praxibel.com/check?src=team-sunnybankTwelve questions about your service — never about you. Answer for the room as it actually is on an ordinary Tuesday, and you’ll get a picture of where your team is strongest, the one area to start with, and the sentence that justifies PD without naming a person.
About your service, one at a time. Go with the honest answer, not the QIP answer.
Where the room is strongest, and the one place to start.
Louis turns the anonymous results into a picture of the whole team — that picture is the conversation.
No email needed to see your snapshot. Nothing here is a judgement on you as a leader — it’s a mirror for the room.
Twelve questions across the six areas of everyday practice — the same six areas as the educator Check and the Confident Practice Program, so your snapshot maps straight onto what a session would cover.
Whether every child in your rooms is known, or some are just supervised. Whether your educators can sit with a quiet child and get them talking.
Whether the room responds to behaviour the same calm way whoever is closest — and what happens when a child hits.
Whether documentation captures the learning or just the object, and whether it happens in the moment or at five o’clock.
Whether any educator could give a parent one specific thing about their child’s day — and who handles the family with the complaint.
Whether the yard is taught in or supervised, and whether drizzle decides the program.
Whether new starters ask straight away or go quiet, and whether you have a graceful way to raise a wobble.
No. Every question is about the service as it runs day to day. You can’t fail it, and your answers aren’t recorded against your name unless you choose to give an email at the end for the written snapshot.
About two minutes. Twelve questions, one at a time, and it works on a phone.
Two things. Send the three-minute educator Check to your team with your centre’s name on the link — e.g. praxibel.com/check?src=team-sunnybank. Everyone does it individually and anonymously, and Louis groups every result from that link into a picture of where the team is strongest and thinnest. Then, if you want to act on it, a 90-minute Reset on the weakest area is the natural next step.
The educator Check is written so a good educator can honestly pick any answer without shame — and the results come to you as a team picture, not a list of names. That’s the point: it gives you a way to say “we’re doing PD on family conversations this term” instead of “you’re struggling”.
Louis Bell, founder of Praxibel — 22+ years in Australian early childhood centres, four as a kindergarten teacher. The twelve questions come from the moments he has watched capable educators freeze in.
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The breakdown across all six areas, the place to start, and three things to do with your team this fortnight. Tell Louis where to send the written snapshot and it unlocks below.
Send your educators the three-minute educator Check with your centre’s name on the link — e.g. praxibel.com/check?src=team-sunnybank. Everyone does it individually; nobody’s name comes back to you. Louis turns the anonymous results into a picture of where the team is strongest and thinnest — ask him to run it for you.
A 90-minute Team Practice Reset on that topic is the natural next step. Or tell Louis what you’re seeing and get his read — he replies within a business day.
Tell Louis what you're seeing in the rooms and he'll come back within a business day with what he'd do. A real reply, not an autoresponder.