The Nest Nursery School

‼️ATTENTION ‼️ The Nest is hosting our very first Holiday Fundraiser on December 10th! Please join us for a great cause!

✅ Two incredible Asheville-based food and beverage professionals
✅ Three delicious wines to taste 🍷
✅ Complementary prosecco & heavy hors d'oeuvres 🍾
✅ Holiday party-like atmosphere 🎊
✅ All proceeds benefit The Nest 🪺

Please visit the job posting page on the North American Reggio Emilia Alliance (NAREA) website for more information about an open teaching position at The Nest for the 2023-24 school year.

Teacher - North American Reggio Emilia Alliance The Nest Nursery School is currently seeking bright, curious, hard-working, and dedicated educators for full-time and substitute teaching positions with young children and their families.

We are hiring full-time educators with a curious mind, an open heart, and a commitment to the wellbeing of children.

If you are interested in applying, please send your resume to Eleanor at [email protected].

The Nest Nursery School The Nest Nursery School is a not-for-profit organization located in Southeast Atlanta.

The Nest Nursery School is looking for substitute teachers!

This could be a perfect gig for a college student that is home for the summer. Must be 18 or older. Send us an email for more info!

[email protected]

After a 3-year pandemic hiatus, NEST FEST IS BACK!! Nest Fest is our biggest fundraising event, and a magical night where parents, teachers, and community members can come together to connect and celebrate our amazing school while at the same time supporting our educators and the school's mission.

When: Saturday, April 22nd from 6pm - 10pm

Highlights:

✅ Steve Goss, renowned NPR Morning Edition Host, will emcee!
✅ Food catered by Little Rey
✅ Delicious drinks by My Friend's Bottle Shop
✅ Gelato from Honeysuckle Gelato
✅ Live auction, raffles, music and so much more!!

Buy your tickets TODAY: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-nest-fest-2023-tickets-578035819697

All funds raised go towards sending our amazing educators to Reggio Emilia, Italy in May. Check out this video to hear what the trip will mean to them: https://youtu.be/-c7Nlfc1iaY.

If you can’t make it, please consider donating so that our educators can make it to Italy! Donate here: https://www.paypal.com/us/fundraiser/charity/2274962

Thank you to our Nest Community as always for your support ❤️

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The Nest is hiring!

Email your resume to [email protected] for more information!

Come out to support The Nest Nursery School by eating some delicious noodles and stir-fry in the neighborhood TOMORROW (11/9) from 11:30am-9:00pm.

25% (yes, you read that correctly—25%!!) of your purchase at Doc Chey’s on Wednesday November 9th goes to the school's professional development fund. Includes lunch and dinner (dine-in and take-out).

*****You must mention that you are DINING OUT for THE NEST when you dine-in or order takeout (via phone, doccheys.com or walk-in) to ensure that 25% of your purchase is donated back to the school. NOT valid on delivery orders.*****

Please please please friends and family too!!! The more supporters we have the more money we can help raise for The Nest!

Lots of Nest families are meeting at Doc Chey’s at 530pm so please join us!!!

Doc Cheys Street Tacos are BACK! Every Tuesday at Doc Chey’s We’ve heard you taco ’bout missing our delicious street food tacos. That’s why we’re bringing them back for Taco Tuesdays! Look for them on the specials board. Quantities are limited, Read more...

Come work with us!

Email [email protected] for more information.

The Nest Nursery School | Education and Care of Infants | Atlanta, GA The Nest Nursery School is a not-for-profit organization located in Southeast Atlanta dedicated to the education and care of infants and toddler

We are seeking a passionate educator to work with toddlers at The Nest.

Interested persons should be loving, reliable, research-oriented, creative, have a good work ethic, be able to work in a dynamic & high energy environment, and be a team player as you will be working with 3 co-teachers. This position is a unique opportunity to see and be part of human development at the very beginning, when so much happens!

There is also the potential for you to move up (looping) with your group of children until they leave our Reggio-inspired school at age four or five.

Please send your resume to [email protected]

The Nest Nursery School needs summer subs! Perfect gig for college kids that are home for the summer or recent high school grads. Must be 18 or older. $15/hour. Send us an email for more info! [email protected]

The Nest Nursery School in Grant Park is looking for substitute teachers! We are a nonprofit, full-day, year-round childcare program for children aged 12 weeks-5 years.

