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Here are four big ideas that solidified for me thanks to outstanding presentations by Colin Slattery from Semann & Slattery, Dr Gai Lindsay, Associate Professor Kate Highfield, Jessica Staines from Koori Curriculum, Kirsty Liljegren from the Creative Collection and Amelia Scarf from Rhymey. These 4 big ideas are also — not coincidentally — what we need to raise the sustainable citizens our world needs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61b97050119f0a4c93170111/fa81b7f7-cc25-4554-9be0-d3b2bf140771/IMG_3514.jpeg Blog - 4 big ideas to transform early childhood education (and the world) Be the lead inquirer. Dr Gai Lindsay described the educator's role as ‘lead inquirer’ — not the person with the answers, but the person most enthusiastically engaged in asking questions. When a child asks something you can't answer, find out together. Model what genuine curiosity looks like. Prioritise thinking over knowledge. Associate Professor Kate Highfield, Kirsty Liljegren and Dr Gai Lindsay all made the case for deep thinking skills — questioning, problematising, ‘possibility thinking’ (Anna Craft) — being more important than facts. Be the provocateur: ask ‘why do you think?’ and ‘what if?’ more than ‘can you tell me what this is?’ These are the capacities children need for life and for a sustainable future. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61b97050119f0a4c93170111/1774571419157-GMLGF5JJ3PS2GPDIBCPW/unsplash-image-sp-p7uuT0tw.jpg Blog - 4 big ideas to transform early childhood education (and the world) Colin Slattery pleaded for the development of our capacity to think systemically. The natural world doesn't work in silos — it works holistically through intersecting relationships between different things, in endless feedback loops. When you study how a forest functions, you realise it's not the individual plants, animals and fungi that determine the health of the ecosystem, but the quality of the relationships between them. Early childhood education works exactly the same. What does holistic thinking look like in an early years setting? Thinking about the whole child. Amelia Scarf from Rhymey made a beautiful example of music — which benefits the whole child across every dimension of development. Thinking holistically also means recognising that educator wellbeing is inseparable from children's wellbeing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61b97050119f0a4c93170111/7460c4e8-3c68-4b25-8bb0-4928f39f2de9/IMG_3510.jpeg Blog - 4 big ideas to transform early childhood education (and the world) - Colin Slattery opened the day with a keynote on the ‘pedagogy of leadership’ which set exactly the right tone. Before we can talk about what we teach or how we teach it, we need to reckon with the fact that everything we do — every choice, every interaction, every story we tell — is an act of leadership. ‘All educators are leaders’, Colin Slattery says, ‘because we are constantly modelling not just to children, but to each other’. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61b97050119f0a4c93170111/1774571748174-XBPQRM36DNZVNH5NDA3K/unsplash-image-9l4DBDsHUCA.jpg Blog - 4 big ideas to transform early childhood education (and the world) The final — and perhaps most quietly radical — idea of the day: children are your best teachers. Young children ask questions without embarrassment. They try, fail, and try again without harsh self-judgment. They follow what genuinely interests them and slow down for what matters. They find wonder in the ordinary. And they shut down when they don't feel safe. But as adults? We hesitate to ask questions for fear of looking unknowledgeable. We treat failure as something to hide. We rush through experiences to tick boxes. We expect others to perform at their best even when they don't feel safe. What would we do differently if we considered the four-year-old in each of us? Slow down. Rushing through learning, documentation and conversations with children means missing the moments that matter. Slowing down often means doing less — so we think critically about what actually matters and how to work smarter. Create psychological safety. Children learn best when they feel safe to take risks. So do educators. Build a team culture where it's genuinely okay to say ‘I don't know’, try something new, and reflect honestly when something doesn't work. Embrace uncertainty and experiment. Give it a go, refine as you go, and extend yourself the same compassion you'd extend to a child who is learning. 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Well you can most definitely put your skills to the test helping children imagine and create sustainable solutions to our world’s problems. A re you passionate about Indigenous cultures? 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