks terrific. This hallway will lead to designated elevator.

• Installation: We had multiple volunteers for first four days of install. We worked really fast to get the structure and panels up. Eric’s crew worked on cutouts for monitor install update. Last two days of install consist of sanding and painting wooden pieces for artwork, placing artwork, and setting up studios. We have a couple issues with two panels that we are hoping will be able to be ready for the opening. If not we will open with what we have.

• Exhibit: We have scheduled private visits for the following schools: 1/15: Scarsdale Study Group 1/16: Scarsdale Superintendents 1/19 Gan yeladim, 1/20: 14th Street Y, 1/21 Barnard College and NYC Museum educators, 1/22: the coop school, 1/23: Beginnings Prospective parents, 1/27 Downtown Early Childhood Association, 1/28 Jewish Education Project, 1/29 Temple Beth El and DOE Public School Network, 1/30 Educational Alliance, 2/2: Mecquon Jewish Preschool, 2/4: Sarah Lawrence College, 2/5 CECE, 2/6 Beginnings Parents, 2/11: Jewish Federation of DC, 2/12 CECE, 2/13 Gan Chamesh and Tribeca Community School, 2/17: Avenues, 2/18 Horace Mann, 2/19 All Souls, 2/20 Academy of Saint Joseph, 2/25 Jewish Education Project, 2/26 Barrow Street, 2/27 Blue School and Association of Early Childhood New York,3/4 Columbia Greenhouse, 3/5 Beginnings Parents, 3/6 Buckle my Shoe, 3/12-3/14 NAREA conference, 3/18 First Pres. Nursery School NJ, The Coop School, Rye Presbytarian, 3/19 Work your body, Work your mind (yoga at Beginnings and tour exhibit with LeeAnn, 3/20 The children’s garden and coop school, 3/25 Jewish Education Project, 3/26 William Paterson University, 3/27 Marywood University, 4/1 Brooklyn Free Space, 4/3 Hampshire College, 4/8 City and Country, 4/9 Work your body work your mind part 2 (spin class with admissions director from Beginnings), 4/10 Bard College, Beginning Years, 4/11 Central Susquehana College, 4/15 Escola De Vila-Brasil, 4/16 Jewish Federation, 4/17 Materials conference, 4/22 Australia Study Group, 4/23 American Sign Language public school, 4/24 Dominican College, 4/29 JCC, 4/30 Public School Network 102, 5/1 All Souls, 5/7 Citybike from Beginnings and see the exhibit with Jane (Beginnings Parents), 5/8 Williamsburg Northside School. We are not planning any private visits the last week, but that could change.

We have started double booking visits because of more requests. Each time we ask if it is okay with the other group. Because the exhibit is spread out we believe it will be fine. For private visit days Jane Racoosin will be there Thursday’s, Robin Koo (studio teacher at Beginnings and Program Director, Teaching Beyond the Square) will be there Friday’s, and Betsy McKenna, former director New Canaan Country School preschool and Town School lower school head will alternate with Kim Turnbull (Beginnings teacher) and others from New York Encounters with Reggio Emilia.

• Funding: We received another $25,000 toward the exhibit. We have met our goals at this time.

• Promotion/Marketing/Public Relations: Alissa Neil PR rolled out press release to press list and is having press previews of the exhibit on January 8th, 9th, and 12th.

• Internal Marketing: Invitation went to 700 people on December 9, 2015. We currently have

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• Advertising: CBS outdoors advertising is going up January 5th if not a couple days before. It will be on 120 buses that travel 14th street in Manhattan east to west and 120 buses that travel on Bedford Ave (most populated street in Williamsburg). We also have the subway entrance on Bedford for 12 weeks and this just in! We are also getting a spot in Union Square and Brooklyn Heights most likelyJ. If there is no one moving into those ad spaces it is possible we can get it extended for free. If we want to run for longer we will have to pay more money.

• Hosting Committee: Next meeting is January 8th. We are meeting to discuss agenda for opening, check in with volunteers update (each school took a two week period during the run), and update on professor panel (next event), planning for two NAREA conferences.

