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Excerpt: "The 16 projects, funded through the Early Learning and Child Care Innovation Program, are receiving a total of $27.4 million in federal funding over three years, and will be completed by March 31, 2025. The call for proposals focused on projects that foster cutting-edge practices to support the changing nature of early learning and child care, placing a priority on projects that address the needs of families grappling with the impacts of the pandemic."

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A Zoom webinar hosted by the Amaquen Institute Seminar with Glen Jones and Abdennasser Naji.

Excerpt: "Alberta’s government has expanded the paid hours that are eligible for existing wage top-ups for front-line certified ECEs. As of Oct. 1, all paid hours are now eligible for the existing wage top-ups, including indirect time and employer-paid vacation time. These measures represent an investment of nearly $90 million in federal and provincial funding through to the end of fiscal 2025-26. Provincial funding will support this enhanced wage top-up for certified ECEs working in out-of-school care programs."

Alex Usher's review of the book by Julia Eastman, Glen Jones, Claude Trottier and Olivier Bégin-Caouette

The Atkinson Centre promotes research on child development, and the development of early learning policy and practice that serve young children and their families.

Excerpt: "Recognizing that affordable child care is crucial to helping people, particularly women, enter or re-enter the workforce, My Government has been a national leader in lowering costs to $10 a day starting this coming January."

OISE alum Darren Hamilton becomes the first Black person to receive the MusiCounts Teacher of the Year Juno Award.

Continuing & Professional Learning (CPL) will launch the fellowship opportunities – the first of its kind offered by Canadian educational institutes.

Dr. Angela, Associate Director, Waakebiness-Bryce Institute for Indigenous Health, is helping to renew U of T spaces with native plants and land-based learning.

Master of Education (MEd) in Developmental Psychology and Education, Linda Zhao
Expected year of graduation: 2024.

OISE's Professor Eve Tuck identifies the need to adapt authentic approaches to address ongoing legacies of colonialism and advance Indigenous research.