Monday Jan 26th and Tuesday 27th 2026

5:30-7:30pm for both evening sessions.

4 PL hours

Facilitators: Blair Hill / Karen Burke

This NSELCF module introduces the frameworks four learning goals and explores the different learning objectives within.

This is a 2 evening online session, you must attend both in order to receive a certificate.

NSELCF Module 4: Learning Goals, Objectives, and Strategies

Building on Module 3: Connecting Early Learning Principles and Practices, this session supports participants in becoming more familiar with the learning goals of well-being, discovery and invention, language and communication, and person and social responsibility. Through guided discussions and hands-on activities, participants will work with real examples from the Educator's Guide and apply strategies that align with intentional, strengths-based programming.

Participants will:

• Discuss and apply the four learning goals to daily interactions, routines, and planning in early learning and child care settings.
• Reflect on and begin using the learning objectives and strategies that support each goal in practical, meaningful ways.
• Make connections between principles, practices, learning goals, and objectives, and understand how they align with the role of the educator.
• Strengthen their use of the NSELCF and Educator's Guide as foundational tools to support professional growth and curriculum implementation.
•  Register here

Monday Jan 26th and Tuesday 27th 2026

5:30-7:30pm for both evening sessions.

4 PL hours

Facilitators: Blair Hill / Karen Burke

This NSELCF module introduces the frameworks four learning goals and explores the different learning objectives within.

This is a 2 evening online session, you must attend both in order to receive a certificate.

NSELCF Module 4: Learning Goals, Objectives, and Strategies

Building on Module 3: Connecting Early Learning Principles and Practices, this session supports participants in becoming more familiar with the learning goals of well-being, discovery and invention, language and communication, and person and social responsibility. Through guided discussions and hands-on activities, participants will work with real examples from the Educator's Guide and apply strategies that align with intentional, strengths-based programming.

Participants will:

• Discuss and apply the four learning goals to daily interactions, routines, and planning in early learning and child care settings.
• Reflect on and begin using the learning objectives and strategies that support each goal in practical, meaningful ways.
• Make connections between principles, practices, learning goals, and objectives, and understand how they align with the role of the educator.
• Strengthen their use of the NSELCF and Educator's Guide as foundational tools to support professional growth and curriculum implementation.

 Register here

Culturally Responsive Practice in Nova Scotia’s Early Learning and Child Care Settings is a 12-hour module developed in response to the ongoing enhancements to Nova Scotia’s Early Learning Curriculum Framework (NSELCF). Three (3) sub-modules have been designed to create a safe and ethical space for examining the nature of biases, prejudice, and assumptions. The modules unpack privilege and encourage participants to reflect on the historical and systemic roots of discrimination and racism. The modules reflect on the lived experiences of people who face these challenges in Nova Scotia. Each module is accompanied by home learning that will continue the conversations between modules.

Through a reflective approach, participants will become deeply aware of their own identities and the identities of the children, families, and communities they serve.

Disclaimer: The modules have been developed for synchronous learning. Participants are required to move through each of the modules in sequence, and with the same cohort. The inability to commit will result in a “restart” of the entire training. The objective of the modules is to demonstrate cultural responsiveness, thus, participants must demonstrate this understanding throughout. To do so, participants scheduled for online learning must work from an operational computer, with a working mic and camera.

Module 1: Laying Face and Foundation

Module Objectives:

• Understand who the Mi’kmaq are

• Understand who the Acadians are

• Understand who the Gaels are

• Understand who the African Nova Scotians are

• Explore and contextualize our understanding of culture

• Explore and contextualize our understanding of intersectionality

• Explore and articulate the intersections of race, nationality, gender, and sexuality

Module 1 provides space for the four (4) historical cultures of Nova Scotia to share themselves in a meaningful way. Participants will better understand the four (4) historical cultures, languages, and beliefs. Participants will explore and contextualize specific intersections and how they relate to culture and themselves.

Module 2: Faces of Discrimination

▪ Explore and contextualize our own privileges, biases, and opinions

▪ Explore and contextualize discrimination

▪ Explore and contextualize racism

▪ Explore and contextualize systemic racism

▪ Explore the Indian Act, Residential Schools, Africville, Racialized Policing, “All lives Matter” and, Social Determinants of Health

▪ Explore and contextualize micro-aggression

Module 2 requires participants to explore and contextualize their own privileges, biases, and opinions. Participants will explore how these interrelate with discrimination, racism, and moreover, systemic racism. Participants will specifically explore contemporary racism in Nova Scotia.

