Creating Partnerships with Families

Families are the foundations for working with all children. It allows us to better understand them and make meaningful connections.

Facilitators will guide participants in learning how to create family friendly and policies including an ‘Open Door’ Policy.

Discover practical ideas that reflect best practice of welcoming families and help participants learn how to implement respectful boundaries.

Learn the goals of the Early Learning Framework and how they apply to relationships with families.

Patricia Kuhling and Sali Chippett are long standing Early Childhood Educators with diverse experience in all areas of early education.

Patricia was an Outreach Consultant at the Tri Cities / Burnaby CCRR and an instructor at Sprott Shaw College. She is also the former owner of Hazelwood Early Learning Centre where she passionately created programs that reflected her philosophy of community minded spaces and Inquiry based learning.

Sali has experience with many different educational approaches such as Reggio Emilia, Waldorf, Forest school and Theme based. Sali includes many of the Reggio Emilia principles in her current practice such as Inquiry based, Collaborative and Nature Based Learning Sali presently works in the Greater Victoria School District implementing Inquiry, Play Based and Inclusive learning for Kindergarten children.