Preschool Boost Funding Support for Early Learning Services
Use Your Funding to Strengthen Leadership, Improve Practice, Support Children, and Build More Confident Teams.
Hourglass Time Education Preschool Boost programs
A Relationship-based approach that helps educators understand and respond to children’s emotional needs, creating a safe and supportive classroom where all children can thrive.
Circle of Security Classroom Approach™ supports educators to better understand children’s behaviour, emotional needs and relationship cues through the lens of secure attachment.
Children learn best when they feel safe, seen, supported and connected. Strong relationships create the foundation for wellbeing, behaviour, confidence and learning.
Educators engage in reflective professional learning that helps them recognise what children may be communicating through behaviour and respond with greater calm, confidence and connection.
This program strengthens educator-child relationships, supports emotional regulation, improves reflective practice and helps create calmer, more connected learning environments.
A practical programming model that helps educators simplify documentation, strengthen intentional teaching and create meaningful learning plans that connect to children’s development.
The Hourglass Time Programming Approach™ supports educators to understand individual and group programming in a clear, practical and achievable way.
Programming should be meaningful, responsive, simple to follow and connected to children’s real learning, interests, development and wellbeing.
The program includes practical training, examples, resources and guidebooks to help educators understand what to document, how to plan, and how to connect learning across the planning cycle.
Teams build confidence, reduce programming overwhelm, improve consistency and strengthen curriculum decision-making across rooms.
A practical program that helps educators understand play more deeply and recognise how children communicate, explore, regulate and develop through play.
Fundamentals of Play™ explores the inner workings of play, including dispositions, schemas, developmental milestones, the play cycle, temperament, play stages and types of play.
Play is a universal language. When educators understand play, they can better understand children’s development, behaviour, interests and learning needs.
Educators participate in professional learning and practical reflection, with optional service visits and coaching to support implementation in real learning environments.
Educators gain a deeper understanding of children, strengthen intentional teaching, improve play-based curriculum planning and support richer engagement and learning.
Targeted coaching and mentoring for teachers, leaders and service teams wanting clarity, confidence and implementation support.
Teacher and Leader Coaching and Mentoring provides tailored support for educators, teachers, Educational Leaders, Directors and leadership teams to strengthen practice, planning, leadership and service goals.
Strong outcomes require more than good intentions. Leaders and educators need time, reflection, accountability and practical support to embed change.
Coaching can be delivered online or face-to-face and may focus on curriculum, pedagogy, leadership, team culture, Preschool Boost goals, quality improvement or implementation planning.
Participants gain clarity, confidence, practical next steps and ongoing support to move from overwhelmed or unsure to capable, focused and ready to take action.
A simple, visual co-regulation model that helps educators understand what is happening underneath behaviour and respond with curiosity, connection and calm.
Forest & Freeway™ helps educators understand behaviour as a pathway. The Forest represents calm and connection, the Freeway represents fast, familiar dysregulation, and the Bike Path supports children to move back toward regulation.
Children are not “being difficult” — their nervous system is doing its job. Behaviour is communication, and pathways can be changed through connection, repetition and calm adult support.
Educators learn to identify triggers, understand dysregulation, reduce accidental escalation and use practical strategies to support children back toward safety, connection and learning.
This program builds shared team language, reduces reactive responses, supports co-regulation, strengthens behaviour understanding and helps educators feel more confident during big emotions.
A whole-service nutrition and wellbeing program supporting educators, kitchen teams, children and families through practical food education and calm mealtime practices.
Food for Thought supports children to build positive and confident relationships with food through play-based nutrition experiences, educator learning and kitchen team capability development.
Early food experiences matter. Children learn about food through play, modelling, sensory exploration, calm mealtimes and repeated exposure to nutritious ingredients.
Delivered with HGT EDU’s in-house Nutritionist alongside the HGT EDU team of Educational Consultants, the program includes professional learning, kitchen team support, child-focused sessions, recipes, menu planning support and family resources.
Services strengthen menu planning, educator confidence, children’s willingness to explore food, calm mealtime environments and whole-service wellbeing practices.
A practical inclusion program that helps educators strengthen inclusive practice and support diverse learners in everyday early childhood environments.
Inclusion supports educators and leaders to understand children’s individual needs, adapt environments and routines, and create more responsive and inclusive learning experiences.
Inclusion is not just about children being present. It is about meaningful participation, belonging, safety, dignity and responsive support.
HGT EDU works with teams through professional learning, coaching, reflection and practical strategies to strengthen inclusive environments, routines, communication and educator confidence.
Educators feel more capable supporting children with diverse needs, services strengthen participation and belonging, and children experience more responsive, respectful and inclusive practice.
Circle of Security
Classroom Approach
A Relationship-based approach that helps educators understand and respond to children’s emotional needs, creating a safe and supportive classroom where all children can thrive.
Circle of Security Classroom Approach™ supports educators to better understand children’s behaviour, emotional needs and relationship cues through the lens of secure attachment.
Children learn best when they feel safe, seen, supported and connected. Strong relationships create the foundation for wellbeing, behaviour, confidence and learning.
Educators engage in reflective professional learning that helps them recognise what children may be communicating through behaviour and respond with greater calm, confidence and connection.
