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Quality Counts: Measuring What Matters in Early Learning for Accountability and Quality Improvement, with Michal Perlman, Ph.D., Professor, Atkinson Chair of Child Development and Education Dept of Human Development and Applied Psychology, OISE, University of Toronto.

These two research-informed sessions will explore how the best available evidence can guide the definition, measurement, and use of quality indicators in early childhood education and implementation considerations. Participants will examine practical approaches to using data for accountability, strategic planning, continuous quality improvement, and informed investment in early learning systems.

Part 1 of the series looks at "Measuring What Matters"

For more than three decades, OISE alumnus Dr. Glen Jones has quietly helped shape how universities understand themselves. From his early days as a student leader to his tenure as Dean of OISE, here's how he rose to one of Canada’s most influential voices in higher education policy and governance.

For the Conversation Canada, Marycarmen Lara Villanueva writes how youth gangs are shaped by inequality, institutional neglect and racialized perceptions.

Excerpt: "Almost 90,000 students have joined Alberta’s classrooms in just four years as record population growth continues to put pressure on schools, teachers and classroom learning environments. Growing class sizes and increasingly complex classrooms are making it harder for teachers to give students the support and attention they need to succeed. To help address these pressures, Alberta’s government is acting now by providing $200 million to schools through the new Class Size Reduction Grant. The funding will support the hiring of more than 1,400 teachers in grades K-9 to help reduce class sizes and improve classroom learning conditions in increasingly complex classrooms."

OISE alum Dr. Jillian Roberts is on a mission to help kids live in our changing world. An expert contributor to Globe and Mail, Today's Parent, and more, Roberts asks her readers: how can we set our children on a path to becoming problem solvers who care?

Excerpt: "The Council of Yukon First Nations will receive $694,600 over two years (2025 to 2027), to renovate a commercial space in Whitehorse and create up to 14 Yukon First Nations-led, licensed early learning and child care spaces. The new child care program will offer a unique opportunity to expand the organization’s continuum of care for Yukon First Nations and Indigenous families. The Commission scolaire francophone du Yukon will receive $581,914 over two years (2025 to 2027), to renovate an existing space in Whitehorse and create up to 28 Francophone licensed early learning and child care spaces. This project supports an expansion of the Garderie du petit cheval blanc, a French first language child care program, to a second location in Takhini, in addition to its Copper Ridge location."

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Prior to his executive roles at Change.org, OISE alum Benjamin Joffe-Walt spent eight years as an award-winning war reporter and human rights journalist in Africa and the Middle East.

Marcus Singleton, a hip hop artist who wrapped up a master's degree in education from OISE in 2020, wants to continue a tradition of artists who devote themselves to education in the classroom and beyond.

Bahman Yaghoobi and Chris Klammer presented at this year's TechKnowFile showcasing how Education Commons has adopted agentic AI to generate end‑user documentation, technical documentation, and automated tests at scale.

Excerpt: "School districts will have access to a new provincial investment to create before- and after-school child care spaces as early as fall 2026. The Ministry of Infrastructure is providing $5 million in child care capital funding to support renovations and the repurposing of existing space in school buildings to create new child care spaces. This program is the first of its kind, building on the Province’s work to look at innovative ways of creating spaces more efficiently. Successful applicants will be eligible to access additional funding through the Ministry of Education and Child Care to support opening these spaces, including $20 million to support operating costs for new child care programs over the next three years."