Presentations
A catalogue of various presentations make by the Atkinson Centre team at different events and meetings.
Early Years Study 3 & Modernizing Ontarioʼs Early Years Services (PDF)
Early Years Study 3 Seminar
Event organized by the Manitoba Child Care Association, November 22, 2012.
Presentations
Learning to Care: Lessons for the Transition to Integrated Early Childhood Program Delivery
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.
Presentations
Opening Remarks
- Collaborative structures to support families and children (PDF)
Jennifer Jenkins, Chair, Atkinson Centre, ÃÈÃÃÉçÇø/University of Toronto - Early Childhood Program & Policy Update (PDF)
Zeenat Janmohamed, Executive Director, Atkinson Centre, ÃÈÃÃÉçÇø/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, ÃÈÃÃÉçÇø/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, ÃÈÃÃÉçÇø/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, ÃÈÃÃÉçÇø/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
Modernizing the early years (PDF)
Summer Institute - From 0-3 Years: Research that Informs Policy and Practice
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.
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, ÃÈÃÃÉçÇø
Heather Prime, MA Candidate and Atkinson Centre Intern, ÃÈÃÃÉçÇø
Toronto First Duty: From activist research to public policy change (PDF)
Targeted vs. Universality: What Does the Evidence Say?
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- Targeted vs. Universal Intervention (PDF)
Michal Perlman, Associate Professor, ÃÈÃÃÉçÇø/UT - Universal vs targeted: how to improve the well-being of children (PDF)
Jenny Jenkins, Atkinson Centre Chair and Professor, ÃÈÃÃÉçÇø/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, ÃÈÃÃÉçÇø/UT; Program Officer, Education, McCormick Foundation, Chicago IL
Early Years Study 3: Making decisions, Taking action (PDF)
Voices from the Schools: School Teams Share their Experiences (PDF)
Kimberly Bezaire of George Brown College and Rachel Langford of Ryerson University summarized the key points of the day, in the presentation, "Voices from the Schools: School Teams Share their Experiences."
Conflict of Interest Disclosure: nothing to disclose (PDF)
Early Education Economic Forum
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.
