Early Years Sustainability
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Looking for some fresh ideas for exploring sustainability with children and your team - that aren't recycling, composting or worm farms?
Get started using only what you have on hand, no need to spend lots of time or money to get things moving.
These simple and practical ideas will help you create opportunities for discussion and build momentum for your sustainability initiatives and bring sustainability to life in ways you might not have thought about before.
If you're looking towards embedding sustainability but want some fresh ideas to get you started, this guide is for you.
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Our Sustainability Squad Program provides a range of opportunities for early childhood services and educators to build their capacity to implement a whole of service approach to sustainability.
The Sustainability Squad Program includes:
- Online Learning - Tools - Resources - Community - Support -
Flexible
Our approach to sustainability is flexible and can be applied in any early years, OSHC or school setting.
Built on Strengths
Build a sustainability program based on your strengths, interests and passions.
Community
Our community is dedicated to supporting each other to create a sustainable future.
Practical
Equipping you to lead, plan & implement sustainability in your programs, policies & practices.
Sustainability Kick Start Program
Join the Sustainability Kick Start Program and discover your Sustianability Superpowers. Build the knowledge and skills you need to successfully embed sustainability across your service and engage your team, children, families & community.
This Program has been designed to support you to:
- Build your sustainability knowledge - what it means to you, your team and your service so that you can get everyone on the same page and move forward in the same direction;
- Learn strategies for engaging your team, children, families and community so that you're not doing all the work yourself; and
- Move forward with clarity, confident that you know where you’re going and what you need to do to get there.
Masterclasses Available On Demand
From Doing to Embedding Sustainability
In this Masterclass I'll share my simple 5-step Framework to move from doing to embedding sustainability.
Discover the benefits and opportunities embedding sustainability can bring to your service, the children in your care, their families and your community.
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Engaging Others in Embedding Sustainability
This Masterclass & Resource Bundle includes a collection of resources to support your service to engage your team, children, families & community in sustainability.
It includes a masterclass detailing six of my favourite engagement strategies; Workbook; Sustainability Superpower Skills Matrix Template; Quick Win Ideas Book; Catalyst Project Plan Template; & Certificate.
Available On Demand
Sustainability & the EYLF | MTOP 2.0
Explore how recent updates to the EYLF and MTOP Framework can help you embed a whole of service approach to sustainability.
Identify how each Principle connects to sustainability. Discover how sustainability can be reflected in your Practice & how it aligns with the Planning Cycle; and look at practical examples of everyday actions & activities, identifying the learning outcomes & relevant sustainability themes & concepts. Get instant access.
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What is Sustainability? - Getting on the same page
Sustainability can mean different things to different people. It's important to make sure you're talking about the same thing and on the same page.
Define sustainability in a way that’s meaningful to your people & place so you can move forward together.
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Local Action Global Impact
Explore the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and how they can support early childhood educators to better understand and embed sustainability; how the SDGs align with the National Quality Framework and Early Years Learning Framework; and discover what implementing the SDG’s might look like in your ECEC setting, program and daily practice.
Available on Demand
Online Mini Courses
Starting Sustainability
This online introductory mini-course is a great place to start your sustainability journey. Here's what's covered:
- Defining Sustainability and what it means to your service;
- Why is sustainability important in Early Childhood?
- Reflect on your current practice and identify what sustainability actions you are already doing;
- Envision your sustainable service - what does it look and feel like?
- Create Your Sustainability Action Plan.
Getting Others On Board
This introductory course has been designed to help you overcome one of the most common challenges faced by educators trying to introduce and embed sustainability in their service - getting others on board and engaged. In this course you'll learn:
- Analyse your current practice and identify opportunities for action;
- My top 5 tips for getting others on board, engaged and maybe even enthusiastic!;
- How to overcome and address the most common objections; and
- How to create momentum that will help move your service in the right direction.
Sustainability Toolbox
A collection of tools that make embedding sustainability easier. Build your knowledge and confidence in sustainability themes and concepts, identify sustainability in children's interests and play, build your sustainability vocabulary and challenge your ideas of what sustainability is. Explore how sustainability links to the National Quality Standards, Early Years Learning Framework and how early years settings can contribute to the UN Global Sustainable Development Goals. Guide your team in discussions and encourage critical reflection and continuous improvement.
Purchase your Sustainability Toolbox, and get instant access including any updates or tools added in the future.
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