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TOMORROW'S EARLY LEARNING:
Access and Equity For All Children
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- THURSDAY, APRIL 16-
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All sessions at the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver
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12:00 - 4:30 pm
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New Members Session (Gabriola Island Room)
Partners for Professional Practice (Galiano Island Room)
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Retirement and Awards celebration on The Roof
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5:30 – 6:30 pm
6:30 pm
7:00 – 10:00 pm
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Cocktail Hour
Awards Presentation
Dinner and Retirement Celebration
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All keynotes and panel sessions take place in the Pacific Ballroom
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7:45 – 8:45 am
9:00 – 9:15 am
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Registration & Continental Breakfast (Pacific Ballroom Foyer)
Welcome and Introduction
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9:15 - 10:30 am
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KEYNOTE SESSION 1 – Stuart Shanker
Developmental Pathways: Scaffolding for Early Learners (Pacific Ballroom)
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10:45 - 11:05 am
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Refreshment Break
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11:10 am - 12:10 pm
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CONCURRENT SESSIONS 1
Jane Beach (Galiano Island Room)
Jane Bertrand (Cortes Island Room)
Janet Mort (Moresby Island Room)
Stuart Shanker (Pacific Ballroom)
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12:15 - 1:00 pm
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Lunch (British Ballroom)
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1:00 - 2:00 pm
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KEYNOTE SESSION 2 – Charlie Coffey
Title TBA (Pacific Ballroom)
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2:00 - 2:10 pm
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Table talk
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2:10 - 3:10 pm
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PANEL CONVERSATION
Beach, Bertrand, Coffey, Mort, Shanker, moderator Mike McKay
Title TBA
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3:10 pm
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Session Close: Mike McKay
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All keynotes and panel sessions take place in the Saturna Island Room
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7:15 – 8:15 am
8:30 – 8:45 am
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Registration & Continental Breakfast (Saturna Room Foyer)
Welcome and Introduction
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8:45 – 9:45 am
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KEYNOTE SESSION 3 – Janet Mort
Reducing Child Vulnerabilities: Ten BC Trend Buckers
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9:45 – 9:55 am
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Table Talk
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9:55 – 10:30 am
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IN RESPONSE
Beach, Bertrand, Mort
Title TBA
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10:30 – 10:45 am
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Refreshments on the run
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10:45 - 11:45 am
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CONCURRENT SESSIONS 2
Jane Beach (Cortes Island Room)
Jane Bertrand (The Roof)
Charles Coffey (Saturna Island Room)
Title TBA (Galiano Island Room)
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11:45 am - 12:30 pm
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Lunch (British Ballroom)
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12:30 - 1:30 pm
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KEYNOTE SESSION 4 – Jane Beach, Jane Bertrand
Time to Move to a Better Place
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1:30 - 1:40 pm
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Forum close
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Conference Presenters
JANE BEACH is a child and family research and policy consultant based in Victoria, British Columbia. She has been principal and co-investigator on several pan-Canadian studies for public, voluntary and private sector organizations, and has authored numerous studies and reports on early learning and childcare in Canada.
She is also working internationally, providing early childhood policy support in Egypt as part of the educational reform agenda. Jane has several years experience in the public sector working on child care policy and program development, and is a former Director of Child Care for the Province of British Columbia.
JANE BERTRAND is Professor at the School of Early Childhood at George Brown College where she has held a faculty position since 1986. Jane was a member of the Toronto First Duty Research and Development team from the Atkinson Centre at Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto and one of the founding Directors of the council for Early Child Development. Recently, she chaired the Ontario Best Start Expert Panel and Early Learning and let the development of Early Learning for Every Child Today, a curriculum guide for early childhood settings in Ontario.
CHARLIE COFFEY Community leadership is a passion for Charlie Coffey—and this means reaching out to people in all walks of life, understanding cultures, building relationships, bridging gaps and speaking up about issues that need a stronger voice and accelerated action plan. Coffey’s proven record and reputation in private, public and not-for-profit sectors across the country is a testament to this champion of diversity, children and early child development, young people and education, Aboriginal peoples, women entrepreneurs and women seeking public office.
