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_0359 The Sleepover Sessions–Just Say the Words
It's spring break 2025, and that means it's time for the second Nerd Sleepover! This episode comes to you from an Airbnb in beautiful Indianapolis, where host Heather Bernt-Santy gathered with some o…
00:32:33 |
Wed 16 Apr 2025
NERD_0358 The Sleepover Sessions–Data is Not Evidence
It's spring break 2025, which means it's time for the second Nerd Sleepover in beautiful Indianapolis! In this episode, Mike Huber invites us to consider whether "data" and "evidence" are the same th…
00:42:24 |
Wed 09 Apr 2025
NERD_0357 Play is Inherently Political with Kelsie Olds, the Occuplaytional Therapist
In February 2025, occupational therapist Kelsie Olds, who hosts a facebook page called The Occuplaytional Therapist, published a post that struck a nerve--leading to almost 4000 reactions to date, an…
00:51:57 |
Wed 02 Apr 2025
NERD_0356 Play and the Hesitant Child
In another episode that was originally intended as a session
in a virtual NerdCon conference that didn’t happen, Richard Cohen, Lizz Nolasco
and Bethany Corrie talk about children who seem hesitant t…
00:40:54 |
Wed 26 Mar 2025
NERD_0355 Young Children’s Learning in Physics
Physics learning for children under 5? What? Join host
Heather Bernt-Santy, Mike Huber and Krystina Tapia as they discuss one of the
best articles Heather has read in a long time—“Young Children’s Le…
01:01:52 |
Wed 19 Mar 2025
NERD_0354 Fake Play in Preschool?
Can play in preschool be "fake?" In this episode, host Heather Bernt-Santy is joined by Gemma Medina, Bethany Corrie and Stacy Benge to discuss the article "Vygotskian Analysis of Fake Play in Presch…
00:56:58 |
Wed 12 Mar 2025
NERD_0353 Nerd Study Hall: Teacher Preparation in “Don’t Say Gay” Times
It's time for another round of Nerd Study Hall, where we record a series of episodes discussing research articles connected to working with young children and their families. In this episode, host He…
01:08:31 |
Wed 05 Mar 2025
NERD_0352 Risky Play And Mental Health With Author Frances Carlson
In what may be the first ever Nerd episode that starts with a quote from a LinkedIn post, author Frances Carlson joins Heather to unpack her idea that, "Since anxiety is a by-product of an aversion t…
00:52:17 |
Wed 26 Feb 2025
NERD_0351 Anti Ableist Play with Mike Huber and Kisa Marx
This episode was originally recorded to be part of a "Nerd Con 2" virtual conference....and then Nerd Con 2 didn't happen. The good news is you get it as a podcast now! Listen in as Mike Huber and Ki…
01:02:33 |
Wed 19 Feb 2025
NERD_0350 Wild Child with “350th Episode Sweepstakes” Winners Gemma Medina and Valley Varma
It's the 350th episode of That Early Childhood Nerd! To celebrate, host Heather Bernt-Santy invited listeners to submit a quote that they would like to come on the show and talk about...and here it i…
00:42:13 |
Wed 22 Jan 2025
NERD_0349 The Academic Pushdown Harms Children AND Teachers
In the fall of 2024, IPA-USA (the American Association for the Child's Right to Play) celebrated its 50th anniversary by releasing an extensive collection of white papers on play topics across the li…
01:03:23 |
Wed 15 Jan 2025
NERD_0348 Ensuring Every Child Can Thrive with Kisa Marx and Emily Clark
In the fall of 2024, IPA-USA (the American Association for the Child's Right to Play) celebrated its 50th anniversary by releasing an extensive collection of white papers on play topics across the li…
00:47:49 |
Wed 08 Jan 2025
NERD_0347 Who Gets to Be Neutral? Social Justice in Our Field
Dr. Jamie Cho, an assistant teaching professor of justice in early learning at the University of Washington and Ninderjit Gill, tenured early childhood education faculty at North Seattle College, joi…
00:43:23 |
Wed 11 Dec 2024
NERD_0346 When ‘Quality’ Becomes a Dollar Sign
Emily Clark, aka "EarlyEdEm" on instagram, has some thoughts to share about the impact of trying to make a profit off of attempts to assess quality in early childhood settings. Can true quality be co…
00:51:14 |
Wed 04 Dec 2024
NERD_0345 When Conversations About Quality Erase the Child
In the third episode of this series on "quality" in early care and education, play advocate Kisa Marx joins host Heather Bernt-Santy for an important conversation about how too often, our standards f…
00:39:47 |
Wed 27 Nov 2024
NERD_0344 When Conversations About Quality Erase Care
In this episode, care advocate and author Carol Garboden Murray and host Heather Bernt-Santy share stories of being told that if we want anyone to pay attention to early childhood, we need to stop ta…
00:55:27 |
Wed 20 Nov 2024
NERD_0343 When Conversations About Quality Erase Play
In this first episode in a new series about quality in early care and education, host Heather Bernt-Santy talks with Deb Lawrence and Lisa Murphy about her concerns that some of our ideas and tools f…
00:38:23 |
Wed 13 Nov 2024
NERD_0342 Mike Asks Heather–Connections Over Compliance
"Mike Asks Heather" is back! In the "Mike Asks Heather" episodes, Mike Huber has listened to a previous episode of the show, and asks host Heather Bernt-Santy some follow up questions. In this episod…
00:59:51 |
Wed 06 Nov 2024
NERD_0341 Revisiting Stepping Back to Nurture
In episode 330, Bethany Corrie, Richard Cohen and Heather discussed the article "Stepping Back to Nurture." In this episode, one of the authors of the article, Jesse Coffino, joins in to keep the con…
00:51:27 |
Wed 30 Oct 2024
NERD_0340 Why Play? with Author Rae Pica
Author Rae Pica has a new book out! It's called Why Play: How to Make Play an Essential Part of Early Childhood, and she joins host Heather Bernt-Santy in this episode to talk about why she keeps doi…
00:43:35 |
Wed 23 Oct 2024
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