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

Sep 10, 2018

32 min

Sustained shared thinking, mind-mindedness, sports broadcasting....whatever you call it, Emma and Heather have some thoughts about keeping it real.
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Sep 3, 2018

30 min

Heather and Lisa Murphy finish their conversation about teacher roles identified in the ECE classic The Play's the Thing: Teachers' Roles in Children's Play
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Aug 27, 2018

32 min

Lisa and Heather embark on a series of episodes to discuss appropriate teacher roles during children's play.
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Aug 20, 2018

32 min

Lisa Murphy cohosts to explore a mind blowing new (but really pretty old) perspective on "patience".
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Aug 13, 2018

27 min

Sam Balch cohosts this episode to discuss feelings of despair and hope in our work with young children.
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Aug 6, 2018

28 min

Tamar Jacobson (yes! Tamar Jacobson!!) joins the podcast to talk about her book Everyone Needs Attention.
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Jul 30, 2018

33 min

If we change our language and say a child is seeking connection instead of attention, would it change our responses?
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Jul 23, 2018

32 min

Lisa Murphy joins me to intelligently gush about one of our favorite books, and why it's such an important work for our field.
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Jul 16, 2018

35 min

Tiffany Pearsall is back and we talk about making the transition from working with preschool children to working with toddlers.
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Jul 9, 2018

25 min

Newly published children's author David Cahn joins me to talk about his new book, Umar.
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