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Excerpt: "A system that addresses the needs of parents and children requires building more physical infrastructure, and more affordable access, but critically it requires more educators. This involves not just better wages and benefits, but an infrastructure that sustains quality work including access to excellence in pre- and in-service training; pedagogical leadership, and the availability of special needs specialists and family support workers to help address child/family needs, as in most schools."

Excerpt: "Canada and Nunavut agree that the long term vision, principles and objectives for early learning and child care, which are set out in the Framework that is attached as Annex 1, will guide the investment of funds provided under this Agreement."

Presented by Kerry McCuaig, Atkinson Centre Fellow In Early Childhood Policy, to Pearson Centre, September 2020.

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

Professor Scardamalia and Gerin-Lajoie join several OISE-affiliated Fellows in the Royal Society.

Gérin-Lajoie, a professor with OISE’s CTL department and the former director of CREFO, joins nearly 400 Royal Society of Canada fellows from U of T – many affiliated with OISE.

Excerpt: "Canada and Ontario agree that over the period of this Agreement, with financial support from Canada, Ontario will further build its early learning and child care system by addressing local, regional and system priorities that have an impact on families more in need by increasing the quality, accessibility, affordability, flexibility and inclusivity in early learning and child care."

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

MA in Child Studies and Education student, Meaghan Sullivan.
Expected year of graduation: 2021.

Excerpt: "Canada and Manitoba agree that the long term vision, principles and objectives for early learning and child care, which are set out in the Framework that is attached as an annex (Annex 1), will guide the investment of funds provided under this Agreement."

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: "The agreement allocates over $15 million in 2020–21 for early learning and child care investments in Manitoba. In particular, the province will continue to invest in creating inclusive child care spaces, maintain its free online Science of Early Development living textbook, expand its core professional development program and mentorship program for at-home providers, and create a one-time, $1.5 million COVID-19 Response Grant for facilities that have re-opened during the pandemic."