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Mapping A Bright Future For All Our Children
Join us May 12th at 10:45am for a Webinar with Susan Lynch.
Webinar summary:
Mapping a Bright Future for All Children
ECMap was a project that helped us learn, for the first time, about the developmental health of the preschool children across all the communities of Alberta. But exactly what did we learn? And what can we do to ensure the best for all young children in the future? As citizens of this province how can we shift the ways we raise the very youngest of our children to prepare for the future - theirs and ours. In this presentation, Sue Lynch will review the ECMap project, its result's and recommendations for change.
Presenter Bio:
Dr. Susan Lynch is an adjunct professor in the Faculty of Extension at the University of Alberta. She received her PhD and masters degree in early childhood education at the U of A and has worked in public education for 45 years. She was an elementary school teacher and principal and served as associate superintendent with the Edmonton Public School District. In 1987, she joined the Alberta Department of Education where she worked in a number of capacities, including as assistant deputy minister, until 2001.
Since then Dr. Lynch has coordinated many development and research projects, including the Edmonton Early Childhood Development Community Mapping Pilot Project. The project piloted the use of the Early Development Instrument (EDI) in Edmonton. She also worked on a number of overseas projects, including acting as a consultant on teacher development in South Africa, helping to standardize the certification of black and white teachers in the post-apartheid era. She also served as a consultant for an early literacy project in Peru, which raised the reading levels of primary school children in impoverished, remote areas of northern Peru.
Dr. Lynch directed the Child Study Centre at the U of A for six years and is a member of several boards and councils, including Success By 6 Edmonton and the Community-University Partnership for the Study of Children, Youth and Families (CUP) in the Faculty of Extension. In 2009, she accepted the position of ECMap director.
Dr. Lynch enjoys singing and playing the guitar, mandolin and baritone ukulele with the Antiquaries, a duo that performs Fifties and Sixties favourites. Her most exacting music critics are Max and Fritz, her two highly opinionated cats.
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105 12 Ave SE
Calgary, AB T2G 1A1
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