The Early Education Show

Interview with Sarah Baray, CEO of Pre-K 4 SA

Liam has a chat with Sarah Baray, the CEO of Pre-K 4 SA - an innovative and groundbreaking early education program from San Antonio in Texas. Sarah discusses the challenges of securing funding for children's programs, and how it can lift children out of disadvantage.

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Flying squads and the “look of quality” (with Dr. Deborah Harcourt)

This week Lisa and Liam are joined by Dr. Deborah Harcourt to discuss her recent article on approaches to quality in early childhood education and care settings, as well as her own fortnightly podcast on early education.

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Episode Times

01'22" Newslist
12'36" Discussion with Deborah Harcourt
54'06" Recommendations
58'30" Outro

State of Early Learning in Australia 2017 (with Sam Page, Early Childhood Australia CEO)

Early Learning Everyone Benefits spokesperson and Early Childhood Australia CEO Sam Page joins Lisa and Liam for a discussion about the State of Early Learning in Australia 2017 Report released this week.

Episode Times

02'40" State of Early Learning Report Discussion
47'51" Recommendations
55'19" Outro

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Child Protection Week

This week, Lisa and Liam talk about National Child Protection Week and how well early childhood education services and organisations are performing in their child protection roles.

 

01'08" Newslist
18'23" Child Protection Week
48'49" Recommendations
51'19" Outro

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Children's rights and the media

Early childhood educators, services and advocates exploring issues of inclusion and social justice have been getting a lot of negative attention in the media recently, mostly from the conservative newspapers. Why are some media outlets to outraged by exploring rights in early education settings, and how should the sector respond?

Lisa also talks with Dr Red Ruby Scarlet about how she has responded to the recent media interest and why the sector needs people who will publicly champion social justice issues.

01'21" Newslist
09'03" Children's rights and the media
28'41" Dr Red Ruby Scarlet Interview
45'38" Recommendations
49'36" Outro

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Children's Book Week

It's Children's Book Week, so Leanne and Liam talk about the importance of literacy and reading in the early years, before sharing their favourite children's authors and providing a book recommendation each for early education professionals.

02'39" Newslist
13'33" Children's Book Week
51'40" Recommendations
54'29" Outro

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Getting ready for the Jobs for Families reforms (with Karl Hessian)

This week, Lisa has a chat over the phone with our resident expert on all things tricky and complex with early childhood legislation, Karl Hessian. Karl lets us know what he thinks all services should be doing before the reform package takes effect in July 2018.

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Interview with Kate Washington, NSW Shadow Minister for Early Childhood Education

This week we bring you an interview Leanne conducted with Kate Washington MP, NSW Shadow Minister for Early Childhood Education. They discuss Labor's policy positions on early childhood education, current issues with funding of early education in NSW and much more. Plus, stay tuned right to the end to find out about our exciting first ever competition!

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National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children's Day

This week, Liam talks with Sharron Williams - the Board Chairperson of SNAICC and CEO of Aboriginal Family Support Services - about National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children's Day. This annual event is the largest national day to celebrate Australia's Indigenous children. Sharron talks about how important his day is, and why early childhood education services should get involved.

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Community-based management and the NQF

We're all big supporters of not-for-profit provision of early childhood education, but how has community-based management changed after the introduction of the National Quality Framework - and why is it a good model for ECEC?

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