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DETAILED PROGRAM Monday, June 6, 2016 7:30AM – 8:45AM
Welcome at OECD | Registration and Coffee 2, rue André Pascal, 75016 PARIS, FRANCE
8:50AM – 10:15AM
Opening ceremony
8:50AM – 9:05AM
Master of Ceremony: Nathalie Casso-Vicarini, Founder, Ensemble for Education
9:05AM – 9:15AM
Opening concert: “The music we share” Children from the Koenig Kindergarten school
9:15AM – 9:35AM
Opening address: Gabriela Ramos, Chief of staff to the OECD Secretary-General and Sherpa
9:35AM – 9:45AM
Dominique Versini, Deputy Mayor of Paris, in charge of solidarity, families, early childhood, child protection, the fight against social exclusion, and the elderly
9:45AM – 10AM
Daniel Lenoir, CEO, CNAF (National French Welfare Organization) Building a peaceful society by providing resources of quality and diversity to families and professionals in early childhood to fulfill their mission with children.
10AM – 10:10AM
Gilles Lazimi, General practitioner and, Lecturer, Fondation pour l’Enfance Benchmarks to be built in kindness, knowledge of new lifestyles by insuring support and assisting parents in this pathway.
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10:10AM – 10:30AM
Health break
SESSION 1 | What does the evidence say? 10:30AM – 12:30PM EXPLAINING what evidence can convince decision makers to increase
funding and how this evidence needs to be presented to make a compelling argument. Expectations: The panel will present internationally recognized evidence from different academic disciplines and its impact on policies.
10:30AM – 10:50AM Moderator: Richard E. Tremblay, University College Dublin, Ireland
and University of Montreal, Canada Presenting an overview of the science of early human development and addressing the latest social neuroscience evidence and the impact of education on child brain development. 10:50AM – 11:10AM Michel Boivin, Canada Research Chair in Child Development, Laval
University, Canada Addressing how the longitudinal research informs the developmental trajectories and processes of child development, and more specifically the “impact” of policies such as the universal daycare program in Quebec. 11:10AM – 11:25AM Yann Algan, Dean School of Public Affairs of Sciences Po, French
economist, collaborative economy expert, France Addressing how research in Economics supports the importance of investing in Early Childhood Education and Care. 11:25AM – 11:40AM Monika Queisser, Head of Social Policy Division and Senior
Counsellor, Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs, OECD Addressing research on child well-being indicators. 11:40AM – 12PM
Jan van Ravens, Edward Zigler Centre in Child Development and Social Policy, Yale University, USA Addressing the evidence of feasibility on investment that can convince decision makers to support and increase funding in early childhood.
12PM – 12:30PM
Closing remarks from Richard Tremblay and Q & A from the audience Expected concrete actions and tools: To raise participants’ awareness on recent evidence that shows how it can be used to build and increase support for concrete actions in early childhood.
12:30PM – 2PM
Networking lunch
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SESSION 2 | What can be learned from countries in scaling up support for early childhood education? 2PM – 3:30PM
DIVING into inspiring examples of how leaders from diverse countries built support for early childhood education. Expectations: The panel will describe specific strategies and processes that have worked at a system level to win support for expanding high quality early childhood education opportunities for all children. The presenters will suggest effective roles for government and philanthropy. The panel will also reveal how the challenges of access and quality are addressed.
2PM – 2:15PM
Moderator: Joan Lombardi, Senior Advisor, Bernard van Leer Foundation Overview of the active ingredients necessary to make significant advances in early childhood education access and quality.
2:15PM – 2:30PM
The Honorable Margaret Norrie McCain, Founder and Chair, Margaret and Wallace McCain Family Foundation, Canada Presenting the Canadian Early Years Study and its impact on support for ECE policy, investment and system monitoring.
2:30PM – 2:45PM
María Estela Ortiz Rojas, Executive Secretary, National Council for Children, Government of Chile Addressing how the government of Chile has undertaken a great transformation in terms of public policy in early childhood.
2:45PM – 3PM
Tove Mogstad Slinde, Ministry of Education and Research, Norway and Chair, OECD Network for Early Childhood Education and Care Presenting how the early childhood education system has evolved in Norway and key policy messages from the OECD ECEC Network.
3PM – 3:30PM
Q & A to the panel speakers – Moderated by Joan Lombardi Expected concrete actions and tools: Identify specific successful strategies to increase access to, and improve quality of early childhood education.
3:30PM – 4PM
Health break
SESSION 3 | What ingredients can support scalable actions? 4PM – 5:30PM
EXPLORING examples of quality programs and strategies that have been scaled up in different contexts. Expectations: Discuss diverse experiences in scaling up, including challenges and concrete examples of successful strategies to expand the reach of Early Childhood Education programs and support in various contexts.
