What we cover · Intentional teaching & documentation

Write the thinking, not the object.

Two children spend twenty minutes on the magnetic blocks and the note says "built a tower". It's Thursday and documentation is behind again. Your educators can see good play — this session helps them see the learning in it, name it, and capture it while it's happening.

What you're seeing

Good practice that isn't getting written down

After the session

What your educators do differently

01

Write the thinking, not the object

"Built a tower" is a record. "Kept widening the base after it fell" is a plan.

02

One line, in the moment

Two minutes across the day beats twenty at five o'clock, when you remember the incident and not the learning.

03

Ask one question that stretches it

"What would happen if we built it on the carpet?" That's tomorrow's experience, planned in a sentence.

What the session looks like

The role-plays

Louis shows twenty seconds of ordinary play — blocks, mud kitchen, a long story from a three-year-old — and the team writes the one line, in the moment, together. Then they compare. Then the question that turns it into tomorrow. By the end, everyone has the habit in their hand.

The sentence they leave with: "What I noticed was the thinking, not the thing — so that's what I'll write."

Not another PowerPoint.

Are you and your team tired of the slide deck and the online click-fest? Louis's sessions are practical, on your feet and genuinely fun. You'll role-play the moments that actually happen in your rooms — the parent at pick-up, the child who hits, the drizzle at the door — and leave with language you'll use tomorrow.

Educators remember what they've said out loud, not what they've watched.

See what a session looks like
Two ways to run it

As a 90-minute Reset, or inside the Program

On its own

Team Practice Reset

One 90-minute session on this topic for your whole team — role-plays, the scripts sheet, a one-page action plan and a leader debrief. Online or in your centre.

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With the other five areas

Confident Practice Program

This is module 3 of six. Run all six as one intensive day, or embedded fortnightly across the term so it becomes how your team does PD.

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Where: online for any centre in Australia · in your centre in Melbourne · interstate by arrangement (travel quoted upfront). Investment: depends on team size and format — Louis gives you a straight answer within a business day.

Where it sits in your QIP: NQS Quality Area 1 (educational program and practice, 1.2 intentional teaching, 1.3 assessment and planning). EYLF v2.0 planning cycle. Written mapping supplied.
22+ yearsin Australian early childhood centres
4 yearsas a kindergarten teacher
Mentorto graduate & internationally trained educators
Authorof Babies to Bosses, Toddlers to Trailblazers
AlignedNQS QA1 · 3 · 5 · 6  |  EYLF v2.0  |  APST
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Tell Louis what's happening

A sentence or two about your rooms. He'll reply within a business day with how he'd run it and what it would cost.

Get Louis's read on your team

Tell Louis what you're seeing. He'll come back within one business day with what he'd do, what it would cost, and whether Praxibel is the right fit — a real reply, not an autoresponder.

Louis has your note. Expect to hear from him within one business day.

Louis reads every note himself. Your details are used only to reply to you.

Two minutes in the moment, not twenty at five.

Tell Louis what you're seeing and he'll build the session around it.