• Professional Development: University Professor Panel: Free Event. We will be sending a mail chimp to all of our mailing list about the event immediately following the opening. I have also reached out to various colleges and has made contact with DOE to make them aware of it. There was a meeting on December 3 to follow up on bullet points for each person’s particular section. They will be having a run through on January 30th. Karen Hewitt will be selling books at the event. We have 211 attending the event so far.

NAREA Conference: We are now confirmed that we are running two simultaneous conferences. One in Manhattan at Broad Street Ballroom and one at St. Francis College in Brooklyn Heights. There will be approximately 625 attending. We are still waiting on who speakers will be from Reggio Emilia and confirmation of scheduling, but right now it is looking like. Thursday, the 12th morning speakers/afternoon visit to the exhibit/evening optional dine arounds. Friday: morning school visits/afternoon speakers, Saturday: cultural activity (story pirates), speakers, afternoon school visits.

Materials Conference and Day: So far we have 225 signed up. We are giving free access to our ambassadors and to UPK teachers for morning keynotes. The morning sessions can hold 700 in the sanctuary at Brotherhood Synagogue.

Opening Gala: We currently have 215 who have RSVP’d. We are still waiting on an answer by de Blasio’s scheduler. We are confirmed for the Brooklyn Borough President. Confirmed order is the following: Gina Farrar (Head of Williamsburg Northside) quick welcome, the film (which should be finished by the 7th and we will send to NAREA and Reggio Children for approval), Matt Goldman (founder of Blue Man Group and Blue School), Lella, Ben, and ending with me. We will then encourage people to check out the exhibit.

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Exhibit Host Report


Date: March 2, 2015

• Venue: The exhibit looks amazing in its space in Williamsburg. I love how the light in the morning enters the space and in the evening we get to see an amazing view of the bridges. Last Sunday right before closing there was a family from France enjoying the Natural Materials Atelier and suddenly we were all struck by the amazing sunset over the Williamsburg Bridge. It was a total pink sky. This is truly the 3rd teacher in the space. We also relocated the 30 inch monitor for the Loris Malaguzzi and Lella interview and the 22 inch monitor to Ray of Light room. (Thank you Judy!)

• Exhibit: We continue to schedule the numerous requests for private visits during the week to the exhibit. And to those that have seen it the response is that this is really making an impact and that people are really glad that we are there. Last week I had the pleasure of being the facilitator for a toddler group with parents. They alternated as some were with the little ones in the light studio while the parents viewed the panels. There have been 5 colleges who held classes in the last two weeks alone and many more are scheduled.

• Funding: We have raised another 3,500 dollars from the sold out Hundred Languages Conference in April. The funds, however, will go to paying speaker fees and needs for materials day.

• Promotion/Marketing/Public Relations: We have had press in Williamsburg mom blog, Red Tricycle, Mommy Poppins, A Child grows in Brooklyn. Currently we are working on Talk of the Town in the New Yorker and Spare Times in the Times for Materials Day.

• Internal Marketing: We continue to send updates to our distribution list. We are holding a studio night with studio teachers from Beginnings and Williamsburg Northside March 5th 6-8 PM. We will be reminding people of the late night.

• Hosting Committee: We are getting the hosting committee ready for the NAREA conference with emails going to our two teams: Broad Street, Manhattan led by Robin Koo and St. Francis College, Brooklyn led by LeeAnn Valvano

• Professional Development: University Professor Panel: It was a real success! We had over 350 attend and many people purchased books from Karen Hewitt. It was a lively conversation with multiple professors presenting and providing slide shows along with their talks. NAREA Conference: We are expecting 700 and yes, that is a little scary. I think people are very excited and the line up of speakers with Vea, Claudia, Chiara, and Marina sounds terrific. We have worked out some of the glitches so far and the Beginnings Staff, Parents, and our host committee are going to be working hard next week getting all of those folders ready!

