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2022

• Early Childhood Educators are at the heart of quality early learning
  Presented by Dr. Emis Akbari, Senior Policy Fellow, Atkinson Centre for Society and Child Development, at Let’s Get it Right!: Conference on Early Childhood Education for the Next Generation, Newfoundland, June 2022
  
  Also access video of Dr. Akbari's presentation HERE.
   
• Early Childhood Education and Care Policy and its role in Economic Recovery
  Presented by Dr. Emis Akbari, Senior Policy Fellow, Atkinson Centre for Society and Child Development, at the Rotman School of Management Research Roundtable: Care Work in the Recovery Economy February 2022
   

2021

• Care as an Economic Driver: Trends, Opportunities and Challenges in Early Learning and Childcare
  Presented by Kerry McCuaig, Atkinson Centre Fellow In Early Childhood Policy, Atkinson Centre for Society and Child Development; Emis Akbari, Senior Policy Fellow, Atkinson Centre for Society and Child Development, to Canadian Association for Business Economics, September 2021
   
• Supporting Resilience with Strong Public Policy
  Presented by Dr. Emis Akbari, Professor, School of Early Childhood, George Brown College/Atkinson Centre for Society and Child Development at Science Writers and Communicators Canada: Seeding Resilience in our Future Generations, June 2021
   
• Québec’s Early Learning and Child Care Services
  Presented by Kerry McCuaig, Atkinson Centre Fellow in Early Childhood Policy, to Toronto Early Learning and Child Care Services, May 2021

2020

• Should National Childcare Be in the Throne Speech?
  Presented by Kerry McCuaig, Atkinson Centre Fellow In Early Childhood Policy, to Pearson Centre, September 2020
   
• Schooling, Inequity, and COVID-19: Growing inequities in the time of crisis.
  Presented by Dr. Emis Akbari, Professor, School of Early Childhood, George Brown College/Atkinson Centre for Society and Child Development for The Jimmy Pratt Foundation, September 2020
   
• Public Sector Expansion of Early Childhood Education. The role of public jobs to promote decent work.
  Presented by Dr. Emis Akbari, Professor, School of Early Childhood, George Brown College/Atkinson Centre for Society and Child Development at the AECEO Kindergarten Summit, February 2020

2019

• The Pre-Emptive Nature of Quality Early Childhood Education on Special Education Needs
  Presented by Dr. David Philpott, Memorial University Newfoundland & Labrador and Jane Bertrand, Margaret and Wallace McCain Family Foundation, Toronto, October 24, 2019
  
  Also see Exceptionality Education International Journal Special Issue: Linking Quality Early Child Education and Special Education Needs (subscription required)

• Measuring social and emotional skills to support children’s growth
  Presented by Research Fellow, Education Policy & Practice Program/Member of the Centre for Global Education Monitoring, Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER)

• Quebec Childcare at 20: What Have We Learned?
  Presented at retreat organized by the Child Care Availability Task Force of the State of New York, Rensselaer, July 15, 2019
  Presented by Pierre Fortin, Department of Economics, ESG UQAM
  PDF version of PowerPoint Presentation can be accesed HERE
  Additional reading: Quebec child care program articles

• Presentation at the Early Childhood Educators of British Columbia Annual Conference, Vancouver, British Columiba, April 10-12, 2019: Who’s the best and where’s the rest?
  Presented by Kerry McCuaig, Atkinson Centre Fellow In Early Childhood Policy

• Presentation at the Early Childhood Educators of British Columbia Annual Conference, Vancouver, British Columiba, April 10-12, 2019: The Impact of Public Delivery of ECE on Its Workforce
  Dr. Emis Akbari, Professor, School of Early Childhood, George Brown College/Atkinson Centre for Society and Child Development

2018

• Presentation at the Conference Board of Canada Education and Skills Symposium 2018, Toronto, November 28, 2018
  Presented by Kerry McCuaig, Atkinson Centre Fellow In Early Childhood Policy

• Presentation at the Lawson Foundation Outdoor Play and Early Learning Policy Research Symposium, October 24-26, 2018, Curriculum Frameworks and Legislative Oversight of Outdoor Play in Early Childhood Settings in the Provinces and Territories
  Presented by Kerry McCuaig, Atkinson Centre Fellow In Early Childhood Policy, and Jane Bertrand, Adjunct Faculty OISE, and Program Director, Margaret and Wallace McCain Family Foundation, and developed with the support of Kelley Prendergast

• Presentations from the Atkinson Centre Task Force Meeting, Toronto, October 12, 2018

