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Event organized by the Manitoba Child Care Association, November 22, 2012.

Presentations

• Early Years Study 3: Making decisions, Taking action (PDF)
• Early Childhood Program & Policy Update (PDF)
• Early Years Study 3: An integrated ECE system for Manitoba (PDF)
• Supporting self-regulation in early childhood settings (PDF)

This conference examines models of early childhood service integration and their impact on ECE practice and public policy; with experts from across Canada, the UK, Australia and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.  

• Learning to Care Program (PDF)

Presentations

Opening Remarks

• Collaborative structures to support families and children (PDF)
  Jennifer Jenkins, Chair, Atkinson Centre, OISE/University of Toronto
• Early Childhood Program & Policy Update (PDF)
  Zeenat Janmohamed, Executive Director, Atkinson Centre, OISE/University of Toronto

Session 1 | Integrated ECE Service Delivery: Findings from the Research

• Integrated service delivery and child social experiences and outcomes in Peel (PDF)
  Janette Pelletier, Director, Dr. Eric Jackman Institute of Child Study, OISE/University of Toronto
• ÉLDEQ/QLSCD: a valuable tool to document and evaluate Early Childhood Education (PDF)
  Michel Boivin, Canada Research Chair, Child Social Development, School of Psychology, Laval University, Montreal
• TD Early Childhood Education (PDF)
  Craig Alexander, Senior Vice President & Chief Economist, TD Bank Financial Group
• The Better Beginnings, Better Futures Community-Based Early Childhood Development Project: Policy Implications of Longitudinal Research (PDF)
  Ray DeV. Peters, Professor Emeritus, Queen’s University

Session 2 | ECE Service Integration: Implications for Professional Learning

• Preparing the ECE Workforce (PDF)
  Ann Sherman, Dean of Education, University of New Brunswick
• Integrating Early Years, School, Family and Community Supports (PDF)
  June Mcloughlin, Director Family and Children’s Services, Doveton College
• An Integrated Model (PDF)
  Michele Dorsey, Smart Start, PEI
• Models of Integrated ECE Service Delivery: Avenir d'enfants (PDF)
  Lyse Brunet, Director, Avenir d’enfants

Session 3 | Supporting Quality in Integrated ECE Settings

• Playing to learn: Curriculum frameworks across Canada (PDF)
  Jane Bertrand, Early childhood educator
• Using the Indictors of Change to Inform Practice and Policy (PDF)
  Patricia Peterson and Bill Morrison, Health and Education Research Group, University of New Brunswick
• Early Years Study 3: Making decisions, Taking action The Early Childhood Education Report (PDF)
  Kerry McCuaig, Atkinson Foundation Fellow in Early Childhood Policy, Atkinson Centre, OISE/University of Toronto

Session 4 | Trends and Challenges for ECE Service Delivery

• Tools & Learning from Toronto First Duty (TFD): an overview of a decade of integration research (PDF)
  Carl Corter, Professor, Dr. Eric Jackman Institute of Child Study, OISE/University of Toronto
• Exploring the PEI Early Learning and Child Care System (PDF)
  Carolyn Simpson, Director, Department of Education and Early Childhood Development, PEI
• Influencing Policy Direction & Moving to Vision (PDF)
  Verna Bruce, Former Deputy Minister, PEI and Chair, CHANCES Family Centre
• From policy to pilots to policy: What's Happening in Australia? (PDF)
  June Mcloughlin, Director Family and Children’s Services, Doveton College
• Findings from the UK’s Effective Provision of Pre-School Education Study (PDF)
  Edward Melhuish, Professor of Human Development at Birkbeck, University of London
• Integrated Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC): Findings from Starting Strong III and Norway's experience (PDF)
  Tove Mogstad Slinde, Chair OECD Network on Early Childhood Education and Care; Ministry of Education and Research, Department of Early Childhood Education and Care, Norway

Closing Remarks

• Speaking Notes - Hon. Margaret Norrie McCain - Learning to Care Conference (PDF)
  Honourable Margaret Norrie McCain, co-author Early Years Study 3

The recent release of Early Years Study 3 reinforces the bridge between science, policy and practice. The earliest years of development is a sophisticated interplay between genetics and environment, a convergence that brings together parents, educators, researchers and policy leaders.

The 9th Summer Institute on Early Child Development will examine evidence-based approaches to developing a comprehensive children’s and family support system starting in utero. It brings together experts, practitioners and key stakeholders who are committed to innovative collaboration to ensure the best possible outcomes for young children and their families.

This year, we are pleased to recognize the contributions of Jane Bertrand, a leader amongst leaders and an accomplished early childhood educator and advocate. 