Materials Conference and Day: Sold out! We are giving free access to our ambassadors and to UPK teachers for morning keynotes. And we are continuing to sign others to pay $50 for morning keynotes only.The morning sessions can hold 700 in the sanctuary at Brotherhood Synagogue. Amy Miller, chair of this conference, is back from maternity leave and is gearing up with coordinating speakers and experiences for Saturday’s materials day.

Celebration of the exhibit: We are thinking that it will be on May 7th with a party for volunteers involved the week after we ship to Pittsburgh. More details to come on this

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Exhibit Host Report


Date: April 1, 2015

• Venue: The change over in studio is coming next week. We will transform from ocean/sea life to planting/gardening. Most likely we will be adding land snails for observation and earthworms. We decided not to add the new books that Judy dropped off during NAREA conference, but leave them for Pittsburgh because there just isn’t the space on the current stands. We were able to sew the materials onto the white wall hanging that is part of dialogue with materials.

• Exhibit: We are now down to a limited number of slots left for scheduled visits during the week. There are days where we have 12 groups or more visiting. The ability to balance these as well as visiting school groups with children that want to experience the studios is both wonderful and incredibly busy. The Mayor’s office just scheduled over 300 upk educators from each borough which is quite exciting. We are also assisting with their professional development day with 6,000 educators present.

• Funding: We are still selling tickets to the morning keynotes to the sold out Hundred Languages Conference in April. The morning session is able to hold 750 people, but the afternoon only 310 which is why the afternoon is sold out. We are up to 450 in the morning and have offered the morning keynotes free to public school teachers.

• Promotion/Marketing/Public Relations: Newest press include article in Village Voice, Time Out New York coverage for Materials Day, Mommy Shorts http://mommyshorts.com/2015/03/5-ways-kids-learn-at-a-reggio-emilia-preschool.html, and Mommy Poppins http://mommypoppins.com/wonder-of-learning-free-reggio-emilia-exhibit. The reporter from Talk of the Town in the New Yorker came last Sunday (not sure when or if it will come out) and Spare Times in the NY Times for Materials Day is still a possibility.

• Internal Marketing: We continue to send updates to our distribution list. We are hosting our 3rd late night this Thursday, April 2nd from 6-8 PM.

• *Hosting Committee: Everyone is getting ready for Materials Day! We have been doing poster distribution and are going to Materials for the Arts to get more materials that individual artists will need for their participation on the 18th.

• Professional Development: University Professor Panel: It was a real success! We had over 350 attend and many people purchased books from Karen Hewitt. It was a lively conversation with multiple professors presenting and providing slide shows along with their talks. NAREA Conference: I am still recovering I think. From my view looking in the conference seemed incredibly successful and really went smoothly with all of the multiple moving parts. I overheard many who were so impressed with Vea, Claudia, Chiara, and Marina. Attendees commented to our teachers how they truly loved the multiple school visits and networking with all of the attendees.

Materials Conference and Day: Sold out! We are excited that Milk Truck and Blue Marble ice cream are joining the day to provide food for everyone. We recently met with David Gersten, one keynote to discuss his presentation. We are in the process of getting multiple projectors for presentations that we will need.

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Last late evening on May 7th : A casual discussion among New York City educators about looking ahead at what is next after the exhibit leaves.

Load Out: May 14th: load out begins with technology that afternoon, the 15th taking apart the exhibit, the 16th and 17th loading on to Eric’s truck to take to SDFS. Victor arrives with his truck to load and then take to Pittsburgh.

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Exhibit Host Report


Date: May 8, 2015

• Venue: The Northside School has been so accommodating to all of our visitors over the last 5 months. We have had 11,349 attend the exhibit so far. We are hoping to close out on 12,000 this weekend, our last public weekend.

• DeInstallation: Will Neuman and his team from SFDS will be helping a crew of volunteers deinstall next week. We will be receiving the crates on Wednesday when Will take inventory of the what is left in crates. Technology will be taken out first by Will and then volunteers will support in taking the exhibit apart.

• Exhibit: We had three successful visits with the instructional coaches for the NYC Department of Education this week. This group from each borough consists of over 150 educators who do supervisory visits with the 5,000 Universal Pre-K’s that were started this year under Mayor de Blasio’s new launch of the program this fall.

