Professional Carers

Magda Gerber believed that infants deserve the best a society can give them. RIE helps caregivers in a wide array of childcare settings provide every infant and toddler with the responsive and respectful care that is foundational to a healthy life.

Classes for Professionals

How do we provide the best possible care to infants and toddlers in childcare settings? Our professional development programs help doulas, nannies, cuidadoras, family childcare, and center-based caregivers gain new insight and skills for their work in infant/toddler care.

Intro to Educaring

This 3-hour class offers an overview of the Educaring approach and is available online to anyone wanting to know more about RIE.

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RIE Foundations: Theory & Observation

This comprehensive 60-hour course will improve your competency with infants and toddlers and is the first step in our professional development program.

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Nurturing Nanny

This 12-hour course provides in-home caregivers the knowledge and practical application helpful to provide quality child care with greater ease.

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Cuidadoras Cariñosas

Esta clase de 12-horas está diseñada para ayudar a las niñeras a trabajar de manera más efectiva y placentera.

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“I did not expect the RIE Foundations course to be such a rich and personal experience. This course has truly been life-changing for me. I think the most noticeable change I will make when I return to work will be my pace. I am going to slow down and then slow down some more– to really focus on the infants in my care–to give them my FULL attention. I know the children and I will benefit greatly. ”
Carolyn Foundations Student
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“I’ve learned about what respect really means applied to infants and toddlers and that trust and confidence are as important coming from adult to child as they are coming from child to adult.”
Melissa Foundations Student
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“As a mother of two young children as well as an Early Childhood Educator, currently working with Toddlers, this course...was highly relevant and helpful. I feel that I learned more in six short weeks than I did in my whole BA/MA collegiate studies.”
Foundations Student
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“This class has just been wonderful... I really appreciate the opportunity to take this class online. I don’t know when I would have been able to take a class like this if I had to travel or take time away from work...The variety of reading, watching/listening to lectures and assignments is great. I love the small groups for discussions. Love it all.”
Online Foundations Student

RIE Moments — Caregivers

Professionals who practice Educaring share the memorable moments when the baby in their care noticeably responded to their RIE practice.

What’s your RIE moment?

Lookin in the miror
I know when I'm ready
The Value of Quietly Waiting
Not a scratch on him
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RIE Learning Stories

Learning stories help caregivers capture and share with parents and other professionals what infants and toddlers are learning through the Educaring approach.

Infant on their back in a colorful play space looking intently at the camera.
Responding to our communication
Two babies sitting on a play space floor both holding onto an object while looking at each other.
Appreciating Your Focus & Intent
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Childcare Consulting

Rejuvenate your caregiving with professional coaching for you or your childcare program. Our RIE Associates can help you use RIE principles to improve key quality parameters and caregivers’ work satisfaction.

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Events for Professionals

We offer free and subscription webinars throughout the year, and an annual conference with great content for childcare providers working in infant or toddler rooms.

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“I would like to make the people who work with infants the most honorable and best paid–not overpaid, because it shouldn’t be done by people who do it only for the money. Educaring should be done by very capable people who also make a decent living. That’s what I would wish for the future. 

We can make it happen. It won’t happen in weeks or even in months. The politician will not make it happen. We have to do it. We have to present ourselves like professional people who do a most important job, which we do. Slowly, not in my time but in yours, this may have results. Keep fighting for it.”

Magda Gerber Educaring, 1995