One quick question for you today!! It’s an important question and I love to ask it. I get so many emails and messages from educators asking if what you are doing is enough, is good enough, is right, should I do more, should it be this way or that way. AND BY ‘IT’ I mean … Continue reading #57 Shine as an educator – What way works for YOU?

Welcome to our first podcast for 2017 We have already hit the ground running so to speak with the launch of the Shine as an Educator mini ebook and 4 week challenge – and I will leave the link in the notes. Here Our focus is on Reflective practice and helping educators through the often … Continue reading #56 Shine as an educator – Do you really NEED reflective practice?

This week I announced the winner of our Survey competition – the prize was an awesome authentic aboriginal resource puzzle and card deck. I was so excited by it and love that I was able to give it to an early childhood educator. If you are one of the educators that completed our survey – … Continue reading #55 Shine as an educator – How’s your Communication skills?

Yep here it is the announcement I have been dying to give. This week I am announcing the release of our new course Support our Precious Children. So much has gone into this 10 Day intensive and I am so proud of it … I talk a lot about recognising educators are on a journey, … Continue reading #54 Shine as an educator – Support our Precious Children

Will you survive A&R? YES survive we did!! I thought today I would share some of my tips for surviving A&R, some take aways and of course our critical Reflection question. So I think I need to start by sharing that we did survive and I do feel it was an amazing experience. BUT at … Continue reading #53 Shine as an educator – Will you survive A&R

So this week I received the call from my scheme saying I was up for an Assessment and Rating visit, and I was like all cool, calm and collected for a bit and then realised I was going to have a mild panic attack!! I had to sit for a minute and b r e … Continue reading #52 Shine as an educator – Philosophy truths…

Last week I spoke about mindset, I threw out the challenge to take action on something you had been putting off, to look at your mindset as an early childhood educator. Well I reflected a little myself and the last thing on the list that I spoke about was – Had you been putting off … Continue reading #51 Shine as an educator – How resourceful are YOU?

So a very special episode – number 50 – and one to me that is a huge sigh of relief, it is a milestone I have been aiming at for almost a year, a bit of grit and determination has come out on this journey to number 50!! Have you had a goal that you … Continue reading #50 Shine as an educator – Your Mindset?

I read a wonderful statement this week that I think we often forget, that isn’t often reflected on AND is so true I wanted to share with you… Critical reflection does not always have to be negative, you can reflect on good things and why they work well for you!! I love it – it’s … Continue reading #49 Shine as an educator – Critical Reflection!!

So I have a confession – I am usually super organised usually up to date usually on a roll with my systems But lately – especially this week – I have been really struggling with my resources!! I’ve ended up with boxes, baskets and piles of unsorted resources that is quite frustrating and truthfully quite … Continue reading #48 Shine as an educator – Let’s talk Resources