PROGRAM

February 17 & 18, 2017

The Children the Heart of the Matter conference was first held on March 8, 1997 with 90 people

in attendance. Today we have over 600 participants and are pleased to welcome you to the

Sheraton Guildford Hotel.

This conference is planned by a group of dedicated individuals from the South Fraser region,

with Options Community Services as host agency. The Child Care Resource and Referral

Program has been the backbone of the conference, working closely with the planning

committee and providing all of the logistical support.

Through MCFD funding, community sponsors, and partners the committee has worked hard

over the years to keep the conference affordable. This is still the most affordable Early Learning

Conference of this size in the province. This year’s partners include the City of Surrey and the

Office of the Early Years, with funding from MCFD, and sponsors Coastal Community Insurance

and BC Doctors of Optometry.

Over the past 20 years, we have been fortunate to welcome many noted experts and

distinguished keynote speakers, including Dr. Clyde Hertzman, Dr. Gabor Maté, Barbara

Coloroso, Dr. Gordon Neufeld, Dr. Tina Bryson, Mary Gordon, Charlotte Diamond, The Drum

Café, Penny Priddy and Dr. Vanessa LaPointe to name a few. Our greatest success and pleasure

has been welcoming back many individuals who have attended year after year.

Please take the time to visit our table by registration to see the 20 year display and history of the

conference. We also welcome you to leave comments and visit our graphic artist who is going

to capture what this conference has meant to you.

For 20 years the committee has been guided by the clear principles of promoting best practise,

raising the awareness and profile of child care and other early childhood services through

professional development, networking, and sharing of information and resources.

For 2017, we are pleased to welcome and celebrate with Dr. Deborah MacNamara, Denita

Dinger, Dr. Diane Kashin, Charlotte Diamond and all of our other workshop presenters and, of

course, you!

Conference Co-Chair, Ruth Beardsley

Celebrating 20 years!

The Dalai Lama Centre for Peace and EducationThe Psychology Foundation of CanadaWestcoast Child Care Resource CentreThe Provincial Office of the Early Years

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TO OUR SUPPORTERS...

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RBC Learn to Play ProjectScholastic Canada

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BC Doctors of Optometry

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CONFERENCE OVERVIEWFriday, February 17th5:30 PM Registration Open

Marketplace Open

6:30 PM Conference Welcome

7:00 PM Keynote Presentation: You’re Not the Boss of Me with Dr. Deborah MacNamara

9:00 PM Book Signing with Dr. Deborah MacNamara

9:30 PM Marketplace CloseConference Close

Saturday, February 18th7:15 AM Registration Open

Marketplace OpenCommunity Resources Open

8:15 AM Conference Welcome

8:30 AM Warm-up with Charlotte Diamond

8:45 AM Keynote Presentation: Play Counts! with Denita Dinger

10:15 AM Morning refreshments *refreshments are also being served upstairs!

10:45 AM AM Session Workshops

12:45 PM Lunch *lunch is also being served upstairs!

1:45 PM PM Session WorkshopsMarketplace CloseCommunity Resources Close

3:45 PM Conference Close

LUNCH ROOMS

Lunch will be served in the Fraser Room downstairs and the Tynehead Ballroom Foyer upstairs!

MORNING REFRESHMENTS

Morning refreshments will be served downtairs in the Guildford Ballroom Foyer and upstairs in the Tynehead Ballroom Foyer!

CONFERENCE AT A GLANCEAM Sessions 10:45 AM - 12:45 PM

A1Discipline That Doesn’t Divide

Dr. Deborah MacNamara

Guildford Balroom A

A2The Joy of Singing Inspires a Love of Language, Creativity, & Self-Expression

Charlotte Diamond

Guildford Ballroom B

A3Empowering Children with the Gift of Control

Denita Dinger

Tynehead Ballroom 2

A4Enriching Children’s Inquiry Through Literature

Natsuko Motegi

Tynehead Ballroom 1

A5Emergent Learning in School Age Care

Tyler Summers

Guildford Ballroom C

A6Working with Gender Variant Children and LGBTQ Families

Joel Harnest

Tynehead Ballroom 3

A7Nature is Calling: Please Act

Dr. Diane Kashin

Green Timbers 2

PM Sessions 1:45 - 3:45 PM

P1Kindergarten Transitions: Promising Practices in BC School Districts

Maureen Dockendorf

Guildford Balroom A

P2

Mindful Caregiving: How Mindfulness Reduces Burnout and Improves Outcomes for Children

Dr. Jillian Haydicky

Guildford Ballroom B

P3Let Them Play!

