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Excerpt: "The government is continuing to address critical needs in growing areas of the province to provide students with modern learning spaces and help future generations learn. This is why Ontario is investing over $30 billion over the next 10 years, including approximately $23 billion in capital grants, to support new and redeveloped schools and child care projects. These investments will provide students with a foundation that will help set them up for success. In addition, as part of the government’s ongoing efforts to improve and modernize existing schools, Ontario is investing close to $2 billion for the 2025–26 school year to repair and maintain schools, which will foster safe, healthy, accessible and supportive learning environments."

In honour of Teacher Appreciation Week, we sat down with some of our Master of Arts Child Study & Education alumni and learned more about their careers as teachers, how they got there, why they chose the program.

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Excerpt: "Licensed child-care providers can now apply for up to $5 million in new funding through the second intake of the Inclusive Spaces Program Grant. Applications are open until June 13, as part of the $15-million federal-provincial investment in the Inclusive Spaces Program Grant under the Canada-Alberta Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care Agreement. Investing in inclusive child-care spaces is essential to supporting Alberta’s growing population, strengthening workforce participation and ensuring all children have an accessible space in Alberta’s high-quality child-care system."

Excerpt: "The Province has appointed the Honourable David H. Jenkins, former Chief Justice of Prince Edward Island and Chief Justice of the Prince Edward Island Court of Appeal, to lead a third-party review of the policies, procedures, and processes of both the Public Schools Branch, la Commission scolaire de langue française, and the Department of Education and Early Years. Following serious incidents related to student safety, the third-party review aims to identify vulnerabilities in existing safeguards, recommend improvements, and propose new measures to better protect children in Island schools."

Qui de mieux pour vous expliquer ce qu'est le CREFO que ceux qui le vivent au quotidien ? Écoutez les témoignages touchants de 3 étudiants du CREFO.

Excerpt: "This rewarding career allows educators the opportunity to form bonds with children while teaching them important life skills during their most formative years. [Learn about the} Role of an Early Childhood Educator; Work Requirements; Work-Life Balance as an Early Childhood Educator; Average Wage of ECEs."

Excerpt: "The Early Years Branch collaborated with the National Association of Regulatory Administration (NARA) in the United States to create and introduce differential monitoring, a system for monitoring and licensing child care facilities. The implementation of this new system, which includes the abbreviated checklist with key indicators and weighted risk indicators, commenced in the spring of 2021. As part of this collaboration with NARA, a quality assessment tool was developed: Saskatchewan's Early Learning and Child Care Quality Key Indicator Instrument (SK Quality Tool). The ministry is now implementing use of this new quality assessment tool. Participation in this differential monitoring approach to licensing and monitoring child care facilities is mandatory for all child care centres."