• Promotion/Marketing/Public Relations: We had coverage in the NY Times and Time Out NY Kids of our materials day.

• Internal Marketing: We have an email blast of our last weekend for the public to visit the exhibit this weekend and had 150 educators attend the exhibit last night for a Looking Ahead Dialogue.

• Hosting Committee: We met on April 21st to discuss our event that we hosted last night for educators to discuss Looking Ahead after the exhibit leaves NYC.

• Professional Development:

Materials Conference and Day: A huge success! Susan MacKay and David Gersten gave incredible keynote speeches that supported each other’s themes. They had never met before and didn’t know what each other were presenting. But they presented riveting reflections of the idea of working with children and adults using materials and how the use of them drove the work in different ways. Materials Day was amazing. The weather was 79 degrees and sunny. We had adults and children participating in fantastic projects presented from studio teachers and DCREA. I think there were about 500 attended over the day. The grilled cheese truck and ice cream cart simply added to the amazing day. Photos are on our website.

Looking Ahead: Last night we hosted an open event for educators in NYC who have visited the exhibit to talk about what happens after the exhibit leaves NYC. We had time to visit the exhibit and broke into discussion groups to discuss the following questions:

What kinds of support do you as a teacher need in order to move closer towards your newly inspired vision of education?

What kinds of support do you as parents of young children need in order to guide your child towards this renewed image of the child?

What kinds of support do you as administrators of schools need in order to shape your center towards this newly inspired understanding of community?

How do you envision your practice as a teacher, parent, or administrator changing in the next year as a result of experiencing the Wonder of Learning exhibit?

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After our discussion groups we came together for final reflections by Robin Koo and myself. We will be pulling the notes together from each group and posting on the website. I also have attached a draft of our programming we are hoping to implement for 2015/2016.

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BREAKOUT SESSIONS – Dialogue of Two Cities

WITH THE REGGIO APPROACH AS A REFERENCE, WE EXAMINE EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION FROM MULTIPLE ANGLES IN THE NYC/USA CONTEXT ALL SESSIONS FROM 10:50 - 12:00 AT 92Y

RAINBOW

ROOM

RED ROOM

Why Reggio?

WEILL ART GALLERY

GREEN ROOM

KAUFMAN CONCERT HALL

Current research on early childhood development supports the importance of meaningful and integrated child-directed exploration (Copple, Bredekamp, Fromberg, Katz, Vygotsky, Piaget, Zeigler, Paley, Bruner, Shonkoff, Gopnick, Gardner). This session will be an interactive exploration examining standards alongside principles of Reggio philosophy. Groups will have the opportunity to work together to design Reggio-inspired experiences for young children that meet the standards.

Susan Hershman M.Ed. Maris Krasnow, Ed.D. Rebecca Light, Ph.D.

This workshop will look at how everyday materials in our environment have affordances to provoke exploration and stimulate innovation and new creations. We will explore the various meanings and pedagogical implications of “open-ended/open-minded” materials for learners of all ages. Our breakout session will consider the potentials of various materials from the natural world, found objects, recycled pieces, manufactured “loose parts/construction sets”, and technological tools. Through a presentation we will take a brief look at the history of these ideas in examples from art history, early childhood classrooms, and the public sphere. We will share images and techniques from Joseph Alber’s color course at the Bauhaus, Bruno Munari’s tactile workshops, Palle Nielson’s “playground” at Moderna Museet in Stockholm (1968) and Remida in Reggio Emilia among others. We will experiment with the imaginative and associative potentials of everyday materials that are easily accessible, inexpensive and recyclable. Through group discussion we will reflect on models of community participation, education budgets, accessibility of materials and environmental implications.

