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Early Childhood Professional Resource Centre
​"Creating a bridge between research and practice in early learning and care"

Research and Policy


How Does Learning Happen? sets out a shared understanding of children, families, and educators. Reflecting on these views about children, families,
and educators in the context of the early years environment is a starting point for developing programs and practices to support learning.
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Link to the Ontario's Pedagogy

The Early Learning Framework is a guide to support early childhood programs in Ontario. With six distinct principles, the Early Learning Framework provides a shared language and understanding of child development. The goal is to support you, early childhood educators and other early learning practitioners, as you work in early childhood settings.
Link to The Early Learning Framework
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The Child Care and Early Years Act, 2014 (CCEYA) came into effect on August 31, 2015. This legislation replaced the outdated Day Nurseries Act (DNA) and established new rules governing child care in Ontario.
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Link to the Child Care and Early Years Act

'The College of Early Childhood Educators regulates and governs Ontario’s early childhood educators in the public interest. The College is not an educational institution or a professional association that advocates for early childhood educators. It is an organization that helps to serve and protect children and families by setting registration requirements and ethical and professional standards for registered early childhood educators (RECEs), and governing member conduct through a complaints and discipline process.'
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Link to The College of Early Childhood Educators

The Code of Ethics sets out the ethical values that guide the professional practice of RECEs. ... RECEs are also legally required to adhere to the regulations made under the ECE Act that include the Professional Misconduct Regulation (Appendix A) and the Continuous Professional Learning Regulation.
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Link to the Code of Ethics

Early Years Engage is a change initiative, shifting the ELCC sector from the Raising The Bar model of quality towards a culture of continuous quality improvement. 

​Early Years Engage supports programs to participate in a continuous process of reviewing practices, developing short and long-term plans for growth, operationalizing work plans and evaluating progress against “Our Vision for Quality in Waterloo Region”
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Link to Early Years Engage Quality Initiative

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The Atkinson Centrefor Society and Child Deveopment promotes research on child development, and the development of early learning policy and practice that serve young children and their families.

Link to Atkinson

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The Childcare Resource and Research Unit is an early childhood education and child care (ECEC) policy research institute with a mandate to further ECEC policy and programs in Canada.

Link to CRRU website

The Canadian Child Care Federation provides information related to early childhood education to support professionals.
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Link to CCCF Research

The Moving Child Care Forward Project, is designed to broaden and deepen debate and understanding of early childhood education and child care (ECEC) policy issues. 
Link to Moving Child Care Forwards
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Rethink Child Care is a website dedicated to looking at the issues Canadian families face in finding quality care.  
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Link to Rethink Child Care

Think, Feel, Act: Lessons from research about young children was created to support educators working in early years settings in their continuous professional learning. The Ministry of Education worked with leading experts in the early childhood field to develop thought-provoking resources available at this website.
Link to MOE
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299 Doon Valley Drive,
Kitchener, Ontario
N2G 4M4
Contact us by email: PRCinfo@conestogac.on.ca or by phone 519.748.5220 ext 3388
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