Welcome!
You've made it to the online home to the New Mexico Reggio Emilia Exchange otherwise known as NMREX. We invite early childhood professionals, families with young children, policy makers and anyone else who is curious about or interested in the Reggio Approach to early childhood education to take a minute to learn about who we are and how we are working for the benefit of children in your community.
What's New
New Reggio Children Books available: The Black Rubber Column, We Write Shapes That Look Like a Book, and Browsing Through Ideas: The Wonder of Learning Series
New Discussion Board. Post your questions, get help from others, share your projects and understandings.
Open study group Free training hours available. Join us there!
If you represent a Reggio-inspired classroom, school or organization, use your NAREA membership to add your program to the international map of contexts. Let's make Reggio-inspired practice in New Mexico visible!
Our Goals
Our goals are to facilitate a deepening awareness and understanding of Reggio principles throughout New Mexico, by supporting teachers, centers and schools that are exploring Reggio Principles at their sites, and by engaging in advocacy and public awareness campaigns to make children, teaching and learning visible.
Our History
In January of 2008, a group of early childhood professionals began meeting under the facilitation of Baji Rankin, Executive Director of the New Mexico Association for Young Children to prepare for our participation in the Five-State Study Group traveling to Reggio Emilia, Italy. Between January and May 2008, the group met to discuss sections of the book The Hundred Languages of Children by Carolyn Edwards, Lella Gandini and George Forman and thereby further our understanding of the Reggio Emilia approach to early education. In May 2008, our group along with groups from Tuscon, West Los Angeles, Chicago, and Missouri traveled to Reggio Emilia, Italy for a week long conference at the International Loris Malaguzzi Center. The conference included many inspirational speakers, many who are well-known to Reggio-Inspired teachers, including Carlina Rinaldi, Amelia Gambetti, Vea Vecci and more. Those in the group also had an opportunity to visit a number of the municipal infant-toddler centers and pre-primary schools and spoke with many teachers, pedagogistas and atelieristas. Upon returning from Reggio, the NMREX was abuzz with excitement and inspiration. It is this excitement and inspiration that motivates us to continue to volunteer our time to further study the work being done in Reggio Emilia, to weave our new understandings into our professional work, to help others do the same and to advocate for the visibility of children and their learning in our communities here in New Mexico.