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草莓污视频导航 31, 2011

Atkinson Letter - Family-Friendly Schools Spell Success!

The report on full day early learning, envisioned family-friendly schools where, 鈥溾ours after the last bell has rung the school is still buzzing. Parents come and go, picking up children who have participated in extended programming. There are recreational, arts, and social activities and homework clubs for the children, and a concurrent parenting program is running.鈥
June 30, 2012

Atkinson Letter - Modernizing the Early Years

Early years programs are undergoing significant changes in Ontario. Full day kindergarten will be available to all 4-and 5-year-old children by 2014. School boards are required to secure extended day options where there is sufficient demand. Child care programs are repurposing to serve younger aged children and their families.
February 1, 2011

Symposium: Pedagogical Leadership: Lead From Where You Stand

The Atkinson Centre joined Ryerson University, George Brown College, and the Child Care Resource and Research Unit in sponsoring a Symposium on "Pedagogical Leadership: Lead From Where You Stand" to discuss the recommendations for staffing Ontario's new Early Learning Programs and Child and Family Centre.
August 30, 2010

The Cost-Benefits of Ontario's Early Learning Program

Robert Fairholm, a director of the Centre for Spatial Economics (CSE), brings his 20 years of experience in economic analysis, modeling and forecasting to quantify the benefits of new public spending on young children revealing some startling findings.
December 31, 2010

Policy Monitor #1 - A response to the Government of Ontario on the Best Start Child and Family Centre Consultation

Excerpt: "If there was one thing the government could do right now for children and families in Ontario, what could that be? ....We have an opportunity to build a foundation for services for children and their families 鈥 but that means making a radical move toward something different and innovative. It means moving away from the rhetoric of business as usual, working within the silos that fit like an old sweater but are starting to smell a little mouldy."
March 31, 2011

Policy Monitor #2 - March Break Looks Bleak for Early Childhood Educators in Ontario

Excerpt: "The issue of whether early childhood educators are deemed to be full-time early education professionals like teachers, or whether they are treated as ten-month contract positions is still to be resolved. According to Service Canada (2011), if early childhood educators are considered full-time salaried teaching staff, they will not qualify for employment insurance. However..."
April 30, 2011

Policy Monitor #3 - Exploring the experiences of internationally educated professionals in early learning

Excerpt: "In 2006, The Association of Early Childhood Educators of Ontario (AECEO) launched The Access to Early Childhood Education Program (also referred to as the Bridging Program) in collaboration with the Thorncliffe Neighbourhood Office and the School of Early Childhood at George Brown College.... Since the program commenced in 2006, just over 100 individuals with international education credentials have completed the equivalency program..."
April 21, 2011

Policy Monitor #4 - Re: Bill 173, Amendments to the Education Act

Excerpt: "There are three points I would like to share with the committee today which I hope will influence the committee鈥檚 proposal to amend the Education Act to allow third party operators to deliver extended day programs. First, the findings from the Toronto First Duty Program demonstrate the critical value in a seamless approach to early learning and family support..."
April 30, 2011

Policy Monitor #5 - The Impact of Full Day Kindergarten on Rural Child Care

Excerpt: "The Full Day Early Learning Kindergarten Program implementation will have a differentiated impact across the province, particularly in rural communities, where the instability of child care services may result in rural children and families bearing a heavier burden of change compared to their urban peers..."
June 30, 2011

Policy Monitor #6 - Children with Special Educational Needs in Early Childhood: Concept Paper prepared for the Atkinson Centre Early Years Task Force

Excerpt: "All children need supports to achieve their optimal development. All young children need parenting, peer interaction, and educational opportunities in order to develop social skills, language, physical and cognitive competence. For many children with disabilities, this also includes early intervention strategies that might come from medical and clinical intervention, therapeutic interventions and/or family supports that increase resilience where there are risk factors for children and their families..."
June 15, 2011

In response to 鈥淎ll-day classes: Too much, too soon鈥 (Windsor Star, June 9, 2011)

Excerpt: "The recent news stories in the Windsor Star based on a small scale study by Rachel Heydon, challenging the value and experience of children in full day kindergarten is built on spotty reports from a pilot study in two Ontario classrooms suggesting that the new Full Day Kindergarten program may harm children based on too much academics and too little play. Although recent news stories have acknowledged that a study of two classrooms doesn鈥檛 give us a clear picture, some journalists truly believe further study will prove the researchers right."
July 20, 2011

City of Toronto Core Service Review

Excerpt: "I would like to address three issues before you today. 1. The elimination of child care subsidies; 2. The privatization of city operated child care centres; 3. The elimination of quality controls. From an economic perspective public spending on child care is not consumption. In the barest of economic terms it is an investment. Child care delivers multiple benefits to the children and families who use it, but it also plays a multifaceted role in regional economies; as an economic sector in its own right with facilities, employees and consumption from other sectors; as labour force support to working parents; and for the long-term economic impact it has on the next generation of workers."