Ann Lewin-Benham

I’ve always been fascinated by children’s early development and over 5 decades was teacher, teacher trainer, school founder/director, mentor, founder/executive director of a large children’s museum in Washington, DC (1975-1995); author of 6 classic textbooks on how children think and learn (2006-2015), and author/self-publisher of one of my many story-poems (2022). My passions are writing, studying new findings in brain development, and launching top quality schools in underserved urban areas. Between 1969 and 1990, I founded 6 schools, five now essential to their Public School systems. The 6th, the Model Early Learning Center, opened1988 and closed 1997 because of deficits in Washington, DC’s budget. It was one of the earliest U.S. Reggio schools and remains the only school accredited by Reggio’s founder Lois Malaguzzi and early Reggio leaders.

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