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ECE Services

4E's has a diverse range of ECE consulting services that your business can tap into for support covering all aspects of management and governance consulting for all round business support.

Curriculum
Deep Dive
(On-Site)

A comprehensive on-site review of your lived curriculum using the 4E’s™ — Engage, Enable, Empower, Evolve™. This process evaluates teaching practice, learning environments, bicultural integration, and planning cycles to ensure alignment with Te Whāriki, centre philosophy, and high-quality learning outcomes.

Learning Lens Review (Off-Site)

A distance-based curriculum documentation analysis grounded in the 4E’s™ — Engage, Enable, Empower, Evolve™. This review examines the quality, consistency, and depth of assessments, planning, and learning stories to support reflective practice, curriculum coherence, and evidence-informed improvement.

Full Operational Compliance Audit (Foundational Checks)

An on-site operational audit guided by the 4E’s™ — Engage, Enable, Empower, Evolve™. This review covers foundational compliance, including health and safety, ratios, supervision, hygiene, environment checks, risk, and policy alignment to ensure operational safety, regulatory readiness, and ERO-aligned quality.

Due Diligence Review (ECE Business or Centre Acquisition)

A structured pre-purchase or pre-investment assessment applying the 4E’s™ — Engage, Enable, Empower, Evolve™. This process reviews compliance history, financial health, staffing, property, and regulatory risk to support confident, informed decisions when acquiring or investing in an ECE service.

Governance & Board Facilitation + Advisory Services

A strategic governance support service built around the 4E’s™ — Engage, Enable, Empower, Evolve™. This offering strengthens board capability, oversight, risk governance, and assurance through structured facilitation, diagnostics, and best-practice alignment for ECE organisations.

Leaders Lab
(Leadership Development & Capability Building)

A tailored leadership development and capability-building programme shaped by the 4E’s™ — Engage, Enable, Empower, Evolve™. Leaders Lab™ develops confident, future-ready ECE leaders who can guide teams, strengthen culture, and uplift quality with clarity and confidence.

Neuro-affirmative Coaching (For Leaders & Educators)

A strengths-based, neuroinclusive coaching service guided by the 4E’s™ — Engage, Enable, Empower, Evolve™. This offering supports ADHD/ND educators and leaders to understand their working style, enhance executive functioning, reduce overwhelm, and sustainably thrive in their ECE roles.

 ECE Business Advisory & Consulting (Start-Ups, Licensing, Operations)

A comprehensive advisory service anchored in the 4E’s™ — Engage, Enable, Empower, Evolve™. This support covers start-up licensing, operational systems, compliance frameworks, enrolment strategies, and business modelling for strong, sustainable establishment and growth of ECE services.

ECE Design & Development (Concept → Opening)

A human-centred ECE design and development service grounded in the 4E’s™ — Engage, Enable, Empower, Evolve™. This offering guides centres from concept to opening through visioning, space planning, regulatory alignment, and environment design that supports quality learning and aesthetic excellence.

PGC Peer Pods (Professional Growth Cycle Networking Groups)

 PGC Peer Pods create a collaborative, networked space for kaiako to connect with peers beyond their own centre, guided by the 4E’s™ — Engage, Enable, Empower, Evolve™. These facilitated pods strengthen professional dialogue, reflective practice, and shared inquiry, enabling kaiako to deepen their PGC process through collegial conversation, collective problem-solving, and supportive professional relationships across the wider ECE community.

4E’s™ Diamond Framework © (Copyright & Intellectual Property)

A proprietary human-centric strategic framework applies the  values of Engage, Enable, Empower, Evolve™ across four integrated dimensions that promote quality, leadership, and organisational growth and development.  This framework provides a clear, repeatable structure for decision-making, capability-building, and ecosystem alignment, ensuring consistency, depth, and strategic coherence across all areas of your organisation with multiple lenses applied to enhance understanding and connection. This framework is underpinned by multiple disciplines and researched methodologies that can be offered as further training modules.*

Strategic Design & Development (ECE Centre-Focused)

A values-led strategic design process for ECE centres guided by the 4E’s™ — Engage, Enable, Empower, Evolve™. This service supports centres to align their philosophy, culture, curriculum vision, and operational systems so the entire service reflects what they stand for. Through collaborative workshops, environment and practice analysis, and future-focused design thinking, we co-develop a cohesive strategic direction that strengthens identity, elevates quality, and ensures every decision: from staffing and space design through to curriculum priorities and whānau engagement, each anchored firmly in your core values.

Quality Assurance & Excellence Review
(Curriculum, Compliance, Internal Evaluation)

A comprehensive, centre-wide quality review guided by the 4E’s™ — Engage, Enable, Empower, Evolve™. This service provides a structured, ERO-aligned dive into curriculum practice, compliance systems, and internal evaluation, using a sampling approach to ensure depth, integrity, and affordability. The process may include curriculum observation, selected internal evaluation reviews, an in-depth strategic evaluation, full compliance and policy checks (including key H&S policies), verification of staff safety checking, and a high-level scan of strategic and annual planning. Designed for centres seeking an external lens on quality, readiness, and continuous improvement, this review offers clear parameters, robust evidence, and practical guidance for achieving excellence.

Internal Evaluation Support & Review

A focused, evidence-informed internal evaluation service guided by the 4E’s™ — Engage, Enable, Empower, Evolve™. This offering supports centres to design, conduct, or refine meaningful internal evaluations that strengthen quality, align with Te Ara Poutama indicators and Ngā Aronga Whai Hua, and reflect authentic centre priorities. Through collaborative inquiry, data gathering, sense-making, and reporting support, we help teams build capability, evaluate impact, and create clear improvement pathways. Ideal for centres wanting external guidance on a single in-depth evaluation or support across multiple, smaller inquiry cycles.

Team Training
(In-House / Live)

A customised, in-house professional learning experience guided by the 4E’s™ — Engage, Enable, Empower, Evolve™. This service delivers practical, responsive training tailored to your centre’s needs, strengthening curriculum knowledge, relational practice, leadership capability, and team cohesion. Through live workshops, hands-on modelling, and collaborative inquiry, teams build shared understanding, uplift practice, and embed centre values into everyday teaching and learning.

Customosed Solutions

Can’t find exactly what you’re looking for?

Our team is here to help. We understand that every project is unique, which is why we offer customised solutions tailored to your specific needs.

Get in touch with us today and let’s create something that works perfectly for you.

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ECE Document Subscriptions

Be reassured that you are meeting all regulatory and legislative requirements from the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Health and ERO. At the click of a button all the documentation you need, regularly reviewed by the Ministry of Education and ERO and updated with recommendations so as to remain compliant. This 12 month subscription means all the policies, procedures, checklists, templates and more are not only compliant, but also best practice, striving for excellent quality ECE care and education.
Our Te Kete Aronui subscription has naturally occurred over years of supporting service operators, governance and management teams including Board of Trustees with operational documentation development and have paired this concept with Aotearoa's first and longest standing ECE online Learning Hub.

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