We are hiring an Executive Director! This is a 12-month contract position, with the possibility of renewal after the term has concluded.

Our new Executive Director will provide strategic and operational leadership for a dynamic, advocacy-focused professional association. Reporting directly to the Board of Directors, you will be responsible for the successful leadership and management of the organization, ensuring that its activities, projects, and policies align with the AECEO’s mission and strategic priorities. You will inspire and coordinate a passionate staff team, shape public policy, oversee fundraising and financial sustainability, and represent the AECEO across Ontario. Your work will advance the professional stature of the ECE workforce and support the ongoing transformation of early childhood education.

In this issue:

• Who We Are: Voices of Indigenous Early Childhood Educators (to read previous articles from the AECEO Guiding Committee on Truth and Reconciliation click HERE)
• ECE Voices section
• Decent Work Project Update
• Embracing Autism in Childcare Settings: Building Inclusive Communication Practices
• “Not for the Faint of Heart": Cultivating Daily Creativity for the Resilient Early Childhood Educator
• The Peer Reviewed Collection: (Open Access)
  • Ghostbusters: Rupturing Ghosts of Developmentalism Through Living Stories

Our sincere thanks and gratitude to everyone who contributed!

We would also like to thank AECEO Members, and the following advertisers, for supporting this issue of the eceLINK:

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Extra, extra! Read all about it: Check out our seasonal newsletter for policy updates, and to learn what the AECEO was up to this Spring & what is coming up next! Click here to download the Spring 2025 Policy & Community Update in PDF!

Read it in full here!

The AECEO team is excited to introduce our new resource! In Unions 101, you will find essential information about labour unions, workers' rights to unionize and why unions matter to the early learning and child care sector. Click here to access this resource!

This resource was created by the AECEO team to accompany a number of Circle Time episodes that will go into the topic of unions and the ELCC sector. As of July 4th, 2025, two episodes of our three-part series on unionization have been released. Stay tuned for part III!

The AECEO team has prepared a chart summarizing all major party's commitments regarding early learning and child care, according to their official platforms. Also available in French, courtesy of our partners at the OCBCC. 

Hot off the press! Check out our seasonal newsletter for policy updates, and to learn what the AECEO was up to this Winter & what is coming up next! Click here to download the Winter 2025 Policy & Community Update in PDF!

In this issue:

• Seven Years of the AECEO Guiding Committee on Truth and Reconciliation: Walking Together in Reconciliation (to read previous articles from the AECEO Guiding Committee on Truth and Reconciliation click HERE)
• That’s A Wrap! The Building Leadership and Learning Communities project has come to an end
• Report on AECEO Strategic Planning Process & Outcome
• Decent Work Project Update
• The Peer Reviewed Collection: (Open Access)
  • Special Issue Introduction: Socially Just Ruptures in Early Childhood Education: Challenging Developmentalism in Curriculum, Pedagogy, and Policy
  • Disrupting Disability in Colonial Contexts: Centring Critical Disability Theory and Community Perspectives in Nigeria and Canada

Our sincere thanks and gratitude to everyone who contributed!

We would also like to thank AECEO Members, and the following advertisers, for supporting this issue of the eceLINK:

belairdirect

Digital Childcare

Raffi Foundation

 (AECEO MEMBER ACCESS FOR FULL CONTENT)

Click HERE to become an AECEO member or renew!