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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

- AGENDA AND REGISTRTION COMING SOON -

Iram Siraj

Atkinson Centre Resources		more resources
■ New Presentations
Presentation at the Conference Board of Canada Education and Skills Symposium 2018 ~ New!
Presentation at the Lawson Foundation Outdoor Play and Early Learning Policy Research Symposium, Curriculum Frameworks and Legislative Oversight of Outdoor Play in Early Childhood Settings in the Provinces and Territories ~ New!
		more presentations
■ Issues That Matter
The Rationale for Expanding Public Education to Include Preschool-Aged Children ~ New!
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
ABO: The Government of Canada and the Métis National Council sign historic Early Learning and Child Care Accord
BC: Speech from the Throne
ON: Ontario Making Life Easier for Parents and Families
SK: Nearly 150 More Licensed Child Care Centre Spaces Allocated
QC: Update on Québec's Economic and Financial Situation – Fall 2018

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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