🟢 In This Episode

This episode gives educational leaders and educators the AI tips and strategies needed that help to solve the challenge of making new educators feel genuinely welcomed, supported, and confident from their very first day. We explore how leaders and new team members can partner with AI to turn the usual onboarding process from a series of generic forms and fire exit maps into a more personalised, collaborative journey. Learn how to use AI as a co-mentor to set new staff up for success, build their practical skills, and guide them toward deep, reflective practice, all in alignment with the NQF.

🟣 What You'll Find Out

✅ How to create a personalised 48-hour welcome plan with AI.

✅ How new educators can use AI to prepare for their first day.

✅ How to use AI to draft a learning story with confidence.

✅ How to generate reflective questions to guide mentoring sessions.

✅ How to use AI ethically and in line with NQF updates.

✅ How AI can act as a bridge between theory and practice.

🟣 Inspire Reflection

"The goal of inviting AI into our mentoring and onboarding processes... It's not meant as something to replace the human connection... Look at it as enhancing or strengthening it instead."

What is one part of your current onboarding process that you could personalise using AI?

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The constant cycle of educator turnover is exhausting, expensive, and emotionally draining for leaders, teams, children, and families. This episode moves beyond reactive damage control and offers a proactive, compassionate path forward. Join Jodie as she explores how to ethically use AI as your supportive partner to build a workplace culture that makes your best people want to stay. Discover practical, AI-supported strategies to listen more effectively, tackle workload burnout, and foster your team's growth, shifting your ECE service into a place where educators don't just survive, but thrive.

✅ The true, hidden human costs of educator turnover and how to identify the "leadership blind spot." 

✅ How to create and use an anonymous AI-powered "Pulse Check" survey to genuinely listen to your team's needs without it feeling like surveillance.

✅ A step-by-step strategy for using AI as a "Gratitude Assistant" to ensure your authentic appreciation is always felt and heard. 

✅ How to reframe AI's role in reducing workload burnout by separating irreplaceable "professional work" from time-consuming "mechanical tasks." 

✅ A simple method for co-creating personalised professional development plans with AI to foster loyalty and invest in your team's future.

I know that for many of us here in Australia, the start of a new financial year is a time for planning, budgeting, and thinking about our professional development goals. And for my listeners all around the world, the middle of the year is the perfect time for a reset.

To help you get started on your journey to AI empowerment, I'm offering a special discount for the entire month of July. When you join the AI Empowered Educators annual membership, you can take $50 off the total price.

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"The best retention strategy isn't a single program or a pizza party. It is a culture. A culture of genuine support, where people feel seen, heard, and valued."

Ready to listen more effectively? Use this prompt in your favourite AI tool (like Gemini or ChatGPT) to create a supportive, anonymous survey for your team.

Prompt: "Act as an ECE Leadership Consultant. I need to create a short, anonymous 'Wellbeing Pulse Check' survey for my team of early childhood educators. Draft 4 questions that are simple, non-judgemental, and focus on support. The tone should be warm and caring. Include a mix of rating-scale and open-text questions. For example: 'On a scale of 1-5, how manageable was your workload this week?' and 'Is there one thing that would make your week feel more supported?'"

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Do you worry that using AI is "cheating" or that it will de-skill your team? This episode tackles the biggest fears surrounding AI in early childhood education head-on. Jodie unpacks why generic tools like ChatGPT often lead to frustration and reveals how purpose-built "Smartforms" can act as your expert partner, elevating your professional practice without replacing your critical knowledge. 

This is your step by step guide to using AI confidently, ethically, and in a way that gives you back your most valuable resource: time.

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✅ The "Unorganised Library" Problem: Why generic AI tools like ChatGPT often give you frustrating, useless responses and how to think about them more strategically.

✅ From Blank Page to Scaffold: The core principle behind well-designed AI tools and how they guide your thinking instead of replacing it.

✅ The "Documentation Ladder": How to use a system of interconnected Smartforms to support the entire cycle of care and planning, from the first spark of an idea to the final weekly program.

