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Grab your FREE Leadership Floorbooks auditing tool 🎉 Support stronger reflection, clearer focus and more meaningful inquiry across your ECE setting with this practical freebie from Leadership Floorbooks.

A simple tool to help your team critically reflect on the Floorbooks planning you create together.

Download your freebie here:
https://www.essentialresources.co.nz/Store/Product/Detail/ETS0346F
https://www.essentialresources.com.au/Store/Product/Detail/ETS0346F

Leadership in ECE is often like an iceberg 🧊 Your team sees the decisions but not always the reflection, inquiry and collaboration underneath.

Leadership Floorbooks helps make thinking visible, bringing your whole team along on the journey so reflection becomes shared, purposeful and understood.

Because the best leadership conversations shouldn’t stay hidden beneath the surface.
https://www.essentialresources.co.nz/floorbooks/
https://www.essentialresources.com.au/floorbooks/

Congratulations to one of our fantastic authors, Bronwen Wall, and our amazing editor, Tanya Tremewan, for Survive Aotearoa being named a finalist in the 2026 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults

Read all about Bronwen in our latest Author Spotlight:
https://www.essentialresources.co.nz/2026/06/author-spotlight-bronwen-wall/
https://www.essentialresources.com.au/2026/06/author-spotlight-bronwen-wall/

Exclusive FREE literacy content 🎉 Want practical reading strategies you can start using straight away?

Download an exclusive freebie from How to Teach Reading author, Dr Christine Braid. This content is packed with evidence-based ideas to support decoding, comprehension and confident literacy instruction.

The best part? This bonus content isn’t included in the book itself!

Click through to explore your free content👇
https://www.essentialresources.co.nz/Store/Product/Detail/E51290F
https://www.essentialresources.com.au/Store/Product/Detail/E51290F

The reading resource teachers have been waiting for 📚

How to Teach Reading transforms the science of reading into practical, classroom-ready strategies you can use immediately.

Covering decoding, comprehension and support for students with reading difficulties, this new release helps make evidence-based literacy teaching clearer, simpler and more effective.

Ready to strengthen reading success this term?
https://www.essentialresources.co.nz/Store/Product/Detail/51290
https://www.essentialresources.com.au/Store/Product/Detail/51290

Big feelings are part of growing up – learning how to manage them is key. Here are 3 simple, effective ways educators are building emotional resilience:

💛 Feeling overwhelmed?
Add short breathing or reflection moments to your daily routine

💛 Big emotions?
Use photos to help children recognise and name feelings

💛 Conflict?
Support children to navigate friendships and solve problems together

Small strategies. Lifelong skills.
Try our Building Social and Emotional Skills and Wellbeing online PD course!

Your writing plan for the term? Sorted.

Dr Helen Walls provides 10 weeks of structured, evidence-based writing instruction across:
✔️ 3 genres
✔️ High-interest topics
✔️ Explicit teaching support
✔️ Ready-to-use classroom resources

Less planning. Stronger writing outcomes. More confident writers.

Everything you need – ready to go.
https://www.essentialresources.co.nz/how-to-teach-collection/
https://www.essentialresources.com.au/how-to-teach-collection/

Creating a culturally inclusive environment starts with small, intentional actions.

Here are 6 simple ways educators are building stronger connections with children and families:
✔️ Greet in home languages
✔️ Use key phrases in daily routines
✔️ Celebrate cultural events
✔️ Invite family participation
✔️ Include fathers more intentionally
✔️ Use diverse resources and materials

Simple steps. Meaningful impact. A stronger sense of belonging for every child.
https://www.essentialresources.co.nz/early-childhood-courses/
https://www.essentialresources.com.au/early-childhood-courses/

10 minutes. One coffee. Your planning sorted.

Build a practical, no-nonsense documentation toolkit your whole team can actually use.

✔️ Reduce paperwork and guesswork
✔️ Save time
✔️ Strengthen team communication
✔️ Increase clarity around assessment
✔️ Lead with best practice

Simple systems. Stronger practice. Less stress.
https://www.essentialresources.co.nz/planning-and-assessment
https://www.essentialresources.com.au/planning-and-assessment

Support your struggling readers without adding to your workload.

Story Seekers gives you everything in one place:
✔️ Engaging, age-appropriate books
✔️ Teacher editions with ready-to-go support
✔️ Activity books to embed learning

Less prep. More progress. Better outcomes.
https://www.essentialresources.co.nz/story-seekers/
https://www.essentialresources.com.au/story-seekers/