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
Monday Jan 29, 2018
Monday Jan 29, 2018
Host Heather Bernt-Santy and Lizz (Cohen) Nolasco talk about the book We Don't Play with Guns Here: War, Weapon and Superhero Play in the Early Years by Penny Holland.
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Monday Jan 22, 2018
Monday Jan 22, 2018
Lisa Murphy joins the podcast to talk about how creating environments and building relationships is just good teaching.
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Monday Jan 15, 2018
Monday Jan 15, 2018
Josie Schneider and Bethany Corrie join host Heather Bernt-Santy to discuss what Dorothy Singer has called the "miracle of human experience: the imagination"
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Monday Jan 08, 2018
Monday Jan 08, 2018
Josie Schneider and Bethany Corrie join host Heather Bernt-Santy to discuss what Dorothy Singer has called the "miracle of human experience: the imagination"
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Monday Jan 01, 2018
Monday Jan 01, 2018
Tiffany Pearsall and Alisha Schmitke join the podcast to discuss what we miss when we hurry through our days with children.
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Monday Dec 25, 2017
Monday Dec 25, 2017
Tiffany and Heather sort of argue but mostly push each other to think more deeply about what's wrong with child care after reading a list of what Deb Curtis and Margie Carter identified as issues in their book Learning Together with Young Children.
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Monday Dec 18, 2017
Monday Dec 18, 2017
Tiffany and Heather sort of argue but mostly push each other to think more deeply about what's wrong with child care after reading a list of what Deb Curtis and Margie Carter identified as issues in their book Learning Together with Young Children.
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Monday Dec 11, 2017
Monday Dec 11, 2017
In 1989, world leaders made a historic commitment to the world’s children by adopting the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child – an international agreement on childhood.
It’s become the most widely ratified human rights treaty in history and has helped transform children’s lives around the world. The United States has yet to ratify.
In this two part conversation, host Heather Bernt-Santy is joined by Tiffany Pearsall.
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Monday Dec 04, 2017
Monday Dec 04, 2017
In 1989, world leaders made a historic commitment to the world’s children by adopting the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child – an international agreement on childhood.
It’s become the most widely ratified human rights treaty in history and has helped transform children’s lives around the world. The United States has yet to ratify.
In this two part conversation, host Heather Bernt-Santy is joined by Tiffany Pearsall.
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Monday Nov 27, 2017
Monday Nov 27, 2017
This episode is a little different from the usual--it's a solo episode from host Heather Bernt-Santy, as she talks listeners through the "curriculum planning" form she developed for those moving away from theme planning or adult directed curriculum.
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