Educational Leadership
Coaching strategies and insights featured in early childhood sector publications, particularly in ethical decision-making and educational leadership.
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Career Record
A career built on advocacy.
Over twenty years of active involvement in the early childhood sector — local government children’s services, a childcare field officer team, consultancy and training at Gowrie Victoria, and now instructional design and resource writing.
The Record
Where the practice was formed
Current Role
Instructional Designer and Resource Writer
CAQA Groups
An instructional designer, resource writer and early childhood consultant — writing for educators and services while keeping the learner, and the child, in view.
Focus areas
- Instructional design and resource writing for the education and care sector.
- Educational leadership and curriculum development carried into every resource.
- Child protection and child-safe practice treated as core content, not an appendix.
- A social justice lens applied consistently to professionalism and children’s rights.
In Progress
Masters in Social Work — Child and Family Practice
Postgraduate study · focus on family violence
Currently under way, deepening expertise and impact in the sector through a child and family practice lens.
Recent Work
Author — a book on asserting a culture of child safety
Guidance for education and care services
Written to guide education and care services in creating and maintaining safe, inclusive environments for children.
Founding Role
Founding Director
Talarico Consulting and Medical Action Bag
Founding director of both — carrying the same advocacy for professionalism, children’s rights and child safety that runs through the rest of the record.
Sector Leadership
Committee Member and Convenor, Special Interest Groups
Early Childhood Australia (ECA) · Victorian Branch
Sector appointments held alongside the practice, connecting educators to one another and to the questions that matter.
Appointments
- Committee member, Early Childhood Australia (ECA) Victorian Branch.
- Convenor of Special Interest Groups for the Victorian Branch.
- Member of the National Reconciliation Advisory Group for ECA.
Ongoing
Keynote Presenter and Professional Learning Contributor
Conferences nationwide · local government professional development programs
A sought-after presenter who delivers keynote presentations at conferences across the country and contributes to professional learning calendars, with coaching strategies and insights featured in early childhood sector publications.
Earlier Career
Early Childhood Consultant and Trainer
Gowrie Victoria
Consultancy and training with educators and services — the ground where coaching strategy, ethical decision-making and educational leadership were worked out in practice.
Foundation
Children’s Services Leadership
Local government children’s services
Managing local government children’s services teams and leading a childcare field officer team — the operational grounding beneath every resource written since.
What the Record Built
The capabilities
What two decades in early childhood adds up to at the writing desk.
Curriculum Development
Curriculum work with environmental education and sustainability threaded through it rather than bolted on.
Child Protection and Child Safety
Guiding education and care services to create and maintain safe, inclusive environments for children.
Culture and Community
Helping teams exceed service delivery standards, create and maintain positive workplace cultures and foster strong community engagement.
Keep exploring
The credentials behind the practice
Postgraduate study in social work, sector appointments with Early Childhood Australia and a book on asserting a culture of child safety.