Early Life foundations works with a range of groups across the country including parents, corporate organizations, schools, child care centers, Family Day Care schemes, Local governments, Preschools. In various ways, our role often involves assisting and guiding groups of staff to implement particular strategies that involved a process of change. Change involves times of transition of moving from one set of understandings and strategies to another. This can lead to excitement, possibilities and gains for a range of people including children, teachers, and families.

Change can also of course at times be challenging, uncomfortable, confronting and lead to anxieties or fear of the unknown.

Throughout history, experience and research reminds us all that great change, innovation and significant gains cannot be made without some pain, some risk taking, some vision and above all else, some firm and great leadership.

We are reminded, with the recent sad and untimely death of the Apple CEO and founder Steve Jobs what great leadership, conviction of ideas and vision and courage can achieve - often against great odds. He was even sacked from his own company!!! Only to return and create world changing innovations.

The Walker Learning Approach was designed, developed and researched 15 years ago at a time when personalised learning and play based learning were not in 'vogue', often ridiculed, criticized and not taken seriously. Now The Walker Learning Approach is known and implemented in thousands of schools throughout Australia and China, the Philippines and beyond!!

The profound effect it has had on teachers and children, the data we have collected and the difference it is making in children's lives, is truly significantly and inspiring.

It takes courage to pursue your beliefs and dreams but it also takes leadership.

In any organization the success of a change process and implementation of new initiatives into the future is almost entirely dependent on strong, informed and skilled leadership.  In schools this is primarily the responsibility of the principals. 

Strong leadership is the fundamental, most significant, most critical element of all effective organisations.

In our work it is the leadership that is imperative in ensuring the successful and sustained implementation of best practice related authentic personalised learning through the Walker Learning Approach.

We are running professional development sessions customized to assist leadership in their understanding of the pedagogy and strategic planning for the implementation of the pedagogy across the school community. 

Refer to our professional development brochures (attached) for more information