Project Sustainability Collective Podcast
Project Sustainability Collective Podcast
Hosted by Lili-Ann Kriegler and Bronwyn Cron
Welcome to the Project Sustainability Collective Podcast, where early childhood pedagogy and sustainability education come together, positioning ECEC educators as the critical leverage point for planetary change.
Hosts Lili-Ann, author and expert in early childhood pedagogy, play, and project-based learning, thinking skills, and leadership, and Bronwyn Cron, author and expert in STEM and sustainability education, bring together decades of combined expertise. They work together to explore how educators simultaneously shape child development and environmental futures, and regularly host sustainability and education thought leaders to enrich our listeners' podcast experience.
Our Approach:
Grounded in research with 200+ Australian ECEC services, we explore sustainability holistically across five interconnected domains: environmental, social, economic, cultural, and leadership/governance. Through our Sustainability Impact Accelerator framework, we help you recognise your significance, deepen your thinking, and expand your influence, accelerating change that ripples from your service outward to children, families, communities, and ultimately transforms policy and culture.
What We Explore:
Thought-provoking, evidence-based insights connecting brain development to environmental consciousness, practical frameworks like our Sustainability Discovery Framework, and approaches to embedding the EYLF 2.0 Sustainability Principle into everyday practice. We examine play-based learning, place-connected pedagogies, project development, team engagement, courageous planning, and how to integrate sustainability into your quality improvement plans.
Who This Is For:
Early childhood educators, educational leaders, directors, pedagogical leaders, sustainability coordinators, policy makers, and anyone who recognises that supporting optimal child development during the grounding years IS the most powerful sustainability education possible.
Our Promise:
We combine intellectual rigour with practical application, honouring your professionalism whilst providing frameworks and language that validate what you already know works. We help you see that you're not doing two separate jobs—child development and sustainability are the same work viewed from different angles.
You are architects of possibility, working at the intersection where human development and planetary futures meet.
Join us as we accelerate education for sustainability, positioning ECEC educators where you belong—at the centre of the conversation about planetary futures.
Acknowledgement of Country:
We respect the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the land of the Kulin Nation groups, the Boonwurrung and Bunurong people, where I live, learn, and work.
We also respect the people and cultures from across the globe who live and work for the optimistic future of this unique island continent, Australia. May we all walk gently into the future.
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Project Sustainability Collective Podcast
Season 1 Episode 34 - How can Teachers Foster Metacognition
In this important episode of my podcast with Ortal Green THE THINKING EFFECT PODCAST I talk to Dr Shyam Barr about the role of metacognition in learning. According to Dr Shyam, metacognition is more than just thinking about thinking. It is also about the ability to regulate and control that thinking. This adds an important future-focused dimension to learning. Indeed, if students master the art of recognising, tracking and controlling their thinking it has the potential to impact their scholastic success, their relationships, their career choices and their life success. When they take charge of their thinking, they take charge of their own behaviour which translates into action. And action is the basis of success.
Dr Shyam explains that educators have a key role in alerting students to their thinking patterns. He describes simple ways students can track their focus and attention. He encourages educators to ask questions related to learning content, but more importantly to ask questions that elicit understanding about thinking and learning processes.
A particularly important aspect of this podcast is an internal shift from a place where educators are cueing students in to regulate their thinking, to where students can do it for themselves.
I am sure you will enjoy this conversation and gather some important strategies to enhance your students’ learning and thinking.
Dr Shyam Barr is an education consultant, coach and speaker, who helps educators foster students’ metacognition and self-regulated learning (SRL). He is a co-host of the podcast Educate to Self-Regulate and a recent speaker at TEDx Canberra’s 2022 event – Impact. Shyam has worked in education for over 15 years and has fulfilled roles as a school teacher, educational leader, and Assistant Professor of Learning Sciences at the University of Canberra. His research and school partnerships consider educational leaders and teachers’ knowledge, beliefs and practice related to self-regulated learning, and how innovative models of professional education can bring about sustained improvements in schools.
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Shyam Barr, PhD
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I respect the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the land of the Kulin Nation groups, the Boonwurrung and Bunurong people, where I live, learn, and work.
Lili-Ann Kriegler (B. A Hons, H. Dip. Ed, M.Ed.) is an award-winning author and Melbourne-based education consultant. Her books are 'The Power of Play' for educators and 'Roots and Wings' for parents. Lili-Ann’ is a leader in early childhood education (birth to years), leadership and optimising human thinking and cognition. She runs her consultancy, Kriegler-Education. She is passionate about the early childhood sector and believes in the transformational power of education.
Find out more at https://www.kriegler-education.com.