Karen Hewitt - Toy designer/early childhood educator/USA distributor for Reggio Children publications (Learning Materials Workshop) Anna Craycroft - Visual Artist and College Professor based in NYC whose museum and gallery exhibitions have explored how the methods of early childhood education are a form of art

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Children Are Citizens: Examples of Reggio Inspired Practice from Providence and Boston

Depending on the context, and how they are treated, young children can appear big or small - to adults and to themselves. In classrooms and communities where children are seen as citizens - given the opportunity to explore, play, and generate theories of how the world works, they appear big. This breakout session draws on the Making Learning Visible (MLV) Project, a collaboration among Project Zero researchers, teachers in the U.S., and educators from the Reggio Emilia. We will look at examples of children participating as citizens in the Boston Public Schools and Providence, RI that: 1) made children and their learning visible beyond school walls and 2) expanded children’s perceptions of their city and their roles as citizens. Participants will have the chance to apply the principles and practices shared to New York.

Ben Mardell - Professor, Early Childhood Education, Lesley University

Building Community First: Reggio Emilia Approach on Roosevelt Island

Reggio approach is not only about early childhood education; it is also about creating environments developmentally appropriate for both children and adults – about the power of being together. Roosevelt Island Explorers (RiEx) is a group of educators and parents dedicated to development of an Island-wide early childhood program, combining children’s extraordinary capacities with the Roosevelt Island’s unique social and physical environment. By building community of learners first, committed to fulfillment of children’s true needs, we believe that opening a school will be the natural next step. This is also a challenging task. We will share our experience so far, hoping to enrich the conversation with your insights.

Leila Vujosevic - AIA, Founder, Roosevelt Island Explorers (RiEx) Anna Ivanova and Lauren Blankstein - RiEx Parents, RiEx Team

Reggio Emilia Inspired Schools and Teachers

“Teachers - like children and everyone else - feel the need to grow in their competences: they want to transform experiences into thoughts, thoughts into reflections, and reflections into new thoughts and new actions. They also feel a need to make predictions, to try things out and interpret them. The act of interpretation is most important. Teachers must learn to document and interpret ongoing processes rather than wait to evaluate results.” (Loris Malaguzzi in The Hundred Languages of Children : Advanced reflection p.73, Ablex 1998)

Lella Gandini Ed.D - U.S. Liaison for the Dissemination of the Reggio Emilia Approach

Open Minded Materials, Thinking with “Loose Parts”: Blocks, Natural and Recycled Materials

BLUE ROOM

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Pockets of Light: Reflections from Reggio Inspired Public School Teachers – NYC

This panel will share the challenges and successes that three different New York City public schools faced as they moved towards an inquiry-based curriculum. The participants will share examples of the impact these changes had on students, families and on their own professional growth. These perceptions will be shared from the point of view of the classroom teacher, an administrator, and a consultant who has worked in all of their schools.

Dana Roth - Early Childhood Teacher, P.S. 10, Brooklyn Katie Rust - Early Childhood Teacher, UFT Charter School, Brooklyn MaryEllen Musacchia - Early Childhood Teacher, UFT Charter School, Brooklyn Andrew Mastin - Early Childhood teacher - UFT Charter School, Brooklyn Rhonda Levy - Principal, P.S. 142, Manhattan Renee Dinnerstein - Early Childhood Literacy Consultant

This workshop will present the story of Reggio-Inspired practice in the Englewood, New Jersey public early childhood programs, which from 2001 to 2009 were housed at Bergen Family Center, a social service agency. In September of 2009 the pre-kindergarten program was transferred to the Quarles school site, to be integrated with the existing kindergarten program. This story is about how the Reggio-inspired practices developed at the Bergen Family Center, nurtured a culture of collaborative inquiry at the more traditional Quarles School. The Reggio-inspired habit of projecting possible learning paths, led the Quarles teachers to envision an outdoor environmental learning lab for young children. This presentation will trace the development of the Quarles Nature Classroom project.

