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The IECSS Youth Advisory Committee (ft. the Deaf Crows) invites you to the website and storybook launch of Research Matters…For Children

About this event

The IECSS Youth Advisory Committee (featuring the Deaf Crows) invites you to the launch event of the Research Matters…For Children website and storybook as well as the Deaf to Deaf website. During the event, we will share research findings from the IECSS project, a longitudinal study of the experiences in early childhood services from the standpoint of disabled children and their families.

Indigenous Ways of Knowing-Connections to the Land and Language Literacy

This workshop will allow educators to learn about Indigenous ways of knowing and how pedagogy can be linked to the land.

Guest Speaker: Andrea Williams

All attendees are to come with a story from their family or culture. In this workshop Andrea will explain the relationship between the Land and language literacy. And the ways in which this may be experienced by Indigenous communities and children. She will discuss how oral storytelling and land- based learning offer significant benefits to Indigenous families and children by providing culturally relevant education, community building, opportunities for intergenerational knowledge transfer, and creating safe spaces for healing and learning.

About the Presenter:

Natalie Royer is a learning strategist at Saroy Group and will facilitate the following workshops. Natalie has more than 15 years’ experience working with children and families in various settings across Toronto. Natalie’s experience ranges from working in Volunteer resources at Bloorview Kids Rehab from working in the Genetic Counseling department at the Hospital for Sick Children to facilitating adult workshops for parents to teaching in ECE departments across Toronto.

She has supervised academic programs at the TDSB serving marginalized women. Most recently, Natalie took part in a two-year study funded by Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) at Ryerson University looking at equity in early childhood education. The study was recently featured in Today’s Parent and the findings have been presented at both education and health conferences across Ontario.

This session will be facilitated online via Zoom and you will receive a link the day before the session takes place.

For more information about this training and other professional development and training opportunities offered by York Region, please visit our Eventbrite Page or email capacitybuilding@york.ca.

York Region Children’s Services

Indigenous Ways of Knowing-Connections to the Land and Language Literacy

This workshop will allow educators to learn about Indigenous ways of knowing and how pedagogy can be linked to the land.

Guest Speaker: Andrea Williams

All attendees are to come with a story from their family or culture. In this workshop Andrea will explain the relationship between the Land and language literacy. And the ways in which this may be experienced by Indigenous communities and children. She will discuss how oral storytelling and land- based learning offer significant benefits to Indigenous families and children by providing culturally relevant education, community building, opportunities for intergenerational knowledge transfer, and creating safe spaces for healing and learning.

About the Presenter:

Natalie Royer is a learning strategist at Saroy Group and will facilitate the following workshops. Natalie has more than 15 years’ experience working with children and families in various settings across Toronto. Natalie’s experience ranges from working in Volunteer resources at Bloorview Kids Rehab from working in the Genetic Counseling department at the Hospital for Sick Children to facilitating adult workshops for parents to teaching in ECE departments across Toronto.

She has supervised academic programs at the TDSB serving marginalized women. Most recently, Natalie took part in a two-year study funded by Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) at Ryerson University looking at equity in early childhood education. The study was recently featured in Today’s Parent and the findings have been presented at both education and health conferences across Ontario.

This session will be facilitated online via Zoom and you will receive a link the day before the session takes place.

For more information about this training and other professional development and training opportunities offered by York Region, please visit our Eventbrite Page or email capacitybuilding@york.ca.

York Region Children’s Services

A conversation about the how the National Child Care plan will impact the lives and inclusion of children, families, and community.

About this event

The Early Childhood Resource Teachers Network of Ontario (ECRTNO) partnered with the Inclusive Early Childhood Service System Project to create a discussion supporting the inclusion of all children and families within the provincial implementation of the National Child Care plan.

The Ontario agreement to the National Child Care plan does not include an inclusion strategy supporting inclusive practices to ensure all children and families have access to quality child care. The panel will bring together researchers, resource consultants, early childhood educators, activists, parents of children with disabilities, and community members to share knowledge and perspectives on the challenges and successes of childhood disabilities and inclusion within the child care sector in Ontario.

Discussions will explore the ways in which the National Child Care plan with or without an inclusive strategy will impact the lives of children, families, and community. The goal is to inform, share, and create action to support all children, families, educators, and the early years sector within the provincial plan.