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Early years symposium

October 1, 2013

Continuing the Journey: Making Early Learning Visible

TORONTO, ON – The annu­al Ear­ly Years Sym­po­sium, now in its third year, aims to gen­er­ate mean­ing­ful and con­struc­tive dia­logue about full-day ear­ly learn­ing Kinder­garten pro­grams. This year’s sym­po­sium, Con­tin­u­ing the Jour­ney: Mak­ing Ear­ly Learn­ing Vis­i­ble, focus­es on engag­ing with fam­i­lies and com­mu­ni­ties.

Dr. Kang Lee and Annie Kid­der will deliv­er keynote address­es and school teams from across Ontario will present their sto­ries of their jour­neys through full-day learn­ing imple­men­ta­tion and share best prac­tices relat­ing to com­mu­ni­ty and fam­i­ly engage­ment.

EVENT DETAILS

What: Ear­ly Years Sym­po­sium – Con­tin­u­ing the Jour­ney: Mak­ing Ear­ly Learn­ing Vis­i­ble­Sup­port­ed by N.S. Robert­son Pro­gram for Inquiry Based Teach­ing in Math­e­mat­ics and Sci­ence

Who: Dr. Kang Lee, Dr. Eric Jack­man Insti­tute of Child Study, OISE; Annie Kid­der, Exec­u­tive Direc­tor, Peo­ple for Edu­ca­tion; Charles Pas­cal, Pro­fes­sor, Applied Psy­chol­o­gy & Human Devel­op­ment, OISE.

When: Sat­ur­day, Octo­ber 19, from 10 am to 3 pm

Where: OISE Library, Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to, 252 Bloor Street West, Toron­to

Online link to this advi­so­ry: http://conted.oise.utoronto.ca/EarlyYearsSymposium.html

About OISE

The Ontario Insti­tute for Stud­ies in Edu­ca­tion (OISE) of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to is an inter­na­tion­al leader in the research, teach­ing and study of issues that mat­ter in edu­ca­tion. As Canada’s largest fac­ul­ty of edu­ca­tion, OISE oper­ates a broad range of inno­v­a­tive aca­d­e­m­ic pro­grams and research ini­tia­tives.

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For more infor­ma­tion, con­tact:

Jus­tine Kin­ta­nar
Tel: 416–978-2107
justine.kintanar@utoronto.ca