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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Mar 23, 2020
Mar 23, 2020
34 min
Mike Huber listened to the episode with occupational therapist Greg Santucci, and has some follow up questions for Heather
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Mar 16, 2020
Mar 16, 2020
51 min
We need to move away from making moral judgments on children's behavior and seek to understand and support children's development.
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Mar 9, 2020
Mar 9, 2020
1hr 1 min
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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Mar 2, 2020
Mar 2, 2020
34 min
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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Feb 24, 2020
Feb 24, 2020
34 min
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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Feb 17, 2020
Feb 17, 2020
34 min
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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Feb 10, 2020
Feb 10, 2020
43 min
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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Feb 3, 2020
Feb 3, 2020
38 min
Emma and Heather explore Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's concept of "flow" .
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Jan 27, 2020
Jan 27, 2020
47 min
Richard Cohen, Tiffany Pearsall and Carol Garbodan Murray join Heather for another conversation about the honorable work of caring
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Jan 20, 2020
Jan 20, 2020
47 min
Why do some play based teachers fall so easily back into product oriented crafts during holidays?
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