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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Jul 20, 2020
Jul 20, 2020
45 min
Sam Balch, Richard Cohen and Heather discuss the book Can of Worms: Fearless Conversations with Toddlers by Nick Terrones.
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Jul 13, 2020
Jul 13, 2020
40 min
Heather's talking to an editor about a book project, and to help her process her ideas, she's asked Nerd cohosts to listen to past episodes and interview her. Here's the first, where we revisit the episode called Sticker Charts vs Human Complexity
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Jul 6, 2020
Jul 6, 2020
41 min
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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Jul 6, 2020
Jul 6, 2020
29 min
Is baby play random? Do they need us to stimulate them? Bethany Corrie joins Heather to figure it out.
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Jul 6, 2020
Jul 6, 2020
47 min
People keep asking about what to do when children swear, so we'll keep talking about it.
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Jun 29, 2020
Jun 29, 2020
45 min
Sam Balch, Richard Cohen and Heather discuss the book Can of Worms: Fearless Conversations with Toddlers by Nick Terrones.
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Jun 29, 2020
Jun 29, 2020
1hr 10 min
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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Jun 22, 2020
Jun 22, 2020
44 min
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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Jun 15, 2020
Jun 15, 2020
25 min
LeeAnn Soucy and Kathy Gallo (ECE's "Two Pushy Dames") join the show to push back on the academic pushdown
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Jun 8, 2020
Jun 8, 2020
50 min
Heather is getting tired of hearing about Universal PreK, but she invited Dan and Richard to share their thoughts anyway.
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