Work towards your focus areas
Focus areas are used to identify the key areas that a team member will be working on during a particular time period. For example, these could be a practice, principle, indicator, standard or quality area.
From induction to leadership development, provide your team with an outstanding experience and personalized plan for their future.
Bring your organization’s philosophies and frameworks to life with Storypark, or utilize our free inbuilt resources for:
Welcoming new staff
Nurturing aspiring leaders
Training new Educators
Welcome educators to your organisation and set them up with steps to follow for success in their first months.
Help staff identify their achievements and opportunities and set goals for growth.
Using existing documentation educators can easily demonstrate how they are meeting goals and discuss their development.
Set up leadership pathways with check-in stages to nurture growth.
Include support staff, chefs and your wider team to motivate, support and ensure compliance with standards or requirements.
Our unique suite of tools includes:
Personalized development plans
Integrated induction plans
1:1 or group coaching and mentoring opportunities
communities of practice for peer to peer learning and innovation
leadership development processes for rapid growth
prompts to support professional reflections and simplify process.
Centralized setup and management, with transparent dashboards showing who has done what, who needs support and the results of professional development initiatives.
Focus areas are used to identify the key areas that a team member will be working on during a particular time period. For example, these could be a practice, principle, indicator, standard or quality area.
Assess each person’s understanding or progress towards set goals. This can include reflection questions, video or photographic evidence of practice, or knowledge recall.
An easy way for your team to ask for feedback, organize a catch-up or check how things are going.
Add todos for yourself like your main priorities for non-contact time, or for others, like a request to provide feedback.
Make providing feedback more enjoyable! A tool to provide opportunities to recognize all the good things educators, support staff and managers bring to your service.
Set levels of access, so you feel comfortable knowing who can see what.
Create a reflection from scratch, or save a child story to your portfolio as evidence against a goal, making demonstrating your teaching practice much easier and saving extra work for you.
A central repository for documenting your learnings, appraisals and goals. Portfolio plans bring everything together on one page with the ease to edit, update and record progress clearly.
Create reports to see how much focus there’s been in one area of your teaching or professional learning over another, across different timeframes. Observe differences and/or similarities to inform your future planning, programme design, or professional development.