Mentorship and Me: Exploring Your Identity as an Early Years Professional
Explore your professional identity as an early years professional. This resource invites you to slow down and reflect on who you are becoming through your relationships, experiences, and ongoing learning, recognizing that professional identity is continually shaped throughout your journey.
Navigating Your First 90 Days: A Reflective Companion for Educators Entering the Field
These companion resources support both new early years educators and the leaders who walk alongside them during the first 90 days in practice. For new educators, the guide offers a roadmap, reflection prompts, and practical strategies to help navigate the transition into professional practice, build relationships, and grow confidence. For leaders, the companion resource provides mentoring approaches and reflective tools to support belonging, foster connection, and nurture the ongoing development of professional identity.
Understanding Ontario's Early Learning System
This resource outlines the roles and responsibilities at each level, helping you understand how programs, policies, and services work together to support children, families, and early years professionals.
Nurturing the Nurturers: Mental Wellness in our Daily Practice and Burnout Prevention
Early childhood educators give endlessly, but often at the cost of their own wellbeing. It’s time to shine a light on burnout in ECE and build a culture where caring for ourselves is just as important as caring for children. Prioritizing educator mental wellness isn’t optional, it’s essential. This conversation goes beyond self-care trends and looks at what it truly takes to build workplaces where early childhood professionals feel valued, supported, and emotionally safe.
Career Pathways in Early Childhood Education and Care
This resource highlights the many career pathways available through Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC).
Beyond Day One: Understanding Onboarding vs. Orientation
This resource explores the critical role onboarding plays in welcoming new eucators into your program.
Mentorship in Action: Goal Setting & Action Planning
This resource is designed to illuminate goal setting and action planning processes as strategies to support individuals in mentorship.
Student Mentorship Relationships in Early Years Programs
This resource provides insights on the development of mentoring relationships in Early Childhood Programs. It addresses questions such as: How do we cultivate these crucial relationships? and what roles do mentors and students each play in this process?
Understanding Mentorship & Mentoring Relationships
This resource is aimed at providing clarity around what mentorship is.
Igniting the Spark for Mentorship: 2024 Community Animator Report
This report highlights the key processes and findings from the Community Animators’ work, including an environmental scan of mentorship approaches, the community engagement processes, what we heard from collaborators, and proposed pathways to support mentorship opportunities.
ECEC Common Terms & Acronyms
This resource offers a small glossary with definitions for key words and jargon used in the early childhood field, including in policy and by early years professionals.
Early Years Resource Guide: Professionals
This comprehensive resource is designed specifically for Child Care Professionals in the London-Middlesex area. Whether you are looking for professional resources or community support, this document includes a variety of essential resources.
Early Years Resource Guide: Providers
This comprehensive resource is designed specifically for Child Care Providers in the London-Middlesex area. Whether you are looking for regulatory documents, advocacy tools, professional development resources, or community support, this document includes a variety of essential resources.