Charlie Coffey is chair of the Canadian Council of Christians and Jews, Canadian Centre for Diversity; vice-chair, The Ontario Trillium Foundation; champion, The Aboriginal Human Resource Development Council of Canada; member, National Committee of Aga Khan Foundation Canada; and director of the Council for Early Child Development, The Mosaic Institute, Toronto City Summit Alliance Steering Committee, Sustainable Development Technology Canada, Arctic Children and Youth Foundation and the Empire Club of Canada.
Coffey started his 44-year career with RBC Financial Group in native Woodstock, New Brunswick. He is the former executive vice president, government affairs and business development for RBC. Prior to that position, Charlie headed business banking in Canada for five years. He also led three regional headquarters: Manitoba, Metro Toronto and Ontario.
He has been given the Canadian Women’s International Business Initiative Award from the Canadian Embassy in the United States for RBC’s outstanding support of businesswomen, the Award of Distinction from the Public Affairs Association of Canada, the Humanitarian Award for Community Service from Yorktown Family Services (Toronto), and the Centre of Excellence for Early Childhood Development medal for exceptional contribution to early child development.
The Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs named Coffey an Honourary Chief for his support of First Nations, economic development and self-sufficiency. He was awarded an Honourary Doctor of Laws degree by Trent University for his “extraordinary contributions to society through community leadership.” He has received the Order of St. Michael for his work in support of St. Michael’s College School in Toronto, and is an Officer of the Order of Canada.
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JANET MORT has been an award winning innovator and school administrator throughout her career. Starting at age 23, she was a principal of a primary school. Four years later she was awarded the BC Teacher’s Federation Award for Innovation in Education.
As a Superintendent of the Saanich School District in the late 1980’s, she was also appointed Superintendent of Educational Innovation for the Province of BC in 1990. She has been a frequent speaker on educational change and has published two books: Teaching with The Winning Touch (1983) and A Passion for our Grandchildren (2001).
She graduated with a PhD in Language and Literacy with a specialty in early child development (University of Victoria), receiving the Social Sciences and humanities Research Council scholarship and the UVic President’s Award for her study of community efforts to improve services for young children and their families. She is presently a researcher at the Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP) at UBC. She is also leading the team that is evaluating the StrongStart pilot sites and is a fellow with the Canadian Council of Early Child Development (CECD).
STUART SHANKER is a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Psychology at York University. He was educated at Oxford, where he obtained a First in PPE and won the Marian Buck Fellowship at Christ Church, where he obtained a First in a B Phil in Philosophy and a D Phil with Distinction in Philosophy. Among his awards are a Canada Council Doctoral Fellowship and Postdoctoral Fellowship; a Calgary Institute for the Humanities Fellowship; a University of Alberta Mactaggart Fellowship; an Iszaak Walton Killam Fellowship; and the Walter L. Gordon Fellowship at York University. He has received many grants, among them a $5,000,000 grant from the Harris Steel Foundation to establish the Milton and Ethel Harris Research Initiative (MEHRI), a state-of-the-art cognitive and social neuroscience institute at York University.
Among his recent monographs are Apes, language and the human mind (with Sue Savage-Rumbaugh and Talbot Taylor, 1998); Wittgenstein’s remarks on the foundations of AI (1998); Toward a Psychology of Global Interdependency (with Stanley Greenspan, 2002), The First Idea (with Stanley Greenspan, 2004), Early Years Study II (with J. Fraser Mustard and Margaret McCain, 2006) and El rizoma de la racionalidad (with Pedro Reygadas, 2007). He is the editor of several collections, among them The Routledge History of Philosophy (with G.H.R. Parkinson, 1994-2000); Language, Culture, Self (with David Bakhurst, 2001), Ludwig Wittgenstein: Critical Assessments (with David Kilfoyle, 2002), Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (a member of the PDM Steering Committee, 2006), and Human Development in the 21st Century (with Alan Fogel and Barbara King, 2008).
In addition to serving as Director of MEHRI, Dr. Shanker is currently Director of the Council for Human Development and Past President of the Council of Early Child Development. He is also Director of the Cuba-Mexico-Canada Research Initiative, an international, multi-disciplinary investigation into preventative mental health (funded by IDRC of Canada).
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