Signature workshop · Rethinking Infant Spaces
"The environment is the third teacher" is a Reggio Emilia principle: the physical space itself teaches. Armstrong's DECAL-approved Rethinking Infant Spaces training, led by Anna Camille Hampton, helps teams design infant and toddler rooms around movement, attachment, and the senses so the space does some of the teaching. Available in person across metro Atlanta, live-online, or self-paced from $19; live sessions run 1–8 hours from $35 per teacher and count toward Georgia's annual 10 DECAL clock hours.
"The environment is the third teacher" is a Reggio Emilia principle: alongside the adults and the children's peers, the physical space itself teaches. A thoughtfully designed room — its layout, light, materials, and order — invites exploration, calm, and independence without an adult directing every moment.
It's the foundation of this training: redesign the room, and it starts doing some of the teaching for you.
Design for infants and toddlers around movement, attachment, and the senses: open floor space for crawling and pulling up, low sightlines so caregivers and babies can see each other, natural light and soft texture, and calm, uncluttered materials at reach.
Primary-caregiving zones support secure attachment, and an "aesthetics of care" — materials, light, texture — shapes how it feels to be in the room.
Babies and toddlers learn through their bodies and senses, so the space shapes how much they can move, explore, and self-regulate. A well-designed room reduces stress and challenging behaviour, supports secure attachment, and frees caregivers to be present rather than managing — aligned with Reggio and DAP.
The session works from your real room — a walk-through or photos — toward a concrete redesign plan: auditing the existing space, then low-cost, high-impact moves before any spending.
Infant and toddler teams, directors, and new-build or renovating centres. The workshop can pair with hands-on classroom and infant-environment design consultation for centres ready to redesign.
In this workshop
Every session is hands-on and grounded in real classrooms — teachers leave with practice they can use the next day, not just vocabulary.
Quick answers
Short, direct answers to the questions educators and directors ask most.
"The environment is the third teacher" is a Reggio Emilia principle: alongside the adults and the children's peers, the physical space itself teaches. A thoughtfully designed room — its layout, light, materials, and order — invites exploration, calm, and independence without an adult directing every moment. It's the foundation of Armstrong's Rethinking Infant Spaces training.
Design an infant classroom around movement, attachment, and the senses: open floor space for crawling and pulling up, low sightlines so caregivers and babies can see each other, natural light and soft texture, and calm, uncluttered materials at reach. Primary-caregiving zones support secure attachment. Armstrong's training walks teams through auditing and redesigning real infant rooms.
Infant room design matters because babies and toddlers learn through their bodies and senses — the space shapes how much they can move, explore, and self-regulate. A well-designed room reduces stress and challenging behaviour, supports secure attachment, and does some of the teaching, freeing caregivers to be present rather than managing.
Yes. Armstrong Educational Services offers Rethinking Infant Spaces — a DECAL-approved training on designing infant and toddler environments — led by Anna Camille Hampton, in person across metro Atlanta, live-online, or self-paced from $19. Live sessions run 1–8 hours from $35 per teacher and count toward Georgia's 10 annual DECAL clock hours.
Formats & pricing
Live in-person is anchored at $35 per teacher per hour, live-online at $25, on a 1–8 hour decay curve, with a $280 session minimum. Optional add-on: pair with hands-on classroom/infant-environment design consultation (custom — direct to a discovery call).
$35/ teacher / hour
On-site across metro Atlanta and the Carolinas, 1–8 hours. Per-teacher pricing drops as the group grows; $280 session minimum.
$25/ teacher / hour
The same live session over Zoom — about 30% below in person — 1–8 hours on the same group + multi-hour discounts.
$19/ 1 CEU hour
Take it anytime, no live session — includes a downloadable workbook and a DECAL certificate on completion. See the self-paced catalog.
Add extra time for questions
Extend a live session with a group Q&A block: +$8 per head for 30 minutes or +$15 per head for 60 minutes. Framed as group reflection for the whole team — not 1:1 coaching.
DECAL CEU certificate
Add a DECAL CEU certificate to a live session for +$5 per head (included free in the self-paced course), counting toward each educator's annual 10 Georgia clock hours.
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