  • What’s next for early learning and child care in Ontario?, presented by Carolyn Ferns, Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care

  • Innovation Review and Educator Survey, presented by Dr. Emis Akbari, Professor, School of Early Childhood, George Brown College/Atkinson Centre for Society and Child Development

• Presentation to the Norwegian Standing Committee on Education and Research
  Toronto, Ontario, September 24, 2018

  • Full-Day Kindergarten Research, presented by Janette Pelletier, Dr. Eric Jackman Institute of Child Study

  • Early Years: Provision and Oversight in Ontario, presented by Cynthia Grundmann, Senior Policy Advisor/Manager, Early Years, Toronto District School Board

  • A Playful Pedagogy Approach to Early Years Mathematics: Focus on Spatial Geometric Reasoning, presented by Dr. Joan Moss, OISE, University of Toronto

• Early Childhood Education Trends
  Presented by Kerry McCuaig, Atkinson Centre Fellow In Early Childhood Policy, Early Years Working Group, Community and Social Services, City of Ottawa, August 30, 2018, Ottawa, Ontario.

• Early Childhood Education Report Presentation to the Provincial and Territorial Directors
  Presented by Kerry McCuaig, Atkinson Centre Fellow In Early Childhood Policy, and Dr. Emis Akbari, Professor, School of Early Childhood, George Brown College/
  Atkinson Centre for Society and Child Development, August 24, 2018, Moncton, New Brunswick

• Early Learning and Childhood: An Overview of Policy Trends and Investments in Canada and its Provinces and Territories
  Presented by Dr. Emis Akbari, Professor, School of Early Childhood, George Brown College/
  Atkinson Centre for Society and Child Development, Midwestern Legislative Conference. The Council of States Governments. Education Committee. July 15, 2018. Winnipeg, Manitoba.

• Early Childhood Education Report
  Presented by Dr. Emis Akbari, Professor, School of Early Childhood, George Brown College/
  Atkinson Centre for Society and Child Development, 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 25, 2018

• ECE Trends 2017
  Presented by Kerry McCuaig, Atkinson Centre Fellow In Early Childhood Policy, and Jane Bertrand, Adjunct Faculty OISE, and Program Director, Margaret and Wallace McCain Family Foundation, Geo Centre, St. John's, Newfoundland, May 28, 2018

• Presentations from the Atkinson Centre Task Force Meeting, Toronto, May 9, 2018

  • Affordable for all: making licensed child care affordable in Ontario, presented by Gordon Cleveland, University of Toronto

  • Growing Together Ontario’s Early Years and Child Care Workforce Strategy, presented by Bernice Cipparrone, George Brown College/Atkinson Centre

• The Public Advantage in ECEC Delivery
  Presented by Kerry McCuaig, Atkinson Centre Fellow In Early Childhood Policy, Ottawa-Carlton District School Board, Ottawa, April 12, 2018

• Pre-Empting Student Mental Health Challenges Through Early Childhood Education
  Presented by Jane Bertrand, Adjunct Faculty OISE, and Program Director, Margaret and Wallace McCain Family Foundation, and Maureen Dockendorf, BC Ministry of Education and WE Charity, The 50th Banff International Conference on Behavioural Science, March 18-21, 2018
   
• Presentations from the Atkinson Centre Task Force Meeting, Toronto, January 9, 2018

•Professional Pay and Decent Work Campaign Update, presented by Lyndsay Macdonald, AECEO
•ECE services in Quebec: What about quality and equality of chances?, presented by Louis Senécal, AQCPE

2017

• Mothers and Others: Child care as an equity measure
  Presented by Kerry McCuaig, Atkinson Centre Fellow In Early Childhood Policy, Global Need for Formal Child Care Symposium, August 11, 2017
   
• Canadian trends in ECE Play based Learning
  Presented by Kerry McCuaig, Atkinson Centre Fellow In Early Childhood Policy, NWT JK/K Play-based In-Service and Training, Yellowknife, May 16-19, 2017
   
• Schools at the Centre: Findings from Case Studies Exploring Seamless Early Learning in Ontario
  Presented by Zeenat Janmohamed, Chair of the School of Social and Community Services and Deaf and Deafblind Studies, George Brown College, and Atkinson Centre visiting scholar, March 2, 2017, Siem Reap, Cambodia

• Presentation to the Premier’s Taskforce on Improving Education Outcomes
  Presented by Kerry McCuaig, Atkinson Centre Fellow In Early Childhood Policy; and Jane Bertrand, Adjunct Faculty OISE, and Program Director, Margaret and Wallace McCain Family Foundation, January 20, 2017, St. John's, Newfoundland

