The school system that serves the Northumberland County area, including Cobourg, is holding a special Early Learning Conference in April.
It is a series of professional development and learning opportunities for Registered Early Childhood Educators in the Peterborough and Cobourg regions.
While some of the events will be virtual, there will be some in-person activities for the first time since COVID-19, in 2019.
The conference began this week and there will be two more virtual professional development opportunities for early childhood educators in mid-April.
Approximately 150 RECEs from across Peterborough, Kawartha Lakes and environs will take part in the various events that make up this year’s Inspiring Early Learning Conference.
They are the early learning professionals who care for young children,
The conference – held annually since its inception in the early 1990s – is being organized by a community committee of educators with support from the IIQ Peterborough Program at Five Counties, the City of Peterborough, and the Early Learning Quality Initiative serving the City of Kawartha Lakes and Haliburton County.
“We had to cancel the entire conference three years ago due to the emergence of COVID-19, and have been limited to virtual events over the past two years,” says Ellen Mortlock, a conference organizer and Quality Coordinator with the Investing in Quality (IIQ) Program based at Five Counties Children’s Centre in Peterborough. “After so many pandemic disruptions, it’s nice to be making face-to-face connections again to support our early learning community.”