Denita Dinger

Tynehead Ballroom 2

P4Culturally Sensitive Pedagogy

Bernice Cipparone McLeod & Safra Najeemudeen

Tynehead Ballroom 1

P5Creating a Culture of Thinking & Compassion in the Early Childhood Classroom

Laura Manni

Tynehead Ballroom 3

P6Infant Toddler Studio: Creating Spaces that Inspire

Lina Brasil Do Couti & Nita Pedersen

Guildford Ballroom C

P7Experiencing Loose Parts and Documenting

Dr, Diane Kashin

Green Timbers 2

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First Floor

This year the Marketplace is located both upstairs and downstairs! On Friday evening the Marketplace is in the Guildford Ballroom Foyer only. However on Saturday we will have more great Marketplace tables and our Community Resources located upstairs!

Stop by for a look at the latest toys, equipment and materials available in the early care and learning field! An ATM is available in the hotel lobby.

VISIT THE MARKETPLACE

Main Floor Vendors(Guildford Ballroom Foyer)

3H Craftworks SocietyCharlotte Diamond Early Years Learning StoreEleven Twenty-one EnterprisesHeartfelt StoriesKinderbooksPuzzleHeadsBC Doctors of OptometryCoastal Community Insurance

Elevators Washrooms

Lobby

Fraser Room(LUNCH)

Second Floor Vendors(Tynehead Ballroom Foyer)

AvronCreative Children Creative Circle TimeDiscovery ToysFeltasticNatural PodNeedle Felting KitsNorwexPlayful PathStewart CreationsUsborne BooksWintergreen

Second Floor Community Resources(Green Timbers 1)

BC Family Child Care AssociationChild Care Options CCRRChild Development CentresCity of SurreyEarly Childhood Educators of BCEarly Years CentresFraser Health LicensingHealth and NutritionJustice Institute of BCMCFD Foster Families SupportOptions Community ServicesWest Coast Infant Mental Health AssociationWestcoast Child Care Resource Centre

Tynehead Ballroom Foyer(LUNCH, MORNING REFRESHMENT &

MARKETPLACE)

Tynehead Ballroom (WORKSHOPS)

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Green Timbers

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Green Timbers

2 (WORKSHOPS)

Second Floor

You’re Not the Boss of Me: Understanding Resistance & Opposition in Children

Friday Night Keynote

Dr. Deborah MacNamara is on Faculty at the Neufeld Institute and presents, teaches, and writes on all facets of child and adolescent development based on the relational-developmental approach of Gordon Neufeld. She is also in private practice where she offers counselling services to parents and professionals in making sense of learning, behavioural, and developmental issues in children and adolescents. Deborah is a dynamic teacher and experienced counsellor who takes developmental science and makes it come to life in the everyday context of home and classroom.

Deborah presents regularly to audiences including parents, educators, child care professionals, social workers, counsellors, the foster and adoption community, and health care professionals. Her particular passions include providing insight into preschooler behaviour, helping adolescents transition into adulthood, and walking people through the journey of parenthood. She is a developmentalist at heart who is continually fascinated by the mysteries and beauty inherent to human maturation.

Deborah has over 20 years experience as a counsellor and teacher working in educational and community mental health settings. She writes for a number of newslettters, parenting magazines, blogs, and is interviewed for radio talk shows.

Deborah’s book - Rest, Play, Grow: Making Sense of Preschoolers (or anyone who acts like one) - will be available for purchase after her Keynote presentation.

Dr. Deborah MacNamara

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JIBC.CA/CCLO 604.528.5590 register@JIBC.CA715 McBride Boulevard, New Westminster, BC

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Protect the health and safety of our children, elders and the disabled within our communities.

