10 Reasons to Choose Quality Early Learning and Child Care
Expert knowledge Early childhood educators are experts in child development and are trained to create inspiring learning environments!
Intentionality Early childhood educators provide your child the gift of time and attention. They will stop and explore the new flowers or jump in the mud puddles with your child.
Young at heart Early childhood educators know how to have fun! They’re not afraid to be silly and laugh with your child; all while nurturing your child’s creativity and helping to build their self-confidence.
Setting limits Every child needs reasonable boundaries, such as no playing ball inside. Early childhood educators set limits and support families in doing the same.
Love of literacy Early childhood educators read and tell stories, sing songs, and do puppet shows to inspire a love of language and to build early literacy skills.
Confidence boost Early childhood educators provide safe opportunities for your child to be independent and to become confident in their personality and decision making skills.
Inspired learning Early childhood educators ask open-ended questions to inspire creative thought and curiosity, to encourage children to explore, and to make learning fun.
Life skills Early childhood educators use their expertise to develop programs that use play as a tool for teaching math, literacy, science and essential life skills that last for life!
Making friends Early childhood educators are educated to appropriately support children to gain social skills, which are so important in making friends and developing positive relationships!
Helping hand Everyone gets stumped by parenting from time to time - juggling schedules, demands, and behaviours. When it gets tough and you need someone to talk to, reach out to your child’s early childhood educator!
Canadian Child Care Federation and Storypark --- Partners in Online Documentation for Educators and Families
July 20th, 2016
OTTAWA — This week the Canadian Child Care Federation announced their endorsement and partnership with early learning tech leader Storypark, makers of online documentation and learning community tools for early child care services. Storypark helps educators and families work together in extending each child’s unique interests and strengths - providing insights about a child’s activities and development both at home and in early learning environments. .
The CCCF is committed to excellence in early learning and child care, and will be encouraging the use of Storypark’s innovative technology to improve learning outcomes for children across Canada.
CCCF is pleased to offer all members a 10% discount off both the monthly or annual price of Storypark. To celebrate the launch of our partnership, sign up to Storypark before September 30, 2016, enter the promotional code CCCF2016 and you'll also receive 3 months free access (saving a further 25% in your first year).
If you have multiple sites, get in touch with Storypark directly as they offer additional benefits for larger groups.
Storypark also offers all services working in vulnerable communities lifetime free access as part of it's commitment to making a difference for all children in Canada. Contact them for more information.
The Canadian Child Care Federation’s CEO Don Giesbrecht commented that Storypark’s core values of placing children at the centre of everything they do aligned well with those of the CCCF.
“We’re excited about our partnership with Storypark and the learning and relationship outcomes that the software can create for Canada's early childhood practitioners, children and families.”
Storypark was developed under the guidance of international experts and practitioners from New Zealand, Australia and Canada, including Kim Hiscott, Executive Director at Andrew Fleck Child Care Servicesrolex replica. Andrew Fleck uses Storypark across their services and Ms Hiscott has seen not only better outcomes for children, but operational improvements including streamlining reporting and documentation, cost savings, improving communication, time savings and strengthening day to day practice by educators.
According to Kim Hiscott, “Storypark gives each child their own private community in which the people who matter most in their lives (parents, families, specialists and educators) can work together in supporting their individual interests and strengths. We implemented Storypark in all of our licensed group sites and in our Ontario Early Years Centre and it has delivered even more than we’d hoped. New features continue to be added, for example the the private educator portfolio section is very exciting and practical.”
Storypark is also the preferred partner of Early Childhood New Zealand and the Early Learning Association of Australia - two world leading countries in the provision of early childhood education.
Storypark’s CEO Peter Dixon says “we’re proud to be making a difference in communities across Canada and our partnership with the Canadian Child Care Federation will help us create even more meaningful outcomes for children, families and educators.”
About CCCF: The Canadian Child Care Federation is a bilingual, non-profit, member-based organization that is committed to excellence in early learning and child care. Our organization is about the value of children. We value children. In order to protect and enhance our children, to promote their safety and their healthy growth and development, we are committed to providing Canadians with the very best in early learning and child care knowledge and best practices. Our tools are research and knowledge dissemination, the creation and nurturing of active networks.
Working in partnership with our affiliates, we are committed to:
The importance of quality early learning and child care as an essential Canadian value and a right worth protecting and enhancing;
The importance of quality delivery of early learning and child care as crucial elements in the healthy development of our children;
The importance of competent, well-trained professionals who deliver quality early learning and child care with passion and pride
About Storypark: Storypark is an online service for early childhood educators which helps teachers deepen relationships with family, understand, plan for and extend children's unique interests and abilities. More than 100,000 teachers and families in 23 countries are using Storypark to improve learning outcomes for children by engaging families in their learning.
