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Sustainability

Bronwyn Cron, a sustainability expert at Real World Learning, and Lili-Ann Kriegler, a facilitator for project-based Learning at Kriegler-Education, have joined forces to bring you PROJECT SUSTAINABILITY.

Are you ready to see a real transformation in your team’s professional learning? Say goodbye to the yearly expenses that don't deliver the change you're looking for. Evidence shows that the most enduring professional learning involves whole teams and has multiple contacts over extended timeframes of six months to a year.

The average professional learning session costs between $1000 and $3000 a day. Save thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours of your team’s time and allow us to facilitate a multi-contact, context-related project to unify your efforts and inspire your educators and children to become active custodians of the planet.

This is why we have created a Three-Tier staged Professional Learning Program to facilitate sustainability projects that align with your unique context. Choose the tier that suits you now and build on it over time.

Tier One - Engage

Tier Two - Equip

Tier Three – Evolve

You are in safe hands with Lili-Ann and Bron. We have over 60 years of combined education experience and have worked with hundreds of educators just like you!

Project Sustainability is a transformative program for Early Childhood Education and Care

Project Sustainability is a transformative program for Early Childhood Education and Care Services that empowers educators and children to explore sustainability through project-based learning.

Aligned with the Sustainability Principle in the Early Years Learning Framework 2.0, this program helps services meet the National Quality Framework’s Exceeding Themes by embedding sustainability practices in daily operations, encouraging critical reflection, and harnessing meaningful engagement with families and the community.

With multi-contact coaching with your facilitators, Project Sustainability empowers your educators to innovate and lead project-based learning focused on sustainability that evolves with the children’s interests.

Our practices and project development are inspired our project-based learning methods the Reggio Emilia Approach.

By the end of this program, children will be engaged in real-world projects that allow them to explore sustainability themes in depth. At the same time, educators gain confidence in guiding and supporting these child-led explorations.

Beyond the specific focus on sustainability, educators will become thoroughly conversant with project design, implementation, assessment and documentation processes. These skills are transferrable across all learning areas. Sustainability need not be a stand-alone initiative. It can be interwoven with other learning areas, such as science, maths, the arts, and literacy.

Embedding Sustainability In Alignment with EYLF and AITSL

Our Project Sustainability Program is designed to enhance, not add to, what you’re already doing. Aligned with the Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF) outcomes and AITSL Professional Standards, it supports educators in embedding sustainability through project-based learning, empowering both children and educators.

How It Fits

EYLF Outcomes: The program builds children's sense of identity, wellbeing, and connection to their world, while fostering confident, involved learners and effective communicators.
AITSL Standards: Educators gain practical skills, improve teaching through ongoing learning, and strengthen community partnerships, ensuring sustainability becomes a core practice.
NQF Quality Areas: The program meets key Quality Areas, embedding sustainability into the curriculum, encouraging child-centred learning, and fostering collaboration within the team and community.
We also encourage educators to use the Planning Cycle in the EYLF Framework

Compliance with National Quality Framework (NQF) Quality Areas
Our Project Sustainability Program supports multiple NQF Quality Areas, ensuring that your service meets high standards in key areas of teaching and practice:
1.1.2: Sustainability is embedded in the program’s design and aligned with children’s strengths and interests.
1.1.3: The program fosters child-centred learning, encouraging children to take initiative in sustainability projects.
1.2.3: Educators extend children's learning through inquiry-based exploration of sustainability concepts.
3.2.3: Sustainability is at the heart of the program, promoting respect and care for the environment.
4.2.1: Collaborative, team-based approaches to sustainability projects are encouraged, supporting professional relationships.
6.1.2: The program builds partnerships with families and the community, fostering active participation in sustainability.
6.2.3: The program encourages community connections, aligning sustainability efforts with broader environmental and social goals.

Alignment with AITSL Professional Standards for Teachers

3.7: The program engages educators in implementing sustainability learning strategies, enhancing their ability to use resources to meet children’s diverse learning needs.
6.3: Through monthly engagement and ongoing professional development, educators continually improve their practice, linking new sustainability knowledge to their teaching.
7.1: The program fosters collaborative partnerships with families and the community, enhancing sustainability learning and building stronger relationships.
7.3: Educators develop leadership skills in sustainability, empowering them to promote and lead sustainability practices within their service.

With a focus on long-term outcomes, our program ensures sustainability becomes an integral part of your service’s identity and daily practice.

Outcomes of Project Sustainability

Outcome One:

Sustainability Becomes a Core Practice

Transformation: Sustainability evolves from an "add-on" to an integral part of the educational program.

Impact: This shift encourages a whole-service commitment, engaging children, educators, and families in meaningful, community-focused sustainability projects.

Outcome Two:

Educators Become Confident Sustainability Leaders

Transformation: Educators develop confidence in leading project-based learning around sustainability themes.

Impact: Children benefit from hands-on, creative learning, enhancing critical thinking and problem-solving skills. Educators become more engaged and empowered, improving retention and educational outcomes.

Outcome Three:

Build Stronger Community Engagement

Transformation: The program builds more robust connections between the service, families, and the wider community.

Impact: The centre becomes a sustainability leader, improving family involvement and aligning children's learning with real-world sustainability efforts. This nurtures a shared sense of responsibility.

These transformations embed sustainability into everyday practice, creating a long-term positive impact on the entire community.

Choose Your Learning Pathway

We understand that every service or organisation starts its sustainability journey from a different place, with varying levels of commitment and readiness. That’s why our Project Sustainability program is designed as an iterative process that builds the competence of both educators and children over time. You can choose the tier that best suits your current needs, knowing that each level builds on the last—offering progressively deeper engagement, practical support, and hands-on learning to make sustainability a core part of your service’s identity and everyday practice.

Three Tiers of Project Sustainability

Tier 1: Engage

A captivating three-hour session that introduces the foundations of sustainability and project-based learning. This hands-on, interactive experience sparks curiosity and encourages educators to explore sustainability through a Reggio Emilia-inspired approach. By the end of the session, your team will have a clear focus and initial steps to begin embedding sustainability into your setting.
Investment: $1200

Tier 1 & 2: Equip

Build on the introductory session with a full-day workshop that equips your educators with practical, evidence-based tools and strategies to confidently lead sustainability projects. This child-centred, Project-Based Learning approach empowers educators to create well-planned provocations, designed to engage children in meaningful, hands-on sustainability challenges. By the end of the day, your team will have both the focus and the framework to implement impactful sustainability projects.
Investment: $2400

Tier 1, 2 & 3: Evolve

Embark on a six-month transformational journey that turns your service into a thriving, sustainability-driven learning community. This tier provides ongoing monthly engagement, resources, and support to fully embed sustainability into your educational program. Educators will be guided through project-based inquiry learning, empowering children to take ownership of their sustainability projects, explore real-world challenges, and develop their identities as environmental stewards. The outcome is a service-wide, deeply embedded culture of sustainability with lasting, real-world impact.
Investment: $6000

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