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Workshops

January 27, 2026 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Virtual
Karoll Aguila 902-368-1866
admin@ecdaofpei.ca

This event has been approved by the Early Learning and Child Care Board for 2.00 professional development training hours.

Price

Members   $40.00+tax
Not yet a member   $80.00+tax

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Event Details

Embracing Tensions: Encounters With Tough Topics

In educational settings we often encounter tough topics, such as death, divorce, global warming, racism, sexism, colonial histories, disability awareness, and LGBTQ2S+ topics. How do we respond when tensions around tough topics arise? This workshop addresses why it's important to critically engage with children, how to have conversations with families, and ways to engage with tough topics. We will look at what it means to embrace the tensions in our educational settings and what can grow from engaging with said tensions. The goal of this workshop is that educators will leave feeling more confident in their abilities to engage with tensions and tough topics within their settings.

 

Facilitator Bio:

Ashleigh Davies is an early childhood educator with her bachelors in Early Childhood Education & Care and has worked with children in a variety of roles over the last decade. Ashleigh is the current head coordinator of the ECE program with Burnaby Continuing Education. In the last decade she has worked in a variety of roles including support worker, lead ECE, post-secondary instructor, CCRR assistant manager, and municipal child care consultant. Ashleigh presents her workshops throughout Canada, has presented a TEDx talk, and published articles relating to her passions in ECE. She can be found online as PedagogyandChill.

 

Participants will be given the link to the video and are required to participate in one of two ways-- with a microphone/built in speaker or through the chat. In addition there will be a log tracking which members contribute and which do not, and those that do not contribute will not receive PD hours. We ask that you leave your camera on for the session.