That Early Childhood Nerd
Each week host Heather Bernt-Santy and a member of the ECE Nerd Collective share and discuss a quote with a focus on effecting change in the early learning world.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 42 minutes
- Episodes
- 310
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
NERD_0379 A New Way of Looking at Children’s War Play with Ebba Theorell
Host Heather Bernt-Santy and fellow nerd Mike Huber talk with Ebba Theorell about her brilliant article, Transformative Aesthetic Dimensions in Young Boys’ War Play:
Exploring the World Through Kines…
NERD_0378 Free the Teachers! Tightly Controlled Schedules
Every now and then, host Heather Bernt-Santy and the other nerds in the TECN group chat hit on hot issues that we wish early childhood folks didn’t have to worry about. We decided to do a few episode…
NERD_0377 Slow Childhoods with Carol Garboden Murray and Amy Chiu
When host Heather Bernt-Santy talked with Amy Chiu (www.theworkofplay.com) on TECN episode 372, she knew she had to have a follow up conversation including Carol Garboden Murray (https://www.carolgar…
NERD_0376 Live from the 2025 Play Empowers Teacher Retreat!
Live from the lobby of the Claggett Retreat Center, listen in as attendees and presenters debrief the day’s events–what resonated, what challenged them, and dreams for what happens next. The Play Emp…
NERD_0375 Trauma Informed Practices with Nikki Darling-Kuria
Nikki Darling-Kuria joins host Heather Bernt-Santy to share her growth as a trauma informed early childhood professional in an unpredictable world. The quote to start this conversation is from Kather…
NERD_0374 The Daycare Myth with Dan Wuori
For a century, America’s early childhood policy has been premised on a myth. This falsehood—which dictates that child care and education are somehow separate and distinct—not only suboptimizes the mo…
NERD_0373 When Children are Free to Pretend
Mike Huber is back to talk more about pretend play, children’s power, and the teacher’s liberation as we continue to discuss his new book The Power in Pretend: Supporting Children’s Power, Identity a…
NERD_0372 Rhythms Over Routines with Amy Chiu
“School can be a stressful place. It can be overstimulating and demanding which impacts everyone’s nervous system and ability to cope, let alone learn. The prevailing wisdom is that children thrive i…
NERD_0371 Powerful Play with Amanda Morgan
Child development expert Amanda Morgan returns to That Early Childhood Nerd to discuss her new book, “Not Just Cute: How Powerful Play Drives Development in Early Childhood,” in which she calls out m…
NERD_0370 Surviving the Child Care Crisis with Kisa Marx
Kisa Marx joins host Heather Bernt-Santy to talk about her powerful Exchange article, “A Letter to Educators: Surviving the Child Care Crisis.”
Find the article here: https://hub.exchangepress.com/a…
NERD_0369 Heather Wrote a Book
NERD_0368 The Power of Pretend with Mike Huber pt 2
NERD_0367 The Power of Pretend with Mike Huber pt 1
NERD_0366 Teacher Research and Teacher Survival with Aaron Neimark
NERD_0365 Early Childhood MAYtriarchy–bell hooks and Cheng Xueqin
NERD_0364 Early Childhood MAYtriarchy: Constance Kamii, Rhonda DeVries, Ellen Key and Alva Myrdal
NERD_0363 Early Childhood MAYtriarchy: Dr. Millie Almy, Caroline Pratt and Magda Gerber
NERD_0362 Early Childhood MAYtriarchy: Eve Trook, Dr. Marianne Gibbs, and Bev Bos
NERD_0361 The Sleepover Sessions–Consent