✅ Finding Your Professional Voice: How AI can act as your co-pilot, helping you communicate with families with warmth and professionalism, even when you're exhausted.

✅ The "Pedagogical X-Ray": A new way to think about AI as a professional development tool that accelerates your learning and deepens your understanding of the EYLF and NQS.

✅ AI for Leaders: Practical strategies for using Smartforms to build team capacity, facilitate meaningful reflection, and make your QIP a collaborative, living document.

1. Anecdotal Observation Writer & Learning Story Writer
2. Learning Extension Planner & Weekly Program Plan Creator
3. Loose Parts Play Spark & Junk to Gem Idea Creator
4. The 'My Day' Snapshot & 'Our Day' in Review
5. Tricky Conversation Email Drafter
6. EYLF Outcome Matcher / Learning Outcome Connector
7. QIP Evidence Spark & Mock Assessor Simulator
8. Team Reflection Prompt Creator

"A well-designed AI tool doesn't just give you the answer. It acts as a mentor."

Copy and paste this into ChatGPT or Gemini to see how providing scaffolded details improves the result:

Act as an expert early childhood educator. Write a short, engaging learning story about a 4-year-old child named Leo. Core Observation: Leo spent 15 minutes at the water table, carefully pouring water from a big jug into a small bottle. He was very focused and smiled when he filled it without spilling. Analysis: This shows Leo's persistence and growing fine motor control.

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Feeling a little frazzled as you face the halfway point of the year? Whether you’re knee-deep in EOFY admin or wrapping up the term, this episode is your invitation to pause and reset…without guilt. I’ll walk you through three simple ways to partner with your AI assistant as a reflection coach, documentation helper and leadership ally.

Discover step-by-step ways to make the most of reflective practice time, compile more effective mid year portfolios and summative assessments and guide hesitant teams through ethical AI adoption.

You’ll finish the episode with a clear action plan, renewed motivation, and a plan to step into the second half of the year with confidence (and fewer late-night documentation marathons).

🟣 What You’ll Learn in Around 45 Minutes:

✅ How AI can support a reflective mindset and use that information to plan for your growth, not burnout

✅ How AI can find professional development options that actually interest you

✅ How to audit your current planning cycle with AI 

✅ A way to turn those documentation pieces into engaging, family-friendly portfolios and summative assessments

✅ Guide your team through AI adoption with a simple, ethical roadmap - even if they are AI sceptics and resistant to change. 

✅ How to use the free pdf templates to make a mid year reset easier. 

🟣 Try-It-Now AI Prompt

Start small with this simple prompt – perfect for easing into reflective journaling with AI:

“Can you organise these messy notes into 3 clear bullet points I can use for my reflective journal? Here they are: [Paste your notes].”

Or go a little deeper:

“Act as a reflective practice coach. Here are my thoughts from the term. Help me identify 3 key themes, 1 area of success, and ask 2 questions to reflect more deeply: [Paste your brain dump].”

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Ever feel like you’re walking on eggshells when planning cultural learning experiences? You’re not alone. In this episode, Jodie shares honest reflections, real educator questions, and practical strategies to move from once-a-year token gestures to authentic, ongoing inclusion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives in your early learning environment. You'll discover how AI can gently guide your thinking, help you reflect without judgement, and offer culturally respectful planning support - even if you're just beginning.

✅ Recognise tokenism and shift to more authentic practice

✅ Reflect confidently and privately on your current approach using AI

✅ Create culturally connected learning spaces

✅ Build genuine partnerships with Aboriginal communities

✅ Use AI to support protocols and respectful planning

✅ Document learning in meaningful, EYLF-aligned ways

✅ Take simple, confidence-building steps to start now

01:22 Tokenistic vs. authentic cultural practice

04:59 Using AI to support deeper reflection

17:56 Designing culturally connected environments

32:36 Building genuine community partnerships

38:36 Using AI to explore cultural protocols

39:58 Building trust with Aboriginal communities

40:45 Preparing your team and families

43:22 Planning for daily cultural learning

44:59 Creating learning experiences with AI help

51:16 Documenting respectfully and meaningfully

58:52 Facing challenges and growing confidence

01:08:25 3 actionable next steps for educators

“It’s not about having all the answers. It’s about starting with respect, listening, and learning alongside the children.”

