Workshops

 

 

Early childhood educators in Nova Scotia can easily find and access a wide variety of professional development workshops and training opportunities by scrolling through our calendar of workshops or by searching specific topics. Please contact the site hosting the workshop to get registration details.

Please Note: For Online Learning Workshops

NSCC, MSVU, CAPENÉ and Jane Norman College occasionally offer online professional development workshops. Online workshops allow you the convenience of taking professional development without leaving home.  Our online workshops are live, and participants will interact with the facilitator and other participants in real time.

Online workshops have specific technical requirements, and participants are required to have access to a computer with a good internet connection, as well as microphone and audio capabilities. You must also have a working email address to receive login and password links to the workshop.  There may be other workshop requirements, so please check all workshop guidelines to ensure you are able to take part before you register for online training.

Upcoming Workshops

January 7, 2026
  • NSCC Cumberland-You Asked, We Deliver: Ideas Around Music and Reading Books in the Classroom

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    January 7, 2026  6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
    Online

    The session is designed to refresh and inspire your approach to music and storytelling in an early learning setting! In the first part, we will explore how music can be used in different ways in the classroom. Even if you don't consider yourself a singer or a        musician, there are multiple ways to incorporate music into transitions, routines, and playful learning activities. 

    In the second part we will rejuvenate your strategies to make reading books more engaging and interactive, how to choose books that are age appropriate, and explore new as well as   forgotten book treasures! This workshop offers tons of ideas designed to boost your confidence, spark creativity, and provide ready to use tools for immediate use in your classroom!

    Facilitators: Nancy Ceulemans & Heather Cukierski

    Cost: $34.20 (tax included)

    Preregistration required-submit ECDSC registration form along with payment by December 10th.

    All registration will take place using our online registration form: https://forms.office.com/r/Fpexz3sp9w

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January 8, 2026
  • NSCC Cumberland-Culturally Responsive Leadership

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    January 8, 2026  6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
    Online

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

    This 4-hour professional learning session builds on the foundational concepts introduced in the Culturally Responsive Practice (CRP) series. Designed for directors, assistant directors, pedagogical leaders, inclusion coordinators, and educators in coaching or leadership roles, this session explores how leadership can support culturally responsive practice across early learning and child care programs.

    Participants will deepen their understanding of effective leadership and explore the behaviours and responsibilities that support inclusive, strengths-based environments. The session introduces key practices of culturally responsive leadership and provides opportunities to engage in courageous conversations and coaching strategies through a case study format.

    Participants will:

    • Develop an understanding of effective leadership and the different types of behaviours and responsibilities of leaders
    • Develop an understanding of culturally responsive leadership, and identity key practices for culturally responsive leaders
    • Understand what courageous conversations are and how to have them with their team
    • Understand what coaching is and identify ways to build a supportive environment within their programs.

    Note: Completion of the 12-hour Culturally Responsive Practice (CRP) series is a prerequisite for this module.

    ***This is a 2-evening session and you must attend both days to receive a certificate***

    January 6th, 6:30pm-8:30pm & January 8th, 6:30pm-8:30pm


    Facilitator: Adam Braye

    To register, click on the link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1769374309189?aff=oddtdtcreator

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January 13, 2026
  • ELCF M4: Learning Goals, Objectives, Strategies (NSCECE/Online)

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    January 13, 2026  6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

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

    Tuesday, January 13th, from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM & Thursday, January 15th, from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM

    If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to contact us at circulation@nscece.ca.

     

    Module 4: Connecting Learning Goals, Learning Objectives,and Strategies

    Building on Module 3: Connecting Early Learning Principlesand Practices, this session supports participants in becoming more familiarwith the learning goals of well-being, discovery and invention, language andcommunication, and personal and social responsibility. Through guideddiscussions and hands-on activities, participants will work with real examplesfrom 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.

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January 15, 2026
  • ELCF M4: Learning Goals, Objectives, Strategies (NSCECE/Online)

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    January 15, 2026  6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

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

    Tuesday, January 13th, from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM & Thursday, January 15th, from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM

    If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to contact us at circulation@nscece.ca.

     

    Module 4: Connecting Learning Goals, Learning Objectives,and Strategies

    Building on Module 3: Connecting Early Learning Principlesand Practices, this session supports participants in becoming more familiarwith the learning goals of well-being, discovery and invention, language andcommunication, and personal and social responsibility. Through guideddiscussions and hands-on activities, participants will work with real examplesfrom 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.

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January 19, 2026
  • NSELCF M5: Inclusive Learning Environments (NSCC-B)

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    January 19, 2026  6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

    4 PL hours

    This NSELCF module invites educators to take a deeper look at the practice of Inclusive Learning Environments.

