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Staff meeting professional development package for education and care professionals
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Choose a package that will suit your team
Let us cover a couple of staff meetings, or maybe more? We'll work with you to customise a day or a package that covers areas and identified needs mapped to your Quality Improvement Plan.
Packages can be designed for educators, teachers, or leadership teams from the education and care sector.
We recommend considering the needs within your Quality Improvement Plan and Strategic Inclusion Plan, to choose the topics that will be most relevant to your team.
Topics include:
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Educational program and practice
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Documentation and planning for children's learning
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Designing effective early childhood environments
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Developing Quality Improvement Plans
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Applying theory and research to pedagogical practice
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Back to basics - what is pedagogy, principles and practices?
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and more?
Our support team are happy to give you a hand deciding how your package will look and finding the right facilitator to fit your team. Simply call us on
Step 1 - Decide on your package length
Your package can be made up of a series of workshops and coaching
Evening staff meetings
How many evening team meetings would suit your team? These are typically 1.5 - 2.5 hours in length. Each team meeting will be centered around one theme. So, as a rough guide, if you are wanting to cover (for example), documentation, environments, and behaviour, you'll need 3 meetings.
Full team days
Instead of evening staff meetings, you might choose to make one or more of your staff meetings a full team day. These can be on the weekend, or a pupil free day. These days will also cover one theme per day, but can be up to 5 hours in length, giving your team the time to take a deeper dive into the topic.
Coaching & mentoring hours
Add some depth to your package with in-situ coaching and mentoring. Your facilitator can visit you in your day to day setting to observe practices and provide on the spot feedback, as well as written feedback in the form of Quality Improvement Plan Actions.
Step 2 - Choose your package themes
Choose one theme per staff meeting - here's some suggestions from our Workshop menu
The Phoenix Cups Foundations - Quality area 4 & 5
Introduce your whole team to a philosophical framework that will guide you to share ideas, language, and understandings about each other's behaviour. Through this team workshop you'll gain a new perspective of why people interact the way they do, how needs not being met affect behaviour, and what you can start doing to live a fulfilling life.
Documenting to Discover - Quality Area 1
Want to document less quantity and more quality? This workshop unpacks the cycle of quality documentation, and helps educators to gain a higher understanding of the National Quality Framework around documentation requirements. Develop a whole team approach to plan for emerging possibilities and document to discover.
An Environment I can BE in - Quality Area 3
Inspiring educators to construct spaces of endless possibilities for children to engage. Explore functional and natural aesthetic environments and seek inspiration to create learning spaces that reflect the natural local landscape.
Educators, Know your stuff! - Quality Area 1 +
Go back to basics with your team with this workshop about pedagogy, practices, and principles. Examining the concepts that form the foundation of the Early Years Learning Framework.
Deep dive into the Phoenix Cups - Quality area 5
Take a deeper dive into the Phoenix Cups (pre-requisite for these sessions is the Phoenix Cups foundations session). Choose from Safety Cup, Connection Cup, Mastery Cup, Freedom Cup, or Fun Cup then delve into theory, research, and ideas relating to each of these human drivers of behaviour and wellbeing.
QIP it!
Jump head first into your Quality Improvement Plan with your whole team. This session can be selected as a final session within a package containing 2 or more themes.
Step 3 - Get a quote from us
We'll send you a quote with relevant discounts and bonus extras
Bonus resources
Your gift box of resources will be tailored to the themes you choose. From mystery boxes of loose parts (for the environments workshop), Phoenix Cups kits through to online logins, your package will be packed with loads of value!
Discounts
We'll apply 10% discount for 2 staff meetings, a 20% discount for 3 staff meetings and a 30% discount for a package of 4 or more staff meetings.
Educational leader support
We know that leadership is the most integral piece in any professional development package. We support the Educational Leader to continue the momentum of the package with an annual membership to The Online Teacher's & Educator's Symposium and monthly phone coaching with your facilitator.
Meet our staff meeting facilitators
This fab four are the team who typically run our staff meeting packages.
If we have a facilitator local to you, travel costs will be minimal. However, all of our facilitators travel far and wide to deliver workshops, staff meetings, and conferences. You will find information about our whole team on the About Us page.
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Elise Waghorn - based in Victoria, Australia
Elise Waghorn is a PhD student in the Melbourne Graduate School of Education at the University of Melbourne. Her research project is investigating the everyday lifeworlds of children in Australia and how this relates and connects to policy and educational experiences with children in Hong Kong and Singapore.
