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Best Practices in ECE Development: In this series, early childhood officials from various provinces shared promising initiatives aimed at supporting the early childhood education workforce and expanding access to child care.

A Mega Board for Efficiency and Quality.
Dr. Jessie-Lee McIsaac, Canada Research Chair in Early Childhood: Diversity and Transitions / Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education and Department of Child and Youth Study, Mount Saint Vincent University

Child care can experience challenges optimizing operations and achieving results such as increasing access and supporting working conditions. In response, Nova Scotia developed innovative proposals to expand access to public education for 4-year-olds and to create a consolidated nonprofit board to offer top-tier support for the workforce and grow capacity.

Best Practices in ECE Development: In this series, early childhood officials from various provinces shared promising initiatives aimed at supporting the early childhood education workforce and expanding access to child care.

Tracking changes in the ECE delivery. The UK model
Kerry McCuaig, Fellow in Early Childhood Policy, Atkinson Centre/OISE.

An overview of how the UK provides annual updates on ECE access and workforce changes.

Best Practices in ECE Development: In this series, early childhood officials from various provinces shared promising initiatives aimed at supporting the early childhood education workforce and expanding access to child care.

Space Expansion for Equity
Matthias Rust, Director, Strategic Policy and Intergovernmental Relations, Early Learning and Child Care Division, Manitoba Education and Early Childhood Learning and Pam Wever, Director of Capital and Space Development.

An overview of Manitoba’s innovative approach to building childcare facilities in underserved communities.

Best Practices in ECE Development: In this series, early childhood officials from various provinces shared promising initiatives aimed at supporting the early childhood education workforce and expanding access to child care.

Benefits of Amalgamating Child Care Services
Kim Hiscott, Executive Director, Andrew Fleck Child Care Services, Ottawa

How a large childcare agency acts to stabilize services in the region, and the benefits it provides.

Best Practices in ECE Development: In this series, early childhood officials from various provinces shared promising initiatives aimed at supporting the early childhood education workforce and expanding access to child care.

PEI’s ELCC Workforce Pension Plan
Sonya Hooper, Assistant Deputy Minister Early Years
Jennifer Nangreaves, Executive Director, Early Childhood Development Association Of PEI

An overview of the PEI’s unique pension plan instituted for the early childhood education workforce.

Best Practices in ECE Development: In this series, early childhood officials from various provinces shared promising initiatives aimed at supporting the early childhood education workforce and expanding access to child care.

90-Hour Introduction to ECE Online Course: Training for Untrained Educator
Lindsay Webb, Acting Director, Department of Education and Early Childhood Development, Educational Services - Anglophone

Early Learning and Development shares how New Brunswick provides a minimum of 90 hours of child development training to staff working in childcare centres who do not hold post-secondary ECE credentials.

Presented by Kerry McCuaig, Senior Fellow Early Childhood Policy, Atkinson Centre, OISE/University of Toronto, October 5, 2024

Presented by Dr. Zeenat Janmohamed, Executive Director & Senior Policy Analyst, Atkinson Centre, OISE/University of Toronto, at the ECEBC Conference 2024, May 24, 2024

Presented by Kerry McCuaig, Senior Policy Fellow, Atkinson Centre for Society and Child Development, at 17th Annual Summer Institute on Early Childhood Development - The Early Years: From Disruption to Recovery and Beyond, June 2, 2021

Presented by Kerry McCuaig, Senior Policy Fellow, Atkinson Centre for Society and Child Development; and Emis Akbari, Professor and Program Coordinator, School of Early Childhood, George Brown College | Senior Policy Fellow, Atkinson Centre, OISE/University of Toronto, presented to Canadian Association for Business Economics, September 14, 2021

Presented by Emis Akbari, Professor and Program Coordinator, School of Early Childhood, George Brown College | Senior Policy Fellow, Atkinson Centre, OISE/University of Toronto, at the Research Roundtable: Care Work in the Recovery Economy, February 2-3 2022

Presented by Emis Akbari, Professor and Program Coordinator, School of Early Childhood, George Brown College | Senior Policy Fellow, Atkinson Centre, OISE/University of Toronto; and Kelly Emergy, at the 19th Annual Summer Institute: Ensuring equity and inclusion in early learning and child care, May 11, 2023