Cayley Burton (she/they) holds a Master of Education (MEd) degree in Early Childhood Education (ECE) from the University of British Columbia. They have a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice Studies (GRSJ) from UBC too, as well as a Diploma in Theatre Performance Arts from Mount Royal University (MRU).
Cayley is a licensed Early Childhood Educator (ECE) in both Alberta and BC, where they’ve worked in private and public early learning environments including daycare, preschool, and before/after-school programs. Cayley spent over 2 years working at Little Mountain Neighbourhood House Society (LMNHS) in East Vancouver, within both the 3-5 daycare program and the before/after-school program. Now, they are currently working at Monarch House in Calgary as a Behaviour Interventionist/Therapist.
Cayley has conducted grassroots advocacy and research for organizations such as AutismBC and the Coalition of Child Care Advocates of BC (CCCABC), with a particular focus on expanding awareness and knowledge of the community-oriented goals of the $10aDay Program. To read more about their advocacy, you can click here.
Cayley’s poetry and writing on education, social justice, and environmental sustainability have been published in places such as the Georgia Straight, the Montreal Gazette, the Vancouver Sun, the Journal of Childhood Studies, Fire Season, Axon: Creative Explorations, and Heliyon. For a full list of Cayley’s publications, please click here.
Through Cayley’s own business, they offer professional tutoring, educational policy consultation, teacher education workshops, and family-based child care services. If you are interested in hiring, collaborating, or consulting with Cayley, please fill out this form.
As a white settler who was born in Canada, Cayley gratefully acknowledges the traditional territory of the Niitsitapi (Blackfoot), Îyârhe Nakoda, and Tsuutʼina First Nations, the stewards of the land known as Treaty 7. Calgary, Alberta has multiple Indigenous place names, depending on the Nation: Moh’kinstsis (Blackfoot), Wichispa Oyade (Îyârhe Nakoda), Guts’ists’i (Tsuutʼina), and Otos-kwunee (Métis Nation of Alberta Districts 5 and 6).
Since Cayley’s teaching work spans across the physical and digital space of the provinces of so-called Alberta and British Columbia, it is important to recognize their movement on and visits to the unceded territory of the Coast Salish Peoples too (the Lower Mainland of Vancouver), belonging to the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations.
“Both my girls have benefited incredibly from their time with Cayley – she was an amazing contributor to their intellectual and emotional development and as a parent I’ve always had the best peace of mind when they were in her care.”