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!
Episodes

Monday Mar 09, 2020
Monday Mar 09, 2020
In what started out as a germ of an idea about talking about "men in ECE," Richard Cohen and Mike Huber take it much deeper--we need to break up with the binary.
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Monday Mar 02, 2020
Monday Mar 02, 2020
In this episode, Heather brings on Carol Garboden Murray, Richard Cohen and Tiffany Pearsall to connect our Care Revolution to rest times and napping.
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Monday Feb 24, 2020
Monday Feb 24, 2020
Part two of a conversation with Richard Cohen and Michelle Salcedo, author of Uncover the Roots of Challenging Behavior: Create Responsive Environments Where Young Children Thrive.
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Monday Feb 17, 2020
Monday Feb 17, 2020
Part one of a conversation with Richard Cohen and Michelle Salcedo, author of Uncover the Roots of Challenging Behavior: Create Responsive Environments Where Young Children Thrive.
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Monday Feb 10, 2020
Monday Feb 10, 2020
Jesse and Krystina from True Play Foundation return to the show to talk more about the Anji Play philosophy and practice.
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Monday Feb 03, 2020
Monday Feb 03, 2020
Emma and Heather explore Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's concept of "flow" .
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Monday Jan 27, 2020
Monday Jan 27, 2020
Richard Cohen, Tiffany Pearsall and Carol Garbodan Murray join Heather for another conversation about the honorable work of caring
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Monday Jan 20, 2020
Monday Jan 20, 2020
Why do some play based teachers fall so easily back into product oriented crafts during holidays?
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Monday Jan 13, 2020
Monday Jan 13, 2020
Lizz and Heather use a story of mud play in an early childhood setting to discuss how children's bodies are considered within different cultural perspectives.
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Monday Jan 06, 2020
Monday Jan 06, 2020
Louisa May Alcott? Charlotte Bronte? Jane Austen? Charles Dickens? They all have something to say about supporting young children.
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