Virtual Field Trips Over 30 Virtual Field Trips with Links (Click on colored text for links. Safe Travels!) San Diego Zoo The San Diego Zoo has a website just for kids with amazing videos, activities, and games. Enjoy the tour! Yellowstone National Park Virtual Field Trip Mud Volcano, Mammoth Hot S...

“While only 29 percent of the 2,500 teachers surveyed in 1998 thought parents needed to ensure their kids knew the alphabet before kindergarten, 62 percent of the 2,700 surveyed in 2010 thought so.”

Early Education Is More Demanding Than Ever, and Experts Have Concerns The approach, stress and rigidity that often accompanies modern lesson plans may cause young children to feel frustrated or disengaged.

We are seeking a passionate educator to work alongside the youngest Nesters in our infant classroom. Interested persons should be loving, reliable, research-oriented, creative, have a good work ethic, be able to work in a dynamic & high energy environment, and be a team player as you will be working with 3 other adults. This position is a unique opportunity to see and be part of human development at the very beginning, when so much happens! There is also the potential for you to move up (looping) with your group of children until they leave our Reggio-inspired school at age four or five.

Please send your resume to [email protected]

Through our collaboration with Project Infinity, we are able to design and participate in initiatives focused on uplifting early childhood. These opportunities to share, listen, reflect, learn, research, play, and create alongside a robust community of educators are truly precious to us.

Thank you to our colleagues at Peachtree Presbyterian Preschool for hosting the Project and capturing these images.

Mark your calendars!
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Feeding children can be REALLY tricky! How can we do our best to keep them healthy and happy? How do we help them a create positive relationship with food and eating?

For mealtimes at The Nest, choosing our language very, very carefully is imperative. It can be incredibly difficult, however, for adults to shake off decades-old negative, damaging, and often false perceptions about food and eating.

We find keeping documents and research from nutritionists and psychologists VISIBLE really supports our journey of relearning. What helps you be a better advocate for children’s experience with food?

“Do you name foods ‘grow foods’ and ‘whoa foods’?” Someone asked recently. Actually, no I don’t. Because kids can actually grow quite well on "whoa foods." They have calories, they have nutrients. 🤔⁣⠀
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I like to be as accurate as I can with my kids at their age level. ⁣⠀
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Big Macs absolutely help kids grow. Soda absolutely contains energy, which can help kids grow as well. And then there are super "grow foods" like dairy, which really needs to be eaten in moderation, if at all. So, I’m personally uncomfortable with the idea of “grow foods” and not grow foods. ⁣⠀
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Instead, for preschoolers, I talk about what foods do in our bodies. I use actual nutrition principles and make a message that is understandable to a 3yo. Then I model “sometimes foods” in our family menu (but rarely discuss it). Here are my basic messages:⁣⠀
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🍞Sugary foods, grains - helps us move and run⁣, give us energy⠀
🥚Meat, eggs, beans, dairy (protein), nuts - make our muscles strong⁣⠀
🥞Coconut, avocado, olive oils and butter (fats) - help our brains think⁣⠀
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For fruits and veggies, I usually break it down by color. Although this is not accurate for every single veggie, I think it’s a good framework to get started. ⁣⠀
❤️ Red: gives you a strong heart⁣⠀
🧡 Orange: helps you see in the dark⁣⠀
💛Yellow: helps your body heal cuts⁣⠀
💚Green: gives you super powers to fight off sickness⁣⠀
💜💙Blue and Purple: Give you a strong brain⁣⠀
💟White: gives you energy⁣⠀
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Do you have a favorite nutrition message for your kids?⁣⠀

Lunch supplies like the veggie cutters i used in this photo are in the Kids Eat in Color Amazon store: https://www.amazon.com/shop/kidseatincolor

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As we prepare for a new school year at our annual staff retreat we reflect on joyful memories of past professional development occasions...

We are seeking a passionate educator to work alongside the youngest Nesters in our infant classroom. Interested persons should be loving, reliable, research-oriented, creative, have a good work ethic, be able to work in a dynamic & high energy environment, and be a team player as you will be working with 3 other adults. This position is a unique opportunity to see and be part of human development at the very beginning, when so much happens! There is also the potential for you to move up (looping) with your group of children until they leave our Reggio-inspired school at age four or five. Serious inquiries should direct message for email address | #atleducators #education #preschool #earlychildhooded #ece #teachers #infants #reggioinspired

For three days at the very end of June four of our educators had the precious opportunity to participate in the 2019 North America Reggio Emilia Alliance Summer Conference right here in Atlanta! Can you spot one of our educators in the photos below?

