Kinderloop – Page 9

05 Mar

Excellence in the NQF

by adminPosted in Articles, UncategorizedTagged acecqa, child care, child care provider, early education, educator, Excellence in NQF

Hear it in their own words, how they got the excellent rating in their child care settings… Wandana School Based Preschool Swallowcliffe Preschool Karana Early Education Centre Allenby Gardens Child Parent Centre

03 Feb

The changing face of child care – a UK perspective

by adminPosted in Articles, UncategorizedTagged child care, Child care communication, eylf, EYLF reporting, eyls, EYofExcellence, family day care, FDC reporting, kinderloop, parent communication, parent reporting

Cause change and lead; accept change and survive; resist change and die. Ray Norda Change is a constant presence in all of our lives, but sometimes I feel in early years we have to deal with more change than most. In England in the last five years we have seen the introduction of a whole new […]

12 Jan

What Do the Parents at Your Child Care Center Truly Want?

by adminPosted in Articles, UncategorizedTagged Childcare reporting, EYLF reporting, parent engagement

Back when my 3-year-old was a toddler with new teeth, we were purchasing a whole lot of “training toothpaste.” (Lorelei was fond of cracking it open and sucking it down like a sports gel when we weren’t looking – fortunately, part of the “training” aspect of this product is fluoride-free and safe if swallowed, though […]

18 Nov

Kinderloop in a Home Child Care setting

by adminPosted in Articles, UncategorizedTagged child care, child care provider, educator, Home Child Care, kindergarten, kinderloop, parent communication, Sandra Zito, Teachers

Home child care providers usually have some type of daily communication with parents. The format of that daily communication varies greatly though. Some prefer to just give or receive a verbal update at drop off and pick up times, some use a written daily journal in a notebook, others send a quick email off in […]

24 Oct

Technology in Childcare, an Australian perspective

by adminPosted in Articles, UncategorizedTagged care provider, childcare, childcare communication, educator, kinderloop, parent communication, Teachers

In all aspects of life, technology has made life easier. Why wouldn’t early childhood be the same? I think in years to come, we will look back at the debate of technology use in early childhood and wonder why it was ever such a huge concern? Children learn from example; they see their parents engaging […]

10 Oct

Child care and social media, is there a risk?

by adminPosted in Articles, UncategorizedTagged child care, childcare communication, eylf, eyls, kinderloop, NAEYC, NQS, parent communication, social media

Social media is changing the landscape of personal and professional risk. Using blogs, social networking and personal websites to communicate is now common place. Much of the appeal with social media is the relative anonymity and the speed with which information can be shared. Users can impart their views on any subject to a worldwide […]

27 Sep

Child care providers, just what is best practice?

by adminPosted in Articles, UncategorizedTagged care provider, child care, Child care communication, eylf, eyls, kinderloop

In an effort to understand how child care is evolving throughout the world, we asked our Superloopers what ‘Best Practice’ means to them. In the first of this series, we welcome an awesome response from Hannah Benitez-Moatt from England. Of course we encourage feedback from all child care providers, lets start a conversation… The quest […]

14 Aug

Kinderloop helps lose that guilty feeling…

by adminPosted in Articles, UncategorizedTagged kinderloop, parent communication, parent guilt

Oh yes, guilt will always be a major factor in any parent’s return to work. It’s a nightmare. You feel terrible. You beat yourself up for making the decision to leave your child. Are you going back too soon? Will it affect your child’s confidence, development, happiness, trust… the list goes on. And it’s not […]

08 Jul

Case Study

by adminPosted in Articles, UncategorizedTagged Big Fat Smile, childcare, Corrimal Community Preschool, kinderloop, parent communication, Secure

Corrimal Community Preschool For the past 8 weeks, BFS Corrimal have been using kinderloop to communicate with their parents and the results have been fantastic! Kinderloop case study Saving time and money Corrimal Community Preschool have been trailing kinderloop for almost 3 months now and the results have been fantastic. Averaging 25 posts per day, […]

15 May

Kinderloop + Mamabear = Awesome!

by adminPosted in Articles, UncategorizedTagged 500 startups, Anne Gordon, Ben Keighran, Beth Blecherman, CareLulu, child care, David Pollak, Google glass, kinderloop, KiteReaders, Mamabear, parents, Randi Zuckerberg, Robert Scoble, Sheila Dowd

So imagine our delight when we found out that while we were over in San Francisco exploring the US market and demo’ing Kinderloop to many interested parties, 500 Startups was organising Mamabear, one of the biggest family tech conferences in America! Of course we went and boy what a fabulous day! We met some amazing […]