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_0318 What Should We Call Ourselves?
If there's one thing host Heather Bernt-Santy loves, it's a nerdy panel discussion! And this one is a good one...including Heather, Richard Cohen (Zen and the Art of Early Childhood), Nancy Rosenow (…
00:57:02 |
Wed 17 Apr 2024
NERD_0317 The Segregated Lives of Preschoolers with Dr. Casey Stockstill
This week host Heather Bernt-Santy welcomes Dartmouth sociologist Dr Casey Stockstill, author of the book False Starts: The Segregated Lives of Preschoolers. In her book, she describes and discusses …
00:50:50 |
Wed 10 Apr 2024
NERD_0316 Is Education an Equalizer, or a Reproducer of Inequity?
Join host Heather Bernt-Santy and fellow nerd Lizz Nolasco as they explore this quote from an article by Beth Blue Swadener and Shirley Kessler: "Of significance among reconceptualist perspectives is…
00:37:51 |
Wed 03 Apr 2024
NERD_0315 Loose Parts…and Stuff with Miriam Beloglovsky and Suzanne Axelsson
The idea of loose parts is often misunderstood and misrepresented in early childhood spaces and conversations. In this conversation, Heather talks to authors Suzanne Axelsson and Miriam Beloglovsky t…
00:53:19 |
Wed 27 Mar 2024
NERD_0314 Happily Ever Resilient with Author Stephanie Goloway
Join host Heather Bernt-Santy as she talks to Stephanie Goloway, author of the Redleaf Press book Happily Ever Resilient: Using Fairy Tales to Nurture Children Through Adversity. Discover how "we can…
00:50:47 |
Wed 20 Mar 2024
NERD_0313 The Rules of Children’s Play
In a post on his Substack, Peter Gray wrote, "the rules of play provide boundaries within which the actions must occur, but they do not precisely dictate the actions. The rules always leave plenty of…
00:51:04 |
Wed 13 Mar 2024
NERD_0312 Structure….or Control: Which Do Children “Need”?
We've heard and read over and over again that children need "structure," but too often what that translates into in practice with young children is attempts to "control." Host Heather Bernt-Santy and…
00:44:35 |
Wed 06 Mar 2024
NERD_0311 Just Play! with Miriam Beloglovsky
In play, children stay connected to their childhood capacities that support creativity and innovation. Just like children, when adults engage in play and creative endeavors, they can find that childl…
00:40:47 |
Wed 28 Feb 2024
NERD_0310 Encouragement Every Day with Nancy Rosenow
Author Nancy Rosenow, advisor at Dimensions Educational Research Foundation, joins host Heather Bernt-Santy to discuss her new book, Encouragement Every Day, "a collection of 366 quotes and daily nug…
00:50:13 |
Wed 21 Feb 2024
NERD_0309 The Disadvantages of Romanticizing Children
Heather Bernt-Santy talks with Carol Garboden Murray about the ways that idealizing or romanticizing children or childhood can prevent us from seeing them as fully human.
00:54:40 |
Wed 14 Feb 2024
NERD_0308 Power ON vs Power FOR vs Power WITH Children
In this episode, Heather is joined by Mike Huber, who has some thoughts about young children, power, and play.Thanks for listening! If you'd like to help support the show, you can do that here: https…
00:45:27 |
Wed 31 Jan 2024
NERD_0115 Patience–A Negative Teacher Trait
Lisa Murphy cohosts to explore a mind blowing new (but really pretty old) perspective on "patience".
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00:32:18 |
Wed 17 Jan 2024
NERD_0225 Evidence Based Claims in ECE
After reading Peter Gray's article, "Beware of 'Evidence Based Preschool Curricula,' Mike Huber and I decided we needed to dig in to how curriculum and practices labeled "evidence based" and "researc…
00:37:19 |
Wed 10 Jan 2024
NERD_0307 Is Play a Human Right? With Lisa Murphy
"Human rights belong to everyone from cradle to grave and everywhere in between, irrespective of who we are or where we come from." (Alison Tonkin)Join host Heather Bernt-Santy and Guest Nerd Lisa Mu…
00:37:54 |
Wed 03 Jan 2024
NERD_0306 Thoughts from the Conference Vendor Hall with Lisa Murphy
FINALLY! It's been so long since Lisa Murphy was on the show! After hanging out at the NAEYC conference Expo/Vendor Hall, Lisa and host Heather Bernt-Santy have some thoughts about the priorities and…
00:35:17 |
Wed 13 Dec 2023
NERD_0305 Visual Perception and Emerging Literacy with Stacy Benge
You've heard Stacy Benge on a previous episode, but we had to bring her back! This book is SO GOOD, folks. Join host Heather Bernt-Santy, Mike Huber and Stacy for this discussion of visual perception…
00:59:04 |
Wed 06 Dec 2023
NERD_0304 Children’s Invisible Intentions with Ron Grady
"Childhood is full of invisible intentions. The ones that, without listening, would bloom and die without our knowledge." -Ron GradyTune in to hear Ron talk more about these intentions, the relationa…
00:38:31 |
Wed 22 Nov 2023
NERD_0303 Saying YES to Pushing Children on Swings
Did you know that some early childhood folx have strong feelings AGAINST pushing children on swings? What started as text chat between Mike Huber and Carol Garboden Murray (and was then shared with h…
00:58:23 |
Wed 15 Nov 2023
NERD_0302 Slow Knowledge pt 3–Interview with Author Alison Clark
Host Heather Bernt-Santy and visiting Nerd Carol Garboden Murray are so excited to present this episode for you! Dr Alison Clark, author of Slow Knowledge and the Unhurried Child: Time for Slow Pedag…
00:48:31 |
Wed 08 Nov 2023
NERD_0301 What If They Don’t Know How to Play
It's a question that comes up whenever Heather talks about play--what do we do when children don't know how to play? Listen in as she talks through some possibilities with beloved Nerds Richard Cohen…
00:41:33 |
Wed 01 Nov 2023
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