That Early Childhood Nerd

NERD_0233 Thirty Years of Experience or One Year Thirty Times?

Lisa Murphy and Heather discuss the difference between having 30 years of experience teaching and having one year of experience 30 times. What are the implications for the profession and for children?
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NERD_0232 Connecting Theory to Practice in Early Childhood

An all star Nerd Panel comes together in this episode (Lisa Murphy! Sam Balch! Lizz Nolasco! Mike Huber! Richard Cohen! Heather!) to look at real examples of phrases heard in early childhood programs that demonstrate a disconnect between theory and practice.
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NERD_0231 That Science Fairy-Laura Weilert

Mobile STEM teacher Laura Weilert has some thoughts about real STEM experiences, play and those google-search-volcano-science-experiments.
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NERD_0230 What About Achievement Gaps?

ECE advocate and school director Rixa Evershed joins Mike Huber and Heather to talk about the language of "achievement gaps" and how capitalism and deficit approaches to children and families fuel policies and practices that have a negative impact on the people they claim to be helping.
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NERD_0229 Child Care Center Directors and Covid

You may have seen child care center director Cori Berg's interview with NPR--it went viral fast! Cori joins the show, along with Richard Cohen, to talk more about the "special kind of hell" the pandemic has created for directors and for families.
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NERD_0228 Professional Love part 2

Richard Cohen is Heather's cohost for this episode, continuing the conversation about "professional love."
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NERD_0227 Reflection and Anji Play

Jesse Coffino, Krystina Tapia and Emma Pickering join the show to help us understand how the "reflection" element of Anji Play adds depth to children's play and how it can be implemented in any early care and educations setting.
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NERD_0226 Nursery Rhymes and Emerging Literacy

Lisa Murphy is Heather's guest in this episode, to talk about one of their mutual favorite topics--nursery rhymes! A recent teaching experience showed Heather that nursery rhymes may be becoming obsolete or unfamiliar to early childhood teachers. This episode provides a rationale for bringing them back.
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NERD_0225 On Getting Children "Ready"

"I've heard this one before," writes Michael Gramling in his book The Great Disconnect, "If her kindergarten teacher is going to make her miserable next year, we better make her miserable now so she can get used to it." Listen as Lizz Nolasco and I wander around as we explore this quote.
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NERD_0224 Evidence Based Claims in ECE

After reading Peter Gray's article, "Beware of 'Evidence Based Preschool Curricula,' Mike Huber and I decided we needed to dig in to how curriculum and practices labeled "evidence based" and "research based" should not be given a free pass.
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