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

    NSELCF Module 5: Inclusive Learning Environments

    As part of the ongoing exploration of the Nova Scotia Early Learning Curriculum Framework (NSELCF), this session invites participants to analyze their early learning environments through a comprehensive lens. Participants will examine how environments convey values, foster a sense of belonging, and shape children's identities and learning experiences. This module offers opportunities to critically assess the design of early learning spaces and consider ways to make environments more welcoming, responsive, and inclusive for all children.

    Participants will build on the floor plan activity from Module 3: Connecting Early Learning Principles and Practices and expand their reflections through the learning from this module: the four elements of learning environments, Etuaptmumk (Two-Eyed Seeing), environment as the third teacher, and the role of sensory and aesthetic elements.

    Participants will:

    • Examine the practice of Inclusive Environments within the NSELCF and understand its connection to the Mi'kmaw principle of Etuaptmumk (Two-Eyed Seeing).
    • Assess their current environments using the four elements of learning environments to identify opportunities for accesibility, flexibility, and emotional safety.
    • Analyze how the environment functions as a third teacher, influencing children's identities, relationships, and learning experiences.
    • Apply knowledge of sensory and aesthetic elements to intentionally design environments that support all children's development and wellbeing.

    Register here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/elcf-m5-inclusive-learning-environments-nscc-bonline-tickets-1975808611745?aff=oddtdtcreator

    January 19nd, 6:30pm-8:30pm & January 26th, 6:30pm-8:30pm

    If you have any further questions, please contact melissa.dulong@nscc.ca

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January 20, 2026
  • Culturally Responsive Practice (NSCECE/Online)

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    January 20, 2026  6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

    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

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  • ELCF M1: Image of the Child

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    January 20, 2026  6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
    Online via Zoom

    Module 1: Image of the Child

    The foundation of Nova Scotia’s Early Learning Curriculum Framework is the belief that all children are capable, confident, and curious learners. In this opening module, participants are invited to reflect deeply on their own image of the child, exploring how personal values and professional practices shape children's experiences in early learning and child care programs. Grounded in the vision of joyful, intentional environments, this module sets the stage for understanding how educators can foster children’s growth by seeing and supporting them through a strengths-based lens.

    Through case studies, collaborative dialogue, and meaningful reflection, educators will explore how the image of the child influences curriculum decisions, learning environments, and relationships with families and communities.

    Participants will:

    • Define the concept of the image of the child and explore how it aligns with the principles and practices of the NSELCF.
    • Reflect on how personal beliefs and professional values influence their image of the child and their daily interactions.
    • Identify ways to support children as capable, confident, and curious through intentional environments and responsive relationships.

    Begin to develop a personal and collective vision that will guide professional growth throughout the NSELCF modules.

    • Apply the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) to everyday practice and consider its connection to the image of the child.
    • Explore the concept of the educator's image and how it shapes their role in early learning and child care settings.

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

    Tuesday Jan. 20 6:30pm-8:30pm & Thursday Jan. 22 6:30pm-8:30pm ONLINE

    To register click the link

    https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/nselcf-m1-image-of-the-child-jnc-tickets-1761254111459?aff=oddtdtcreator

     

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  • ELCF M3: Connecting Early Learning Principles and Practices (NSCC-K)

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    January 20, 2026  6:30 pm - 8:15 pm

    3.5 PL hours

    This NSELCF module offers an overview of the framework's early learning principles and practices.

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

    NSELCF Module 3: Connecting Early Learning Principles and Practices

    Building on Module 2: Pedagogical Leadership, this module provides an overview of the five early learning principles and six educator practices in the NSELCF. Participants will explore how these components relate to one another and begin identifying where they show up in their own programs. This session is designed to help educators become more familiar with and confident in using the language and structure of the framework.

    Participants will:

    • Describe principles of early learning and how they relate to early learning and childcare programming
    • Identify early learning practices and their connections to curriculum decision making
    • Demonstrate an understanding of the interconnectiveness of principles and practices
    • Distinguish between principles and practices and apply them in an intentional way to everyday practice and curriculum decision making
    • Continue developing familiarity with the NSELCF and Educator's Guide, as foundational tools for guiding reflective and intentional practice

    It is recommended that participants bring:

    • A physical or digital copy of Capable, Confident, and Curious: Nova Scotia's Early Learning Curriculum Framework
    • A physical or digital copy of Educator's Guide to Capable, Confident, and Curious

    Register here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/1968700531285?aff=oddtdtcreator

    January 20th 6:30pm-7:45pm & January 22nd, 6:30pm-7:45pm


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

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