That Early Childhood Nerd
If you love thinking deeply about childhood, early childhood education, caring for children, and supporting children’s right to play, this is the podcast for you! Each week, host and self-proclaimed early childhood nerd Heather Bernt-Santy invites practitioners, writers, and thinkers who share her commitment to doing the very best we can for children, their caregivers and teachers, and their families to discuss big ideas, real life practices, and cool research. Let’s get nerdy!
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Episodes
Monday Jul 06, 2020
Monday Jul 06, 2020
The author of the book A Young Writer's World: Creating Early Childhood Classrooms Where Authors Abound joins Heather to discuss emerging writing in the early years.
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Monday Jul 06, 2020
Monday Jul 06, 2020
Is baby play random? Do they need us to stimulate them? Bethany Corrie joins Heather to figure it out.
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Monday Jul 06, 2020
Monday Jul 06, 2020
People keep asking about what to do when children swear, so we'll keep talking about it.
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Monday Jun 29, 2020
Monday Jun 29, 2020
Sam Balch, Richard Cohen and Heather discuss the book Can of Worms: Fearless Conversations with Toddlers by Nick Terrones.
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Monday Jun 29, 2020
Monday Jun 29, 2020
Three of the authors (Encian Pastel, Julie Nicholson and Nathanael Flynn) of the book Supporting Gender Diversity in Early Childhood Classrooms bring their very important work to the podcast.
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Monday Jun 22, 2020
Monday Jun 22, 2020
When we talk about "able-bodied" and "disabled" children, we reduce them, yet again, to a potentially damaging binary. How can we think about "ability" and "needs" in more inclusive ways?
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Monday Jun 15, 2020
Monday Jun 15, 2020
LeeAnn Soucy and Kathy Gallo (ECE's "Two Pushy Dames") join the show to push back on the academic pushdown
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Monday Jun 08, 2020
Monday Jun 08, 2020
Heather is getting tired of hearing about Universal PreK, but she invited Dan and Richard to share their thoughts anyway.
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Monday Jun 01, 2020
Monday Jun 01, 2020
Lydia Bowers provides education and consulting on early childhood sexual health topics, and she joins the show to talk about her new children's book "We Listen to Our Bodies."
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Monday May 25, 2020
Monday May 25, 2020
We've noticed an increase in online talk about "bullying" in early childhood programs, and we don't think that's possible.
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