The Early Education Show

On Sunday Labor announced policies on lowering early education costs for families and raising wages for early childhood educators. In this extra episode Lisa, Leanne and Liam take a look at these policies and what they mean for the sector. Find the full shownotes at earlyeducationshow.com.

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This week Liam gets an update on the Early Childhood Educator Wellbeing Project (ECEWP) we covered earlier in the year. Liam speaks to Tamara Cumming, one of the researchers leading the Project; Leisa Wright, Centre Director at Harrison Early Childhood Centre, one of the services taking part in the Project; and Leanne Gibbs, who facilitated a session at the Project’s recent Stakeholder Roundtable. Find the full shownotes at earlyeducationshow.com

This week we chat with Tamika Hicks, the Manager of Cardinia Lakes Early Learning Centre, a standalone service in Victoria. Tamika is an advocate and activist with a focus on quality - how does she approach balancing ethical approaches to early education with successfully operating a business? Find the full shownotes at earlyeducationshow.com.

Lisa and Liam quickly scour the budget papers (and Twitter), before giving our immediate reactions to the Federal Government’s Budget for 2019/20. Then, in anticipation that we were probably not going to like this Budget, Lisa dazzles us all with her fantasy Federal Budget for early education. 2019 Federal BudgetLisa’s Fantasy Budget

This week Lisa and Liam have a brief chat about this weekend's NSW Election, before tackling the Australian National Audit Office's review of the design and implementation of the Government's Child Care Package. We speak to four people in the sector to get a range of views on how well (or not) the Package was delivered. Find the full shownotes at earlyeducationshow.com.

This week Lisa and Liam chat with activist, artist and researcher Dr Red Ruby Scarlet about why services who work with young children should engage with issues of social justice. Find the full shownotes at earlyeducationshow.com.

This week we are joined by Laureate Professor Marilyn Fleer, who discusses her work as the Kathleen Fitzpatrick Australian Laureate Fellow and developer of the Conceptual PlayLab, an evidence-based model of intentional teaching for early childhood and early primary and an example of world-leading research. Find the full shownotes at earlyeducationshow.com Supporters of the show on Patreon have access to our bonus series "Exploring the NQS", which has covered all elements of Quality Areas 1 and 2 of the National Quality Standard.

This week Liam chats with Ali Sewter, Kylie Keane and Carl Kroon from Forrest Out of School Hours Care about their recent achievement of receiving the Excellent rating from ACECQA; and Leanne brings us her reflections from Day 2 of the recent AJEC Symposium. Find the full shownotes at earlyeducationshow.com.

This week Lisa, Leanne and Liam discuss recent advocacy around the numbers of Early Childhood Teachers required in NSW early education services. Leanne also provides a summary of her time at the recent AJEC Conference. Find the full shownotes at earlyeducationshow.com

This week, Lisa and Liam take a look at all the different advocacy campaigns and battles that are happening in 2019 in the early education sector. Find the full shownotes at earlyeducationshow.com Element 2.1.3: Healthy lifestyle now available on Exploring the NQS.

In our first episode of 2019, Liam chats with Associate Professor Sandie Wong, Dr Tamara Cumming and Dr Helen Logan about the Early Childhood Educator Wellbeing Project. The Project takes an holistic approach to examine the psychological and physiological aspects of early childhood educators’ well-being within the context of their work environments. Find the full shownotes at earlyeducationshow.com.

We're back with full episodes on February 8, but this bonus episode gives listeners access to the first episode of our supporter-only series "Exploring the NQS". This weekly series features Liam looking at the National Quality Standard, once a week, one element at a time. The show launched in November, and so far we have episodes up on the planning cycle, critical reflection intentional teaching and more. Learn more about the show on our website. Become a supporter of the show and access the rest of the episodes for Quality Area 1, and get new episodes every Tuesday.

For the third year running we present our end-of-year episode! We provide an overview of the big moments from 2018, make some predictions for what might be to come in 2019, and the answer a few listener questions. Thanks to everyone who’s stuck with us for another year. We’ll be back in February for another year of policy discussions, rants about children’s rights and analysis of whatever crazy things politicians have done that week. See you in 2019! Exploring the NQSOur Patreon-exclusive series on the National Quality Standard has launched. Analysis of the first seven elements of Quality Area 1: Educational program and practice are now available. Check them all out right here.

There’s been a flurry of ECEC news in December, and we didn’t want to wait until February to chat about it. Get up to speed with our quick bonus episode!