Early Childhood Education

Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Education International (RECE) is dedicated to facilitating exchanges about work that challenge mainstream ideas regarding how young children learn and grow.

The College of Early Childhood Educators is the professional self-regulatory organization for early childhood educators in Ontario. All early childhood educators are accountable to meet this standard. King and Newnham libraries also hold print copies of this document.

Resources and publications from the College of Early Childhood Educators - the professional self-regulatory organization for early childhood educators in Ontario.

Ontario's vision for early years programs.

Research and policy resources about early childhood education and child care in Canada.

Access research on stages of childhood development.

A resource about learning through relationships for those who work with young children and their families.

Occupational standards for Canadian child care workers. You must now apply to receive this information by answering a series of required questions.

The York Region Red Flags guide assesses children up to the age of six years for growth and development.

The history of child care workers' compensation.

A guide for curriculum in Ontario’s early childhood settings, including child care centres, regulated
home child care, nursery schools, kindergarten, Ontario Early Years Centres, family
resource programs, parenting centres, readiness centres, family literacy, child development
programs in CAPC, Healthy Babies Healthy Children and early intervention services.

This report explores the impact of early childhood education (ECE) on the Canadian economy and highlights its potential to improve socio-economic outcomes including the reduction of poverty and income inequality.

Replaces the Day Nurseries Act (1990)

This document answers key questions about how child care changes will affect licensed and unlicensed child care providers in Ontario.

See also the 2018 changes to the Child and Family Services Act.

Includes the definition of practice of early childhood education

An Act to amend the Education Act and certain other Acts in relation to early childhood educators, junior kindergarten and kindergarten, extended day programs and certain other matters.

An advocacy group dedicated to providing information and support to parents of gifted children through newsletters, networking, an annual conference and local workshops.

The American Educational Research Association (AERA), a national research society, strives to advance knowledge about education, to encourage scholarly inquiry related to education, and to promote the use of research to improve education and serve the public good.

Forum for the owners and managers of Ontario's independent licensed child care programs to work together to maintain and improve child care quality, and expand the range of child care choices available to Ontario families.

Ontario's professional association of Early Childhood Educators; promotes professional development through regulation and accreditation.

Supports service providers across the province of Ontario who are working on health promotion projects to improve the health of expectant parents and their young children.

A bilingual, non-profit, member-based organization devoted to the development of occupational and ethical standards in early childhood care.

Provides access to thousands of resources relevant to ECE policy and practice in Canada and internationally.

A national, non-profit organization that conducts research and provides information on the child care workforce.

The Center catalyzes local, national, and international innovation in policy and practice focused on children and families. They design, test, and implement these ideas in collaboration with a broad network of research, practice, policy, community, and philanthropic leaders.

Rrepresents more than 70 Licensed Home Child Care Agencies which provide licensed, home-based early learning and child care in over 3,000 homes across Ontario.

The NAEYC is the largest early education organization. It provides information on every aspect of child care, protects and acts on behalf of the rights of all young children, and maintains a job list for early childhood educators.

Native Child and Family Services of Toronto (NCFST) is a multi-service urban Aboriginal agency providing holistic, culture-based programs and services for Aboriginal children and families. NCFST strives to provide a life of quality, well-being, healing, and self-determination for children and families in the Toronto urban Aboriginal community. We do this by implementing a service model that is culture-based and respects the values of Aboriginal people, the extended family and the right to self-determination.

Advocates for universal, affordable, high quality, not-for-profit child care in Ontario

Provides access and support to family and children's services, such as child care, special needs, speech and language programs, and much more.

The Pedagogist Network of Ontario creates conversations and spaces that nurture the hopeful, rigorous work of inventing pedagogical possibilities that resist status-quo practices in early childhood education.

Designed to assist practitioners in their efforts to promote the healthy growth and development of young children, includes information about program and project designs.