Marsha Howard - Principal, D. A. Quarles Early Childhood Center, Englewood, NJ Barbara Berger Brill - Visions for Education, LLC , Reggio-Inspired consultant, former Principal Englewood Pre-K, Bergen Family Center Rosanne Regan Hansel - Education Program Development Specialist, Division of Early Childhood Education, Trenton, New Jersey Arlene Burgis - Kindergarten Special Education Inclusion Teacher, D. A. Quarles Early Childhood Center, Englewood NJ Marianne Cane - Pre-K Teacher, D. A. Quarles Early Childhood Center, Englewood NJ Tara Nukk - Pre-K Special Education Inclusion Teacher, D. A. Quarles Early Childhood Center, Englewood NJ Yolanda Salazar - Pre-K Self-Contained Special Education Teacher, D. A. Quarles Early Childhood Center, Englewood NJ

Case of a Reggio-Inspired School in NYC: JCC Manhattan

Hear from teachers in a Reggio-inspired school about what aspects of their school have been inspired by the Reggio Emilio approach to early childhood education. Highlights will include: daily reflections, journey binders, documentation books, use of materials, special needs, and relationships with parents.

Joyce Eisman - Early Childhood Teacher, JCC Manhattan Catherine Garrison - Early Childhood Teacher, JCC Manhattan Anna Goodkind - Early Childhood Teacher, JCC Manhattan Jane Tuv - Early Childhood Teacher, JCC Manhattan

As written in “Seeing Young Children With New Eyes: What We’ve Learned from Reggio Emilia about children and ourselves”: “The teacher is no longer the star performer in the classroom, but instead a facilitator of caring and mindful relationships not only between people, but also between things, between thoughts, and with the environment” (Clemens & Gleim, (pg 37). This session will examine research and strategies that help teachers grow into thoughtful reflective practitioners. Participants will leave empowered with concrete strategies for working with adults towards continuous quality improvement.

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Sarah E. Dennis, Ph.D. - Learning Cultures Program Manager at the Urban Assembly

Reggio-Inspired Schools in NYC: Parents’ Experience

Engage in discussion with a panel of parents at a range of Reggio-inspired school across Manhattan. You will hear parents' perspectives on why they chose a Reggio-inspired school, how their teachers helped them learn about Reggio, any challenges they encountered, and how their children transitioned to ongoing schools.

Jill Lebwohl and Ariel Divine - JCC Manhattan Aimee Sabo and David Nanasi - Stephen Wise Early Childhood Center Catherine Thomas and Jennifer Higgins - Beginnings Nursery School

ORANGE ROOM

Pockets of Light: Quarles School and the Legacy of Reggio Inspired Practices in the Englewood (NJ) Public School District

SILVER ROOM

SUN ROOM

YELLOW ROOM

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Hello NAREA Volunteer Team - St. Francis!

I am contacting you to help us get organized for the NAREA Conference. You are part of the team that will help the event run smoothly at St. Francis College in Brooklyn. I am going to list the general schedule for the weekend and our volunteer needs. Some of you have specific jobs so please read the email carefully. Basically, all Beginnings Teachers are in charge of setting up lunch and escorting the participants for school visits. Participants will eat lunch in the auditorium on Thursday and Friday. On Saturday, participants can eat lunch in the cafeteria as well. We don't know how many participants have requested to have a subway guide so Claudine will email you to follow up. I will also let you know if anything changes. I am also attaching the schedule.

Thank you so much for your help!

LeeAnn

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VOLUNTEER SCHEDULE

NAREA CONFERENCE - St. Francis Location

March 12, 13 & 14th

*Enter at 182 Remsen Street NY, NY 11201

Thursday, March 12, 2015

7:00 AM Breakfast delivered from Panera - Claudine meets them

7:15 AM Claudine, LeeAnn, Tania set out the folders on the chairs

7:30 AM Gail and Renee arrive to help with Registration

Claudine sets up CEU table

8:00 AM ALL OTHER VOLUNTEERS ARRIVE

8:00 AM REGISTRATION BEGINS

9:00 WELCOME & PRESENTATION

10:40 AM Renee, Rachel, Gail, Andrea - help set out clementines and leftover muffins

11:00 AM BREAK (Approximate)

11:00-11:30 PM Lunch delivered from Panera (half sandwich, salad and chips)

12:30 PM ALL BEGINNINGS TEACHERS - set out lunches right outside the auditorium and separate by labels

1:00 PM ANNOUNCEMENTS & LUNCH

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2:15 PM All Beginnings head teachers go to Beginnings

