Teach-Learn-Connect

26/10/2025

22/10/2025

“TLC Calm Kit”

A Calm Kit helps children feel safe again - it’s a small box of comfort tools that teaches emotional self-regulation in the gentlest way possible.

Start small.
Create a calm corner.
Model calm yourself.
These little routines build big resilience.

DM “CALM” and I’ll send you my 1-page TLC Calm Kit Guide - with step-by-step instructions and examples to get started today.

05/10/2025

Get a free Reading Diagnostic that you can use at home.

13/02/2024

https://youtu.be/d9WSUp8hglA
Joyful learning of the Letter Ii starting sound!

11/02/2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjqkzF_r1No
Unleash the joy of language learning with our video! Perfect for a fun family activity or classroom adventure. Click the link to watch now and witness the magic of phonemic awareness and vocabulary development come to life! 🌟🔗 🚀📖

This video is ideal for learning words that start with the sound Aa.

02/08/2022

This young man, who happens to be my son, is making a difference in the lives of at-risk youths. Please vote for him and support his work in helping to turn young lives around.

We are excited to announce that Overflow Foundation Founder Michael Carter is a top 3 finalist as a Westfield Local Heroes (Garden City) ‼️

Westfield Local Heroes are nominated and voted for by their communities. The finalist with the most community votes will become the Westfield Garden City Local Hero for 2022, receiving a $20,000 grant for the organisation they represent. If Michael is successful, Overflow Foundation will use its funds to buy furniture, music studio equipment and recreational equipment for a new youth facility.

By voting for me, you can support Overflow Foundation to continue to make an impact in young people's lives.

Voting is quick and simple. Vote here 👉 https://www.westfield.com.au/gardencity/news/7mCuTUaeyicyc2qFAK01pi/local-heroes-2022?utm_source=local-heroes-finalist&utm_medium=owned-other&utm_campaign=local-heroes&utm_id=a2068

Voting opens at 9am AEST today - Tuesday August 2nd and closes 22 August

Feel free to share amongst your networks and workplaces!

Thank you !

13/05/2022

Blog Post #2 "Let's Talk School" Series: Developing Consistency Between School and Home.

In this blog series, I am trying to help families navigate 'school' situations in ways that create the best possible outcomes for their children.

Check out this week's post and feel free to let me know if you have some situations that you find tricky at school. Sometimes it's hard for parents to know why a teacher does things a certain way and other times parents can find it quite maddening when their children relate things about their school day. It's hard to know when to bring it up to the teacher, and even harder to know how to do so in way that leads to positive outcomes.
Check out the blog at https://www.teach-learn-connect.com

05/05/2022

First Blog Post in a series titled, 'Let's Talk School':
#1: Encourage Independence in your child.... and make sure the teachers sees this!

A simple way to do this is to let your child carry their own school bag, lunch box and overcoat as soon as they are physically able to do so, safely. It is not considered to be kind or helpful when you do things for your child, that they can easily do for themselves. It’s not considered ‘nurturing’ either.

What professionals see is a parent who doesn’t understand the important role of the quality of ‘independence’ in their child’s development. This single act of carrying everything for your child, can undermine their confidence in themselves to believe in their own capabilities.

Obviously, this one act of carry everything is not an actual problem in itself, but it very often indicates to teachers, that this parent is doing many other things for their children, that they could reasonably be expected to do for themselves.
In parent interviews, if the teacher says something to you, along the lines of: ‘We are noticing that at times, your child struggles with independence’, it means that the teacher is seeing a lack of independence in the classroom. It actually means that your child is not showing their capability to do things that most of the other children would normally do for themselves.
Read the full blog post at https://teach-learn-connect.com/blog-tlc

27/04/2022

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