Stronger Smarter Jarjums Program™

The Stronger Smarter Jarjums Program offers new learning frameworks, tools, and processes to enhance your leadership capacity, with examples, activities and conversations specifically directed to the Early Years setting.

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Stronger Smarter Jarjums Program

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Our Stronger Smarter Jarjums program is based on the Stronger Smarter Leadership Program and caters specifically to Early Years educators to ignite conversations, build relationships and embed the Stronger Smarter Approach to create lifelong learning futures for our Jarjums.

Stronger Smarter Jarjums supports the Early Years Learning approach by:

building a sense of Belonging using the language and approach of Stronger Smarter to promote a positive sense of identity for our Jarjums,

building a sense of Being by providing tools and strategies to use with Jarjum to build their resilience and develop their relationships with others, and

supporting Becoming by igniting conversations and building partnerships across sectors to build High-Expectations Relationships with families and communities that will ensure strong support for Jarjum during the rapid and significant change of the Early Years.

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Stronger Smarter Jarjums will assist you to:

build High-Expectations Relationships which are nurturing and supportive, built on respect, and work with each Jarjum’s unique qualities and abilities

build High-Expectations Relationships with all families, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families, which value the knowledge and build on the strengths that all groups bring to the relationship

challenge your own beliefs and assumptions and understand how these might impact on our Jarjums’ learning

enhance your leadership capacity and your culture of professional inquiry for the pursuit of educational excellence for all Jarjums, and

build strong partnerships with other Early Years educators within your area.

A Framework for Transitions in the Early Years

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The Stronger Smarter Jarjums Program introduces our framework to support smooth transitions in the Early Years. The differences in approach are subtle, but the results are significant. The learning space becomes one where Jarjums can be themselves, have a sense of belonging and have the strength to become the great learners they want to be. In this way, the transition program creates a rock-solid foundation for our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Jarjums in the Early Years.

Doing the Stronger Smarter training I really wished my whole school could have been there doing it with me. If everyone went through that journey together, what an amazing thing for a school it would be. The Jarjums is such a personal reflection journey. It changes your ideas and thinking which then influences how you will teacher kids, because you learn that relationships are the key to everything.

Kirsty Brown

Assistant Principal

The school has always been proud or our culture and proud of our community, but it’s just the little things we’ve changed which have had an even bigger impact.

Carolyne Hutchinson

Pre-school teacher

The program deepened my pedagogy in relation to the ways in which I engage individual and groups of children in meaningful learning.

Melissa Leeson

Early Childhood Educator

I think the Stronger Smarter Jarjums Program is absolutely amazing, and every educator should do it. We need Stronger Smarter educators.

Trina Horder

Director