Extraordinary experiences in Spanish schools
Traveling, whether alone or with others, is always an opportunity to learn about new cultures and gain inspiration. But an educational trip goes beyond that: it transforms educators and their…
The importance of active listening in the relationship between parents and children
When was the last time you really stopped to listen to your child? In the midst of the rush of everyday life, it is common for us to act…
The Importance of Nature in Early Childhood: A Counterpoint to Screen Time
How many hours a day does a child living in urban areas spend outdoors? It is a fact that children and young people, for different reasons, spend less and less…
How to monitor your children’s school routine?
When it comes to creating a truly inclusive and welcoming educational environment, open dialogue between schools and families plays a key role. For many parents, gaining insight into their child’s…
Exploring the Universe of Lines: The “Line as Language” Project at Infanzia
Each year, we embark on a journey of discovery and exploration, delving into the richness of nature and art with Infanzia students. This year, our attention is directed to lines,…
Standards of Coexistence at School: Guidelines for a Respectful Education
Exploring the roots of school coexistence norms and understanding their evolution over time is essential for all parents seeking a quality education for their children. The School Regulations, as a…
Free time: the power of leisure in children’s lives
The importance of knowing how to do nothing in a society that increasingly demands that we do everything. All the time. During this period of recess, I reread a children’s…
What school do we want for our children?
At this time of year, many families come to us to get to know Infanzia. Families who are researching schools for the first time, families who want to change institutions,…
The formation of the reading child: our literary circle
[…] everything is just one Literature. The difficulty lies in delimiting what is considered especially in the children’s sphere. It is the children, in fact, who define it, with their…
Educate for citizenship and civility
Faced with so much alarming news about how teenagers have been dealing with each other using the technology at their disposal, we have been alerted to educating the new generation…
Challenges of school-family relationships in times of WhatsApp groups
As with the wireless telephone game, schools are currently facing the challenge of communicating with families without noise and effectively. Social networks and, especially, WhatsApp groups for parents, have made…
Education for sustainability
Educating is working collectively and there is nothing more urgent than forming conscious and responsible individuals towards each other and the planet. Educating children for a more sustainable world leads…
Mathematics Education: teaching our children to solve problems
This year we participated for the first time in the OBMEP Junior Mathematics Olympics, a national project aimed at Brazilian public and private schools carried out by the Institute of…
Assessment to teach better and monitor student progress and challenges
Assessment is at the center of educational processes, inseparable from teaching since schooling became mandatory. As Alicia Camilloni tells us, the way a school evaluates, what it evaluates and how…
School and family: a partnership that works
“The school cannot be the second home without the family being the first school”, says Rossandro Klinjey, ambassador and co-founder of Educa, Infanzia’s socio-emotional education program. According to the psychologist,…
The city as a curriculum
If we were taught to read the street in another way, most likely, we would be different citizens, we would know how to value squares and cities from…
First steps away from home: welcome at school
It is with great joy that we welcome our children back to activities after the July vacation period. The return to school routine is always a special moment, both for…
Kids on mobile: Way beyond screen time
What content does your son or daughter consume on screens? Do you watch what he or she sees? The journal Nature Neuroscience recently published an article with the following conclusion:…
Bilingual education in childhood: benefits for life
Knowledge that does not come from experience is not really knowledge Lev Vygotsky What are the advantages of inviting the child to speak another language concomitantly with learning the…
Literacy is teaching to communicate
“In my days, it wasn’t like that.” Many families seek us out to talk about the literacy process and begin their inquiries with this sentence. Before, those who signed their…
Bite at school. What to do?
Any literature referring to child development will affirm that from 0 to 3 years old, biting is a common behavior among children. It is common, but we, as educators and…
Nutrition education
Infanzia believes in its role in forming and motivating healthy eating habits and develops actions aimed at children and their families, as well as training its teachers. Planning a varied…
SKills for the future
Much is said about the importance of building socio-emotional skills. But what does this mean? The term emotional intelligence was used for the first time by American scholars Peter Salovey…
Ditching the diaper in early childhood education
When the child is two years old, ditching the diaper becomes a concern and desire of families. As Maíra Dourado tells us, controlling the sphincters is not a process taught…
What did the trip to Curitiba teach?
Since we founded Infanzia, we have visited schools in different countries to learn, see, participate, contact and research ways to organize school. Anyone who thinks that a certain training and…