2016

• Addressing Health Inequities Through Early Childhood Education
  Presented by Jane Bertrand, Adjunct Faculty OISE, and Program Director, Margaret and Wallace McCain Family Foundation, November 11, 2016, via webinar

• Canadian trends in early education: Learnings for BC
  Presented by Kerry McCuaig, Atkinson Centre Fellow In Early Childhood Policy, November 3, 2016 to the BC District Principals of Aboriginal Education, Richmond, BC

• Monitoring for equity
  Presented by Kerry McCuaig, Atkinson Centre Fellow In Early Childhood Policy, October 21, 2016 to the Flex PhD Cohort, OISE, Toronto, ON

• Quebec Early Childhood Education Commission
  Presented by Kerry McCuaig, Atkinson Centre Fellow In Early Childhood Policy, October 12, 2016, Montreal, Quebec

  • To access the Early Childhood Education Commission

• PEI’s Preschool Excellence Initiative:Expanding preschool for all
  Presented by Kerry McCuaig, Atkinson Centre Fellow In Early Childhood Policy, September 12 2016, to the PEI cabinet and deputy ministers, PEI

• Quality standards in ECEC programming: Lessons from Canada
  Presented by Kerry McCuaig, Atkinson Centre Fellow In Early Childhood Policy, June 9, 2016 at the 19th OECD Network on Early Childhood Education and Care

• Ensemble for Education - 1st Early Childhood Education Action Congress
  Presented by Hon. Margaret Norrie McCain, Chair, Margaret and Wallace McCain Family Foundation
  June 7, 2016, Presented at the Ensemble for Education - 1st Early Childhood Education Action Congress, Paris, France

• Culturally Relevant Pedagogy: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
  Presented by Bernice Cipparrone McLeod, Atkinson Centre Executive Director; Safra Najeemudeen, RECE, MA in Early Childhood Education Candidate Ryerson University, Atkinson Intern
  April 2, 2016, Presented at the Early Learning and Child Care Conference, Conestoga College

• Response to Phase 2 Regulatory Proposals Child Care and Early Years Act, 2014
  Presented by Francesca Dobbin, Director, Universisty of Toronto Family Programs & Services Division of Human Resources & Equity; Patricia Chorney Rubin, Director, George Brown College School of Early Childhood; Bernice Cipparrone McLeod, Atkinson Centre Executive Director; Kerry McCuaig, Atkinson Centre Fellow In Early Childhood Policy
  March 16, 2016, to the Early Learning Division, Ministry of Education, Ontario

2015

• Modernizing the Early Years: Findings from Research and Practice
  Presented by Kerry McCuaig, Atkinson Centre Fellow In Early Childhood Policy; and Jane Bertrand, Adjunct Faculty OISE, and Program Director, Margaret and Wallace McCain Family Foundation, November 2015, to the Office of the Early Years, Victoria, British Columbia

• Canadian Trends in Early Childhood Education
  Presented by Kerry McCuaig, Atkinson Centre Fellow In Early Childhood Policy; Zeenat Janmohamed, Visiting Scholar; and Romona Gananathan, Ph.D. Candidate, OISE, September 8, 2015, EECERA Annual Conference: Innovation, Experimentation & Adventure in Early Childhood

• Full-Day Junior and Senior Kindergarten in Ontario, Canada: Innovative Policy and Practice
  Presented by Janette Pelletier, Ph.D., and Carl Corter, Ph.D., Dr. Eric Jackman Institute of Child Study, OISE, September 8, 2015, EECERA Annual Conference: Innovation, Experimentation & Adventure in Early Childhood

• Poster Presentation, Empowering the Future: Best Evidence for Investing in Early Childhood Education in Canada
  Presented by Emis Akbari, Post Doctoral Fellow, Atkinson Centre, June 18-21, 2015, Canadian Federation for University Women (CFUW), Annual General Meeting, Quebec City, Quebec

• Building Babies’ Brains by Making Connections
  Presented by Claire Watson, Psychotherapist, with Emis Akbari, Post Doctoral Fellow, Aktinson Centre, March 12, 2015, FRP Canada National Conference

• Child Care Builds Vibrant Communities
  Panel discussion with Kerry McCuaig, Building Momentum: Creating a Vibrant Portage Together, March 12, 2015, Portage la Prairie, Manitoba

