🟢 What’s This Episode About?

What If Your Documentation Could Come Alive?

In this final episode of 2025, Jodie explores a question that's been forming all year: what if the documentation and planning cycle system itself…not just our efficiency within it, is what needs to change?

Jodie takes a step back from specific AI tool use cases and prompting to look at the bigger picture. We explore why the "old way" of documenting and planning seems to be broken, why we’re all so tired, and how we’ve been held hostage by 3 "hidden rules" of early childhood admin.

She introduces the concept of Living Documentation, an approach that shifts educators from reconstructing meaningful moments from memory to capturing them in real time, from writing documentation from scratch to editing and verifying AI-generated drafts, and from filing isolated observations to building Living Learning Journeys that show children's development over time.

This is an invitation into a new conversation that will continue throughout 2026.

🟢 What You’ll Find Out:

✅ Why the documentation folder shouldn't be a storage bin.

✅ Why digital tools haven't solved our burnout (yet).

✅ The "Memory Tax" Dilemma - Why reconstructing reality at 8 PM is destroying your energy and enthusiasm.

✅ What the ‘Living Documentation Approach’ is

✅How this approach looks in reality for Family Day Care, Early Learning Centres, Preschool & Mobile Services

✅ The "Living Learning Journey" for children - How patterns emerge without you having to hunt for them.

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