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_0300 Deconstructing School Readiness
You all! It's the 300th episode of the show! And you know what special episodes mean? PAJAMA PARTY! Put on some jammies, grab a favorite beverage, and join the Nerd Collective as we talk about how gr…
01:02:13 |
Wed 25 Oct 2023
NERD_0299 Settings for Young Children: One Size Still Does NOT Fit All
Tune in for a conversation about attempts to define quality, gatekeeping in early childhood, myths about one type of care being automatically higher quality, and more with Heather Bernt-Santy and Liz…
00:43:45 |
Wed 18 Oct 2023
NERD_0298 The Whole Child Alphabet with Stacy Benge
YOU GUYS! You have to read Stacy Benge's book "The Whole Child Alphabet: How Young Children Actually Develop Literacy" as soon as you can! Author and speaker Stacy Benge joins Heather Bernt-Santy to …
00:44:44 |
Wed 11 Oct 2023
NERD_0297 Curriculum: One Size Does NOT Fit All with Helen Frazier
New York City PreK teacher Helen Frazier joins Heather Bernt-Santy for a discussion of her Chalkbeat article "In Preschool, One Size Doesn't Fit All. So Why is NYC Asking Early Educators to Use a Sin…
00:45:18 |
Wed 04 Oct 2023
NERD_0296 Slow Knowledge and the Unhurried Child part 2
Heather, Carol Garboden Murray and Bethany Corrie finally get together (woo hoo!) for part 2 of our discussion of Allison Clark's book Slow Knowledge and the Unhurried Child: Time for Slow Pedagogies…
00:51:43 |
Wed 13 Sep 2023
NERD_0295 Let the Children Play with William Doyle and Pasi Sahlberg
If you haven't read the 2019 book Let the Children Play: How More Play will Save Our Schools and Help Children Thrive, you're missing out! The book's authors, William Doyle and Pasi Sahlberg, join He…
00:42:51 |
Wed 06 Sep 2023
NERD_0294 What ECE Can Learn from Others
Occupational therapists. Speech language pathologists. Artists. Family Therapists. Heather and Mike spend some time talking about the ways we have learned and our work has been impacted by people out…
00:55:11 |
Wed 30 Aug 2023
NERD_0293 Beyond the Economic Argument for Child Care with Elliot Haspel
Child and family policy expert and author Elliot Haspel joins Heather and Tiffany to talk about why the economic argument for "solving" the child care crisis is important--but not enough. Love the sh…
00:47:07 |
Wed 23 Aug 2023
NERD_0292 Humanity, Genius and Joy with Kisa Marx
Child advocate, play enthusiast and maker of magic Kisa Marx is this week's guest! Listen in as she talks with Heather and cohost Mike Huber about humanity, genius and joy in early childhood settings…
00:52:39 |
Wed 16 Aug 2023
NERD_0291 The Science of Reading in Early Childhood with Amanda Morgan
Amanda Morgan (www.notjustcute.com) stops by to talk with Heather about the renewed focus in education on the Science of Reading, and how to be sure we don't forget the early childhood foundation nec…
00:34:39 |
Wed 09 Aug 2023
NERD_0290 Tamar Jacobson (yay!) Talks Self Regulation
Tamar Jacobson, author of Everyone Needs Attention: Helping Young Children Thrive (and other great books!) joins Heather to talk about authentic self-regulation and young children.Check out That Earl…
00:40:51 |
Wed 02 Aug 2023
NERD_0289 Better Ways than ABA with Occupational Therapist Greg Santucci
If you haven't followed occupational therapist Greg Santucci on social media, what are you even doing? In this episode, Greg joins Heather to talk about ABA (Applied Behavior Analysis), the reported …
00:46:11 |
Thu 27 Jul 2023
NERD_0288 Consequences and Euphemisms with the Occuplaytional Therapist
When Heather saw Kelsie Olds' post on her Occuplaytional Therapist Facebook page that opened with, "I think we would actually all be fine if we would drop the word 'consequences' from our vocabularie…
00:55:23 |
Wed 19 Jul 2023
NERD_0287 “Belongingness” with Dr. Erika Bocknek
Family therapist and child development expert Dr. Erika Bocknek joins Heather Bernt-Santy for a "convo" about relationships and belongingness in early childhood.Find Dr Erika's website here: www.myco…
00:38:25 |
Wed 12 Jul 2023
NERD_0286 Warnings Against The Use Of ACE Scores in Trauma Informed Schools with Alex Winninghoff
Strategies and responses for working with young children who have experienced or are experiencing trauma are vital for early care and education practitioners to understand--why would we need to be wa…
00:58:23 |
Wed 05 Jul 2023
NERD_0285 Exclamation Points, Question Marks And School Readiness
In his foreword to the book Rethinking Readiness in Early Childhood Education: Implications for Policy and Practice (edited by Jeanne Marie Iorio and Will Parnell), William Ayers writes, "Every child…
00:43:07 |
Wed 28 Jun 2023
NERD_0284 Slow Knowledge and the Unhurried Child
Carol Garboden Murray and Bethany Corrie join host Heather Bernt-Santy for part 1 of our discussion of Alison Clark's book Slow Knowledge and the Unhurried Child: Time for Slow Pedagogies in Early Ch…
00:49:29 |
Wed 14 Jun 2023
NERD_0283 The Original Learning Approach with Suzanne Axelsson
Host Heather Bernt-Santy talks with Suzanne Axelsson, author of The Original Learning Approach: Weaving Together Playing, Learning and Teaching in Early Childhood
00:45:26 |
Wed 07 Jun 2023
NERD_0282 11 Simple Rules to Create Thriving Communities for Children with Judy Jablon
Author and executive director of Leading for Children Judy Jablon joins host Heather Bernt-Santy to discuss her new book "11 Simple Rules to Create Thriving Communities for Children." Spoiler alert: …
01:04:20 |
Wed 31 May 2023
NERD_0281 The Intellectual Lives of Children with Author Susan Engel
Susan Engel, author of several books, including The Intellectual Lives of Children, joins host Heather Bernt-Santy to talk about her research into how young children think and share her thoughts abou…
00:39:26 |
Wed 24 May 2023
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