Module 3: Faces of Reconciliation

▪ Explore and contextualize reconciliation

▪ Explore Truth and Reconciliation

▪ Explore and review Education Calls to Action

▪ Explore Black Lives Matter

▪ Explore and review United Nations Rights of the Child

▪ Explore Educator’s role in the classroom

▪ Explore 7 Sacred Teachings as a tool

▪ Explore racism from birth onward

▪ Explore Nova Scotia’s Early Learning Curriculum Framework

▪ Explore and articulate culturally responsive practice

▪ Explore and contextualize Allyship

Module 3 provides space to explore the different types of reconciliation while acknowledging the need to act now. Participants explore their own roles in this work; specifically exploring cultural responsiveness as it relates to Early Learning and Child Care Settings and moreover the Early Learning Curriculum Framework.

Pre-registration agreements

• I agree to participate from an operational computer with a working mic and camera.

• I agree all information is confidential and will not be shared outside my group discussions or cohort of participants

• I agree to commit to the entire 12-hour schedule to receive credit.

• I agree to conduct myself in a professional manner and be respectful of other people’s perspectives, opinions, and ideas.

• I agree that I will show up fully committed and engaged in the work.

Session Dates and Times:

Session 1: Tuesday, January 20th, 2025 (online), 6:30PM to 8:30PM

Session 2: Thursday, January 22nd, 2025 (online), 6:30PM to 8:30PM

Session 3: Saturday, January 24th, 2025 (online), 9:00AM to 1:00PM

Session 4: Tuesday, January 27th, 2025 (online), 6:30PM to 8:30PM

Session 5: Thursday, January 29th, 2025 (online), 6:30PM to 8:30PM

Click here to register 

Culturally Responsive Practice in Nova Scotia’s Early Learning and Child Care Settings is a 12-hour module developed in response to the ongoing enhancements to Nova Scotia’s Early Learning Curriculum Framework (NSELCF). Three (3) sub-modules have been designed to create a safe and ethical space for examining the nature of biases, prejudice, and assumptions. The modules unpack privilege and encourage participants to reflect on the historical and systemic roots of discrimination and racism. The modules reflect on the lived experiences of people who face these challenges in Nova Scotia. Each module is accompanied by home learning that will continue the conversations between modules.

Through a reflective approach, participants will become deeply aware of their own identities and the identities of the children, families, and communities they serve.

Disclaimer: The modules have been developed for synchronous learning. Participants are required to move through each of the modules in sequence, and with the same cohort. The inability to commit will result in a “restart” of the entire training. The objective of the modules is to demonstrate cultural responsiveness, thus, participants must demonstrate this understanding throughout. To do so, participants scheduled for online learning must work from an operational computer, with a working mic and camera.

Module 1: Laying Face and Foundation

Module Objectives:

• Understand who the Mi’kmaq are

• Understand who the Acadians are

• Understand who the Gaels are

• Understand who the African Nova Scotians are

• Explore and contextualize our understanding of culture

• Explore and contextualize our understanding of intersectionality

• Explore and articulate the intersections of race, nationality, gender, and sexuality

Module 1 provides space for the four (4) historical cultures of Nova Scotia to share themselves in a meaningful way. Participants will better understand the four (4) historical cultures, languages, and beliefs. Participants will explore and contextualize specific intersections and how they relate to culture and themselves.

Module 2: Faces of Discrimination

▪ Explore and contextualize our own privileges, biases, and opinions

▪ Explore and contextualize discrimination

▪ Explore and contextualize racism

▪ Explore and contextualize systemic racism

▪ Explore the Indian Act, Residential Schools, Africville, Racialized Policing, “All lives Matter” and, Social Determinants of Health

▪ Explore and contextualize micro-aggression

Module 2 requires participants to explore and contextualize their own privileges, biases, and opinions. Participants will explore how these interrelate with discrimination, racism, and moreover, systemic racism. Participants will specifically explore contemporary racism in Nova Scotia.

