My Vision

I came across RIE’s Vision Statement earlier this week, and even though I’ve been teaching RIE for over decade and […]

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Move Slowly

My thanks to Keri Khalighi (RIE Mom extraordinaire) for sharing this poem and so much other wisdom and beauty. www.wayoftheelements.com​ […]

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Revisiting Empathy

August 11th already? Time is truly flying! My nieces start school next week (kinder and 6th!), and my nephews started […]

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Trust

Trust. There are 7 basic principles of RIE. There’s no particular order or hierarchy to them, and they are all […]

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6 Words

Care Trust Boundaries Balance Partnership Real Relationships I woke up early the other morning and I (engaged in the downright […]

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Why RIE?

A while ago, RIE asked its Associates (of whom there are now close to 70, and not just here in […]

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Retaining Wonder

This week’s RIE win comes from my Mom. A child advocate, educator, and administrator; her passion is all things early […]

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Try and Fail

This week’s RIE win comes courtesy of my husband, who is a woodworker, computer programmer, musician, and all-around tinkerer…someone who […]

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Resilience

Resilience. That’s my word of the week. I know, I know…I said “joy” was, but as it turns out, resilience […]

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Why RIE?

(Beginning in mid-March 2020, when the world shut down, I began a bi-weekly conversation with the parents who had been […]

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