Brenda Fyfe, Ph.D.

Dr. Brenda Fyfe is Dean and Professor Emeritus, School of Education at Webster University.  She serves on the boards of the North American Reggio Emilia Alliance, the Ideal Learning Roundtable of Trust for Learning, Education Dean for Justice and Equity, and the Association for Constructivist Teaching.  Dr. Fyfe has authored multiple journal articles and book chapters on the Reggio Emilia approach to early education and recently co-authored a report for Trust for Learning called, Ideal Pathways: How Ideal Learning Approaches Prepare and Support Ideal Childhood Educators (2020).  She is currently working in collaboration with several teacher-educators from the U.S. and Reggio Emilia, Italy to research how Reggio-inspired education supports emergent bilingual and multilingual children and families.