Frog Hollow Reggio-inspired Learning Centre Conference 2023

Structured with both in-person and online attendance options, the Frog Hollow Reggio-Inspired Learning Centre Conference 2023 will take place on February 24 & 25, 2023, featuring Gunilla Dahlberg, one of the principal architects of Sweden’s national policy on early childhood education and social policy.

• Date: February 24 & 25, 2023

• Time: 9:30 AM – 3:30 PM Pacific Standard Time (PST), both days

• Location: Hybrid with in-person and online options

• Registration Link: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/reflecting-with-gunilla-dahlberg-tickets-469440678707

Certificates of Professional Development hours will be provided.

The conference is being supported by the Early Childhood Professional Development Bursary and will focus on:

• Preschool and school as a democratic and public space in which children and adults live together

• The researching and experimenting child and pedagogue

• Progettazione – How to put a project into motion – unfolding children’s potentials and power to act

• Pedagogical documentation in becoming

Participants will engage in exercises with Pedagogical Documentation, working with concepts of observing, documenting, and analyzing findings.

About Gunilla Dahlberg

Gunilla Dahlberg, who will be leading the conference, is professor emerita of education at Stockholm University, Department of Child and Youth Studies. Since the early 70’s she has carried out research in early childhood education and social welfare policy for young children and their families. She is currently engaged in three different research projects: Children’s Dialogue with Nature, Trans-culturalism and Communication, and The Magic of Language.

She is one of the principal architects of Sweden’s national policy on early childhood education and social policy. She has also, with her colleagues, developed preschool teacher education, undergraduate, master's and doctorate programs for the field of early childhood education.

Since the early 70’s she has carried out research in close cooperation with the preschools in the city of Reggio Emilia, Italy. She is a member of the scientific board of Fondazione Reggio Children, Centro Loris Malaguzzi.

About the Hybrid Event

In-person:

• Location: Fraserview Banquet Hall, 8240 Fraser St, Vancouver, BC V5X 3X6

• Cost: $60 CAD/ both days

  • REDUCED FROM $290 BY THE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT BURSARY

• Registration opens at 8:30 AM PST

• Lunch and refreshments provided

• In-person participants will have access to the Zoom Recording after the Conference.

• In-person participants will be able to attend the Conference on Zoom if they cannot attend in-person (please note the fee will remain the same - we are unable to change the fees once you have paid)

Online:

• Participants will be able to participate in the conference, listen to the speaker and the in-person participants, see the presenter's slides, speak to the speaker and the in-person participants via Zoom.

• Zoom link will be sent a week prior to the Conference

• Cost: $30 CAD/both days - REDUCED FROM $130 BY THE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT BURSARY

• Registration opens at 8:30 AM PST

• Zoom participants will have access to recordings after the conference

Please note: no refunds will be processed for this event

Bursary:

In addition to reducing fees, the bursary program is providing travel and accommodation funds for participants from outside of Metro Vancouver:

• to receive travel and accommodation funding, you must live in BC, at least 80 km away from the venue

• participants can get up to two nights of accommodation for Feb. 23 & 24; participants must stay in the hotel provided by the organizers

• participants can get up to $150 for travel funds; this is calculated based on any required fares and/or mileage based on ANHBC mileage rates

• to receive the travel funds, participants are asked to fill out a direct deposit authorization form and submit before the conference. Please note, failing to submit this form will delay the refund process

The Bursary Program is funded through the Canada-British Columbia Early Learning and Child Care (ELCC) Agreement between the Government of Canada and the Province of British Columbia, in partnership with the Westcoast Child Care Resource Centre (WCCRC), the agency responsible for administering the funds.