There has been plenty of hand-wringing in recent years about the “overscheduled child.” With after-school hours increasingly dominated by piano lessons, soccer practice, and countless other planned activities, many of us have a nagging sense that kids are missing out on something important if they have no time for unstructured play.
Grandparents raising their grandchildren
A growing number of Canadian grandparents are caregivers of their grandchildren. And most of these caregivers are single females with limited incomes. Toronto Star, Aug. 3, 2014
August 05, 2014
Risky play and skinned knees are key to healthy child development
In the last generation, adults have been consumed with protecting kids against all odds.
But now, some child injury prevention experts are warning too much bubble wrap may be thwarting healthy development. Toronto Star - July 29, 2014
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August 05, 2014
Summer eceLINK Now ONLINE!
In this issue:
- AECEO Position Paper on Professional Learning for RECEs
- Teaching on the Other Side of the World
- AECEO Certification
- Outdoor Natural Spaces for Learning Inspiration for RECEs
- Endeavours to Enhance the Lives of Children with Autism through Nature Based Learning
- Early Childhood Leadership Program
- Addressing ECE Student Needs
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July 12, 2014
Summer eceLINK 2014
In this issue:
- AECEO Position Paper on Professional Learning for RECEs
- Teaching on the Other Side of the World
- AECEO Certification
- Outdoor Natural Spaces for Learning Inspiration for RECEs
- Endeavours to Enhance the Lives of Children with Autism through Nature Based Learning
- Early Childhood Leadership Program
- Addressing ECE Student Needs
July 07, 2014
Spring eceLINK 2014
In this issue:
- Finding a Path to Advocacy
- Open Letter to Education Minister Liz Sandals
- Foundations for RECE Practice in FDK
- AECEO Response to the Proposal to Amend Regulation 262
- The Value of Registered Early Childhood Educators and Licensed Child Care
- Mentoring Pairs for Child Care
- AECEO.C Your next professional step
June 26, 2014
Fall/Winter eceLINK 2013
In this issue:
- Constructing FDK Teams
- Uphill and Downhill, and Yes, Side to Side!
- AECEO Webinar Series
- Self Directed Professional Learning
- AECEO Certification Review: Update
June 26, 2014
Summer/Fall eceLINK 2013
In this issue:
- Professional Work for Professional Pay: How do we get there?
- Why is it so hard for ECEs to gain professional pay?
- Unions and Child Care
- Low wages: the cost of caring
- Member Consultation: Ongoing Professional Learning
- Supporting ECE Students: AECEO engagement initiatives
June 26, 2014
Spring eceLINK 2013
In this issue:
- Leadership in the Early Years
- Professional Learning and Professional Learning Networks
- Research into Practice: Leadership in Early Childhood Education
June 26, 2014
Winter eceLINK 2013
In this issue:
- Our Rejuvenation Experience: A word from the Sudbury branch
- Toronto First Duty: A decade of research and development
- The Magnificent Two Percent: A perspective from a male ECE
- Why High Quality Universal Child Care is Part of a More Equal Canada for all of us
June 26, 2014
Fall eceLINK 2012
In this issue:
- Our professional identity
- Modernizing childcare in Ontario: our response to the Ministry of Education
- Access to the Early Childhood Education Field in Ontario: Final Report
- Leading through practice: Our collective journey
- A Lesson in Leadership: Camp AECEO experience
- Are ECEs ready for FDK?
June 25, 2014
Spring eceLINK 2012
In this issue:
- The College of ECE Complaints Process and You
- The Relationship between an Association and Regulatory Body
- Access Bridging Program Success Story
- Camp AECEO Leadership Conference
June 25, 2014
Winter eceLINK 2012
In this issue:
- Seamless Full Day Early Learning
- Early Learning and Care Options across Ontario
- Leadership in the 21st Century Part II
- Working towards a seamless integrated system
- An Interdisciplinary & Collaborative approach to Ontario's Best Start Initiative
- Showcase a Leader
June 25, 2014
Summer/Fall eceLINK 2011
In this issue:
- Leadership in the 21st century
- Andrew Fleck CCS 100th Anniversary
- My career journey
- How big a risk can outdoor play be for children
- The importance of music in early childhood
- Showcase a leader
June 25, 2014
Spring eceLINK 2011
In this issue:
- Ethical and professional standards for early childhood educators
- Playing and learning in early childhood education
- Holding on to a dream: ECE equivalency story
- My educational journey
- Student leadership in action
June 25, 2014
Canadian families desperately need a national child-care program
Canadian families are doing their share for a prosperous future – they’re having more babies – but governments are letting them down.
Public spending on licensed child care remains grossly inadequate, and so is the supply of space. Meanwhile hard-pressed parents face crushing costs as a “baby boomlet” puts new strain on Canada’s over-stretched child care resources.
That’s the finding of a new report by the Toronto-based Childcare Resource and Research Unit and analysts at the universities of Guelph and Manitoba.
Toronto Star June 22, 2014
June 23, 2014
Schools in affluent areas more likely to offer after-hours child care, study finds
A survey by People for Education has found major gaps in the delivery of before- and after-school programs for young students — despite this being a key part of the province’s full-day kindergarten plan. Toronto Star June 23, 2014
June 23, 2014
The Value of Unstructured Play Time for Kids
German psychologists find people who were allowed to play freely as children have greater social success as adults.
June 16, 2014
Winter eceLINK 2011
In this issue:
- Schools as community hubs
- Update on Child and Family Centres
- AECEO 60th Anniversary celebration photos
- Advocacy Alert: Ontario can't live without child care
May 29, 2014
Child Care Modernization Act, Bill 143
The government of Ontario announced the release of new legislation that addresses the modernization of child care.
An Act to enact the Child Care and Early Years Act, 2013, to repeal the Day Nurseries Act, to amend the Early Childhood Educators Act, 2007 and the Education Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts
May 29, 2014
More than just a child care waitlist registry
valued family support, assessment service should stay with Andrew Fleck
OTTAWA, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - May 27, 2014) - Despite a $4 million provincial funding infusion for Ottawa child care services, parents and child care staff throughout the city are flummoxed as to why the City of Ottawa is ending community provision of a valued assessment and referral service that fielded over 11,500 calls from parents in 2013.
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May 28, 2014