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.
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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.
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