Helping PEI families make the early years count!

Back by popular demand!!    This 1.5-hour interactive session is designed by Tunes and Tales for early childhood educators working with babies, toddlers, and preschoolers. Participants will explore how to create and run a successful, developmentally appropriate music circle that supports connection, regulation, and joyful musical learning. The session will cover practical strategies for introducing and using musical elements, instruments and singing effectively with young children.  Educators will learn fun, new songs they can take directly into their classrooms.   Facilitator Bio:  Tunes and Tales is a PEI based musical storytelling group creating imaginative, interactive performances for children and families. Blending original songs, and visual storytelling through crankies, their shows invite audiences into rich story worlds that encourage creativity, empathy, and social-emotional learning.

The Director Network Meeting gathers on the third Wednesday of each month from 9:30 am - 12:00 pm.  We are happy to provide a hybrid meeting space, with the option to meet in-person at the ECDA Boardroom or via Zoom, to help with travel house ratio i.e., if you're cooking lunch. This network is open to all supervisors, directors, and administrators of licensed early learning and childcare programs. The intention of the group is to encourage open conversation and collaboration to enhance quality practices, such as human resource practices and policies, pedagogy, and leadership. We have an open-door policy for all network meetings, we invite you to come as you are, when you can, if you are in a supervisor position! We will share and support each other in our professional and pedagogical roles. Each meeting we will spend our time together thinking more deeply about topics of interest, current trends and daily practice. We will approach problems from a solution-based lens together and have lively and respectful round table discussions. We would love to have someone from every centre join us as we continue to support one another through the journey! Bring yourself, invite a friend, and we can't wait to meet you, or see you again :)

Back by popular demand!!    This 1.5-hour interactive session is designed by Tunes and Tales for early childhood educators working with babies, toddlers, and preschoolers. Participants will explore how to create and run a successful, developmentally appropriate music circle that supports connection, regulation, and joyful musical learning. The session will cover practical strategies for introducing and using musical elements, instruments and singing effectively with young children.  Educators will learn fun, new songs they can take directly into their classrooms.   Facilitator Bio:  Tunes and Tales is a PEI based musical storytelling group creating imaginative, interactive performances for children and families. Blending original songs, and visual storytelling through crankies, their shows invite audiences into rich story worlds that encourage creativity, empathy, and social-emotional learning.