• Growing Education Down to Include the Early Years 
  Presented to Minister of Education, Susan Sullivan and staff, by Kerry McCuaig, Atkinson Centre Fellow In Early Childhood Policy, and the Jimmy Pratt Foundation, St. John's, Newfoundland (March 4, 2015)

• Early Childhood Education Report 2014, Lesson for Newfoundland
  Kerry McCuaig, Atkinson Centre Fellow In Early Childhood Policy, with the Jimmy Pratt Foundation, St. John's, Newfoundland (March 4, 2015) 

• Trends in ECE Across Canada
  Presented by Zeenat Janmohamed, Best Start Resource Centre Conference, February 26, 2015, Toronto, Ontario

• We Need to Get this Right. A Community Forum on Child Care
  Panel discussion with Zeenat Janmohamed, CFUW Guelph, February 19, 2015, Guelph, Ontario

2014

• Transforming the Patchwork: Designing Services that Work for Families
  Presented by Kerry McCuaig, Success by Six conference, November 27, 2014, Victoria, British Columbia

• The Atkinson Centre, presented to the Standing Committee on Social Policy of  the Ontario Legislature, to provide feedback on Bill 10, An Act to enact the Child Care and Early Years Act, 2014
  Presented by Bernice Cipparrone and Kerry McCuaig, November 17, 2014, Toronto, Ontario
  
  The Atkinson Centre supports the general directions of the proposed legislation.   It encourages swift action to curtail illegal child care provision.  The role of the local system services manager is appropriately heightened but would benefit from additional tools.   Expanding the mandate of school boards to secure programming for children to age 12 is essential.  Attention must be paid the children with special needs.  Changes to ratios in licensed family and group care should be put on hold and addressed as part of a full regulatory review. 

• Creating a Good Life for Children Through Quality Early Education
  Presented by Kerry McCuaig, June 23, 2014, Ringsted, Denmark

  Nordic leaders gathered in Copenhagen June 23 to discuss how to create a good life for children through quality early childhood education. The Nordic approach of a good life, presents  a different starting point to policy and program development. Kerry McCuaig with the Atkinson Centre attended the conference to share some Canadian innovations in ECE delivery and monitoring with participants.  

• Together We Can Make a Difference
  SocialInclusion - Australian and International Perspectives
  Doveton College Conference, February 18-24, 2014, Australia
  
  Partner with the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development and the internationally acclaimed University of Ontario’s Toronto First Duty Model research team to establish an independent evaluation of immediate and longer-term outcomes at Doveton. The five-year evaluation project will operate until the end of 2017 tracking the progress of Doveton College’s children and families.
  
  Also see the Doveton College Research & Publications
   
• Comparing  $10/Day Flat Fees with Income Tested Child Care Fees
  Presented by Petr Varmuza, University of Toronto, at the Atkinson Centre Early Years Task Force meeting, January 29, 2014
   
• A Meta-Perspective of the Evaluation of Full-Day Kindergarten during the First Two Years of Implementation
  Presented by Emis Akbari, Atkinson Centre, at the Atkinson Centre Early Years Task Force meeting, January 29, 2014
   
• Modernization Child Care Highlights
  Presented by Kerry McCuaig, Atkinson Centre, at the Atkinson Centre Early Years Task Force meeting, January 29, 2014
   
• Schools at the Centre of the Community: A Case Study of Seamless Early Learning
  Presented by Zeenat Janmohamed, Atkinson Centre, at the Atkinson Centre Early Years Task Force meeting, January 29, 2014
  
  To follow the study, and see up to date results, please visit here>

2013

• Conference Report - Approaches in Nordic ECEC Research: Current Research and New Perspectives (pdf)
  Presented by Kerry McCuaig, November 11, 2013, Oslo, Norway
  
  The third Nordic ECEC conference “Approaches in Nordic ECEC research: Current research and new perspectives” was held in Oslo 11-12 November 2013. About 80 policy makers and researchers from the Nordic countries participated actively in presentations and workshops on the three conference themes: 1) Investments in children and ECEC, 2) Inclusion for all children and each child – in view of special needs and 3) How can long term development be supported by research?

• Early Childhood Development as Economic Development (pdf)
  Background Paper: Prepared and presented by Kerry McCuaig, 3rd Nordic Conference, November 11, 2013, Oslo, Norway

• Supporing All Children To Reach The Most Vulnerable (pdf)
  Report to the Commission of Inquiry into the Circumstances Surrounding the Death of Phoenix Sinclair (pdf)
  Presented by Kerry McCuaig, May 29, 2013, Winnipeg, Manitoba

  The Inquiry into the Circumstances Surrounding the Death of Phoenix Sinclair was established in March 2011 by the Government of Manitoba, to investigate the death of Phoenix Sinclair - a  five-year-old aboriginal girl who was murdered by her mother and stepfather. Her death went undiscovered for nine months. From the time of her birth Phoenix and her family were in and out of contact with the child welfare system in Manitoba.