“I want to embed Aboriginal perspectives into my play-based program. I’m located on [Country] and working with children aged [X]. Can you suggest three meaningful, respectful ways to begin, including one outdoor experience?”

1. Are my current cultural practices ongoing or occasional?
2. How could AI help me research cultural protocols with care?
3. What’s one small step I can take this week to create a stronger cultural connection in my environment?

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Tired of jotting quick notes about children's play only to struggle turning them into meaningful, framework-aligned observations later? In this first episode of the "AI Empowered Planning Cycle" miniseries, Jodie reveals five practical strategies to transform your brief notes or jottings into professional, comprehensive observations in under two minutes - all while keeping your authentic educator voice at the centre.

✅ Turn quick observation jottings into framework-aligned documentation without starting from scratch

✅ Keep your unique educator voice while saving 20+ minutes per observation

✅ Connect play moments to learning outcomes with confidence

✅ Create reusable, personalised observation templates that work for your specific setting

✅ Translate "educator speak" into family-friendly language that engages parents in their child's learning journey

✅ Use a simple 3-step process for capturing meaningful observations with AI support

01:28 Why observations become the task we never get to

05:06 From "Sophie played in sandpit" to meaningful documentation

10:59 Strategy 1: Jottings to organized paragraphs

14:49 Strategy 2: Finding the learning focus instantly

16:49 Strategy 3: Adding professional context naturally

18:53 Strategy 4: Creating family-friendly versions

21:00 Strategy 5: Building your personalized template

24:00 Try-along: Transform an observation in 2 minutes

31:24 Action steps and free resources

"Observation is the launchpad of more meaningful planning, and with the right AI support, turning your quick jottings into useful reflections doesn't have to be as time-consuming or confusing as it once was."

Turn this into an early years learning framework-linked observation paragraph for a [age]-year-old:

[Child's name/initial] [brief description of what you observed]

Please include:

1. The skills being developed

2. Connection to learning outcomes

3. Potential next steps for extending learning

1. Which moments throughout your day do you notice but never document because the process feels too time-consuming?
2. How might creating an AI-assisted 2-minute observation routine change your approach to documentation?
3. Which of the five strategies would make the biggest immediate difference in your current documentation practice?

• Free PDF "AI in Action: AI Prompt Pack for Easier Observation Writing " 
• AI Empowered Educators Membership - chat with the Empowered Ed team of specialised AI assistants and consultants trained for Early Education professionals

In Episode 22, we'll move to the "Assess" stage of the planning cycle, showing you how to turn the information gathered from your observations into meaningful learning goals without getting lost in outcome linking and checkbox mentality.

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In episode 20 of the 'Early Education in the Age of AI', show, Jodie from the Empowered Educator Online discusses how to make the shift from decoration to meaningful visual documentation in early learning environments.

She highlights the challenges educators face in creating child-centered displays and explores how AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude can assist in making children's learning journeys visible. Jodie also delves into the purposes of displays, including teaching, celebrating, and documenting learning, and provides practical strategies for using AI to support these activities.

You'll hear reflective questions, ethical considerations to keep in mind, and actionable steps you can take to incorproate AI into your planning and documentation processes, aiming to create more efficient, authentic, and child-centered learning environments.

