Consulting and Professional Development

Collaboration, Communication, Critical Thinking, and Creativity; the 21st Century skills for learning. These are the skills all children need to succeed in our 21st Century global world. Amazingly, these skills already exist within young children. Young children are naturally curious communicators. They spend everyday exploring new things, creating solutions to problems, and figuring out our complex world. We must nurture these natural skills, help children develop a growth mindset, and a love for learning. These are the skills that will help them succeed in an ever complex global world.

What’s needed is an educational paradigm shift. We must stop stifling young children’s natural love with developmentally inappropriate curriculum and pushed down academics! Instead we need to feed their naturally intellectual minds with Inquiry-based learning, nature-based learning, and interest-based STEM learning. No other approach to early learning does this better than the world renowned Reggio Emilia Approach. This approach to early learning looks at what is best for children’s learning and connects it to their culture and context to support the best practices for all young children. Cultivating the Early Years (CEY) works all over the world to support Reggio-inspired practice within a communities cultural and context.

We are currently working with schools, organizations, and local governments around the world. Now we want to support your paradigm shift! Let us help you build a better early childhood educational system that supports children’s 21st learning skills and embrace Reggio Emilia-inspired practice.

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