Educational Leader Journal for Pre-K, Preschool, Childcare, OSHC, Kindergarten

EDUCATIONAL LEADERS – Not sure what you are meant to be doing? Feeling out of your depth? Need tools to guide you step by step?

Use this journal to help you lead confidently, plan, mentor, motivate, inspire, manage your time effectively & simplify your role!

HOW CAN I USE THIS JOURNAL?

Educational leaders, Coordinators and Directors will be able to use the journal pages to:

• Manage their time more effectively.
• Mentor educators regularly rather than just monitoring.
• Lead and support teams with confidence.
• Make decisions, organise and plan easily for their day, week and month ahead
• Present meetings educators actually want to attend!
• Simplify frameworks, outcomes and principles.
• Record progress on goals and collect new ideas to share.
• Keep track of meetings, networking and important events.
• Better understand the expectations of their role.
• Record ongoing evidence day by day that will be ready to go for those A&R visits – no more scrambling and sleepless nights worrying!
• Collect information on professional development opportunities to share with their educators.

………And so much more when leaders begin using this journal created especially for their important (yet often confusing!) role.

**Print & add to a folder so you can get up and go with all of your essential information at any time and write down ideas and tasks as inspiration arrives!

**Collect and write down ideas, suggestions and reflection topics as you go for important focus areas to help you bust myths, explain and simplify linking frameworks to learning outcomes.

**Use simple checklists to organise, reflect on and summarise your week and month in just a few minutes. Tick off those important jobs that need to be done then keep in your journal folder to share evidence of processes and action taken regularly.

**Take your journal to meetings, mentor sessions, planning reviews and day to day activities to ensure you are always well prepared, organised and feeling empowered and supported in your role.

What do I get?

37 pages in PDF format with editable text boxes so you can either choose to print and add to a folder to take on the go with you or keep on the computer and type, printing only when necessary instead.

Journal Pages include the following:

1. My Vision & Philosophy
2. Team Member Details
3. Weekly Action Guide (includes checklists)
4. Monthly Action Guide (includes checklists)
5. Goals & Ideas
6. Motivating Moments (to help you keep a record of empowering moments and recognition of great work)
7. Everyday Conversations (A space to jot down notes from informal day to day conversations with educators)
8. Courageous Conversations (A space to record Performance, Conflict or Behaviour Issues that need some thought and courage to discuss!)
9. Mentor Meet-Ups (Notes you can use to inform and guide your monthly Connect & Grow Chat Sessions)
10. Professional Development (Suggestions, Required training to discuss, New Ideas, Feedback)
11. My Meetings & Networking (to help you organise notes and keep track of important events)
12. Meeting Motivators (Topics, Events, Focus Areas, Decisions, Ideas & Inspiration to add to the next meeting agenda)
13. Planning Review Notes (A place to keep confidential notes and suggestions from your monthly planning cycle reviews and help you plan ahead).
14. Program Ideas & Current Focus Areas
15. Ideas for Team Wellbeing
16. Vision Board & New Ideas
17. Research & Inquiry Notes
18. Training & Resource Wishlist
19. Framework Focus Areas
20. Team Building Ideas
21. Notes for Quality Improvement Plan inclusion
22. Reflection Quickie Notes
23. Reflection Question Bank
24. Management Conversations
25. Blank Notes Pages

This resource is linked to the Empowered Ed Leadership Quick Guides Series – you might also find the following resources helpful to make your role easier and save time:

Ed Leader Meaningful Meetings Guide

Ed Leader Connect & Grow Mentor & Reflect Session Guide/Templates

Ed Leader Monthly Planning Cycle Review Guide & Checklists

Ed Leader Role - A Quickstart Guide

**You will need to use a free Adobe PDF reader to open the documents and use the editable text fields.**

Suitable for all Preschool, Pre-K, Centre Based LDC, Occasional Care, OOSH, MTOP, QKLG and EYLF services and frameworks!

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