✅ The three core purposes of display in early learning environments: to teach, celebrate, and document

✅ The philosophical shift from decoration to documentation and why it matters

✅ How AI can help educators create meaningful documentation more efficiently

✅ Practical AI prompting techniques for different documentation types

✅ How to keep children's voices at the centre of any AI-supported documentation

✅ Ideas to expand documentation beyond wall displays to outdoor spaces and digital formats

✅ Time-saving documentation strategies for busy educators

🟢 Alistair Bryce-Clegg's powerful perspective on child-centred display practices

🟢 Specific AI prompt templates you can copy and use for different documentation approaches

🟢 Strategies for creating learning walls that evolve with children's interests

🟢 Helpful approaches for balancing physical and digital documentation

"I want to write a learning story about [child's name/age] who [brief description of what they were doing]. They showed [skills/dispositions you observed]. Their own words were [insert any quotes]. Help me write a learning story in first person that maintains my voice as an educator, highlights the significance of this learning, and connects to [relevant framework]."

"I've taken photos of [describe what the photos show]. Help me create 3-5 short, meaningful captions that highlight the learning occurring, pose thoughtful questions, and make connections to [relevant framework or theory]."

"I want to create text for a display that incorporates children's voices about [learning experience]. Help me draft questions I can ask children to gather their perspectives, and suggest ways to incorporate their exact words into the display."

1. Try creating one AI-supported learning story this week
2. Review your current displays - do they tell the story of the children who learn in your space?
3. Experiment with one new documentation approach from the episode

00:00 Introduction to AI in Early Education

02:11 The Shift from Decoration to Documentation

05:04 Core Purposes of Display in Early Learning

10:15 Challenges and Solutions in Meaningful Documentation

18:48 AI Strategies for Effective Documentation

25:05 Practical AI Documentation Techniques

32:44 Ethical Considerations and Child-Centered Documentation

45:16 Future Possibilities and Final Thoughts

55:19 Actionable Next Steps and Conclusion

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In this episode of "Early Education in the Age of AI," Jodie explores how educators can use AI tools to speed up and simplify the creation of essential visual support resources including communication boards, visual schedules, and social stories. Hear practical ways to use AI as your personal special needs and inclusion assistant while maintaining your educator voice and knowledge of children's individual needs and learning goals.

• How AI can help you create professional visual supports in a fraction of the time
• Step-by-step processes for creating communication boards, visual schedules, and social stories
• Effective AI prompts you can copy and use immediately
• How to maintain your professional judgment while using AI as a collaborative partner
• Ways to connect your visual supports to educational frameworks
• Design tips for turning AI-generated content into engaging visual resources
• Ethical considerations when using AI to create resources for children

1. Communication Boards: Visual tools that help children express their needs, wants, and ideas
2. Visual Schedules: Sequential representations of activities or routines that help children understand their day
3. Social Stories: Personalised narratives that help children understand and prepare for social situations

• Claude by Anthropic: Great for detailed descriptions and developmentally appropriate language
• ChatGPT: Useful for structured formats like visual schedules or communication boards
• Specialised early childhood AI assistants (for Empowered Educator members): Penny Planning, Dottie Documentation, and Ellie EYLF

"I'm an early childhood educator creating a communication board for three to four year olds to use during meal times. Please suggest 20 to 25 words or phrases that would be most useful, organized into logical categories. The children in my group have diverse cultural backgrounds, so please ensure the vocabulary is inclusive of different food preferences."

Why it's excellent: Includes specific age group, context, number of items needed, and consideration for diversity

"I need to create a personalised visual schedule for a three year old who struggles with waiting for preferred activities. They particularly enjoy art experiences, but become upset when art isn't immediately available. Please help me create a schedule format that emphasises when art opportunities will occur throughout the day and include strategies for managing waiting times."

Why it's excellent: Highly personalised, addresses a specific challenge, requests concrete strategies, and focuses on a common early childhood transition issue

"I need to create a social story for a four year old who becomes upset when [situation]. Please help me draft a simple social story using first person language that explains why we have [activity], what happens during this transition, and strategies the child can use to manage their feelings about ending their play."

