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
Jul 2, 2018
Jul 2, 2018
24 min
Heather and Lisa unpack a quote from the play classic "The Play's the Thing"
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Jun 25, 2018
Jun 25, 2018
24 min
Heather is joined by Lisa Murphy to discuss whether what we believe matches how we act, with some semi-weird Dan Hodgins fan girling.
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Jun 18, 2018
Jun 18, 2018
30 min
Has your attitude about making children clean up changed? Ours has.
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Jun 11, 2018
Jun 11, 2018
27 min
The Play Coach (Emma Tempest) joins the podcast as a new cohost and we get all riled up about, you guessed it, play.
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Jun 4, 2018
Jun 4, 2018
33 min
Have you heard of the work of Tina Bruce? She says that maybe play is too important to leave to chance. We wonder.
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May 28, 2018
May 28, 2018
21 min
Sam Balch is back on the podcast to discuss effective, and ineffective, responses to children's mistakes.
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May 21, 2018
May 21, 2018
21 min
Sam Balch is back on the podcast to discuss effective, and ineffective, responses to children's mistakes.
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May 14, 2018
May 14, 2018
31 min
If we know they are going to be miserable in kindergarten, do we make sure they are miserable now?
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May 7, 2018
May 7, 2018
29 min
We talk about the importance of movement in early childhood with the author of Balanced and Barefoot.
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Apr 30, 2018
Apr 30, 2018
24 min
What kind of childhood would you want for your child? Is the answer different from your answer to "what should an early childhood program look like?"
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