Peer-Mentoring Program for ECEs in BC | Opportunity to connect October 16, 2023
Headed by Associate Professor Dr. Laura Doan, in partnership with the Early Childhood Educators of BC (ECEBC), the Peer-Mentoring Program recognizes how both new and…
Tag: early childhood
Education News Canada | Early Childhood Education Centre wins building award October 3, 2023
The TRU Early Childhood Education Centre is an award winner. The centre was recently recognized at the Thompson Okanagan Commercial Building Awards in the Community Institutional…
Faculty of Education and Social Work, Featured
Building awards take note of Early Childhood Education Centre September 29, 2023
The TRU Early Childhood Education Centre is an award winner. The centre was recently recognized at the Thompson Okanagan Commercial Building Awards in the Community…
Faculty of Education and Social Work, Featured,
New Early Childhood Education Centre features welcoming local art October 18, 2022
You can’t drive up to the Thompson Rivers University’s (TRU) new Early Childhood Education Centre without seeing the Diversitree artwork that decorates the front of…
Faculty of Education and Social Work, Featured,
Early Childhood Education Centre opening worth the wait October 11, 2022
TRU’s highly anticipated Early Childhood Education Centre opened its doors Tues., Oct. 11, providing much-needed space for kids, students, educators and researchers. The 2,000-square-metre facility…
Castanet Kamloops | $1.4 million for educators November 30, 2021
An anonymous donation to Thompson Rivers University totalling $1.4 million will go toward helping to keep qualified early childhood educators from leaving the profession. The…
Faculty of Education and Social Work, Featured, News releases, Research and Graduate Studies
Funding supports early childhood educators November 22, 2021
An anonymous donor has provided $1.4 million in funding over three years to expand a peer-mentoring program for early childhood educators that will help recruit,…
News releases
Donor boosts peer mentoring for early childhood educators November 22, 2021
KAMLOOPS– An anonymous donor is contributing $1.4 million to expand a peer-mentoring program for early childhood educators to keep them from leaving the profession. The…
The Interior News | Early childhood education support group makes a difference May 20, 2021
Researchers at Thompson Rivers University initiated the Peer Mentoring Project for Early Childhood Educators in BC to support them as they face low wages, isolation,…
CBC Kamloops | Early childhood education centre tour November 9, 2020
CBC's Shelley Joyce joins TRU Dean of Education and Social Work Airini and early childhood education researcher Laura Doan on the site of a future…
Academica | TRU to submit plans for unique early years hub November 2, 2020
TRU is planning to centralize its early childhood education program, research and non-profit day-care services into one building, joining three components currently located across TRU’s…
Kamloops This Week | TRU dean: Kamloops is an early childhood education leader October 28, 2020
Thompson Rivers University is planning co-location of its early childhood education program, research and non-profit day-care services into one centre on McGill Road, a project…
Radio NL | Laura Doan's project to support early childhood educators October 28, 2020
TRU Associate Professor Dr. Laura Doan discusses a province-wide peer-mentoring network to support early childhood educators and encourage them to stay in the field. It…
Faculty of Education and Social Work, Featured, Research and Graduate Studies
Research finds peer support essential to ECE resiliency October 26, 2020
Dr. Laura Doan How do you define success in research? Two years ago, Dr. Laura Doan embarked upon a project designed to develop a provincewide…