This program strengthens educator-child relationships, supports emotional regulation, improves reflective practice and helps create calmer, more connected learning environments.
Hourglass Time
Programming ApproachTM
A practical programming model that helps educators simplify documentation, strengthen intentional teaching and create meaningful learning plans that connect to children’s development.
The Hourglass Time Programming Approach™ supports educators to understand individual and group programming in a clear, practical and achievable way.
Programming should be meaningful, responsive, simple to follow and connected to children’s real learning, interests, development and wellbeing.
The program includes practical training, examples, resources and guidebooks to help educators understand what to document, how to plan, and how to connect learning across the planning cycle.
Teams build confidence, reduce programming overwhelm, improve consistency and strengthen curriculum decision-making across rooms.
Fundamentals of Play
A practical program that helps educators understand play more deeply and recognise how children communicate, explore, regulate and develop through play.
Fundamentals of Play™ explores the inner workings of play, including dispositions, schemas, developmental milestones, the play cycle, temperament, play stages and types of play.
Play is a universal language. When educators understand play, they can better understand children’s development, behaviour, interests and learning needs.
Educators participate in professional learning and practical reflection, with optional service visits and coaching to support implementation in real learning environments.
Educators gain a deeper understanding of children, strengthen intentional teaching, improve play-based curriculum planning and support richer engagement and learning.
Teacher & Leader Coaching and Mentoring
Targeted coaching and mentoring for teachers, leaders and service teams wanting clarity, confidence and implementation support.
Teacher and Leader Coaching and Mentoring provides tailored support for educators, teachers, Educational Leaders, Directors and leadership teams to strengthen practice, planning, leadership and service goals.
Strong outcomes require more than good intentions. Leaders and educators need time, reflection, accountability and practical support to embed change.
Coaching can be delivered online or face-to-face and may focus on curriculum, pedagogy, leadership, team culture, Preschool Boost goals, quality improvement or implementation planning.
Participants gain clarity, confidence, practical next steps and ongoing support to move from overwhelmed or unsure to capable, focused and ready to take action.
Forest & FreewayTM
Co-regulation Model
A simple, visual co-regulation model that helps educators understand what is happening underneath behaviour and respond with curiosity, connection and calm.
Forest & Freeway™ helps educators understand behaviour as a pathway. The Forest represents calm and connection, the Freeway represents fast, familiar dysregulation, and the Bike Path supports children to move back toward regulation.
Children are not “being difficult” — their nervous system is doing its job. Behaviour is communication, and pathways can be changed through connection, repetition and calm adult support.
Educators learn to identify triggers, understand dysregulation, reduce accidental escalation and use practical strategies to support children back toward safety, connection and learning.
This program builds shared team language, reduces reactive responses, supports co-regulation, strengthens behaviour understanding and helps educators feel more confident during big emotions.
Food for Thought
A whole-service nutrition and wellbeing program supporting educators, kitchen teams, children and families through practical food education and calm mealtime practices.
Food for Thought supports children to build positive and confident relationships with food through play-based nutrition experiences, educator learning and kitchen team capability development.
Early food experiences matter. Children learn about food through play, modelling, sensory exploration, calm mealtimes and repeated exposure to nutritious ingredients.
Delivered with HGT EDU’s in-house Nutritionist alongside the HGT EDU team of Educational Consultants, the program includes professional learning, kitchen team support, child-focused sessions, recipes, menu planning support and family resources.
Services strengthen menu planning, educator confidence, children’s willingness to explore food, calm mealtime environments and whole-service wellbeing practices.
Inclusion
A practical inclusion program that helps educators strengthen inclusive practice and support diverse learners in everyday early childhood environments.
Inclusion supports educators and leaders to understand children’s individual needs, adapt environments and routines, and create more responsive and inclusive learning experiences.
Inclusion is not just about children being present. It is about meaningful participation, belonging, safety, dignity and responsive support.
HGT EDU works with teams through professional learning, coaching, reflection and practical strategies to strengthen inclusive environments, routines, communication and educator confidence.
Educators feel more capable supporting children with diverse needs, services strengthen participation and belonging, and children experience more responsive, respectful and inclusive practice.
Government-Funded Support That Creates Real Change in Services
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Why Services Choose HGT EDU
Since joining the Preschool Boost Menu, our programs have already been delivered in services across South Australia, supporting educators, leaders, and teams to strengthen practice, leadership, inclusion, co-regulation, curriculum, and child outcomes.
We were also recognised as one of the **Top 3 most engaged Preschool Boost providers**, reflecting the strong relationships we build with services and the practical impact of our programs across the sector. Services choose HGT EDU because our support goes beyond theory.
We provide:
• Practical, grassroots professional development
• Real implementation support
• Experienced consultants who understand the realities of service delivery
• Flexible delivery options
• And programs designed to create sustainable change — not just inspiration for the day.
As a trusted partner alongside South Australian Government initiatives and OECD coaching programs, we remain committed to strengthening quality practice and leadership across the early childhood sector.
Whether you’re looking for a single training session, ongoing implementation support, or a full-service professional learning package, HGT EDU can help you build calmer teams, stronger systems, and more confident practice.
