• Tailoured Face-to-Face Professional Development

    STEPPING STONES offers tailoured, face-to-face professional development that is built around your service goals, team context, and everyday practice. We don’t deliver generic workshops, we create learning experiences that respond directly to your educators, your environment, and your priorities.

    Built around your goals

    We take the time to understand your service context, current challenges, and team dynamics. This allows us to design professional learning that is relevant, meaningful, and immediately applicable, not abstract or one-size-fits-all.

    Research-informed. Practice-ready.

    Our face-to-face training is grounded in evidence and shaped by real-world early childhood practice. Educators leave with a clear understanding of why practice matters and how to apply it confidently in their day-to-day work.

    This is learning designed to strengthen pedagogy, not add to workload.

    Flexible and collaborative delivery

    Our face-to-face sessions are designed to work within the realities of early learning services. We collaborate with you to determine the most effective format, from staff meetings and in-service days to leadership sessions and whole-team professional learning.

    Every session is shaped with intention, not delivered off the shelf.

    Led by people who know the sector

    STEPPING STONES professional learning is facilitated by experienced early childhood practitioners who understand the complexities of the sector. Our facilitators bring deep pedagogical knowledge, lived experience, and a commitment to creating learning spaces that feel safe, reflective, and professionally challenging.

    We support educators to think deeply, reflect honestly, and build confidence in their practice.

  • Let’s design PD that meets the needs of your team

    Create unique form

  • Price Breakdown

    Additional cost for 50km outside of Newcastle NSW.

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    ECE Leadership Series

    This series delves into the pivotal role that leaders play in early learning by mentoring and guiding educators to enhance their practice.

    Part one: Explore the key responsibilities of a leader in the field of early childhood education.

    Part two: Unpack on how educational leaders and their leadership teams uphold the National Quality Standards.

    Part three: Discuss how leaders advocate for play-based learning and integrated teaching and learning approaches.

    Part four: Dive into how leaders guide services in how they document individual children's learning in meaningful ways that uphold regulations and standards.

    Each workshop will provide both relevant and related strategies as well as reflective activities for participants to engage in.

    Travel costs will be added for services outside of the Newcastle area

    $3500.00

    Duration: 6 hours

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    STEM - Three Part Series

    Empower educators with the tools and knowledge to seamlessly integrate STEM into the learnign environment, fostering a love for learning in young mind.

    Part One: Unpack theoretical perspectives around STEM and how it crosses many areas of development.

    Part Two: Review hands-onexperiencesthat can be implemented for all age groups to create strong STEM program.

    Part Three: Exploring how to create STEM-friendly environments for young children, where exploration, play, and learning are key and how they can be embedded into daily routines.

    Resources are provided.

    Travel costs will be added for services outside of the Newcastle area

    $1800

    Duration: 4 hours

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    Group Training Workshops

    Group Training Sessions

    Small Service (up to 15 educators): from $750 incl. GST

    Medium Service (16–25 educators): from $950 incl. GST

    Large (26–35 educators): from $1,250 incl. GST

    Larger/multi services (36-40 educators): $1,450 incl. GST

    Extra educators (51 plus): $20 incl. GST

    Less than the cost of sending 8–10 educators to a standard EYLF webinar.

    Founder of STEPPING STONES Professional Development, Janine is known for delivering professional learning that is clear, practical, warm, and deeply grounded in current pedagogy, rooting in her practionaler experience.

    With extensive experience supporting services across Australia, Janine is deliveres face-to-face workshops that

    Choose from a range of topics.

    Travel costs will be added for services outside of the Newcastle area

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    Weekend Training

    Book your training for a Saturday or Sunday.


    Small Service (up to 15 educators): from $1050 incl. GST

    Medium Service (16–25 educators): from $1250 incl. GST

    Large Services (26–35 educators): from $1,450 incl. GST

    Larger/multi services (36-40 educators): $1,650 incl. GST

    Extra educators (51 plus): $30 incl. GST

    Travel costs for face-to-face will be added for centres 50kms outside of the Newcastle area.

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    4 hour

    Behaviour workshop weekend training

    This 4 hour weekend training opportunity not only unpacks both our Behaviour Guidance workshop and our Emotional Regulation workshop, it also allows the team to put the information into action. This means your team will already have their plan of action ready to be implemented come Monday morning.

    Small Service (up to 15 educators): from $1750 incl. GST

    Medium Service (16–25 educators): from $1950 incl. GST

    Large Service (26–35 educators): from $2150 incl. GST

    Larger/multi services (36-40 educators): $2350 incl. GST

    Extra educators (51 plus): $40 incl. GST

    Travel costs for face-to-face will be added for centres 50kms outside of the Newcastle area.

    Light refreshments provided.

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    4 hour Weekend Blended workshops

    Planning Curriculum and

    Inspiring Setups

    This training opportunity not only unpacks Our Inspiring Setups workshops but works with your team on how to create a meaningful curriculum for your different ages and environments. By unpacking current children, interests and goals, your team will be ready to have an environment that supports goals and interests of the children.

    Small Service (up to 15 educators): from $1750 incl. GST

    Medium Service (16–25 educators): from $1950 incl. GST

    Large Service (26–35 educators): from $2150 incl. GST

    Larger/multi services (36-40 educators): $2350 incl. GST

    Extra educators (51 plus): $40 incl. GST

    Travel costs for face-to-face will be added for centres 50kms outside of the Newcastle area.

    Light refreshments provided.

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