Schedule

Friday, June 15, 2007

• 9:00: Registration for Full Conference (Friday, Saturday and Sunday
• 9:30: Choice of two all day sessions
  • F1: Visionary Director: Going for Bigger Dreams! with Margie Carter &  Deb Curtis Sponsored by the Nova Scotia Community College
  • F2: Broadening and Deepening our Approach to Quality with Drs. Judith Bernhard, Margaret Carr, Peter Moss, & Alan Pence Sponsored by Ryerson University School of Early Childhood Education and University of Victoria School of Child & Youth Studies
• 12pm: Lunch
• 5pm:  Registration for Weekend Conference (Friday evening,Saturday and Sunday Conference sessions)
• 5pm:  Trade show opening and viewing
• 7pm:   Conference opening
  • Welcome to Nova Scotia
  • Prevention of Human Violence: The Power of Early Childhood Development, a public presentation by Dr.Richard Tremblay Sponsored by the Centre for Excellence in Early Childhood Development
  • Kitchen Party

Saturday, June 16, 2007

• 8:00: Registration
• 9:00:
  • Welcome
    
  • Keynote, Calling All Inventors—Coming together to rethink early childhood practices with Margie Carter & Deb Curtis. Sponsored by the Mount Saint Vincent University Child & Youth Studies Department
• 10:15: Break
• 10:30:Workshop Series A (Workshop A1, A2 and A8 full, registration closed)
• 12:00: Box lunch in trade show area
• 12:15: Keynote, Working with uncertainty: developing a workforce for a democratic, inclusive and integrated early childhood service. with Dr. Peter Moss Sponsored by ryerson University School of Early Childhood Education
• 1:30: Workshop Series B (Workshop B1, B5 and B8 are full, registration closed)
• 3:00: Break
• 3:15-Keynote, Language and Literacy: From Birth… for Life with Dr. Don Jamieson < i>Sponsored by the Canadian Language and Literacy Research Network and Canadian Child Care Federation
• 4:30-5:30: CCCF AGM
• 6:30: Lobster dinner,CCCF Award of Excellence and Entertainment

Sunday, June 17, 2007

• 9:00 : New conclusions from the OECD Starting Strong reviews: where does Canada Stand? with Dr. John Bennett
  Sponsored by the Early Childhood Learning Knowledge Centre
• 10:15: Break
• 10:30-12:00: Workshop Series C (Workshops C2 and C3 Full, registration closed)
• 12:00: TBA
• 12:30: Lunch
• 1:00 : Quality Child Care in Canada: What's on the Horizon? with Don Giesbrecht, president of the Canadian Child Care Federation
  Sponsored by the Canadian Child Care Federation
• 1:45-2:00 Passing the torch to next year's convenors and wrap up
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