草莓视频

Check in at the registration desk and check out this years exhibitor fair!

The breakfast buffet is open until 8:30am.

Welcome to the 55^th Annual 草莓视频Conference!

Our spotlight speakers bring bold ideas, lived experience and forward-thinking perspectives to this year’s conference. Each leader featured has shaped their work in meaningful ways. We invite you to get to know their stories, their work and the vision they’ll be sharing on our stage. Like what you hear on stage you will have the choice to hear them in our conversation cafés as they go deeper into their talk.

Find out more on the Thursday details page!

A buffet lunch will be available between 12:00pm to 1:00pm.

Our spotlight speakers bring bold ideas, lived experience and forward-thinking perspectives to this year’s conference. Each leader featured has shaped their work in meaningful ways. We invite you to get to know their stories, their work and the vision they’ll be sharing on our stage. Like what you hear on stage you will have the choice to hear them in our conversation cafés as they go deeper into their talk.

Find out more on the Thursday details page!

Welcome back, we're happy you could join us this Friday! The Registration Desk is open and the Exhibitor Fair is open until 5:00pm..

The breakfast buffet is open until 8:30am.

Opening remarks to kick off the beginning of the second day will begin at 8:45am.

Len Pierre is Coast Salish from Katzie (kate-zee) First Nation. Len is an award winning entrepreneur, professor, consultant, TEDx Speaker, social activist, change agent, & traditional knowledge sharer. He specializes in the development of educational programs and services with decolonization and reconciliation as its core values. Len holds a Masters degree in Education from Simon Fraser University focusing on Indigenous curriculum and instructional design. His experience includes Indigenous education and program leadership from various organizations across colonial Canada. He comes to us with an open heart and open mind, and hopes to be received in the same way

Check in with your colleagues, here's your chance to discuss ideas, opinions and thoughts on various topics and connect with one another!

Session A breakout workshops are on from 10:30am to 12:00pm. Enjoy your selected workshop!

Workshop Options:

• A1: Thriving in Kinship:  Understanding Barriers Novice Educators Experience in Practice
• A2: Visiting as Togetherness:  Rethinking place-based relations in an Infant-Toddler Centre
• A3: From  Words to Kinship:  How everyday communication builds belonging in Early Childhood
• A4: Let's imagine a policing free ECE
• A5: $10aDay Child Care in BC:  Where are we now, and how can we inspire ongoing advocacy? 
• A6: Indigenous Storytelling and Songs
• A7: Thriving in Kinship:  Strength-Based, Culturally Safe, Trauma-Informed Practice in the Early Years

Check in with your colleagues, here's your chance to discuss ideas, opinions and thoughts on various topics and connect with one another!

A lunch buffet will be available again from 12:30pm to 1:30pm.

Join us for a networking opportunity from 1:30pm to 2:00pm.

Session B breakout workshops are on from 2:00pm to 4:00pm. Enjoy your selected workshop!

Workshop Options:
Please see the conference brochure or the registration details page for more information on each workshop.

• B1: Thriving in Kinship through Language: Supporting Children's Heritage Languages in early childhood education
• B2: Attunement, Creativity, Dignity and Critical Thinking: Nurturing Inclusion as the Heart of our work with Children and Families
• B3: Exploring Leadership's Role in Creating Conditions for Responsive 21st Century Early Childhood Education
• B4: Visual Storytelling with Photovoice
• B5: Emotional Intelligence in Action: Kinship, Self-care and Thriving Teamwork
• B6: Learning Outside Together (LOT): Children Grow Strong on the Land
• B7: A Bridging of Worlds with a Community Approach

Check in at the registration desk and check out the exhibitor fair which is open to 1:30pm!

The breakfast buffet is open until 8:30am.

Session C breakout workshops are on from 8:30am to 10:00am. Enjoy your selected workshop!

• C1: Songs from the Land:  Bringing Indigenous Children's Music into Early Learning
• C2: Letting go of stress and anxiety using mindfulness breathing reiki meditation to self regulate for children and adults
• C3: Uplifting Student-Educators in Early Childhood Education
• C4: From Awareness to Action:  Relational Leadership & Meaningful Truth and Reconciliation in Early Childhood Education
• C5: Disrupting Traditional Professional Development;  A paradigm shift through unlearning.
• C6: Trauma Informed Practice
• C7: Educators in Motion

Here's an opportunity to discuss ideas, opinions and thoughts on various topics and connect with one another! This networking opportunity is available from 10:00am to 10:30am.

Session D breakout workshops are on from 10:30am to 12:00pm. Enjoy your selected workshop!

Workshop Options:
Please see the conference brochure or the registration details page for more information on each workshop.

• D1: Cultural Roots in Education
• D2: Nurturing Relational Storyways with Indigenous Story(books) in Early Childhood
• D3: Embodied Time: Reimaging the Rhythm of the Day
• D4: Building a culture of Safety:  Governance, Leadership & Liability.
• D5: Traces in Motion: Experimenting with dis-finished pedagogy
• D6: Return to centre
• D7: Teaching Emotional Regulation through Storytelling

Check in with your colleagues, here's an opportunity to discuss ideas, opinions and thoughts on various topics and connect with one another! This networking opportunity is available from 12:00pm to 12:30pm.

A buffet lunch will be available between 12:30pm and 1:30pm.

The 草莓视频 (ECEBC) invites you to a thought-provoking panel discussion on navigating the complex concept of wellbeing.

Join us to learn and reflect on the deep connection between our own personal wellbeing and how this is intrinsically linked to our professional practice. Creating spaces that uphold our ethical responsibilities in relation to wellness is critical to a thriving profession.

Our expert panelists, including early childhood educators, leaders, students, and community champions, will discuss current realities and pressures that influence our ability to commit to self reflective practice. The panel will explore what it means for early childhood educators to truly thrive within a profession built on relationships, reciprocity, and shared humanity.

Grounded in the theme Thriving in Kinship, the conversation centers the idea that educator wellness is both an individual task and a collective responsibility shaped by environments, communities, and connections.

Together let’s examine how kinship can be a powerful source of strength, resilience, belonging and joy.

Join us for the closing address with Monique Gray Smith.

Monique Gray Smith is an award-winning, best-selling author. Her books cover a broad spectrum of ages, topics and emotions. Woven into all of Monique’s writing, speaking engagements and online courses is the teaching that Love is Medicine. Monique’s most recent release, her first adult non-fiction book, Sharing the Light: Stories and Reflections was an instant National Bestseller and continues to appear on National Bestselling Lists. In 2022 she adapted Robin Wall Kimmerer's, New York Times Bestselling book, Braiding Sweetgrass for a younger audience, Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults. Monique’s novel, Tilly and the Crazy Eights was longlisted for Canada Reads 2021.

Monique is trained as a Psychiatric Nurse and has worked in various capacities in community and as a consultant since 1990. Her focus has been weaving history, resilience and trauma informed training for educators, social workers, librarians and early childhood teams. Monique is Cree and Scottish and has been sober and involved in her healing journey for 35 years. She is well known for her storytelling, spirit of generosity and focus on resilience.

Thank you for joining us for the 55^th annual 草莓视频conference!