The Palma Sola Early Leaning Academy uses the Reggio Emilia approach to early childhood education that is based on more than forty years of experience in the Reggio Emilia Municipal Infant/toddler and Preschool Centers in Italy. It places emphasis on children's symbolic languages in the context of a projectoriented curriculum. Learning is viewed as a journey; and education as building relationships with people (both children and adults) and creating connections between ideas and the environment.