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Outside the Box Learning

Education Consultancy

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Transforming education through play, creativity, and innovative pedagogy.

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Meet Maria - Founder Outside the Box Learning

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Outside the Box Learning offers a wide range of professional learning services to support individuals, teams and organisations to transform education through play, creativity, and innovative pedagogy.

 

Services include include long-term pedagogical projects, workshops, seminars, coaching, mentoring and demonstration programs.

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Programs are results driven, for meaningful impact. Practical in nature, with easy to replicate programs, ideas and tools to bring learning to life. Designed in partnership with you to ensure pedagogical growth is connected to your broader vision and responsive to your culture and community. 

Outside the Box Learning transforms education through play, creativity, and innovative pedagogy.

What I Offer:
• Coaching and mentoring educators to maximise efficiency and curriculum integration.
• Advocacy for play-based learning and development of strategies to incorporate play into a crowded curriculum.
• Creation of inspiring indoor and outdoor environments that encourage creative expression and diverse forms of intelligence.
• Reimagining outdoor spaces for learning and community engagement.

Approach:
• Long-term projects drive organizational change, while shorter programs offer fresh perspectives.
• Consultation and mentorship for educational leaders across various sectors.
• Resource development for online and face-to-face professional learning.
• Curriculum mapping to support outdoor learning and holistic student engagement.

My Vision
To provide children with an innovative curriculum that ignites a passion for lifelong learning.

Values

Relationship, time (the precious gift that it is) and integrity are values that guide not only the work I do, but the way I do it.

Services

Professional Learning

Anything from 1 hour spotlights to whole day workshops.  I support teams curious about playful pedagogies, creativity, outdoor learning and meaningful inquiry. Popular focus areas include Mastering the Art of Connecting Play and Curriculum and the  Outdoor Learning Curriculum Connection Series, where participants explore ways to use; school grounds, green spaces, nature play spaces, built playgrounds and even 'unloved' concrete areas as innovation hubs. All include a spotlight on the latest iteration of the Australian Curriculum and EYLF. 

Speaking Events

Sessions, including keynotes and practical sessions tailored to suit parent, community and organisational needs. A focus on play and creativity.

Place Making Support

Facilitating community consultation to strengthen partnerships, honour children's voice and achieve great outcomes within your context and local environment. 

Contact

ph: +61422460831    hello@mariataylorconsulting.com

I send out a fortnightly newsletter with links to resources, creative play ideas, research and more. It's called Create and Play Outside the Box. Subscribe here.

I respectfully acknowledge the Kaurna people who are the traditional owners of the land on which I live and work and pay my respects to  Elders, past, present and emerging.

I would also like to recognise the traditional peoples of this continent, whose land was stolen nearly 250 years ago. I am inspired by the traditions of learning on land, learning through story and working with community to give back to this country that we all call home. This land was and always will be the land of the First Nations People. 

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