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Pan-Canadian EDI & SES Maps

The Council is currently hosting Pan-Canadian Early Development Instrument (EDI) & Socio-Economic maps, showing EDI results from across the country.

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New! Science Brief!

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New website for the CNLEELC

The Canadian Network for Leadership in Education and Early Learning & Care has launched a new website: VISIT

Publications

New! Science Brief

This short briefing paper covers neuroscience, epigenetics and how early brain development affects health, learning and behaviour.

Early Years Study 2

The Early Years Study 2, uses new empirical findings to broaden and deepen the conclusions put forward in the original EYS, and new technologies to more closely examine the processes involved in healthy brain development.

Council for Early Child Development Annual Reports

External Publications

15 by 15: A Comprehensive Policy Framework for Early Human Capital Investment in BC (Kershaw P, Anderson L, Warburton B, Hertzman C)
This report dramatically illustrates why all of us - individuals, businesses, and governments - should care about the real brain drain in BC resulting from early vulnerability.

The British Columbia Atlas of Child Development.pdf (Kershaw P, Irwin L, Trafford K, Hertzman C)
The Atlas presents a visual summary of early child development trends across neighbourhood, school district and provincial geographies in BC.

Creating Communities for Young Children: A Toolkit for Change.pdf (Human Early Learning Partnership)
Written to support BC communities, this toolkit aims to help communities to understand the work of the ECD Mapping Project and to use the information in their neighbourhoods to create positive change for children. Many any of its ideas will be adaptable to other jurisdictions.

The Child Care Transition: A League Table of Early Childhood Education and Care in Economically Advanced Countries (Innocenti Report Card 8, UNICEF)

Child Poverty in Perspective: An Overview of Child Well-Being in Rich Countries (Innocenti Report Card 7, UNICEF)

Closing the Gap in a Generation: Health Equity Through Action on the Social Determinants of Health (World Health Organization)
The Final Report of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health.

Early Child Development: A Powerful Equalizer (Lloyd J, Siddiqi A, Hertzman C)
This report synthesizes knowledge about opportunities to improve the state of early child development on a global scale

Early Childhood Education and Care: Next Steps.pdf (Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology)

Early Years Study: Reversing the Real Brain Drain.pdf (McCain, Margaret & Fraser Mustard)
This seminal report, published in 1999, describes the critical importance of children's early interactions in shaping their development.

Investing in the Early Years: Closing the Gap Between What We Know and What We Do (Mustard, Fraser)
Fraser Mustard's report on the early years for the Government of South Australia. Also available via this link is the report's companion document, Early Childhood Development: The Best Start for all South Australians.

Starting Strong II: Early Childhood Education and Care (OECD)
This review of early childhood education and care (ECEC) in twenty OECD countries describes the social, economic, conceptual and research factors that influence early childhood policy. Note: Executive Summary and country profiles are available free for download. Full report must be purchased.

With Our Best Future in Mind: Implementing Early Learning in Ontario (Pascal, Charles)
Ontario's Early Learning Advisor, Dr. Charles Pascal's, report to the Premier.