Presentations
A catalogue of various presentations make by the Atkinson Centre team at different events and meetings.
Best Practices in ECE Development: 90-Hour Introduction to ECE Online Course - Training for Untrained Educators
Best Practices in ECE Development: In this series, early childhood officials from various provinces shared promising initiatives aimed at supporting the early childhood education workforce and expanding access to child care.
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.
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.
Best Practices in ECE Development: Space Expansion for Equity
Best Practices in ECE Development: In this series, early childhood officials from various provinces shared promising initiatives aimed at supporting the early childhood education workforce and expanding access to child care.
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.
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.
Best Practices in ECE Development: Tracking changes in the ECE delivery. The UK model
Best Practices in ECE Development: In this series, early childhood officials from various provinces shared promising initiatives aimed at supporting the early childhood education workforce and expanding access to child care.
Tracking changes in the ECE delivery. The UK model
Kerry McCuaig, Fellow in Early Childhood Policy, Atkinson Centre/OISE.
An overview of how the UK provides annual updates on ECE access and workforce changes.
Tracking changes in the ECE delivery. The UK model
Kerry McCuaig, Fellow in Early Childhood Policy, Atkinson Centre/OISE.
An overview of how the UK provides annual updates on ECE access and workforce changes.
Newfoundland and Labrador - Advances in the Early Learning and Child Care
Presented by Kerry McCuaig, Senior Fellow Early Childhood Policy, Atkinson Centre, OISE/University of Toronto, October 5, 2024
Best Practices in ECE Development: PEI’s ELCC Workforce Pension Plan
Best Practices in ECE Development: In this series, early childhood officials from various provinces shared promising initiatives aimed at supporting the early childhood education workforce and expanding access to child care.
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.
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.
ECE Workforce Rights 2024
Presented by Dr. Zeenat Janmohamed, Executive Director & Senior Policy Analyst, Atkinson Centre, OISE/University of Toronto, at the ECEBC Conference 2024, May 24, 2024
The Early Childhood Education Report: An In-depth Review of Early Education and Child Care Across Canada - Halfway through CWELCC: How are we doing?
Presented by Kerry McCuaig, Senior Policy Fellow, Atkinson Centre for Society and Child Development; Emis Akbari, Professor and Program Coordinator, School of Early Childhood, George Brown College | Senior Policy Fellow, Atkinson Centre, OISE/University of Toronto; Shelly Mehta, Professor and Program Coordinator, School of Early Childhood, George Brown College, at the 20th Annual Summer Institute: Shaping the ECE Workforce for Canada’s Future, April 26, 2024
Best Practices in ECE Development: Benefits of Amalgamating Child Care Services
Best Practices in ECE Development: In this series, early childhood officials from various provinces shared promising initiatives aimed at supporting the early childhood education workforce and expanding access to child care.
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.
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.
Budget 2024
Excerpt: "With more than 8,600 spaces already at $10-a-day, our government has made regulated child care in Newfoundland and Labrador more affordable. Budget 2024 supports our efforts to increase capacity and create 6,000 new child care spaces by 2026 through: $27 million for continued implementation of the early childhood educator wage grid; Over $16 million for projects to increase the number of child care spaces; $2.7 million for bursaries and grants for students to become an early childhood educator; Launch of the Early Learning Gateway this spring, which will connect families seeking child care with service operators who have available space."
Best Practices in ECE Development: A Mega Board for Efficiency and Quality.
Best Practices in ECE Development: In this series, early childhood officials from various provinces shared promising initiatives aimed at supporting the early childhood education workforce and expanding access to child care.
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.
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.
Reflections On Early Childhood Practice: Keynote Address to Humber College Early Childhood Graduates 2023
Presented by Zeenat Janmohamed, PhD, Executive Director and Senior Policy Analyst, Atkinson Centre for Society and Child Development
The Power of Schools for Early Learning
Presented by Kerry McCuaig, Senior Policy Fellow, Atkinson Centre for Society and Child Development; and Emis Akbari, Professor and Program Coordinator, School of Early Childhood, George Brown College | Senior Policy Fellow, Atkinson Centre, OISE/University of Toronto, at Putting the Public into Early Learning and Child Care, December 1, 2023
