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
Apr 8, 2019
Apr 8, 2019
32 min
Author Carol Murray joins the show to talk about the tremendous honor of caring for children, particularly in times of crisis.
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Apr 1, 2019
Apr 1, 2019
32 min
Speech Language Pathologists Anne Gritt and Christi Masters join the podcast for a conversation about myths, tips and advice for supporting young children's speech and language development.
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Mar 25, 2019
Mar 25, 2019
21 min
In this episode, Heather talks terrific toddlers with colleagues Laura Spillman and Elena Kopf.
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Mar 18, 2019
Mar 18, 2019
22 min
In this episode, Heather talks terrific toddlers with colleagues Laura Spillman and Elena Kopf.
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Mar 11, 2019
Mar 11, 2019
31 min
Processes, products, arts, crafts, attachments and egos. Dan Hodgins is here to ask "what the hell?"
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Mar 4, 2019
Mar 4, 2019
31 min
Choices teachers make, both systematic and moment by moment, send clear messages about what they value. But are we happy with those messages?
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Feb 25, 2019
Feb 25, 2019
35 min
Who benefits from having all the children do all the same thing at all the same time? Anyone?
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Feb 18, 2019
Feb 18, 2019
28 min
Author Jarrod Green joins me to discuss his book I'm Ok: Building Resilience through Physical Play.
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Feb 11, 2019
Feb 11, 2019
25 min
Katrina Macasaet from Zero to Three stops by the podcast to offer a new perspective on toddler aggression.
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Feb 4, 2019
Feb 4, 2019
38 min
Richard Cohen and Heather talk about their personal love of swearing and why we don't do it in front of children.
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