Becoming and Being an Early Childhood Professional, 1st Edition |

Jane Bertrand is an early childhood educator who has contributed to the growing capacity of the early childhood professional workforce. Jane is currently the Program Director at the Margaret and Wallace McCain Family Foundation. The foundation’s focus is on early childhood practices, policies and research in Canada. Jane is also an Adjunct Professor at OISE, University of Toronto and participates in OISE’s Flex Early Learning PhD program. In Australia, she currently is on the research advisory committee for Our Place in Victoria and the Good Start Thought Leaders Advisory Group. Jane worked in collaboration with Dr. Fraser Mustard and the Honourable Margaret Norrie McCain as the research coordinator for the Early Years Study (1999), Early Years Study 2 (2007), Early Years Study 3 (2011) and now Early Years Study 4. In 2013, Jane received an honourary doctorate from the University of New Brunswick for her contribution to early childhood education in Canada. Jane was Professor at the School of Early Childhood at George Brown College until June 2011 and initiated a Bachelor of Early Childhood Leadership degree. She worked with the Ontario Early Learning Advisor to the Premier of Ontario to prepare a report that led to full-day kindergarten for four- and five-year-olds and was chair of Ontario’s Expert Panel that produced a provincial early learning curriculum framework. Jane is a member of the Directing Committee of the Centre for Excellence for Early Child Development and was a member of the Toronto First Duty Research team. She is a contributing author of the Science of Early Child Development (www.scienceofecd.com).