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Build your knowledge, confidence and everyday practice to help impact the lives of children and families.
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What makes Stepping Stones Different
CONNECTION COMES BEFORE STRATEGY
A ripple that starts with you; from educator, to team, to child.
When we support ourselves and our teams, children feel safe, connected and ready to learn.
Every course, workshop and Keynote at STEPPING STONES is built on one approach; a way of looking beyond the behaviour to understand the story underneath it.
Meet Janine
EDUCATOR, TRAINER, CONSULTANT, AUTHOR & SPEAKER
With over 30 years in early childhood education across Australia and Canada. Janine is passionate about helping educators feel supported capable and connected.
Her mission is simple: to help educate educators create the kind of connection and environments that help children and early childhood education centres thrive.
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30 Min Coffee Chat with Janine
Not sure where to start? Let's connect over a complimentary virtual coffee and discuss your goals, challenges and next steps.
Leadership Support That Strengthens Practice
Stepping Stones Professional Development offers tailored leadership consulting that supports Educational Leaders, leadership teams, and early learning services to strengthen practice, build confidence, and create sustainable, high-quality outcomes.
Our consulting goes beyond generic coaching. We work alongside leaders to unpack real challenges, clarify leadership roles, and establish practical systems that genuinely support educators, children, and families; without adding unnecessary workload.
Learning with Stepping STones
Most professional learning gives you a strategy for a moment. Ours gives you a complete understanding from the brain, to the framework, to real, live practice.
No other early childhood provider takes you through the full arc this way, from understanding, to framework, to embodied practice.
This is why services come to STEPPING STONES specifically for regulation.
Guiding Behaviour Through Inclusive, Regulation-Focused Practice
This course lays the foundation: why children's brains aren't yet capable of the judgement we often expect, and how connection changes everything.
Understanding the 8 Stages of Dysregulation
Now we dive further — our own extension of Colvin and Sugai's original framework, built through years of real practice, giving you a genuine roadmap for every stage of a child's escalation.
Behaviour & Regulation: The Complete Journey
This hybrid course brings it all together, live; where theory becomes practiced skill, in the room with Janine.
