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Fostering a love of learning is the goal behind the ‘ungrading’ movement, one that has garnered growing interest among educators.

Co-founded by OISE alumna Dr. Keren Brathwaite in 1971, the Transitional Year Programme is a full-time, eight-month access-to-University program.

Excerpt: "Today, the Minister of Families, Children and Social Development, Karina Gould, announced funding to the University of Winnipeg Foundation for their project with the University of Winnipeg Students’ Association Day Care. The funding is being provided through the Early Learning and Child Care Innovation Program. The project is receiving a total of $331,287 in federal funding over 24 months, starting in April 2022. The project will focus on exploring, testing and developing a safe outdoor play area for optimal Indigenous culturally appropriate learning and programming for children and their families, while delivering Indigenous professional development training for staff."

Excerpt: "Under the Canada-Manitoba Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care Agreement, $34.7 million will be allocated to the existing operating grants through an additional Wage Grid Supplement to support wage equity for early learning and child-care sector staff who care for children under the age of seven. The funding will allow non-profit child-care boards to develop fair, consistent and competitive wage scales for early childhood educators and child-care assistants across the province. The wage grid in the Canada-wide agreement sets out equitable wage targets to provide funded facilities with guidance on wages for child-care assistants and early childhood educators."

Excerpt: "As part of this commitment, the province is investing $4.8 million in new, ongoing operating grants that will fund 2,294 school-age child-care spaces for children aged seven to 12. This funding will increase financial stability for facilities that offer school-age programming and ensure low- and middle-income parents can access affordable, regulated care for their school-age children."

Faculty of Medicine grad Kristine Keon, left, and OISE grad Angelique Belcourt, right, looked to each other for inspiration to their Indigenous roots.

Earlier in his career, Edward Burtynsky saw an opportunity to dedicate his life’s work to a single idea: humanity's impact on the planet.

The Atkinson Centre promotes research on child development, and the development of early learning policy and practice that serve young children and their families.

On June 22, H.E. Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine, spoke to students at a live event hosted by the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy.

Excerpt: "Building a barrier-free country is a key priority for the Government of Canada. That is why it is working closely with provincial, territorial and Indigenous partners to create an early learning and child care system that is high quality, affordable, accessible and inclusive. These efforts will help ensure that all families in Canada – including those with children with disabilities – have access to child care that is adapted to their needs, and inclusive from the start. Today, Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Disability Inclusion, Carla Qualtrough, joined with Minister of Families, Children and Social Development, Karina Gould, to announce $12.5 million in funding support for 225 regulated and/or licensed early learning and child care centres across Canada through the Early Learning and Child Care (ELCC) small projects component of the Enabling Accessibility Fund (EAF)."

A digitally immersive learning environment, a resources website and new Indigenous focused computer lab were revealed by a team led by Dr. Sandra Styres.

Except: [June 21, 2022], the Provincial and Federal Governments announced that YMCA of Newfoundland and Labrador (YMCA-NL) has been selected by the province as the not-for-profit organization that will operate all of the initial locations in the Pre-Kindergarten early learning pilot program set to open in 2022-23.