Beginnings assistant teachers meet in front of the stage & escort participants to schools

(Claudine will assign you the school where you will be going)

3:00-5:00 PM School visits

Friday, March 13, 2015

9:00 AM WELCOME & PRESENTATION (All Volunteers arrive)

10:30 AM Coffee Delivered

10:40 AM Rachel, Gail, Andrea - help set out clementines and granola bars


11:00-11:30 PM Approximate delivery of Dean and Deluca (boxed lunch)



1:45 PM Leave for the exhibit – we will have a couple volunteers meet at the front of the auditorium to be subway guides - TBA

2:30 PM Williamsburg Northside School - visit to the exhibit

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2:30 PM ALL BEGINNINGS TEACHERS - set out wine for reception in the gym

4:30 PM RECEPTION in gym

Saturday, March 14, 2015

8:30 AM ALL VOLUNTEERS MEET IN CAFETERIA - to help make mimosas

9:00 AM WELCOME, STORY PIRATES & PRESENTATION

10:00 AM Pret-a-manger delivered (coffee & tea, lunch)

11:00 AM Renee, Rachel, Gail, Andrea - help set out clementines and granola bars




1:45 PM Leave for schools (Blue School, Williamsburg Northside School, Beginnings Nursery School, Tribeca Community School)

- Claudine will assign you the school where you will be going TBA

2:30 – 4:30 PM School visits

Kristin Eno will be photographing everything at St. Francis - Thank you!!

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BROOKLYN

NEW YORK, NEW YORKJANUARY 15 - MAY 15, 2015

GRAPHIC DESIGN: BALDINI / VECCHI PHOTO BY GIOVANNI PIAZZA, RAY OF LIGHT ATELIER

Exhibition of the infant-toddler centers and preschools of the Istituzione - Municipality of Reggio Emilia, Italy

in collaboration with

hosted by

WILLIAMSBURG NORTHSIDE SCHOOL 299 NORTH 7TH STREET

www.thewonderoflearning.comreggioalliance.orgwww.newyorkcitywol.org

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The Wonder of Learning Exhibit:

Workshop for UPK Instructional Coordinators and Educational Administrators

Division of Early Childhood Education, Department of Education, New York City

Workshop Plan Prepared by:

Jane Racoosin, Director of Beginnings Nursery School, Founder of Teaching Beyond the Square

Robin Koo, Studio Teacher at Beginnings Nursery School, Program Director of Teaching Beyond the Square

Wednesday, May 6th, 2015 – Brooklyn / Staten Island Team

10:00 – 11:00am Arrival at Williamsburg-Northside Lower School, 299 North 7th Street – please enter around the corner at the Meeker Avenue entrance. Robin Koo and Jane Racoosin will greet you!

Introductions

Viewing the Exhibit (8th and 7th floors)

11:00 – 11:30 Light & Shadow Atelier (6th floor)

Discussion

Presentation by Robin Koo – Robin will be sharing some of the work she has done thus far in UPK and HeadStarts sites

11:30 – 12:10pm Presentation by Shelly Gargus & Yeshnaya Dougherty, 4/5's teachers at Beginnings Nursery School – they will be sharing aspects of her class' curriculum from this year (in the Library on the 3rd floor)

12:15 – 12:30 Natural Materials Atelier (7th floor)

Discussion

Wrap-Up

Thursday, May 7th, 2015 – Manhattan / The Bronx Team

1:00 – 2:00pm Arrival at Williamsburg-Northside Lower School, 299 North 7th Street – please enter around the corner at the Meeker Avenue entrance. Robin Koo and Jane Racoosin will greet you!

Introductions



Discussion


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2:30 – 3:10 Presentation by Laura Spaziani, 3’s teacher at Beginnings Nursery School – Laura will be sharing aspects of her class' curriculum from this year (in the Music Room, 6th floor)


Discussion

Wrap-Up

Friday, May 8th, 2015 – Queens Team

10:00 – 11:00am Arrival at Williamsburg-Northside Lower School, 299 North 7th Street – please enter around the corner at the Meeker Avenue entrance. Robin Koo and Jane Racoosin will greet you!

