That Early Childhood Nerd

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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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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Child and family policy expert and author Elliot Haspel joins Heather and Tiffany to talk about why the economic argument for "solving" the child care crisis is important--but not enough.
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Child advocate, play enthusiast and maker of magic Kisa Marx is this week's guest! Listen in as she talks with Heather and cohost Mike Huber about humanity, genius and joy in early childhood settings.
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Amanda Morgan (www.notjustcute.com) stops by to talk with Heather about the renewed focus in education on the Science of Reading, and how to be sure we don't forget the early childhood foundation necessary for supporting its "Five Pillars."
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Tamar Jacobson, author of Everyone Needs Attention: Helping Young Children Thrive (and other great books!) joins Heather to talk about authentic self-regulation and young children.Check out That Early Childhood Nerd episode 117 for more Tamar Jacobson!
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If you haven't followed occupational therapist Greg Santucci on social media, what are you even doing? In this episode, Greg joins Heather to talk about ABA (Applied Behavior Analysis), the reported experiences of autistic people who have been "treated" with ABA, and alternatives for families who feel like ABA is their only option for their autistic children.
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When Heather saw Kelsie Olds' post on her Occuplaytional Therapist Facebook page that opened with, "I think we would actually all be fine if we would drop the word 'consequences' from our vocabularies entirely," she KNEW this would be a great podcast conversation. And it was! Find Kelsie on FB at The Occuplaytional Therapist or visit her website at www.occuplaytional.com
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Family therapist and child development expert Dr. Erika Bocknek joins Heather Bernt-Santy for a "convo" about relationships and belongingness in early childhood.Find Dr Erika's website here: www.myconvo.orgOr find her on Instagram: drerikaconvo
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Strategies and responses for working with young children who have experienced or are experiencing trauma are vital for early care and education practitioners to understand--why would we need to be warned about our use of ACE scores? Instructional coach and PhD candidate Alex Winninghoff joins Heather Bernt-Santy and Lizz Nolasco to discuss her article, "Trauma By Numbers: Warnings Against the Use of ACE Scores in Trauma Informed Schools." Read the article here: https://educate.bankstreet.edu/occasional-paper-series/vol2020/iss43/4/
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