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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
Transforming Learning Through Self-Regulation with Dr Shyam Barr (Ep 24)
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April 2025 is Brain Month with my podcast, For Your Ears from the Early Years. ' Starting with this fantastic interview with Dr Shyam Barr, I will be releasing other podcasts and articles focused on how we can maximise learning by supporting children to learn about how their brain works to support their learning.
In this illuminating episode of 'For Your Ears from the Early Years,' host Lili-Ann Kriegler welcomes Dr. Shyam Barr, an educator and researcher specialising in self-regulated learning and metacognition. Dr. Shyam, author of Educate to Self-Regulate: Empowering Learners for Lifelong Success, shares his journey from science teacher to educational leader and researcher, revealing how his perspective shifted from "teaching science" to "teaching young people how to learn science."
As a Professional Associate at the University of Canberra, Shyam bridges the gap between research and classroom practice, drawing on his experience as both a secondary school teacher and an educational leader. His contributions to education have been widely recognised, with the Australian Council for Educational Leaders (ACEL) selecting him as a New Voice Scholar for Educational Leadership Research. At the same time, The Educator listed him as one of the Most Influential Educators in Australia.
This conversation examines recent research that demonstrates the significant impact of metacognitive interventions on young learners, with effect sizes indicating substantial educational benefits. Dr. Barr introduces his "living room of the mind" metaphor, comparing metacognition to watching television from a couch and controlling it with a remote, thereby making complex cognitive concepts accessible to both educators and students.
The discussion highlights practical classroom applications, including innovative strategies such as the 'golden retriever' memory metaphor and traffic light confidence indicators, which help children as young as three and four develop metacognitive awareness. Dr. Barr delves into fascinating research on the sustainable implementation of metacognitive approaches, revealing key organisational factors that determine whether these approaches become embedded in school culture or remain isolated practices.
Whether you're an early childhood educator, a teacher of older students, or a parent interested in supporting cognitive development, this episode offers valuable insights into how we can help young people become more aware of their thinking processes and develop the skills to control them—essential abilities for academic success and lifelon
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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.
