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Let’s face it, the most important part of what we do as educators is facilitating and extending each child’s learning while ensuring children’s wellbeing and comfort is provided for. We do this [...]

Without a doubt, the one topic that comes up most often in conversations with EarlyWorks educators is the planning cycle and how to document it. This isn’t surprising as educators live and [...]

Agency? I think I know what it is… I’m not sure how to document it though? First, let’s get a shared understanding of ‘agency’ in the context of child learning. According to ACECQA “agency is [...]

When you’re putting together the best technology solutions for your childcare business, you often have two choices. Either you look for a provider of a platform that attempts to address [...]

It’s easier than you might think! This is a question we often hear from services enquiring about using EarlyWorks, so I have done a lot of thinking about what the answer is.  And the good [...]

When we think about EarlyWorks, we probably think of it as an Educator tool, after all much of our day is documented in EarlyWorks: nappy changes, menus, sleep times, observations, experiences, [...]

“We are working SO hard, and feel we’re providing an outstanding service, yet we can’t seem to have this reflected in our rating! Where are we going wrong?” Sound familiar? The [...]

“If a child can’t learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.” Ignacio Estrada. If like me, you get a little bubble of excitement when the ACECQA Newsletter lands in [...]

The strengths-based approach is all about understanding that children demonstrate their learning and understanding in different ways. It involves focusing what a child can do, and what strategies [...]

Version 2 of the national approved learning frameworks (EYLF and MTOP) have just been released by ACECQA. This will impact outcomes, principles, practices, as well as some terminology changes [...]