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Previously, Niyati Prabhu has written for us about a local research project she led which connected parents, educators, schools and children in order to improve her service’s school readiness programs.

I call it a step, but it started life as an over-sized building block and the first children who played with it are probably turning 50 this year.

In 2017 Amplify covered NSW’s move beyond the Commonwealth ‘No Jab No Pay’ legislation to join Victoria and Queensland with a ‘No Jab No Play’ policy that prevents parents with a ‘conscientious objection’ to vaccinations from using that belief as an exemption to enrol their children in registered children’s services including standalone preschools.

Daniel Sherwin contacted Amplify after setting up his website last year, dadsolo.com. Would we be interested in him writing something about the experiences single fathers had with their children’s early childhood services and schools? At the time, we were also preparing a feature article on the minority of male educators in the sector so we followed the flow and said, yes please.

Previously, Niyati Prabhu has written for us about a local research project she led which connected parents, educators, schools and children in order to improve her service’s school readiness programs.  In the next three weeks, Niyati is sharing a range of educator-wellbeing strategies employed at Cherry Bridge Station, Lane Cove, where she is the nominated supervisor.

Community Early Learning Australia recently created a new Learning and Development agenda based on our philosophy that we can bring a sparkle to your work with children.

Dr Mimi Wellisch brings together her own research and established international evidence that every educator is likely to see at least one moderately gifted child each year in a typical centre-based service.

Last week we chose the winners of our scholarship to the MENu conference in Adelaide in February. 

It’s a curious aspect of childhood, but few of us alive today have grown up without at least one period of fascination with dinosaurs.

Sarah Riddell, early childhood teacher and blogger, returns to Amplify with this consideration of technology in documentation. While some in the sector remain vexed about the use of image captures for documenting children’s learning stories, Sarah takes a strongly practical approach and examines how educators could make technology work harder for them.