What we cover · The outdoor classroom

Go and teach in your other classroom.

It's drizzling and the children want to go out. The children are outside, and your educators are standing at the edge of the yard. Most teams treat outside as the break between teaching. This session changes the sentence — and what happens when you get out there.

What you're seeing

Supervision where there could be teaching

After the session

What your educators do differently

01

Change the sentence

Not "we're going outside" but "we're changing classrooms". It changes what you do when you get there.

02

Set up one thing

A single provocation — a question at the mud kitchen, a rotation of loose parts — turns supervision into teaching.

03

Let the risk happen

A child trusted to climb, balance and carry something heavy is building judgement, not just muscles.

What the session looks like

The role-plays

If it's in your centre, this one happens in your yard. The team maps where they actually stand, then plans one provocation for each zone and role-plays the "can I?" moments — the climb, the drizzle, the heavy log. Online, they do it with photos of their own space.

The sentence they leave with: "We're changing classrooms."

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 5 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 3 (physical environment, 3.2 use of the environment) and Quality Area 1. EYLF v2.0 Outcome 4 (confident and involved learners) and Outcome 3 (wellbeing). 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.

Every inch of your space, teaching.

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