Grow Together Learning Center is built on the belief that learning is an active process and knowledge is constructed by the child through “hands-on” experiences. A rich learning environment, one deliberately designed with much to explore and discover, is essential in helping young children learn basic skills. Therefore, the classrooms, large muscle room, playground and curriculum are set up to facilitate child-initiated, child-directed, and teacher-supported play.

Reggio Emilia, Italy is the birth place of our center’s pedagogy and was founded by Loris Malaguzzi after World War ll. The ideals and core values have lived on to influence early childhood educators all over the world.

In our Reggio inspired classrooms high value is placed on children’s work and ideas, as well as their play. Transcriptions of children’s remarks and discussions, photographs of their activities and representations of thinking and learning using many media are displayed to document their work. This documentation has several functions. Among these are to make children aware that their effort is valued; make parents and other adults aware of the children’s experiences; and to allow teachers to understand children better and to evaluate the teacher’s own work.