While focusing on the application, meaning, and value of Reggio Emilia principles in preschool classrooms, the authors describe how those same principles and processes pervade relationships with parents, teacher professional development, and the overall organization of the programme. Offering a powerful combination of theory and practice, this comprehensive model includes classroom examples, dialogues, and questions that can be adapted to both pre- and in-service teacher education, considers standards-based curriculum by describing literacy, maths, and other school-readiness components of the programme, and provides suggestions for educational leaders who are considering using Reggio Emilia principles in their own context. 224 pages.