Let’s Work Together
My work is designed to be highly interactive, collaborative, and reflective, ensuring immediate applicability to your environment. Get ready to get up, move, share stories, and make direct connections to the vibrant life of your learning community. My goal is to leave you inspired, engaged, and equipped with practical strategies that bring renewed purpose to your daily work.
The format, cadence, and structure of every topic are customized to precisely fit your school’s unique needs.
Workshops
Team Coaching
1:1 Coaching
Areas of Expertise
Organizational Culture
Community Building
Environments of Inquiry
Reggio-Inspired Approach
Early Childhood Curriculum
Project Work & Documentation
Professional Learning Focus Areas
Values in Action: Cultivating Practice & Community
Whether defining your shared values or strengthening existing ones, explore how to make them come alive in daily practice and decision-making. We delve into the power of intentional routines and rituals—whether small daily habits or large community gatherings—to authentically embody your vision. This cultivates a joyful, relationship-centered learning community and deepens family and school partnerships.
The Reggio Emilia Philosophy: Principles, Possibilities & Provocations
Examine foundational concepts like the Image of the Child and the role of educators, the Hundred Languages, and Progettazione. We’ll also explore the powerful role of The Atelier/Studio and how to apply this mindset in your indoor/outdoor classrooms. This philosophy is so rich and expansive that, together, we’ll decide which principles to focus on more in-depth for your unique context. We’ll explore why there’s no rigid ‘how-to’ manual for this approach. Ultimately, we’ll see this philosophy itself as a provocation for what’s possible, inviting us to provoke our own thinking about how to take inspiration into your own context.
The Environment as Partner: Designing for Inquiry & Play
Transform your indoor and outdoor learning spaces into dynamic laboratories where curiosity and creativity thrive. We’ll explore the principles of play and inquiry-based learning, focusing on how the environment can become a partner in the educational experience. You’ll gain practical strategies to intentionally set up beautiful, relationship-centered spaces that align with your values and beliefs about children, teaching, and learning.
Deepening Your Observations: Uncovering Children’s Powerful Thinking
Explore the reflective and intentional practice of truly listening to children through a teacher-researcher mindset. We’ll delve into the profound intellectual processes happening within them and their unique ways of making sense of the world. Learn to interpret your observations through different lenses, bringing deeper layers of meaning, joy and professionalism to your work. This practice will help you make children’s learning processes visible, support their reflection, inform your teaching, and enhance communication with families and your community.
Elevating Project Work: Sustaining Inquiry & Collaboration
Walk alongside classroom investigations and explore what keeps meaningful projects alive. We’ll delve into what a vibrant culture of inquiry and collaboration looks like, identifying compelling ideas for ongoing inquiry, while understanding the power of group dynamics and the role of documentation. Structure this as a focused planning session or as a hybrid workshop-coaching model, using documentation and dialogue to offer feedback as these ideas come to life.
Rethinking Assessment: Documentation, Relationships & Dialogue
Shift from measurement to a form of assessment that fuels growth. Inspired by Learning Stories and Reggio documentation, this workshop helps you make learning visible, inform practice, empower learners, and build deeper relationships and richer dialogue with children and families.
Authentic Early Literacy
Explore developmentally-appropriate literacy in preschool through the lens of the social-constructivist classroom. We’ll focus on creating meaningful literacy opportunities that empower children to develop a strong sense of agency, make their ideas visible, and understand the purpose of text. Through rich projects and play with written language, children will build their identities as confident, literate communicators.
Purposeful Tech Integration: Enhancing Learning, Not Just Adding Tools
Explore how technology can be a powerful tool to deepen learning, foster collaboration, give students authentic audiences, nurture creativity, and create playful immersive digital environments. This workshop focuses on viewing technology as a language of thinking and expression, and ensuring its use is aligned with your educational values and goals.
Experiences Shared
Working with Maaian was a true gift. She brings deep knowledge and unwavering commitment to early childhood education, always centering the child in every conversation and decision. Her thoughtful approach to Reggio-inspired practice, combined with her ability to think deeply and reflect, makes her an invaluable thinking partner. Maaian doesn’t just guide—she inspires, challenges, and uplifts everyone around her.
Andrea Strutin,
Lower Primary Associate Principal at Hong Kong International School
Working with Maaian was truly a privilege-she remains a role model I deeply admire. During our time together, I gained invaluable insight into the Reggio-inspired approach and learned to think outside the box when it comes to supporting children’s growth. Maaian leads with heart, vision, and wisdom, and I would recommend her work to anyone seeking inspiration in the world of education. She is truly a gift to know.
Danielle Zayit
Early Years teacher at American International School of Israel
Maaian was able to transform our preschool to new and amazing heights. Her vision of teaching and inspiring children to explore and seek out their curiosities was exciting to the children and to all of the teachers. She is dedicated to learning and shines with excitement as she leads teachers, children and parents.
Michele Hashai
Early Years teacher at
American International School of Israel