Presentations
A catalogue of various presentations make by the Atkinson Centre team at different events and meetings.
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
Remarks to the Standing Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology
Presented by Kerry McCuaig, Atkinson Centre Fellow In Early Childhood Policy, Atkinson Centre for Society and Child Development
A qualified and valued workforce is foundational
Presented by Dr. Emis Akbari, Senior Policy Fellow, Atkinson Centre for Society and Child Development, at an ECE Appreciation event in the District of Timiskaming, October 12, 2023.
A workforce in trouble
Presented by Emis Akbari, Professor and Program Coordinator, School of Early Childhood, George Brown College | Senior Policy Fellow, Atkinson Centre, OISE/University of Toronto; and Kelly Emergy, at the 19th Annual Summer Institute: Ensuring equity and inclusion in early learning and child care, May 11, 2023
Early Childhood Educators are at the heart of quality early learning (PDF)
Presented by Dr. Emis Akbari, Senior Policy Fellow, Atkinson Centre for Society and Child Development, at Let’s Get it Right!: Conference on Early Childhood Education for the Next Generation, Newfoundland, June 2022.
Canada’s Children Need a Professional Early Childhood Education Workforce Keynote w/ Dr. Emis Akbari (Video)
Presented by Dr. Emis Akbari, Senior Policy Fellow, Atkinson Centre for Society and Child Development, at Let’s Get it Right!: Conference on Early Childhood Education for the Next Generation, Newfoundland, June 2022.
Early Childhood Education and Care Policy and its role in Economic Recovery (PDF)
Presented by Dr. Emis Akbari, Senior Policy Fellow, Atkinson Centre for Society and Child Development, at the Rotman School of Management Research Roundtable: Care Work in the Recovery Economy, February 2022.
Early Childhood Education and Care Policy and its role in Economic Recovery
Presented by Emis Akbari, Professor and Program Coordinator, School of Early Childhood, George Brown College | Senior Policy Fellow, Atkinson Centre, OISE/University of Toronto, at the Research Roundtable: Care Work in the Recovery Economy, February 2-3 2022
Trends, Opportunities and Challenges in Early Child Education (PDF)
Presented by Kerry McCuaig, Atkinson Centre Fellow In Early Childhood Policy, Atkinson Centre for Society and Child Development; Emis Akbari, Senior Policy Fellow, Atkinson Centre for Society and Child Development, to Canadian Association for Business Economics, September 2021.