The conference, titled "Defending Spaces for Creative Freedom: Spaces of Joy, Trust, and Solidarity," brought several hundred professionals from all over the world together to share alternative narratives in education. Over stories, videos, dialogue, and ateliers our passions re-ignited and our shared intelligence deepened. Above all, we're reminded of our commitment to affirm the rights of children through everyday declarations.

"It is the schools' problem to make it so all children become intelligent!"
- Claudia Guidici, president of Reggio Children, speaking at the conference on "The 100 Languages of Children"

“The Wonder of Learning” exhibit from Reggio Emilia, Italy offers an intelligent, thoughtful, inspiring view of children and childhood, teaching and learning, school and community. Whatever your relation to schools — parent, teacher, taxpayer, student, professor — the exhibit is worth a visit during its time in Atlanta. The Nest is happy to be a participant in Project Infinity, a group of schools in the southeastern U.S. committed to the study of Reggio Emilia, that has helped bring the exhibit to Atlanta.

Atlanta exhibit focusing on Italian preschool approach to open June 25 An exhibit focusing on the educational philosophy of preschools in Reggio Emilia, Italy, will be open in Atlanta on June 25.

“In order for kids to listen, focus and learn to sit still for a period of time, they must develop both proprioception and vestibular sense. The most critical time to develop a child’s proprioception and vestibular sense is before age six...

Proprioception is what tells you where your body parts are without having to look at them. This is the sense that helps you make sense of gravity. It’s the reason you can switch from the gas pedal to the brake without looking at your feet, or bring popcorn to your mouth without taking your eyes off the movie screen. Without properly developed proprioception, kids can push too hard during tag, fall out their seat at the dinner table, or trip while walking up stairs....

Vestibular sense provides information about where the body is in relation to its surroundings. This is the sense that helps you understand balance, and it connects with all the other senses.
When the vestibular system does not develop properly all other senses will struggle to function properly. Without a strong vestibular sense, kids will have no choice but to fidget, get frustrated, experience more falls and aggression, get too close to people when talking, and struggle with focusing and listening. Because they literally cannot help it.”

The most overlooked reason why your kids won't listen, focus or sit still. My son climbed to the top of the monkey bars and snaked across them from above. He's not strong enough to...

Toddlers Want to Help and We Should Let Them If allowed to help, toddlers become great work partners later in childhood.

We have a wonderful group of educators at The Nest, who are constantly challenging themselves to increase their understanding about children, learning, teaching, and child development.

Read our latest blog post (based on an email exchange between a parent and a teacher) on why approaches to early literacy should be informed by research, and what we believe at The Nest about young children learning to read and write.

"Sight reading" in preschool: A Nest educator responds to a parent's concern - The Nest Nursery School This is an email exchange between Nest educator Rachel Clark and a parent at the school regarding anxiety about her child’s readiness for the transition to Kindergarten. Rachel’s well-informed, thoughtful response is a wonderful reflection on the values we hold dear at The Nest and the efforts t...

Why Does Child Care Cost So Much? Daycare averages $10,000 a year per child. Early educators barely make minimum wage. Where's all the money going?

Interested in learning more about The Nest Nursery School and our neighbor The Grant Park Cooperative Preschool, and our unique approaches to early childhood education that are inspired by the experiences of the infant/toddler and preschools of Reggio Emilia?

Register now for our collaborative Educator Exchange Day on November 8 at 2pm!

Educator Exchange Days - The Nest Nursery School As a proud member of Inspired Practices in Early Education’s Project Infinity, The Nest is pleased to participate in Educator Exchange Days. To register for our collaborative Educator Exchange Day with the Grant Park Cooperative Preschool on November 8, 2018, please click on, print, and complete t...

The Nest has openings available immediately in our multiage classroom for children born between August 1, 2013 and December 31, 2014. Please contact us at [email protected] for more information!

Why are blocks so ubiquitous in early childhood education? Here's some great information!

Can colorful blocks prep preschoolers for a future in math? This study says yes. Patterning and spatial activities like block play are simple yet powerful activities in which preschoolers develop early math skills, according to a growing body of research by Vanderbilt scholars.

We have an immediate opening for a 4-year old child in our multiage classroom. The child must have turned 4 by August 1st. If you are interested, please email [email protected].

Come to work at The Nest Nursery School! We are seeking the best early childhood educators for full-time and part-time positions for the 2018-2019 school year!

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