Training

This self-paced course focuses on understanding how children use behaviour to communicate their feelings. It takes a strengths-based approach that is responsive to children, respects diversity and difference and works with family strengths to support children’s social and emotional learning. It provides a range of strategies that you can use to both design safe and supportive learning environments and guide children’s emerging social and emotional skills. Explore the series. 

Team access for up to 6 participants

When behaviours keep escalating, it can feel like you have tried everything and still cannot find the right strategy in the moment. If you and your team are feeling stuck, second-guessing your approach, or looking for a fresh way for your team to approach behaviours that challenge, this self-paced course is for you.

FREE IN PERSON WORKSHOP

Recognising and Responding to Coercive Control - Capacity building for community frontline early education and care professionals.

This is your opportunity to strengthen the skills that support effective, people-focused leadership and to discover how to navigate complex management challenges with greater clarity and confidence. 

The Recognising and responding to coercive control: Capacity building for community frontline early childhood education and care workers project has been funded by the NSW Government through the Department of Communities and Justice. The resources and training have been developed by Community Early Learning Australia (CELA) to support the early childhood education and care sector to recognise and respond to coercive control in early childhood settings.

Would you like to gain clarity on your role as an educational leader in engaging educators with the why, what, and how of pedagogical programming and documentation?

Literacy is more than reading and writing. Are you ready to recognise, support and extend children’s emerging literacy skills in meaningful, everyday ways?

This session will build your confidence to identify early literacy development, understand the difference between learning to read and reading to learn, and apply practical strategies to embed literacy across your program.

NEW TOPIC!

Leaders play a vital role in creating a culture where children are heard, valued, and safe. In this webinar, you’ll learn how to strengthen governance, support staff, and embed practices that prevent harm and build trust. Together, we’ll explore practical tools and scenarios that help you lead with care and confidence.

• How can early childhood professionals ensure that their services are inclusive and equitable to all families?  
• Can children with additional needs from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds engage in the program at the same level as their peers?  

Inclusion, equity and high expectations is a challenging topic for most educators, but there are many ways that we can change our practice to benefit all families and children attending our services! 

This 2-hour-session will explore the concepts of equity, inclusion and high expectations, and help educators to reflect on these concepts and their current practice.

Gain your child protection certification with the course that sets the standard for the sector.

CHCPRT025 Identify and Report Children and Young People at Risk is a comprehensive child protection course that provides training around all aspects of abuse, reporting requirements and legal obligations for early childhood professionals.

When conversations with families involve sensitive issues such as children’s behaviour, wellbeing or development, educators are often navigating strong emotions alongside professional responsibility. These discussions are essential to building trust, supporting children’s safety and inclusion, and working in genuine partnership with families.

This session introduces a practical framework to help educators approach complex conversations about behaviour and other sensitive topics with clarity, confidence and care.

• Are you familiar with the new tools for self-assessment to support identified and key practices? 
• Would you like to build confidence in identifying and writing quality practices?

Unpack key concepts such as self-assessment and quality improvement planning to enable the whole team to gain a deeper understanding of self-assessment and its role in continuous improvement in the provision of education and care. Assessment and rating can be a stressful process for educators and service leaders, but it needn’t be that way!

Working with children is complex and rewarding work and involves the exercising of specific skills and knowledge. Importantly, understanding what it means to act professionally and ethically is integral to providing high quality education and care to children.

Are administrative tasks taking over your day?

Discover practical strategies to manage your time, streamline your work, and achieve administrative success