Developing your professional identity and leadership style as an early childhood educator is a key aspect of your professional growth and practice. It can help you to enhance your confidence and competence, to align your actions with your values and vision, to build positive relationships with others and to contribute to the quality of earlyRead More…
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How to Foster a Culture of Inquiry and Reflection in Your Early Childhood Setting
Fostering a culture of inquiry and reflection in early childhood settings is a key goal for teachers and leaders. Inquiry and reflection are essential skills for early childhood educators, as they help teachers to: understand children’s learning and development, plan meaningful and responsive curriculum, and improve their own practice. A culture of inquiry and reflectiveRead More…
Coincidence, Synchronicity and Serendipity: How to Recognize and Respond to the Universe’s Messages
I am curious about the occurrence of coincidences, and wonder what this phenomenon might be telling us, if anything at all. Does the Universe give us ‘signs’, similar to directional traffic signs which tell us when to stop, go, proceed with caution, slow down, enter at your own risk, danger ahead and so on. IfRead More…
How to Live Like a Stoic : The Path to Authentic Happiness
When I was very young, I read these words by D.H. Lawrence and wrote them into my poetry journal : The optimist builds himself safe inside a cell And paints the inside walls sky-blue And blocks up the door And says he is in Heaven. At the time, I experienced a sense of disquiet inRead More…
Leading or Following? Learning The Dance of Communication
As we return to the start of a brand-new year, with new goals, new habits and new rules, there is the familiar sensation of déjà vu. Some of us have been here before, year after year, firing on all cylinders in January, spluttering by February and dead in the water by March – new goals,Read More…
