Category: Storypark

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Canadian Child Care Federation promote technology to ensure excellence in early learning services

Children’s answers to the question “what did you do today?” have eluded parents across Canada for many years. This week the Canadian Child Care Federation announced their endorsement and partnership with early learning tech leader Storypark, makers of online documentation and learning community tools for early child care services. Storypark helps educators and families work together in extending each child’s...

/ July 11, 2021
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Documenting Professional Growth in ECE

Documenting professional growth in ECE Documenting professional growth in ECE is an essential element and indicator, of quality practice. But finding the right system for collecting examples of your learning, relating this evidence to your work with children, reflecting on and using your learning to enhance your practice can be challenging to say the least.  In the central North Island...

/ July 7, 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

Educator Portfolios – Nurture the Growth of Your Team

With so many administrative tasks to do, you find that working on your professional growth, development, and appraisal sometimes has to wait. Good things take time. It is challenging to find an effective system of gathering evidence of your progress, linking it to professional requirements, connecting it to your practice, and reflecting on it as well.   If only there was...

/ May 19, 2021
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A few changes with the planning feature

Improvements to the Storypark planning feature The Storypark planning feature is one of the most used tools available on Storypark. With that comes a whole lot of feedback from you, our educators, on ways we can tweak the functionality, even more, to meet your needs and make your job easier. Well, sit down because you are in for a treat. ...

/ March 31, 2021

How to grant an assessor access to your Storypark account

Storypark is a valuable tool that can support an effective NQS Assessment and Rating process. Authorised Officers (AO’s) can be invited to access information in Storypark and thereby evidence the great work of your team. This process is accepted by government organisations but needs to be managed well to create a safe/private and effective experience. Here is a guideline to...

/ March 16, 2021
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iOS educator’s app updates

iOS educator’s app updates Near the end of April, the old iOS educators app will no longer be available. Many of you will already be using the new iOS app which was released in April 2020. For those of you that aren’t, now is the time to get it from the app store! You can read more about the new...

/ March 8, 2021
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Meet compliance requirements and legislation using learning tags

How learning tags help you to meet (and exceed) compliance requirements and legislation Trying to meet compliance requirements and legislation can be challenging!  But it can be much easier with the help of learning tags. Meeting the National Quality Standards does not need to be incredibly stressful, or time-consuming. In fact, collecting the evidence that you have met the standards...

/ February 15, 2021

Storypark Troubleshooting/FAQs

These are some of our most frequently asked questions. For a comprehensive guide to Storypark please see our extensive library of help articles. Educators I’m trying to start a plan from a template, but the template doesn’t show in the room Does the template have any children included in it? If so, you will only see that template in rooms...

/ February 5, 2021