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Come join Angela at the atelier to uncover the value of loose parts. Angela will share with us her journey with materials. We will think together about the principles of invitations, succession planning for children, and building collections. Bring your imagination and willingness to play and we will explore our ability to see beyond our certainties and begin to uncover the many possibilities of Loose Parts.

Register here

Come join Angela at the atelier to uncover the value of loose parts. Angela will share with us her journey with materials. We will think together about the principles of invitations, succession planning for children, and building collections. Bring your imagination and willingness to play and we will explore our ability to see beyond our certainties and begin to uncover the many possibilities of Loose Parts.

Register here for all possible dates

Several dates available:
March 25 from 9:30 a.m. – 12 pm

March 28 from 9:00 – 11:00 a.m.

April 2 from 6:30 – 8:45 p.m.

Come join Angela at the atelier to uncover the value of loose parts. Angela will share with us her journey with materials. We will think together about the principles of invitations, succession planning for children, and building collections. Bring your imagination and willingness to play and we will explore our ability to see beyond our certainties and begin to uncover the many possibilities of Loose Parts.

Register here to sign up for this series being offered on Wednesdays in April.

Perspectives of a Reggio Emilia educator – Infant educators this is especially for you!

Join Angela Hoar and other colleagues from Compass ELC on Wednesdays throughout April to work together through a beautiful assemblage of affectionately written notes and photographs, the original diary chronicles the journey of one child’s first month in an infant/toddler centre in Reggio Emilia.

Books will be distributed as you register, and meetings will happen through Zoom conference call (Easy to join using either phone or computer).

All you need is either a phone or a laptop with a mic to join the calls.

Register here for Tuesday evenings in April

Join Hanah on Tuesday evenings in April (from wherever you are, via Zoom) to strengthen conversations about Indigenous/Settler relations in Early Childhood Education in Ontario. We will read a short blog each week, then come together for an hour-long discussion over 4 weeks to begin to consider how we can better understand our country’s history of colonialism, how we engage in place-based and land-based education on treaty land, how we understand reconciliation, and through the Anthropocene, how to live in kinship with the more-than-human world. Lots of opportunities to ask questions and grapple with ways forward as individuals and as an organization.

All you need is either a phone or a laptop with a mic to join the calls.

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Spend an evening actively trying out tips and tricks on your iPads. Bring an iPad and some documentation you are working on!

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Spend an evening actively trying out tips and tricks on your iPads. Bring an iPad and some documentation you are working on!

Register here

Spend an evening actively trying out tips and tricks on your iPads. Bring an iPad and some documentation you are working on!

Register here

Luigi Iannacci will explore problematic discourses, practices, and pedagogies that inform how disability is presently understood and responded to within the field of education. He will interrogate the narratives that dominate every aspect of how disability is linguistically, bureaucratically, procedurally, and pedagogically configured within education. His research and work aim to forward human rights for people with disabilities in educational contexts by clarifying and operationalizing inclusion so that it is not just a model necessitated by a hierarchy of legality, but rather a set of beliefs and practices based on critical analyses and a reconceptualization of current understandings and responses to disability that prevent inclusion and human rights from being realized.

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Literature is a powerful way to support children in understanding their place in the world. The impressions and messages contained in these stories are often overlooked if the intended audience is children, but what underlying messages are we sending without even realizing it?

Spend an evening unpacking children’s stories, and understanding how choices we make every day as educators can have a powerful impact on the lives of children.