Elise’s teaching has focused on the ways in which early childhood pedagogical practices influence children’s wellbeing. She has worked within the early childhood sector for 13 plus years and has a passion for making sure children's rights are listened to and respected. Outside her role at Phoenix Support, Elise teaches the Bachelor of Early Childhood and Primary, and Masters of Education (Early Childhood and Primary).
Tara Hill - based in Queensland, Australia
Tara Hill is the inspiring multi-tasking senior facilitator at Phoenix Support for Educators. Her experience in the profession started in 2003 as an educator and nominated supervisor. Tara's strength based coaching skills are exceptional. Tara oversees The Online Teacher's and Educator's Symposium (TOTES) and delivers workshops around educational program and practice, documentation, learning environments, as well as The Phoenix Cups.
Tara’s qualifications include an Advanced Diploma of Children's Services, and a Cert IV in Training and Assessment. Tara is currently studying a Bachelor of Social Sciences, majoring in Behavioural Studies.
Angie Day - based on the NSW coast, Australia
Angie has enjoyed a vast array of roles in the education sector for just over a decade. These roles include working as a nominated supervisor, primary teacher, national facilitator, practice coach and NESA supervisor. Her pedagogy prioritises dispositions and a love of learning and fun as the foundation from which to teach. For Angie, teaching is about ensuring that as often as possible, education at all levels fits the learner rather than the reverse.
Angie holds a Bachelor of Early Childhood and Primary education, as well as Cert IV in Training and Assessment and an Advanced Diploma in Business Management and Leadership. Angie is extremely excited to be in a position to support the practice and understanding of Early Learning Centres throughout her region.
Jay Gomez - based in South East Queensland, Australia
Jay has worked for more than seventeen years in the early childhood education and care profession and is committed to working with educators to better the opportunities for children to reach the best outcomes.
Through his dedication to the early childhood education and care profession, Jay has worked with countless educators, engaging educators in professional development. He has an expertise in leadership and mentoring, and has supported teams toward a stronger understanding of both the National Quality Framework and all aspects of the Early Years Learning Framework.
Jay has studied Secondary Education, Primary Education and Early Childhood Education and is currently working towards completing a Bachelor of Psychological Sciences.
Spoilt for choice? We'll choose for you.
If the decisions above are just too much... we've got you. Here's our pick of a well rounded package. When you enquire - just tell us you want the "straight off the shelf" staff meeting package. This is what it looks like...
Two staff meetings
+6hrs coaching & mentoring
We've got this package sorted with two of our most sought after workshops. Your facilitator will visit one day a month over two months. Arriving at 2pm, your facilitator will spend an hour coaching and mentoring with the leadership team, then visit the learning environments between 3-4pm. Between 4pm and 5pm, your facilitator will customise the evening session and tailor it to the unique needs of your team, based on observations throughout the day. Over the two months, your facilitator will touch base with the leadership team on two different occasions for zoom coaching and mentoring to celebrate successes and plan for your final session together. At the conclusion of your package, you'll have not only seen the inspiration come to life through improvements at your service, but you'll have a clear road forward to continue your journey. See below for bonus inclusions.
Book NowDocumenting to discover
Quality Area 1
Want to document less quantity and more quality?
This 2.5 hour evening workshop unpacks the cycle of quality documentation, and helps educators to gain a higher understanding of the National Quality Framework around documentation requirements. Develop a whole team approach to plan for emerging possibilities and document to discover.
Phoenix Cups foundations
Quality area 4 & 5
Introduce your whole team to a philosophical framework that will guide you to share ideas, language, and understandings about each other's behaviour. Through this team workshop you'll gain a new perspective of why people interact the way they do, how needs not being met affect behaviour, and what you can start doing to live a fulfilling life.
Bonus extras
Our 'straight off the shelf' staff meeting package comes with the following inclusions
A Phoenix Cups Certification Kit
Valued at $318, this complete kit for an educational leader includes one of each of The Phoenix Cups resources plus an online self paced Certification program. In addition to the kit, the Educational Leader will have full access for one year to our online membership program - The Online Teacher's and Educator's Symposium
Personal Cup filling plan for all
Valued at $560 for 20 participants - this hard copy book comes with an online login to The Personal Cup Filling plan online course and 28 day challenge. Your package includes 20 of these books / logins.
Documenting to discover online
Valued at $960, each group leader / lead educator / educational leader will receive complimentary access to this self paced online course complete with downloads, templates, and tools associated with your face to face workshop.