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Australia’s Best Teachers: Early Childhood Teacher Renee Connaghan

“When you get quality services and quality organisations delivering a higher standard of care that sits outside of basic childcare, then people start to develop a new respect for it. Having engaged, passionate and well-educated educators who love what they do, that’s what’s necessary to continue to lift the profile."
Australia’s Best Teachers: Early Childhood Teacher Renee Connaghan Australia’s Best Teachers: Early Childhood Teacher Renee Connaghan

 

 

In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, our former Wahroonga Eastern Road’s Campus Director and now Northen Beaches Education Partner, Renee discussed the significance of educators in establishing a lifelong love of learning, highlighting the importance of nurturing development and offering more than childcare.

“When you get quality services and quality organisations delivering a higher standard of care that sits outside of basic childcare, then people start to develop a new respect for it.

Having engaged, passionate and well-educated educators who love what they do, that’s what’s necessary to continue to lift the profile.”

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Australia’s Best Teachers: Early childhood teacher Renee Connaghan

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