Excerpt: "Families in Hammonds Plains will see more early learning and child-care spaces opening in their community this summer. It Takes a Village Child Care Centre on Parkland Drive in Halifax is opening a second location at 1432 Hammonds Plains Rd. The new centre is expected to create about 75 new child-care spaces for toddlers and preschool-aged children. 鈥淣ova Scotians have told us they need better access to child care, and that鈥檚 exactly what we are providing,鈥 said Education and Early Childhood Development Minister Becky Druhan. 鈥淭hese new spaces are part of our updated expansion plan to increase access to child care across the province.鈥 This is the first project approved under the Province鈥檚 new Minor Infrastructure Program for New Early Learning and Child Care Space Creation that offers funding to licensed not-for-profit child-care providers to quickly renovate and expand."
May 1, 2024
Excerpt: "Speaker, I rise in this Honourable House to highlight our government鈥檚 efforts to improve access to early learning and child care in the province. These efforts have been recognized in a recent report by the Atkinson Centre for Society and Child Development, which ranks Newfoundland and Labrador fourth in the country amongst all provinces and territories when comparing governance, funding, access, the early learning environment, and accountability. Speaker, our government has been listening and responding to the needs of families, service providers, and the early learning workforce. We have implemented recruitment and retention initiatives for early childhood educators; we have provided incentives and funding to increase the number of early learning and child care spaces; and we are continuing to ensure that regulated child care is high quality, affordable and inclusive."
Next month, Prof. Katherine Entigar (AECD) will be traveling with three OISE graduate students to represent the U of T at the 2024 U7+ Student Challenge Summit.
April 30, 2024
Excerpt: "The Department of Education and Early Childhood Development will partner with the Literacy Coalition of New Brunswick to provide training to 400 early childhood educators over the next four years. Beginning this fall, 100 of them in the anglophone sector will be invited to participate in a training program entitled Talk, Sing, Read Everyone, Everywhere! The training includes coaching and mentoring so that early childhood educators can feel confident about their skills."
The 2024 Leadership Forum: Trailblazing in Higher Education was an overwhelming success, attracting 346 registrants from diverse institutions and countries.
Notre s茅rie de conf茅rences du CREFO pour l'ann茅e universitaire 2023-2024 s'est achev茅e le 4 avril avec une conf茅rence de l'auteur torontois Gabriel Osson.
April 28, 2024
Excerpt: "Cellphones and mobile device restrictions in schools: Every school will have uniform policy to have cellphones on silent and removed from sight at the beginning of instructional time 鈥 the new default unless explicitly directed by the educator; If students do not comply, cellphones are immediately surrendered where there is no explicit allowance from the educator; For students in kindergarten to Grade 6, there will be a cellphone restriction for the entire school day, but they may be used with permission from the educator; A strengthened personal mobile devices policy with clear responsibilities broken down amongst staff and a requirement for best practices to be developed and shared with staff; Social media sites will be banned on all school networks and devices; Requirement that educators and staff model behaviour and not use personal mobile devices during class for non-work related reasons; New ban on sharing and recording videos or photos of individuals without explicit consent; $500,000 for digital literacy supports for students during the 2023-24 and 2024-25 school years."
April 26, 2024
Excerpt: "New Brunswick has ranked first in a report on early childhood education released by the University of Toronto鈥檚 91直播. 鈥淥ur province is committed to providing quality early learning and child-care services to New Brunswick families, and the results of this report show how far we have come,鈥 said Education and Early Childhood Development Minister Bill Hogan. 鈥淭hose who work in the early learning sector are shaping the adults of tomorrow, and they are supporting families who are at work and studying. They work incredibly hard every day and we deeply appreciate the work they do in laying the foundation for our youngest learners.鈥"