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Schools at the Centre Research and Policy Symposium

Case Studies of Seamless Early Learning

April 11, 2014
10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Location: Waterloo Region Museum, 10 Huron Road, Kitchener

The Schools at the Centre Research and Policy Symposium presents preliminary findings of Case Studies of Seamless Early Learning in Ontario.  This symposium will be of interest to school leaders, systems managers, policy makers, program administrators, and researchers.  For more information, please contact atkinson.centre@utoronto.ca. 

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10:00 a.m - Opening Remarks

Catherine Fife, MPP, Kitchener-Waterloo

10:15 a.m. - Panel Conversation

Nancy Dickieson, Director of Children's Services, Region of Waterloo

Goranka Vukelich, Chair, Child Development and Education Studies, Conestoga College

Mary Lou Mackie, Executive Superintendent, Waterloo Region District School Board

• Implementing Pascal’s Vision: Moving From Policy to Practice in The Waterloo Region District School Board/Region of Waterloo Children’s Services (pdf)

11:00 a.m. - Participant Discussion

Facilitator: Kerry McCuaig, Early Childhood Policy, Atkinson Centre, University of Toronto

12:45 p.m. - Research Presentation - Preliminary Analysis of the Schools at the Centre Study

Zeenat Janmohamed, Principal Investigator

Emis Akbari, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Atkinson Centre

Romona Gananathan, Ph.D. Candidate, OISE

• Schools at the Centre: Case Studies of Seamless Early Learning (pdf)

1:45 p.m. - Participant Discussion

Facilitator: Kerry McCuaig, Early Childhood Policy, Atkinson Centre, University of Toronto

2:45 p.m. - Closing Remarks

Mary Lou Mackie, Executive Superintendent, Waterloo Region District School Board

Jenny Jenkins, Chiar, Atkinson Centre

Zeenat Janmohamed, Atkinson Centre, OISE, University of Toronto

Sponsored by: 

Atkinson Centre, Waterloo Region District School Board,

Region of Waterloo, Lyle S. Hallman Foundation, Lawson Foundation

& Atkinson Charitable Foundation

Panel Conversation

left to right: Goranka Vukelich (Conestoga College), Mary Lou Mackie (Waterloo Region District School Board), Nancy Dickieson (Region of Waterloo)

Research Presentation - Preliminary Analysis of the Schools at the Centre Study

left to right: Emis Akbari (Atkinson Centre), Zeenat Janmohamed (Atkinson Centre), Romona Gananathan (Atkinson Centre)