Throughout the workshop, novice and seasoned early childhood practitioners work together to make early childhood programming more fulfilling. Participants leave the workshop with techniques, strategies, tools, and approaches that can simplify and enhance their lives.
As models, mentors, guides, educators, and care providers, we are bonded by a belief in children’s inherent value. We are also united by our willingness to use children’s ideas, feelings, abilities, limitations, curiosities, and capabilities as catalysts for creating early childhood programs that make early childhood meaningful. Children know at a very young age if they are valued, loved, cared for, and cared about, even if they cannot articulate this knowledge until later in life. Like us, children know if they are viewed as unique human beings or as objects of other people’s work. |
Katherine Bonell is a licensed Early Childhood Educator in British Columbia. She was a curriculum developer, practicum supervisor, and instructor for two public post secondary institutions before she formed the Rural Communities Early Childhood Institute.
Kathy has a Bachelor of Arts degree in child and youth care and a Master of Arts degree in human development with a specialization in human & social services. Pillars draws on her thirty years of teaching experience in post-secondary education environments and on her direct work with children, families, and community practitioners in early childhood settings. |
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