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Excerpt: "This document is a reference guide for the official grant agreement between licensed child care programs in Alberta and the Alberta government. This document outlines the process, eligibility, conditions and accountability requirements for eligible licensed facility-based programs and licensed family day home agencies to access grant funding from the Alberta government for wage top-ups and professional development."

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

Vandra Masemann and Kara Janigan

Excerpt: "There is a strong desire for professional recognition to advance their profession. To that end, educators overwhelmingly reaffirmed the importance of a robust profession by having a regulated professional association to promote their profession, to be the voice with government and to regulate the standards of practice. Early Childhood Educators also recommended using the process of certification and pay equity to determine a wage scale."

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

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, presented to Canadian Association for Business Economics, September 14, 2021

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

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

PhD in School and Clinical Child Psychology (SCCP) student, Sahar Borairi.
Expected year of graduation: 2023.

“Second Language Writing: A Study of the Learning and Teaching of Academic Writing in a Networked Culture” – Ramesh Pokharel

“Towards an Expanded Notion of Identity: An Engagement with Charles Taylor’s Sources of the Self” – Aayah Amir

Posted on TVO Today.

Excerpt: "We'll be looking back at more than a decade of full-day kindergarten in Ontario. How well has it worked? Were the original concerns about it warranted? And has it accomplished its goals. With guests Jane Bertrand of OISE at the University of Toronto; the Toronto Star's Kristin Rushowy, and the University of Toronto's Elizabeth Dhuey."

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