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_0339 Inspired Work with Author Erin Ramsey
Author, speaker, lavender farmer, and long time friend-of-Heather Erin Ramsey joins the show this week to talk about the ideas in her book Inspired Work: Showing Up and Shining Bright. With an engagi…
00:44:47 |
Wed 16 Oct 2024
NERD_0337 Nerds Who Teach With the Body in Mind: The Crossover Episode
Heather finally got to meet the crew behind her favorite podcast--"Teaching with the Body in Mind." Join in as Heather, Mike Huber, Tom Bedard, Joey Schoen and Ross Thompson talk about how we can hon…
01:02:42 |
Wed 02 Oct 2024
NERD_0336 Katz Ladies–Mixed Age Grouping in Early Childhood
In our final episode of our series of episodes focused on the contributions of Lilian Katz, Heather brings in Lizz Nolasco, Tiffany Pearsall and Samantha Balch to talk about...well, a lot. But it all…
00:52:51 |
Wed 25 Sep 2024
NERD_0335 Katz Ladies–Distinctions Between Academic and Intellectual Goals
Another episode celebrating the contributions of Lilian Katz! This time, Heather is joined by Lizz Nolasco, Samantha Balch and Mike Huber to talk through Dr. Katz's 2015 Exchange article "Distinction…
01:05:11 |
Wed 18 Sep 2024
NERD_0334 Katz Ladies–Narcissism vs Self Esteem in Childhood
It's Heather and Lizz Nolasco again! After we recorded the episode on Lilian Katz's stages of preschool teacher development, Lizz had a great idea--a series of episodes focused on Lilian's work calle…
01:05:28 |
Wed 11 Sep 2024
NERD_0333 Katz Ladies–Lilian Katz’s Stages of Teacher Development
Part one of a four episode series focusing on the work of Lilian Katz, in this episode Heather and Lizz Nolasco revisit Katz's 1972 article outlining her theory of the developmental stages of prescho…
00:55:17 |
Wed 04 Sep 2024
NERD_0332 Honoring the Moment with Ron Grady
"Your image of the child, regardless of whether it is the first time you have reflected upon it, defines and determines the way you approach every interaction you have with children," writes Ron Grad…
00:45:05 |
Wed 21 Aug 2024
NERD_0331 When Boys Won’t Be Boys
Listen in as host Heather Bernt-Santy, and fellow ECE Nerds Bethany Corrie and Mike Huber, talk through the article When Boys Won't Be Boys: Discussing Gender with Young Children, where authors Hanna…
00:50:09 |
Wed 14 Aug 2024
NERD_0330 Stepping Back to Nurture
If you've listened to the show for a while, you know Heather is a big fan of Anji Play! In this episode, she is joined by Bethany Corrie and Richard Cohen to talk through the article Stepping Back to…
00:43:19 |
Wed 07 Aug 2024
NERD_0329 Play and Equity with Ijumaa Jordan
In her article Both/And: Early Childhood Education Needs Both Play and Equity, consultant Ijumaa Jordan writes, "All children have a right to play. All children learn through play, not as enrichment …
00:55:45 |
Wed 31 Jul 2024
NERD_0328 Passion Work, Caring, and Burnout
"Passion work is doing work you feel 'called to,' a job that makes you feel very obviously 'fulfilled,' a job that announces itself clearly as 'making a difference.'" (When Your Profession is on Fire…
00:37:48 |
Wed 24 Jul 2024
NERD_0327 Rethinking Weapon Play with Kisa Marx and Samuel Broaden
Kisa Marx and Samuel Broaden, authors of Rethinking Weapon Play: How to Encourage Imagination, Kindness and Consent in Your Classroom, join host Heather Bernt-Santy for a discussion of the ways adult…
00:51:20 |
Wed 17 Jul 2024
NERD_0326 Connections Over Compliance with Dr Lori Desautels
Host Heather Bernt-Santy is thrilled to have had this opportunity to talk to professor and author Dr. Lori Desautels about her book Connections Over Compliance: Rewiring Our Perceptions of Discipline…
00:28:02 |
Wed 10 Jul 2024
NERD_0325 Princess Play=Gender Creative Play
Cayley Burton drops by to talk about her research article, "This Is a Different Kingdom: A Case Study of Gender-Creative Feminine Expression During Princess Play" with Heather Bernt-Santy and cohost …
00:57:18 |
Wed 03 Jul 2024
NERD_0324 Beyond Inclusion-How to Raise Anti Ableist Kids
If the question is “How do you raise anti-ableist kids?” the answer is “Become anti-ableist and then model it through intention and action for your children.” Join Heather Bernt-Santy and Mike Huber …
01:08:00 |
Wed 26 Jun 2024
NERD_0323 ECE MAYtriarchy Episode 4
This episode is the fourth installment of a new tradition–episodes in May that invite some of Heather's favorite women in early childhood to talk about the women who guide our work. In this conversat…
Wed 29 May 2024
NERD_0322 ECE MAYtriarchy Episode 3
Have you ever noticed that most of the theorists and philosophies in our early childhood textbooks are the same handful of men-plus-Montessori? Heather got curious….who are the women (past and presen…
00:54:20 |
Wed 15 May 2024
NERD_0321 ECE MAYtriarchy Episode 2
Have you ever noticed that most of the theorists and philosophies in our early childhood textbooks are the same handful of men-plus-Montessori? Heather got curious….who are the women (past and presen…
01:04:29 |
Thu 09 May 2024
NERD_0320 ECE MAYtriarchy part 1
Have you ever noticed that most of the theorists and philosophies in our early childhood textbooks are the same handful of men-plus-Montessori? Heather got curious....who are the women (past and pres…
01:14:34 |
Wed 01 May 2024
NERD_0319 Who Gets to Decide What Matters?
Heather is TIRED of non-expert stakeholders trying to tell her what is and isn't "quality" for young children's spaces and experiences. In this episode, she invites Carol Garboden Murray and Richard …
00:43:59 |
Wed 24 Apr 2024
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