cambrian college

By Stew Kernan

Research shows that most of the brain’s development happens in the first four years of life.

That’s the focus as early childhood educators gather here in Sudbury for a two-day conference.

Lois Mahon, president of the College of Early Childhood Educators and a professor at Cambrian College, says there are more than 50,000 regulated early childhood teachers in Ontario, but there is a shortage here in the north.

The coordinators from all the community college Early Childhood Education programs in the province are taking part in the conference hearing about new legislation as well as new research.