Module 3: Faces of Reconciliation

▪ Explore and contextualize reconciliation

▪ Explore Truth and Reconciliation

▪ Explore and review Education Calls to Action

▪ Explore Black Lives Matter

▪ Explore and review United Nations Rights of the Child

▪ Explore Educator’s role in the classroom

▪ Explore 7 Sacred Teachings as a tool

▪ Explore racism from birth onward

▪ Explore Nova Scotia’s Early Learning Curriculum Framework

▪ Explore and articulate culturally responsive practice

▪ Explore and contextualize Allyship

Module 3 provides space to explore the different types of reconciliation while acknowledging the need to act now. Participants explore their own roles in this work; specifically exploring cultural responsiveness as it relates to Early Learning and Child Care Settings and moreover the Early Learning Curriculum Framework.

Pre-registration agreements

• I agree to participate from an operational computer with a working mic and camera.

• I agree all information is confidential and will not be shared outside my group discussions or cohort of participants

• I agree to commit to the entire 12-hour schedule to receive credit.

• I agree to conduct myself in a professional manner and be respectful of other people’s perspectives, opinions, and ideas.

• I agree that I will show up fully committed and engaged in the work.

Session Dates and Times:

Session 1: Tuesday, January 20th, 2025 (online), 6:30PM to 8:30PM

Session 2: Thursday, January 22nd, 2025 (online), 6:30PM to 8:30PM

Session 3: Saturday, January 24th, 2025 (online), 9:00AM to 1:00PM

Session 4: Tuesday, January 27th, 2025 (online), 6:30PM to 8:30PM

Session 5: Thursday, January 29th, 2025 (online), 6:30PM to 8:30PM

Click here to register 

12 PL hours

Reflect deeply on identity, history, and equity to build culturally responsive practice in early learning and child care.

Culturally Responsive Practice in Nova Scotia’s Early Learning and Child Care Settings

This 12-hour professional learning series is designed to support educators in developing culturally responsive practice through reflection, dialogue, and community voice. Delivered in three sequential parts, the series creates a safe and ethical space to examine identity, bias, privilege, and the systemic roots of discrimination and racism in Nova Scotia.

Participants will explore the lived experiences of Mi'kmaq, Acadian, African Nova Scotian, Gaelic and newcomer communities, and reflect on their own identities and roles in fostering inclusive, equitable learning environments. Each part includes home learning to deepen reflection and sustain conversation between sessions.

Part 1: Laying Face and Foundation

• Understanding the historical cultures of Nova Scotia: Mi'kmaq, Acadian, African Nova Scotian, and Gaelic, as well as contemporary newcomer communities.
• Explore concepts of culture and intersectionality
• Reflect on how race, nationality, gender, and sexuality intersect in identity and practice

Part 2: Faces of Discrimination

• Examine personal privilege, bias, and systemic racism
• Explore historical and contemporary examples of discrimination in Nova Scotia
• Reflect on micro-aggressions and social determinants of health

Part 3: Faces of Reconciliation

• Explore reconciliation, Truth and Reconciliation, and Calls to Action
• Reflect on allyship, cultural responsiveness, and the educator's role
• Connect the 7 Sacred Teachings and the United Nations Rights of the Child to early learning practice

Disclaimer: 

Participants must complete all three modules in sequence and with the same cohort. If a participant is unable to commit to the full series, they will be required to restart the training with a new cohort. The goal of this series is to foster culturally responsive practice, and participants are expected to demonstrate this understanding throughout. 

Pre-registration agreements

• I agree to participate from an operational computer with a working mic and camera.

• I agree all information is confidential and will not be shared outside my group discussions or cohort of participants

• I agree to commit to the entire 12-hour schedule to receive credit.

• I agree to conduct myself in a professional manner and be respectful of other people’s perspectives, opinions, and ideas.

• I agree that I will show up fully committed and engaged in the work.

Session times

All sessions will run from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm

Session dates

Tuesday, February 3rd & Thursday, February 5th

Tuesday, February 10th & Thursday, February 12th

Tuesday, February 17th & Thursday, February 19th

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/1968724826954?aff=oddtdtcreator

If you have any further questions, please contact nova.jones@nscc.ca

12 PL hours

Reflect deeply on identity, history, and equity to build culturally responsive practice in early learning and child care.

