This paired with the Boulder Journey School video really changed my perspective on the importance of incorporating technology. I appreciate the use of these tools to support, rather than limit, creative problem solving, and I am curious to start incorporating them more in my own context.

This reminds me of the state of crisis described in last week's reading. Developing a comfort with discordance is continually emphasized as a foundation of growth.

This was such an interesting moment because it holds powerful implications for the impact of teacher reframing on bias. I struggle with this quite a bit, and have a hard time finding the balance of when it is ok to impose teacher ideas vs. when to allow the children to follow their own and work through these concepts without my input.

This applies to adults as well, and I often find myself falling into the bias that adult learners must have someone with an established mastery to guide the learning. This is a good reminder to check my own bias, and to remember to treat adult learners with the same respect that I would child learners.

How often does a child's non-verbal belief about a right they feel they have present as a challenging behavior? If we re-frame these hard moments with children and attend to them with open curiosity, what would we learn about their beliefs about the world?

Does my center make space for this kind of questioning? While we say we value the relationship between school and families, how can we create a context that supports this kind of interconnection in a deeper way?

This is something I am excited to learn more about. I do feel an intentional environment plays such an important role as the third teacher, but most of what I know is based on my own observations of other Reggio schools or observations of how children use a space. I am looking forward to some more formal info in this domain to enhance my own knowledge.

I am curious to learn more about the post WWII political and social climate that sparked such change and activism. I am inspired by the degree of investment that these families had in the education of their children, and would love to know more about how that evolved. This feels particularly relevant right now as I see so many Americans around me shifting towards advocacy models.

I am still curious and a little nervous about how the instructor facilitated zooms will be scheduled, but I very much appreciate all the thought and intentional planning that must have gone into organizing this course!