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A Democratic Community of Learners

‘For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse to think independently.’ (Plutarch)

At ELC, each day is an opportunity for a provocation, for a ’spark’ to be ignited, from which the children explore their ideas, share their thoughts with each other, and engage in meaning-making through their own experiences. Over the next few weeks we will guide you through different elements of the unique learning process at ELC; we will explore Project, the Ateliers, and the Environment as the ‘third teacher’, and how the collaboration between teachers and children, along with our pedagogical research team, form a democratic community of learners in which all are invited to develop their minds and themselves.

We wish all ELC families an enjoyable and restful mid-term break.

‘For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse to think independently.’

PLUTARCH

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Co-Constructing a Climate-Resilient Future: Putting Our Trust in the Children

On UN Earth Day this week, our Head of The City School, Dr. Lea, and our Y1-2 Project Coordinator, Ms. Sam, presented a webinar to the international educational and development community entitled ‘Co-Constructing a Climate-Resilient Future: Putting Our Trust in the Children’, with a participating audience of professionals from Bangladesh to Ethiopia, Nepal to the US. Hosted by the Asia-Pacific Regional Network for Early Childhood, and in collaboration with Save the Children, our educators showcased how ELC’s The City School is committed to empowering children to prepare for climate resilience and work for sustainable development, and how our Reggio Emilia approach to education cultivates those skills and character for our children to be world-changers.