All posts by Guest Contributor

A strong sense of community in British Columbia

Storypark has been a wonderful addition to our childcare programs at the Alexandra Neighbourhood House Children’s Centre. During the global pandemic, our families had limited access to our programs, and couldn’t fully experience the classroom documentation in our spaces. It was the best thing we could have done for our families as it was a way to reconnect our families...

/ December 2, 2021

Shifting to Storypark

Moving to Storypark was something that had been on our minds for a wee while, years really! Within the realm of early childhood, many other kaiako and whānau are using Storypark with rave reviews. A quick search through any early childhood facebook forum will tell you it is super popular. Our team always wondered what they were missing out on,...

/ August 31, 2021
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The Importance of Family within the Early Learning Environment

Located in the Ottawa Valley, Petawawa, Ontario is home to Garrison Petawawa, one of Canada’s largest and busiest military bases. The Petawawa Military Family Resource Centre (PMFRC) provides a wide-range of programs and services for the families of Canadian Armed Forces members, including several full and part-time child care programs. Our early childhood educators work hard to support military families...

/ August 22, 2021

North America’s First Independent Assessment on the Impact of Digital Documentation in Full-day Kindergarten

The use of digital documentation in early childhood programs is becoming more and more commonplace throughout Canada and the U.S.   Many of these platforms talk about the benefits that they offer, but until recently, no known studies had been published on the impact of digital documentation in the early learning context in North America. Moreover, when I reviewed the...

/ August 10, 2021

The Power of Storypark at Family Day

Children, families, and educators are reaping the benefits of a new communications tool in our child care centres. With the goal of increasing engagement with our educators and families, Family Day began implementing a new communications tool in our child care centres in 2017. Called Storypark, the tool is an innovative, internet-based platform that is used to document children’s learning...

/ July 12, 2021
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An easy to use and effective CCMS solution

For many years, the management and educators at Junior Campus have trusted and used Storypark to document and share children’s learning, communicate with families, plan their learning program, make links to the curriculum and much more. Michellena Shelton, Company Director at Junior Campus, and Principal Consultant for Harmonise Solutions shares, “Storypark’s informed thinking and depth of understanding of what educators,...

/ June 28, 2021

How Storypark benefits our practice and operations

Written by Kim Hiscott, Executive Director, Andrew Fleck Children’s Services We’ve always been committed to engaging with families to share their child’s early learning experience; we do this through daily interactions but also through purposeful documentation. Our “traditional” approach included educators spending hours creating amazing portfolios that while appreciated by parents for the most part, by the time they were...

/ June 5, 2021

How to use Story park to improve your CX

How to use Storypark to improve your Customer Experience In the last post, we talked about the importance of implementing a measurement to assess where your CX is at. If you missed the previous two videos, I recommend watching them to help as they are awesome and you will learn a whole lot about what customer experience is and how...

/ March 24, 2021

How to scale great CX, tips for improving experiences across multiple services

How to scale great CX, tips for improving experiences across multiple services Today’s topic is all about scaling CX, how to navigate the challenges of creating consistently great experiences when you have multiple centres. While a lot of the content is applicable to leaders in larger early education businesses, there are also takeaways for anyone interested in improving their CX...

/ March 23, 2021

Three steps to make your centre more customer centric

Three steps to make your centre more customer-centric Welcome back to the second video and blog post in our customer experience in early childhood series. In the last video/blog I introduced you to the world of customer experience or CX for short and why it is a driver of success in the sector. If you missed it I recommend you...

/ March 22, 2021