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Audience can choose from two concurrent sessions, each presenting examples of programs and strategies from various parts of the world that have been scaled up. The emphasis will be on how the program or strategy was scaled up, what challenges were involved, what strategies proved successful and why. Room A:
Moderator: Janet Jamieson, Research Chair, Health Sciences and Community Services, Red River College, Canada Caroline Arnold, Director of Education, Aga Khan Foundation, Switzerland Presenting an overview of the extensive work undertaken through the Aga Khan Development Network to support and spread quality, local, community-driven ECE programs in sub-Saharan Africa and Central Asia. Amina Mwitu, Programme Director, Madrasa Early Childhood Programme, Kenya and Zuloby Mamadfozilov, Senior Programme Officer, Aga Khan Foundation, Tajikistan Presenting powerful examples of Aga Khan Foundation scaled up Early Childhood Education Initiatives. Mary Young, Director, Center for Child Development at the China Development Research Foundation Addressing the post MDG plan in China for scaling up Early Childhood Education for millions of vulnerable children.
Room B:
Moderator: Marcel Lauzière, President and CEO, The Lawson Foundation, Canada Divya Lata, Early Learning & Education Advisor, Plan International Asia Regional Office Presenting new initiatives from the Consultative Group on ECD and web-based interactive platform. Catherine Schmider, Founder-Director, Association Déclic CNV Education, France Addressing non-violent communication in early childhood education and care. Claire Grolleau-Escriva, Founder-President, Association Écolocrèche, France Addressing social and environmental responsibility in early childhood education and care. Benjamin Perks, Head of UNICEF Montenegro Presenting the new program about Child protection and social inclusion.
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Expected concrete actions and tools: Private and public actions in implementation of scaling up tools and strategies for high quality programs, communication, investment, and training.
5PM – 5:30PM
Q & A of Session 3 and Closing remarks of the day
5:30PM – 6PM
Tour Ranelagh gardens | Visit Château de la Muette
6PM – 7:15PM
Cocktail at Château de la Muette & gardens
7:15PM – 9:30PM
Gala dinner and participative concert | Dress code: Business
Tuesday, June 7, 2016 8AM – 8:30AM
Welcome coffee
8:30AM – 8:40AM
Opening remarks: Nathalie Casso-Vicarini, Founder, Ensemble for Education, France
SESSION 4 | Why should we encourage new advocates for early childhood? 8:40 – 10:15AM
IDENTIFYING how to build support from new advocates Expectations: This session will show how prominent leaders outside the early childhood field have become champions for quality ECD services – why they have become involved, the benefit of their support, and how countries can mobilize their own champions.
8:40AM – 8:55AM
Moderator: Sara Watson, Global Director, ReadyNation Introduction: The power of “unexpected champions” advocating for early childhood services; what business leaders are already doing globally, and at the community, company and country levels; and how ReadyNation is helping country leaders build their own networks of business champions.
8:55AM – 10:05AM
Michael Traill, Founding CEO, Social Ventures Australia; Co-founder, Macquarie Direct Investment, Chair of Goodstart Childcare Ltd, Chairman of Assetic Pty Ltd How are you creating a business group for early childhood in Australia, and what public policy issues do you want the business group to support?
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Alberto Lidji, Global CEO, Novak Djokovic Foundation Addressing why Novak Djokovic, the top-ranking men’s singles tennis player in the world, has taken on early childhood as a major cause. Discussing the work of the Foundation as well as advising participants on how to attract business leaders and others to this cause. Jean Duforest, Co-founder, ÏDKIDS Group Providing advice to early childhood advocates on how to encourage business people to take action Laurent Ortalda, Head, Early Childhood Division, Parenting and Childhood Department at the Welfare and Social Policy Branch, CNAF (National French Welfare Organisation) Describing the actions taken to support early childhood, and why Peter Handstein, President, Hape Group, Germany Addressing why a business leader cares about early childhood and how innovative environments for early childhood education can show the way to a different kind of investment for the future. 10:05AM – 10:15AM Discussions and Q & A Expected concrete actions and tools: Sharing a vision and building a plan to attract leaders from unusual sectors, especially business leaders, to support early childhood.
10:15AM – 10:30AM Health break
SESSION 5 | How to create a joint agenda? 10:30AM – 12PM
ENCOURAGING partnerships to develop a joint agenda among diverse leaders that support early childhood nationally or internationally. Expectations: Understanding the need to cast a broad net of advocates and develop strong national or internationalagendas to encourage a good start in life, and to support, promote and invest in high quality ECE.
Moderator: Marcel Lauzière, President and CEO, The Lawson Foundation, Canada Libby Doggett, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and Early Learning, Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, U.S. Department of Education, USA Discussing the critical importance of creating a broad tent to expand and increase quality of early learning services for children and their families. Presenting specific examples where states made great improvements because of the combined impact of sectors working in concert.
