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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.

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.

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

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

Dr. Eve Tuck shares the importance of acknowledging Indigenous grief and adopting collective expressions of support and love.

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

The beginning of a term usually signals a rise in service and support requests at Education Commons, and 2022 set a new record! Learn more about the ways you can request support from Education Commons.

Excerpt: "The department of Education, Culture and Employment (ECE) invited Indigenous governments, licensed early learning and child care program operators, early childhood educators, and the public to provide their feedback on the proposed amendments. These amendments seek to establish an NWT certification process and wage grid, increase inclusion and reporting measures, establish cost control measures, protect the rights of families, and update language used in the Act. The What We Heard Report includes a summary of feedback from engagement that took place in June 2022."