Why it's excellent: Specifies the format (first person language), asks for explanations and strategies, and is structured to help children understand both the "why" and "how" of managing emotions during transitions

📍🟢 Canva Designs & Templates For Educators

Reclaim Your Time & Simplify Your Planning Cycle Documentation with Done-for-You Editable Templates

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🟢🟣 In this episode of Early Education in the Age of AI, we’re exploring how you can effectively integrate sustainability into your play-based learning environment - without adding more work to your already full plate! Whether you work in family daycare, early learning centers, preschools, OSHC, or even at home with young children, this episode is packed with realistic, engaging, and developmentally appropriate sustainability ideas.

But that’s not all - I’m also sharing AI-powered strategies to help you brainstorm creative activity ideas, create sustainability plans, document eco-friendly practices, and even communicate with families in less time. AI chat assistants like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and my own trained Academy AI Assistants can be helpful tools to reduce your workload while embedding sustainable habits into your program.

If you’re ready to make sustainability a natural, meaningful, and exciting part of early learning…without the overwhelm - this episode is for you!

✅ Why sustainability in early childhood matters (and how it connects to the EYLF & NQS)

✅ Beyond the recycling bin! How to truly embed sustainability into children’s daily play and routines

✅ Setting up an eco-friendly learning environment (no matter your space!)

✅ Fun & easy play-based sustainability activities using loose parts, nature, and upcycled materials

✅ How to empower children as active participants in sustainable practices (so they take ownership!)

✅ Simple AI prompts you can copy and use today to get instant sustainability inspiration from an AI Assistant

✅ AI-powered strategies for:

• Generating eco-friendly activity ideas instantly
• Writing learning stories that document sustainability
• Creating parent communication templates (newsletters, updates, event invites)
• Finding grants & funding for sustainability projects

💡 "Give me 5 simple ways to introduce sustainability into a small family daycare setting."

💡 "Suggest nature-based, play-based outdoor activities for 3-5-year-olds using only recycled materials."

💡 "Write a learning story about children engaging in a nature-based art experience using loose parts, linked to EYLF outcomes."

💡 "Draft a friendly parent newsletter explaining our new sustainability initiatives and how families can get involved."

🎙️ If you’ve been feeling overwhelmed about embedding sustainability in your setting, this episode is here to simplify the process for you. AI isn’t about replacing your expertise - it’s here to support and boost your creativity while saving you time.

So, grab a cuppa ☕, take a breath, and let’s explore how to make sustainability an easier, more engaging part of your program and learning environments!

📖 Read more play-based sustainability ideas on my blog: The Empowered Educator

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🟢 Struggling to come up with engaging play invitations?

🟢 Wondering how to set up provocations that actually spark curiosity?

🟢 Not sure what the difference between these 2 approaches are or how to use them effectively to support play based learning? 

There’s often confusion around these terms, even among experienced educators. They tend to get used interchangeably, but they’re actually quite different approaches, and when you understand that difference, you can start setting up play experiences more intentionally.

In this episode, I’m sharing with you how AI chat assistants (like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and my exclusive Empowered Ed AI Assistants) can help early childhood professionals and parents:

✅ Understand the difference between Invitations to Play & Provocations (and why it matters!)

✅ Use AI to generate play ideas based on available materials & children’s interests

✅ Simplify and organise learning journey documentation while keeping your authentic educator voice & expertise front and centre

✅ Extend children’s learning by using AI to suggest more personalised follow-up activities & reflective prompts

🎧 Listen in to learn:

🔹 Why children sometimes ignore our carefully set-up play invitations (and how to reframe it!)

🔹 The main difference between Invitations to Play & Provocations (so you can plan more effectively)

🔹 Simple AI prompts to copy and use with an AI Assistant to give you engaging, open-ended play ideas tailored to your setting

🔹 How AI can support your learning documentation & analysis - without taking over your voice

🔹 The one AI-powered forward planning strategy that will save you hours each week

💡 If you've ever wished you had more time to create meaningful play-based experiences while keeping up with documentation - this episode is for you!

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✅ Access to Exclusive AI assistants trained for ECE professionals, ready to help 24/7

✅ Step-by-step video training with lots of examples on using AI for planning, documentation & play-based learning

✅ A supportive community of educators also learning about and experimenting with AI in early education across a wide variety of roles

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