• Summer Institute - From 0-3 Years Program (PDF)

Presentations

• Building brains for the life course (PDF)
  Jenny Jenkins, Atkinson Chair of Early Childhood Development and Education
• Modernizing Child Care: The Policy Perspective (PDF)
  Jim Grieve, Assistant Deputy Minister, Early Learning Division, Ontario Ministry of Education
• Social Cognition and Development (PowerPoint Download)
  Mark Wade, PhD Candidate and Atkinson Centre Intern, OISE
  Heather Prime, MA Candidate and Atkinson Centre Intern, OISE

Presentations

• Waterloo Region District School Board Early Learning Kindergarten Program: Before and After/Extended Day Program Update (PDF)
• FDELK Research Year 1 (PDF)

Presentations 

• Targeted vs. Universal Intervention (PDF)
  Michal Perlman, Associate Professor, OISE/UT
• Universal vs targeted: how to improve the well-being of children (PDF)
  Jenny Jenkins, Atkinson Centre Chair and Professor, OISE/UT
• Some Challenges to Constructing the Evidence Base for Universal Children’s Programs (PDF)
  Michael Baker, Professor, School of Public Policy and Governance, UT
• 'Universal': the term is not universal - Free, Compulsory, The same for everyone - Not necessarily (PDF)
  Kerry McCuaig, Fellow in Early Childhood Policy at the Atkinson Centre
• Universal vs. Targeted early childhood programs: Can we cut and invest at the same time? (PDF)
  Erica Okezie Phillips, PhD Candidate, OISE/UT; Program Officer, Education, McCormick Foundation, Chicago IL

You've heard the claims from the famous HighScope Perry Preschool and Abecedarian studies about the tremendous payoffs of early education for disadvantaged U.S. families, but did you know that Canadian researchers are also amassing unique results documenting the cost-benefits of preschool here?

By age 4, 40% of Quebec youngsters are attending a full-time, publicly-supported learning and care program. Pundits point to the high cost, but new work by economist Dr. Pierre Fortin of the University of Québec at Montréal reveals the benefits begin immediately and the payoffs are more far-reaching than speculated. Award-winning economist Robert Fairholm of the Centre for Spatial Economics shows that almost all Canadian governments make the wrong decision when allocating their economic stimulus dollars. At a panel discussion, moderated by Dr. Lars Osberg, McCulloch Professor of Economics at Dalhousie University, these researchers presented their findings and provided some new ways of thinking and talking about the public's interest in early childhood.

Presentations

• Economic Impacts of Early Learning and Care (PDF)
  Robert Fairholm
• Economic Consequences of Quebec’s Educational Childcare Policy (PDF)
  Pierre Fortin

The early learning atmosphere in Ontario includes a number of significant policy changes that have created new opportunities and new challenges. Examples include moving the jurisdictional responsibility for early learning and child care to the Ministry of Education, a new regulatory body for early childhood educators, the expansion of degree programs in early learning, the unionization of early childhood educators and a blend of the teaching and early learning profession.

The 8th Summer Institute on Early Childhood Development addressed how these changes impact early learning professionals and focus on relationships amongst families and professionals that involve practitioners, colleges and universities, professional associations and government.

Presentations

Open Remarks

Jenny Jenkins and Olivia Nuamah

• Welcome to the Summer Institute (PDF)
   

Research to Inform Development of Effective Public Preschool Programs

Ellen Frede and Steve Barnett

• Research to Inform Development of Effective Public Preschool Programs (PDF)

   

Panel Discussion: Building Minds for Collaboration

Carl Corter (facilitator), Jenny Jenkins, Janette Pelletier, Sue Makin, and Patricia Chorney Rubin

• How do we provide children with the skill for collaboration? (PDF)
• Building Minds for Collaboration (PDF)

Securing the Future for our Children: Preschool Excellence Initiative

Linda Lowther

• Securing the Future for our Children (PDF)

Children, Their Families and Community Supports: What the Research Tells Us

Jenny Jenkins and Janette Pelletier

• How do we provide children with the skill for collaboration? (PDF)
• Children, Their Families and Community Supports: What the Research Tells Us (PDF)

Merging Early Learning Knowledge and Practice: Lessons from the Ground

Patricia Chorney Rubin, Early Learning Teams

• Bruce/WoodGreen Early Learning Centre A Toronto First Duty Site (PDF)

Public Health & Early Childhood Education: Partnership Possibilities Through Child & Family Centres

Sue Makin

• Partnership Possibilities through Child and Family Centres: Public Health and Early Childhood Education (PDF)

Panel Discussion: Moving the Vision Forward Through Local Leadership

Jane Bertrand (facilitator), Elaine Baxter-Trahair, Anne Biscaro, and Catherine Fife

• City of Toronto: Service and System Integration (PDF)
• Growing the 18 Month Strategy: A pilot project in a Niagara Falls Family Health Team (PDF)
   

Closing Remarks & Awards Presentation

Michael Cooke and Patricia Chorney Rubin

Posters

• Externalizing Behaviors in Children In-care: The Role of Child-welfare Workers and Foster Families (PowerPoint Download)
  Connie Cheung, Deborah Goodman, George Leckie, Jennifer M. Jenkins, Heather Prime, and Mark Wade
• Can we work together? Preliminary findings from an examination of ECE and teacher dynamics in full-day early learning-kindergarten (PDF)
  Ainsley Gibson and Janette Pelletier
• What Children’s Sharing can Teach us about their Understanding of Rational Numbers (PDF)
  Cate Gulyas, Zack Hawes, and Shauna Kochen
• The Developmental Progression of Rational Number Understanding Using the Number Line (PowerPoint Download)
  Stephanie Hanson, Diana Chang, Michelle Chee, Niki Dowlat Singh, Allison Musson, and Joan Moss
• Tom Goes To School: An Interactive Board Game (PDF)
  Melanie Mancini and Jamie Morris
• Ecological Determinants of School Readiness: A Longitudinal Study (PowerPoint Download)
  Mark Wade, Dillon Browne, Heather Prime, and Jennifer Jenkins