Introductions



Discussion


11:30 – 12:10pm Presentation by Jessica Anderson-Winston, 4's teacher at Beginnings Nursery School – Jessica will be sharing aspects of her class' curriculum from this year (in the Music Room, 6th floor)


Discussion

Wrap-Up

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Collaboration with Brooklyn Kindergarten Society: Brevoort Children’s Center

Scope of Work: Six weeks starting in mid-May, 2015

Description of collaboration:

Teaching Beyond the Square is excited to partner with Brooklyn Kindergarten Society for six weeks at the Brevoort Children’s Center. The goals for TBS in this partnership with the teachers and administrators at the Brevoort Children’s Center include:

-‐ To offer support and strategies to classroom teachers for their daily classroom teaching practices and to enhance children’s learning experiences

-‐ To introduce concepts from exploration-based teaching approaches, and offer on-going support to teachers as they learn to incorporate these new concepts into their daily teaching practice. Concepts and practices include:

o Understanding and utilizing documentation as a tool for teaching and learning o Using a variety of non-traditional materials to enhance children’s learning o To increase opportunities for children to engage in symbolic thinking and

representation -‐ To create a Materials Resource for the school, as catalyst for moving current teaching

practices towards an exploration-based approach

Plan of action for collaborative work with three classrooms:

-‐ Site visit and observations: Robin Koo and Kristen Eno observe classrooms, document classroom activity/work, and school environment – 2 hours per classroom, mid-May; 6 hours total for TBS.

-‐ Planning meeting between Robin Koo, Kristen Eno, Ella Williams and Huguette Lareche to discuss observations and goals for the 6-week period – 1 hour, mid-May; 1 hour total for TBS.

-‐ Planning meeting between Robin Koo, Kristen Eno and classroom teaching teams or head teacher to discuss shared goals for the 6-week period – 1 hour per classroom, mid- to late-May; 3 hours total for TBS.

-‐ Collaborative work between Kristen Eno and classroom teachers – 1 hour per classroom each week, late-May through June 26th (5 weeks); 15 hours total for TBS.

-‐ Workshop for staff presented by Robin Koo – 2 hours total for TBS. -‐ Setting up a materials resource at the site – May.

Please contact me with any questions regarding this collaboration. I’m very excited to start this partnership with the teachers and staff at the Brevoort Children’s Center and Brooklyn Kindergarten Society.

Thank you for this opportunity!

Sincerely,

Robin Koo

Program Director and Materials Center Coordinator, Teaching Beyond the Square

Studio Teacher, Beginnings Nursery School

[email protected]

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Scope of Work for April 20th through June 30th, 2015

Prepared for the New York City Department of Education,

Division of Early Childhood Education, Teaching and Learning Programs

This scope of work is designed to support and collaborate with UPK teachers in schools and centers citywide. The goals for Teaching Beyond the Square (TBS) in this partnership with UPK teachers of NYC DOE include:

-‐ To offer support and strategies to classroom teachers for their daily classroom teaching practices and to enhance children’s learning experiences

-‐ To introduce concepts from exploration-based teaching approaches, and offer on-going support to teachers as they learn to incorporate these new concepts into their daily teaching practice and within the parameters set forth by NYC DOE DECE

Proposed work for five full days includes the following:

-‐ Planning meetings for TBS staff and with DECE Leadership; site visits; meetings with teachers and directors of sites; workshops and presentations; guided visits to the Wonder of Learning exhibit and Ateliers.

-‐ TBS staff will discuss and decide with DECE Leadership the number of sites that will be collaborating with TBS, and what types of initiatives (e.g. workshops, presentations, hands-on work in classrooms, etc.) would be most effective for each site.

-‐ Please contact me with any questions regarding this scope of work. I’m very excited to start this partnership with classroom teachers, school and site directors, and the Division of Early Childhood Education.

Thank you for this opportunity!

Sincerely,

Robin Koo

Program Director and Materials Center Coordinator, Teaching Beyond the Square

Studio Teacher, Beginnings Nursery School

[email protected]

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