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For Your Ears from the Early Years
Welcome to "For Your Ears from the Early Years," a podcast by Kriegler Education and hosted by Lili-Ann. Join us for candid and heartfelt interviews with the leading voices in early childhood education. Each episode features influential educators, leaders, and advocates who share their experiences, insights, and innovative ideas to inspire and inform anyone passionate about early years education.
Our guests reach deeply into their journeys, offering invaluable messages, cutting-edge information, and inspirational stories that resonate with educators and enthusiasts across the globe, uplifting and motivating you in your journey.
Whether you're an early childhood educator, a parent, or simply interested in developing and educating young children, this podcast is your go-to resource for staying informed and motivated in this field.
Tune in for compelling conversations to elevate your understanding and appreciation of the early years sector. Subscribe now and join our community dedicated to positively impacting young children's lives everywhere.
For Your Ears from the Early Years – where the voices that shape the future of early childhood education are heard.
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.
I 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.
For Your Ears from the Early Years
A Season of Reflection and Gratitude: How Everyday Actions Create Lasting Impact. (Ep 34)
Welcome to Part 4 of our Reflect, Reconnect and Reimagine Sustainability series.
As we approach the final days of 2025, how do we look back at the sustainability progress that's been made when it doesn't always look the way we expected?
Bron and Lili-Ann explore what sustainability progress actually looks like in early childhood services. Spoiler: It doesn't look like test scores or benchmarks. Progress shows up in shifts, in questions educators ask, in thinking children make visible, in practices that become embedded rather than added.
This episode examines three transformative patterns that emerged across services this year, introduces why gratitude as a practice (not just a feeling) shifts the whole tone of a service, and reveals what happens when educators at Presbyterian Ladies' College Melbourne Early Learning Centre follow children's curiosity about something as simple as olives.
We also introduce the concept of engagement architecture, which will be a significant focus of our work in 2026: building sustainability together, layer by layer. Hence, it's not dependent on one champion.
If you've ever felt like you're falling short in your sustainability work, this episode offers a different lens for seeing your own growth.
This series concludes tomorrow with Part 5: celebrating collective impact.
Access the Sustainability Snapshot 2025: https://projectsustainabilitycollective.com.au/sustainability-snapshot
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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.