Membership includes:

• Affiliation with the Canadian

Child Care Federation

• Access to the BCFCCA and

CCCF members only websites

• Access to the BCFCCA

members only Facebook page

• Provincial and Federal newsletters

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Saturday Morning Special Guest

Be prepared to start your day energized with Charlotte Diamond!

Over the past 30 years, Charlotte Diamond has made an enduring

contribution to Canadian children’s music. Her understanding of how

music and lyrics are foundational to literacy has also helped teachers, as she has produced learning guides

that focus on brain development and language patterns in young learners.

This past July, Charlotte was awarded the Order of Canada.

After stopping young children’s play in order to get to the ‘important stuff” for 9 years, I realized a change was needed. Step by step, one “aha moment” after another, I was able to transition my program from teacher-led and what I thought was “play-based” to child-led and TRULY, “play-based”.

OUT with the rigid, controlling schedule, forced, teacher-led learning and children who depended on me to lead the way,

IN with authentic learning and empowered young children who “wonder if…”, imagine, create, fail, discover, manage conflict, solve problems, try, persevere, help, succeed and LOVE the freedom to lead and learn through play.

Now, I proudly, and LOUDLY proclaim: “Play IS the “important stuff”. I love to defend play by speaking at early childhood professional events all across the country and have co-authored three books on the topic.

Saturday Morning Keynote Denita Dinger

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SELFIE STATION

We’ll be setting up a selfie station again this year for you to have fun with your colleagues and new friends! Be sure to drop by, take a photo, and post it to Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter using the hashtag #CHOM2017 for your chance to win a $50 gift card to Guildford Town Centre!

General Information

STAY IN THE LOOP

Want to receive the latest in Children the Heart of the Matter conference updates, along with ECE news and information? Sign up for our Child Care Options CCRR E-Bulletins! You will be the first to know when conference registration opens! Go to www.childcareoptions.ca and enter your email to sign up!

TELL US HOW WE DID!

Your opinion is important to us! The conference evaluation will be emailed to all registrants at the end of the conference and will also be available on our website at www.childcareoptions.ca and clicking on CONFERENCE. We look forward to your feedback and comments.

GET SOCIAL!

Be sure to follow along with us on social media. We’ll be using the hashtag #CHOM2017 so be sure to use it when you’re posting about the conference so we can find you!

Twitter @chcareoptions Facebook @childcareoptionsccrr Instagram @childcareoptions

GIVING BACK CAMPAIGN

Children the Heart of the Matter Conference is partnering with the Rotary World Help Organization

(www.rotaryworldhelp.com) to present the “Children the Heart of the Matter Giving Back Campaign.”

Rotary World Help is a non-profit organization aimed at collecting and distributing medical equipment

and supplies, dental, optical, education and sports equipment, and disaster relief supplies to international

recipients in need. It is a non-religious, non-political charity run by Rotary Clubs in BC. We are asking

CHOM participants to help support education in other parts of the world by bringing new school supplies

of your choice to the conference for donation. Help us to help others; show that children really are the

“heart of the matter.”

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Sherrie JamiesonManager, Early Intervention

Reach Child and Youth Development Society

Ruth BeardsleyFormer Senior Manager

Options Community Services

2017 CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS

Conference Planning

2017 CONFERENCE PLANNING COMMITTEE

Karen Came Langley Child Development Centre

Shea Carson Child Care Options CCRR, Options Community Services

Shelby Gordon Child Care Options CCRR, Options Community Services

Gisele Haines Child Care Options CCRR, Options Community Services

Danielle Jimeno A Place to Grow, Surrey Hospital Community Childcare Society

Elizabeth Kimura Child Care Options, CCRR Options Community Services

Dr. Vanessa Lapointe Wishing Star Lapointe Developmental Clinic

Karen Norman Early Childhood Educator

Colleen Strachan City of Surrey

Jennifer Street The Centre for Child Development

Jennifer Vanderberg Delta Continuing Education

Barb Walks Early Childhood Educator

Sharlene Wedel Child Care Options CCRR, Options Community Services

Lisa Wade City of Surrey

Darby Wilkinson Options Community Services