That Early Childhood Nerd

NERD_0303 Saying YES to Pushing Children on Swings

Did you know that some early childhood folks have strong feelings AGAINST pushing children on swings? What started as text chat between Mike Huber and Carol Garboden Murray (and was then shared with host Heather Bernt-Santy) turned into a really good episode about child development, adult roles and a "serve and return" that is both literal and theoretical.
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NERD_0302 Slow Knowledge pt 3: Author Interview

Host Heather Bernt-Santy and visiting Nerd Carol Garboden Murray are so excited to present this episode for you! Dr Alison Clark, author of Slow Knowledge and the Unhurried Child: Time for Slow Pedagogies in Early Childhood Education. You can buy the book here: https://shorturl.at/uDFS4Want
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NERD_0301 What If They Don't Know How to Play?

It's a question that comes up whenever Heather talks about play--what do we do when children don't know how to play? Listen in as she talks through some possibilities with beloved Nerds Richard Cohen, Bethany Corrie, Mike Huber, and special guest-who-didn't-know-she'd-be-a-guest-when-she-logged-in, Annie Friday!
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NERD_0300 Deconstructing School Readiness

You all! It's the 300th episode of the show! And you know what special episodes mean? PAJAMA PARTY! Put on some jammies, grab a favorite beverage, and join the Nerd Collective as we talk about how gross our obsession with school readiness is and how it negatively impacts children and our profession.
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NERD_0299 Settings for Young Children: One Size Does NOT Fit All

Tune in for a conversation about attempts to define quality, gatekeeping in early childhood, myths about one type of care being automatically higher quality, and more with Heather Bernt-Santy and Lizz Nolasco. 
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NERD_0298 The Whole Child Alphabet with Stacy Benge

YOU GUYS! You have to read Stacy Benge's book "The Whole Child Alphabet: How Young Children Actually Develop Literacy" as soon as you can! Author and speaker Stacy Benge joins Heather Bernt-Santy to discuss this really, very, really important new book. How does physical development strengthen literacy? What do we need to know about visual perception to effectively foster literacy development? What do our stakeholders need to know? Stacy is here to answer those questions.
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NERD_0297 Curriculum in Early Childhood: One Size Does NOT Fit All

New York City PreK teacher Helen Frazier joins Heather Bernt-Santy for a discussion of her Chalkbeat article "In Preschool, One Size Doesn't Fit All. So Why is NYC Asking Early Educators to Use a Single Curriculum?"Read the article here: https://ny.chalkbeat.org/2023/7/31/23807750/preschool-creative-curriculum-nyc
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NERD_0296 Slow Knowledge and the Unhurried Child part 2

Heather, Carol Garboden Murray and Bethany Corrie finally get together (woo hoo!) for part 2 of our discussion of Allison Clark's book Slow Knowledge and the Unhurried Child: Time for Slow Pedagogies in Early Childhood Education.
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NERD_0295 Let the Children Play: William Doyle and Pasi Sahlberg

If you haven't read the 2019 book Let the Children Play: How More Play will Save Our Schools and Help Children Thrive, you're missing out! The book's authors, William Doyle and Pasi Sahlberg, join Heather for a conversation about play, schools, 21st century skills....and George Costanza?
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NERD_0294 What ECE Can Learn from Others

Occupational therapists. Speech language pathologists. Artists. Family Therapists. Heather and Mike spend some time talking about the ways we have learned and our work has been impacted by people outside of the early childhood education field.
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