Events & Presentations
Events and Presentations
90-Hour Introduction to ECE Online Course: Training for Untrained Educator
Lindsay Webb, Acting Director, Department of Education and Early Childhood Development, Educational Services - Anglophone
Early Learning and Development shares how New Brunswick provides a minimum of 90 hours of child development training to staff working in childcare centres who do not hold post-secondary ECE credentials.
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Space Expansion for Equity
Matthias Rust, Director, Strategic Policy and Intergovernmental Relations, Early Learning and Child Care Division, Manitoba Education and Early Childhood Learning and Pam Wever, Director of Capital and Space Development.
An overview of Manitoba’s innovative approach to building childcare facilities in underserved communities.
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Tracking changes in the ECE delivery. The UK model
Kerry McCuaig, Fellow in Early Childhood Policy, Atkinson Centre/OISE.
Policy changes and updates in the early learning and child care sector in Newfoundland and Labrador.
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The Cost-Benefits of Public Child Care
University of Toronto economics professor Beth Dhuey and Atkinson Senior Policy Fellows Kerry McCuaig and Dr. Emis Akbari. Ontario is requiring regions to justify their directly operated childcare facilities. Divesting public programs has eliminated good jobs for education, removed a standard for community programs, and reduced access to vulnerable users, particularly children with disabilities and infants. Research documents that the value of public childcare extends beyond the dollars spent.
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PEI’s ELCC Workforce Pension Plan
Sonya Hooper, Assistant Deputy Minister Early Years
Jennifer Nangreaves, Executive Director, Early Childhood Development Association Of PEI
An overview of the PEI’s unique pension plan instituted for the early childhood education workforce.
Knowing Our Numbers: An update to the early years sector in Hamilton.
Events and Presentations
Events and Presentations
Events and Presentations
Promising Practices in Manitoba: Inclusive Programming and Ready-to-Move Child Care
Matthias Rust, Director, Strategic Policy and Intergovernmental Relations, Early Learning and Child Care Division, Manitoba Education and Early Childhood Learning.
In Manitoba, every licensed childcare space is an inclusive space. All licensed childcare facilities must have a written inclusion policy and provide programming inclusive of children’s diverse needs. Various programs and initiatives support this requirement.
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Benefits of Amalgamating Child Care Services
Kim Hiscott, Executive Director, Andrew Fleck Child Care Services, Ottawa
How a large childcare agency acts to stabilize services in the region, and the benefits it provides.
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A Mega Board for Efficiency and Quality.
Dr. Jessie-Lee McIsaac, Canada Research Chair in Early Childhood: Diversity and Transitions / Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education and Department of Child and Youth Study, Mount Saint Vincent University
Child care can experience challenges optimizing operations and achieving results such as increasing access and supporting working conditions. In response, Nova Scotia developed innovative proposals to expand access to public education for 4-year-olds and to create a consolidated nonprofit board to offer top-tier support for the workforce and grow capacity.