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Mary Young, Director, Center for Child Development at the China Development Research Foundation “If investment in ECD is so good, why isn’t there more of it?” ECD has long-term, positive effects for children, families, societies, and nations. Yet, particularly in developing countries, the horizon of political leaders is often too short. We need to increase effective demand for ECD interventions and promote trans-disciplinary science of human development. Rear Admiral Robert Besal, Retired U.S. Navy, USA Addressing how giving children a good start in life can improve the safety and security of any country. The skills developed in the early years – academic knowledge, patience, persistence, problem-solving – are important for children to become successful adults who can contribute to their country. Barend Rombout, Director, Bureau Frontlijn, Rotterdam Addressing how his 25 years on the police force in the Netherlands taught him that children who were disadvantaged from the earliest years were often set on a path to a difficult life. Those experiences led him to now work with children to help steer them to a productive adulthood. Jordan Naidoo, Director of Education and international education at UNESCO Addressing the global coronation of the SDG4 Education 2030 agenda. Discussion among panelists and Q & A Expected concrete actions and tools: Reinforce participants’ work by providing clear examples of challenges: public and private investments; successes and failures in developing partnership approaches: tools to prevent risks; New kind of settings to welcome children by SDG4 Education 2030.
12PM – 1PM
Networking lunch
SESSION 6 | How to share successful messages? 1PM – 2:30PM
LEARNING how to take complex content and make it comprehensive to better communicate to various audiences. Expectations: To discover innovative ways of sharing current evidence and best practices in Early Childhood Education.
1PM – 1:10PM
Moderator: Thomas d’Ansembourg, Non-Violent Communication expert, author, Belgium
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1:10PM – 1:30PM
Isabelle Vinet, Executive Director, Centre of Excellence for Early Childhood Development, Canada Presenting the Encyclopedia on Early Childhood Development; a comprehensive, reliable and easy to use reference tool; a unique 5language free online resource dedicated to promoting accessibility and knowledge transfer of the best research on early childhood development.
1:30PM – 1:50PM
Janet Jamieson, Research Chair, Health Sciences and Community Services, Red River College, Canada and Sheila Manji, Global Head of Early Childhood Development, Aga Khan Foundation, Switzerland Presenting the Science of Early Child Development; a multimedia knowledge translation and mobilization initiative used widely in postsecondary education, professional development and capacity building.
1:50PM – 2:10PM
Nathalie Casso-Vicarini, Founder, Ensemble for Education, France Presenting Ensemble for Education: a new educational approach to adjust our everyday educational posture thanks to social neuroscience, educational heritage and up-to-date resources.
2:10PM – 2:30PM
Discussions among panelists and Q & A Expected concrete actions and tools: provide reliable communication tools to widely spread quality messages.
SESSION 7 | What action plan can be developed for the future? 2:30PM – 4PM
SHARING how participants can use what they have learned about early childhood education systems at the Congress. Expectations: The session will make common themes that emerge across sessions explicit to all participants and will identify specific tools strategies and communication messages to move the early childhood agenda forward.
Participants to this session will bring forward their learning and recommendations going forward. Questions to previous speakers will highlight specific next steps in building local and national action plans for early childhood education. Moderators: Kerry McCuaig, Fellow in Early Childhood Policy, Atkinson Centre at OISE, University of Toronto, Canada, Isabelle Vinet, Executive Director, Centre of Excellence for Early Childhood Development, Canada and Jane Bertrand, Program Director, Margaret and Wallace McCain Family Foundation, Canada, Ross Hall, Director, Europe Education Department, Ashoka A new kind of network for social entrepreneurship in the EC field
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Eric Charbonnier, Analyst with the Directorate for Education and Skills, OECD How to make indicators comparable Yvan Grimaldi, Director, IRTS, France ECEC professional training for the future Jean-Emmanuel Rodocanachi, Childcare Entrepreneur and founder of the Les Petits Chaperons Rouges - Childhood Solidarity Fund Pedagogical tools for children and EC professionals well-being Expected concrete actions and tools: Strategies to increase financial support and family engagement Tools to measure quality and monitor progress Professional learning approaches to build educators’ capacity
4PM – 5PM
Closing remarks and ceremony
4PM – 4:15PM
Andreas Schleicher, Director for education and skills, OECD, or Montserrat Gomendio, Deputy Director for education and skills, , OECD (tbc)
4:15PM – 4:30PM
María Isabel Díaz, Secretary of State for ECEC, Ministry of Education, Chile
4:30PM – 4:45PM
French ministry representative(s)
4:55PM – 5PM
Nathalie Casso-Vicarini, Thank you!
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