Overview
- The fact-finding trip, which wrapped up Thursday, focused on the city’s child-led Reggio Emilia model that treats the learning space and nature as a third teacher.
- At Salvador Allende pre-school, she joined outdoor lessons, studied plants with a magnifying glass, and held a small reptile to engage curious pupils.
- Reggio Emilia welcomed her with thousands of well-wishers and awarded the Primo Tricolore, its highest civic honor, for her early years advocacy.
- She visited REMIDA, a hub that turns factory surplus into classroom materials, then learned to make tortelli at a farmhouse and hosted a thank-you lunch.
- In a parting message, she called the visit “deeply moving,” with aides noting it as her first solo foreign engagement since cancer treatment and a step toward wider work overseas.