Culturally Responsive Practice in Nova Scotia’s Early Learning and Child Care Settings

This 12-hour professional learning series is designed to support educators in developing culturally responsive practice through reflection, dialogue, and community voice. Delivered in three sequential parts, the series creates a safe and ethical space to examine identity, bias, privilege, and the systemic roots of discrimination and racism in Nova Scotia.

Participants will explore the lived experiences of Mi'kmaq, Acadian, African Nova Scotian, Gaelic and newcomer communities, and reflect on their own identities and roles in fostering inclusive, equitable learning environments. Each part includes home learning to deepen reflection and sustain conversation between sessions.

Part 1: Laying Face and Foundation

• Understanding the historical cultures of Nova Scotia: Mi'kmaq, Acadian, African Nova Scotian, and Gaelic, as well as contemporary newcomer communities.
• Explore concepts of culture and intersectionality
• Reflect on how race, nationality, gender, and sexuality intersect in identity and practice

Part 2: Faces of Discrimination

• Examine personal privilege, bias, and systemic racism
• Explore historical and contemporary examples of discrimination in Nova Scotia
• Reflect on micro-aggressions and social determinants of health

Part 3: Faces of Reconciliation

• Explore reconciliation, Truth and Reconciliation, and Calls to Action
• Reflect on allyship, cultural responsiveness, and the educator's role
• Connect the 7 Sacred Teachings and the United Nations Rights of the Child to early learning practice

Disclaimer: 

Participants must complete all three modules in sequence and with the same cohort. If a participant is unable to commit to the full series, they will be required to restart the training with a new cohort. The goal of this series is to foster culturally responsive practice, and participants are expected to demonstrate this understanding throughout. 

Pre-registration agreements

• I agree to participate from an operational computer with a working mic and camera.

• I agree all information is confidential and will not be shared outside my group discussions or cohort of participants

• I agree to commit to the entire 12-hour schedule to receive credit.

• I agree to conduct myself in a professional manner and be respectful of other people’s perspectives, opinions, and ideas.

• I agree that I will show up fully committed and engaged in the work.

Session times

All sessions will run from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm

Session dates

Tuesday, February 3rd & Thursday, February 5th

Tuesday, February 10th & Thursday, February 12th

Tuesday, February 17th & Thursday, February 19th

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/1968724826954?aff=oddtdtcreator

If you have any further questions, please contact nova.jones@nscc.ca

Saturday, February 7th ⋅ 9:30am – 1:30pm / 2 PL-hours

ONLINE, Hosted by NSCC - Kingstec Campus

Description:   How can simple materials and thoughtful setups spark children's curiosity, creativity, and connection after the school day ends? 

This interactive workshop invites educators to reimagine after-school environments as spaces rich with possibility. 

Participants will explore how to design meaningful provocations that engage children in inquiry, problem-solving, and imaginative play. 

Come ready to experiment, collaborate, and leave with ideas to enhance after school programs.

Facilitator:  Bev Dietze

Dr. Beverlie Dietze is an educator, author of several textbooks, Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Play Outdoors: Exploring Outdoor Experiences in the Early Years, and an advocate for children and adults to play, experience, and explore in high quality environments.

Fee: $20

To Register: https://bit.ly/ecdscregistration

Deadline to register: January 30th

This workshop will be facilitated ONLINE - Requirements:

• A Computer or Laptop
• Headset (you can borrow one from us)
• Access to Internet Service & email  (we'll send you a link to the session)

Registered participants will receive detailed instructions.

Please Note Our Payment Process 

Credit Card or VISA Debit payment *Credit or Debit Card payments can be paid over the phone on 1-(902)-690-2531 or in-person at NSCC-Kingstec Campus*

- Registration form AND payment are to be received by us at least ONE WEEK IN ADVANCE (unless otherwise noted).
- Registrations cannot be processed, nor spaces held, until both registration form and payment are received.
- Cancellations must be processed before the workshop occurs. Please contact us at least one week prior to a workshop if you are unable to attend.

Please contact  nova.jones@nscc.ca or justine.macdonald@nscc.ca  for more details.

*please keep our workshop guidelines in mind* https://www.nscc.ca/ecdsc/professional-development/kingstec-guidelines.asp

Organizer: Early Years Professional Development
Early Years Professional Development

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