Everything Early Childhood

Leeza and Jake travelled to New Zealand to experience Early Childhood from across the Tasman and bring some kiwi knowledge back to Oz. These are the takeaway's from the take - Part 1!

Give meaning the play! In this episode we explore Schematic play approaches and some examples of how you would see these in practice. You will never look at play the same again!

Lets explore one of the areas that has the biggest misconceptions in early childhood....Intentional Teaching.

This short episode delves into exploring what intentional teaching is and adding some tools into your toolbelt as well as looking how it relates back to the NQS and our practice.

Angela Lee Jenkins is a great human on a mission to help everyone bounce back, build resilience and focus on their wellbeing.

With a background in body and brain health she shares some of her strategies that she uses to help individuals and groups to bounce back from tough times.

Angela shares her personal story which has made her more resilient and the reason she started on this journey. She believes we are all here to share our greatness!

Find out more information at Angelaleejenkins.com.au

Barbara is affectionally known as The Time Tamer. Barbara Clifford is the lead trainer and coach in Time Management and a recognised leader in Stress Management at the Hinwood Institute. She has been a featured columnist for a Murdoch newspaper and is in demand as a Speaker and Facilitator. We loved spending time with Barbara in this diverse episode all about time management, stress and changing our state!

In 2017 i was lucky enough to work with a client that owned 11 services in Japan to help them establish services in Australia. As part of the project i went over to Japan to see there services. Here we share stories on travel, architecture, curriculum and culture on all things early childhood. If you have ever wondered what Early Learning Services in Japan are like, i cant wait to share this episode with you all!

Stephanie Pinto is an emotional intelligence coach, paediatric anxiety therapist and international speaker. She has 2 children of her own and is passionate about helping people bring back calm and connection with their kids.

You will be familiar with her Facebook community "raising emotionally intelligent kids" I know I've been following her work for years and love how much it resonates and can be transferred into our roles as early childhood professionals.

Stephanie Pinto joins us in this weeks episode to share her knowledge around emotional intelligence both in children and adults and how important it to have compassion and check in with ourselves before stepping into that big emotions space with children.

Stephanie is an amazing wealth of knowledge and we are so blessed for her to come on and share so many amazing gems that we can take with us and use in our everyday practice.

For more information on Stephanie Pinto you can find her at stephaniepinto.com

Alicia Wade is such an inspiration, starting her career like most in early childhood and working her way up to a director, area manager and now is keynote speaker, author, and coach inspiring countless others with her amazing talents and story.

It hasn't always been a straight line for Alicia and she openly shares her journey of overcoming challenges throughout her whole career, especially around self belief. She pays tribute to the amazing mentors along the way who believed in her and kept motivating her to push through.

We discuss life, business, leadership lessons, gratitude and resilience.