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UNICEF Report Card 15

The Equalizer: How Education Creates Fairness for Children in Canada

Facebook Live Launch

Third Edition
Early Childhood Education Report 2017

~ Featured at the OECD International Early Childhood Action Congress, Paris,
June 14-15, 2018 ~

ECER2017 Cover

SAVE THE DATE!
Summer Institute 2019

~ Accounting for Quality in the Early Childhood Workforce~

June 17, 2019

- REGISTRATION NOW OPEN -

Iram Siraj

Atkinson Centre Resources		more resources
■ New Presentations
Who’s the best and where’s the rest? How does my province/territory rate? An interactive Q & A ~ New!
The Impact of Public Delivery of ECE on Its Workforce ~ New!
		more presentations
■ Issues That Matter
The Rationale for Expanding Public Education to Include Preschool-Aged Children
Canada needs a national strategy to address the shortage of early childhood educators
		more issues that matter
■ Videos
Craig Alexander of the Conference Board of Canada discusses the role of early education in reversing troubling trends in the Atlantic region
Truth and Reconciliation and the Duty of Early Childhood Education and Care
What happened to Quebec’s great experiment of child care for all?
		more videos
■ Publications
Early Childhood Education Report 2017
Early childhood services that work for children, families and islanders
		more publications

Events	more events
■ Atkinson Centre Sponsored
Summer Institute 2019 (June 17, 2019)
Building Capacity in Atlantic Canada's ECE Workforce (August 24-25, 2018)
International Summer Course on the Rights of the Child - Early Childhood and the Right to Education: Toddlers and their rights in relation to Articles 28 and 29 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (June 24-29, 2018)

■ Atkinson Centre Staff
Early Childhood Educators of British Columbia Annual Conference (April 10-13, 2019)
1st Annual Education and Skills Symposium 2018 (November 28-29, 2018)
Early childhood education and care: A foundation for a fair and productive society (May 2, 2018)

Policy Monitor	more policy monitor
ON: Ontario Supporting Child Care Professionals - Province Continues Wage Enhancement for Child Care Sector
BC: Program expanded to meet demand for early childhood educators
ON: Budget 2019
NB: Wage increase for trained early childhood educators
NL: Capital Renovation Grants Assist Child Care Providers in Making Quality Improvements

The need for more daycare spaces

The Atkinson Centre is a partnership of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (University of Toronto), and the School of Early Childhood (George Brown College), with the Dr. Eric Jackman Institute for Child Study (University of Toronto), the Centre of Excellence for Early Childhood Development, and the Science of Early Child Development (Red River College). Our work is generously supported by The Lawson Foundation, the Atkinson Foundation and the Margaret and Wallace McCain Family Foundation.

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