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2020

Atkinson Centre
Weekly e-Newsletter

ANNOUNCING THE NEW

ELCC Innovation ToolKit

Coming Early 2021

The Atkinson Centre produces a weekly e-Newsletter, sharing Events, News Items, and Research & Resources related to Early Childhood Education and Family Support.

The ELCC Innovation ToolKit identifies innovations in the following areas: ELCC governance; funding; inclusion and equitable access; the learning environment including curriculum, program supports, transitions to kindergarten and parent engagement; the workforce including educator training, professional development, compensation and recognition; and monitoring and accountability.

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■ New Presentations
Measuring social and emotional skills to support children’s growth
Quebec Childcare at 20: What Have We Learned?
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■ Issues That Matter
New! ~ Ontario's Child Care Standards Lag Behind
New! ~ Confronting inequity, the other pandemic
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■ 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?
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■ Publications
New! ~ COVID-19 First Phase Response Plan: A federal municipal partnership to model sustainable quality early learning and childcare (ELCC) services across Canada
New! ~ Canada’s woeful track record on children set to get worse with COVID-19 pandemic
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Events	more events
■ Atkinson Centre Sponsored
Developing a data repository while protecting privacy: The experience of making legislative change in New Brunswick (October 15, 2020)
Cancelled: The Landscape of Early Childhood Education in Nova Scotia (March 24, 2020)

■ 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: Strengthening early years and child care in Ontario, 2020 report
PE: Speech from the Throne
ON: Third Quarter Finances Demonstrate Ontario's Unwavering Commitment to Protect Individuals, Families and Businesses
CA: Federal, provincial and territorial ministers work together to continue improving early learning and child care for Canadian families
YK: Universal childcare and early kindergarten will support Yukon families

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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