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_0202 A Care Revolution Elementary Schools
Heather talks to author Carol Garbodan Murray and Lunch Room Supervisor Extraordinaire Melissa Luebbe about pushing the care revolution UP into elementary schools.
00:43:56 |
Tue 06 Jul 2021
NERD_0197 Developmental Issues Or Moral Issues With Dan Hodgins
We need to move away from making moral judgments on children's behavior and seek to understand and support children's development.
00:51:13 |
Tue 06 Jul 2021
NERD_0198 Mike Asks Heather–Behavior Management
Mike Huber listened to the episode with occupational therapist Greg Santucci, and has some follow up questions for Heather
00:34:05 |
Tue 06 Jul 2021
NERD_0196 Gender Roles In Early Childhood Programs
In what started out as a germ of an idea about talking about "men in ECE," Richard Cohen and Mike Huber take it much deeper--we need to break up with the binary.
01:01:46 |
Tue 06 Jul 2021
NERD_0199 Children Experiencing Homelessness With Sam Balch
Sam Balch joins Heather to discuss her experiences with, and recommendations for, working with children who have or are experiencing homelessness.
00:57:03 |
Tue 06 Jul 2021
NERD_0194 Growing Gardens And Guiding Behavior With Michelle Salcedo Part 2
Part two of a conversation with Richard Cohen and Michelle Salcedo, author of Uncover the Roots of Challenging Behavior: Create Responsive Environments Where Young Children Thrive.
00:34:45 |
Tue 06 Jul 2021
NERD_0195 Illuminating Care Part 4–Rest Time
In this episode, Heather brings on Carol Garboden Murray, Richard Cohen and Tiffany Pearsall to connect our Care Revolution to rest times and napping.
00:34:57 |
Tue 06 Jul 2021
NERD_0188 The Body As Culture With Lizz Nolasco
Lizz and Heather use a story of mud play in an early childhood setting to discuss how children's bodies are considered within different cultural perspectives.
00:40:12 |
Tue 06 Jul 2021
NERD_0190 Illuminating Care With Carol Garboden Murray Part 3
Richard Cohen, Tiffany Pearsall and Carol Garbodan Murray join Heather for another conversation about the honorable work of caring
00:47:09 |
Tue 06 Jul 2021
NERD_0191 Flow With Emma Tempest
Emma and Heather explore Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's concept of "flow" .
00:38:19 |
Tue 06 Jul 2021
NERD_0192 Revisiting Anji Play With Jesse Coffino And Krystina Tapia
Jesse and Krystina from True Play Foundation return to the show to talk more about the Anji Play philosophy and practice.
00:43:47 |
Tue 06 Jul 2021
NERD_0187 Classic Lit And Early Childhood With Josie Schneider
Louisa May Alcott? Charlotte Bronte? Jane Austen? Charles Dickens? They all have something to say about supporting young children.
00:38:43 |
Tue 06 Jul 2021
NERD_0189 Holiday Crafts With Dan Hodgins And Lisa Murphy
Why do play based teachers fall so easily back into product oriented crafts during holidays?
00:47:32 |
Tue 06 Jul 2021
NERD_0193 Growing Gardens And Guiding Behavior With Michelle Salcedo Part 1
Part one of a conversation with Richard Cohen and Michelle Salcedo, author of Uncover the Roots of Challenging Behavior: Create Responsive Environments Where Young Children Thrive.
00:34:58 |
Tue 06 Jul 2021
NERD_0183 Mike Asks Heather-Risky Play
Another episode where Mike Huber asks Heather to dive deeper into how ideas discussed on previous episodes show up in her daily practice.
00:30:58 |
Tue 06 Jul 2021
NERD_0186 Sam Asks Heather | Teaching Community College
Sam Balch joins the show to ask Heather some questions about her experiences and philosophies as an ECE college instructor.
00:36:24 |
Tue 06 Jul 2021
NERD_0182 Daycare VS Child Care VS ECE With Richard Cohen
Does the language we use to describe the work we do matter?
00:31:20 |
Tue 06 Jul 2021
NERD_0185 Egocentric Children With Dan Hodgins
Egocentric behavior in children is developmentally appropriate and a positive indicator of social/emotional development. Listen to hear Dan talk about why we should value the child who takes and the …
00:35:03 |
Tue 06 Jul 2021
NERD_0184 Occupational Therapist Greg Santucci
If you don't follow Greg Santucci on Facebook, you definitely should! He joins the show here to make his case for never using the phrase "behavior management" again.
00:34:52 |
Tue 06 Jul 2021
NERD_0176 Fidgeting, Movement And What Children Are Good At With Dan Hodgins
Heather has been getting a lot of questions about movement from parents whose children are doing virtual learning. Who better to talk to about it than Dan?
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00:32:16 |
Tue 06 Jul 2021
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