  The inquiry reviewed the child welfare services that were delivered to Phoenix and her family, and attempted to find out why the death went undiscovered for so long. In addition, the commission is examining the systemic issues that underlie this case, including the conditions and challenges that bring urban aboriginal people into contact with the child welfare system and the services and programs that exist, or ought to exist, outside the child welfare system to support families and prevent tragedies such as this one.

  The Atkinson Centre’s, Kerry McCuaig prepared a discussion paper and presented to the commission on May 29, 2013 in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

• Age Profile of Infants with Child Care Subsidy in Toronto: Implications for Policy Formulation (pdf)
  Presented by Petr Varmuza and Michal Perlman, University of Toronto, at the Atkinson Centre Early Years Task Force meeting, May 8, 2013
  
  Discussing a recent analysis of the City of Toronto's subsidy wait list exploring when children receive care vs. when their parents need it.
   

• Let Evidence Lead the Way:  Findings from the UK's Effective Provision of Pre-School Education Study, A Connaught Global Challenge Fund Award Lecture (pdf)
  Presented by Dr. Edward Melhuish at his Findings from the UK’s Effective Provision of Pre-School Education Study Canadian Tour, April 26, 2013
   
• Leadership Meets Research In Early Childhood (pdf)
  Presented by Carl Corter at Sheridan College, Early Childhood Leadership Research Symposium, April 12, 2013
   

• Early Years Study 3: Trends in Early Education (pdf)
  Presented by Kerry McCuaig at the Aga Khan Foundation Canada's "Action Today for Results Tomorrow: Public Policy for a Child’s Health," February 20, 2013
   
• Presentation to Early Years Steering Group, Government Northwest Territories, Yellowknife (February 13, 2013)
   
• Early Childhood Instrument (EDI): From Data to Action (February 1, 2013)

2012

• Modernizing the Early Years (pdf)
  Presented by Kerry McCuaig, November 29, 2012
   
• Modernizing Ontario's Early Years Services (pdf)
  Presented to the Waterloo Region Children's Planning Table, November 26, 2012
   
• Early Years Study 3 seminar
  Event organized by the Manitoba Child Care Association, November 22, 2012
  • Early Childhood Education Report overview (pdf)
  • Early Childhood Program & Policy Update (pdf)
  • An Integrated ECE system for Manitoba (pdf)
  • Supporting Self-Regulation in Early Childhood Settings(pdf)
     
• Learning to Care: Lessons for the Transition to Integrated Early Childhood Program Delivery (October 22-23, 2012)
   
• Modernizing the Early Years: Briefing (Toronto Education Consultation) (June 14, 2012)
   
• Summer Institute 2012 - From 0-3 Years: Research that Informs Policy and Practice (June 8, 2012)
   
• Toronto First Duty: From Activist Research to Public Policy Change (pdf)
  May 26, 2012
   
• Atkinson Centre Task Force Meeting (April 11, 2012)
  • Waterloo Region District School Board: Early Learning Kindergarten Program: Before and After/Extended Day Program Update (pdf)
  • Janette Pelletier: FDELK Research Year 1 (pdf)
     
• Targeted vs. Universality: What Does the Evidence Say? (April 11, 2012)
   
• HDAP Colloquium: Early Years Study 3 (February 8, 2012)

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2011

• An Early Years Symposium: Collaborative Practice in Action (October 1, 2011)
   
• Origins of Mothering (September 28, 2011)
   
• Early Education Economic Forum (June 22, 2011)
   
• Summer Institute 2011: Early Learning in Ontario: From Policy to Implementation (June 1, 2011)
   
• First Nations Children in Canada: Bridging Research, Policy and Practice (April 27, 2011)

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2010

• Schmidt Colloquium: Temperament, Shyness, and Anxiety Disorders (November 10, 2010)
   
• Summer Institute 2010 - Early Childhood Development: From Policy to Practice (June 3, 2010)
   
• Implementing Early Learning in Ontario: Lessons from Toronto First Duty (pdf)
  Presented at the AECEO conference, May 27, 2010
   
• Measuring the Quality of Early Childhood Education and Care Programs (May 3, 2010)
   
• With Our Best Future in Mind: Engaging Parents, Services, Communities (January 8, 2010)

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