Sandy Lanes

Past Presentations Include:

Seeing in New Ways: An Introduction to the Reggio Approach
Finding the Potential: Elevating Your Project Work
Planning with Proximity: Seeing Children in New Ways
The School is a Place of Messages
Introduction to Documentation: The What, How, and Why
Elevating Documentation: Educators as Professional Marvellers
Introduction to the Reggio Approach
From Where I Stand: Perspective in Reggio-Inspired Project-Based Learning
Sharing Stories through the Words of Teachers Inspired by the Reggio Approach
Defining Collaboration in a Preschool: Giving Everyone a Voice
Planning with Proximity
The Outdoor Classroom
The Role of the Atelier and Atelierista

Areas of Expertise

Early Childhood Curriculum Planning
Reggio-inspired teaching
Coaching for Pedagogical Leaders
Project work and documentation
Creating engaging and inspiring classroom environments
Emotionally and Socially Responsive Practice
Developmentally appropriate integration of literacy

Services

I believe that relationships are the foundation for learning for both children and adults. I offer a wide range of professional development experiences for implementing and sustaining best practices with young children, families, and educators through constructivist and Reggio-inspired lenses. My goal is to be a thinking partner with administrators and teachers, collaborating to help them make lasting shifts to pedagogical practices through a combination of on-site and virtual coaching,visits, and presentations.

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About Sandy

Sandy Lanes is an educational consultant and thinking partner specializing in progressive early childhood education. She works with schools locally and nationally to deepen their practice and strengthen their image of children, educators, and learning communities.

Sandy served as the Curriculum Director and Pedagogista at the Bender Preschool in Rockville, Maryland, where she helped lead its transformation from a traditional preschool to a Reggio-inspired program. During her tenure, the school was selected as a lab school site for JCCs across the United States.

Sandy holds both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in ECE from the University of Maryland and began her career as a Head Start teacher. Over the past 25 years, she has keynoted and presented at numerous conferences and schools and taught ECE courses at Montgomery College in Maryland,

One of Sandy’s specialties is mentoring Pedagogical Leaders, and she has facilitated many professional cohorts for educators in this unique role. She has attended six Study Institutes in Reggio Emilia, Italy, and formerly served on the steering committee of the DC Reggio Alliance.

You can hear Sandy in conversation with early childhoodexperts on her podcast, “Awakened to Reggio.”