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_0261 Cognitive Dissonance And Emotional Distress
In this episode, Mike Huber shares the story of observing and supporting a young boy's struggle to enter a classroom with two substitute teachers, and shares his thoughts and wonderings about the emo…
00:43:19 |
Wed 28 Dec 2022
NERD_0260 Emotional And Dependency Labor
One time in the Nerd group chat, Lizz Nolasco shared a really interesting article/interview about the term "emotional labor." Then Carol Garboden Murray connected it to a book that discussed "depende…
00:41:18 |
Wed 21 Dec 2022
NERD_0259 Don’t Be Scared Of Advocacy!
It's time for a revolution in early care and education! Rae Pica drops by to talk about her new book, "Spark a Revolution in Early Education: Speaking Up for Ourselves and the Children."
00:37:53 |
Wed 07 Dec 2022
NERD_0258 Pursuing Bad Guys With Donna King
Join us as Donna King, author of Pursuing Bad Guys: Joining Children's Quest for Clarity, Courage and Community, as she talks about her "yearlong, co-constructed investigation of goodness and badness…
01:00:34 |
Wed 23 Nov 2022
NERD_0257 Commodifying Early Childhood
"Commodification is the rendering of people or things into items of economic exchange, reducing humans and humanity into objects, and attaching human value to economic merits." (W. Gregory Harman)Yep…
00:40:30 |
Wed 09 Nov 2022
NERD_0256 Inclusion Includes Us
Mike Huber has a new book coming out, and you're definitely going to want to read it! In this episode, Mike talks about the book, titled "Inclusion Includes Us: Building Bridges and Removing Barriers…
00:56:58 |
Wed 02 Nov 2022
NERD_0255 Telling Children’s Stories
"There is a dominant discourse that early education is preparation for something in the future, usually stated as kindergarten; that developmental psychology with its focus on ages and stages can be …
00:45:57 |
Thu 27 Oct 2022
NERD_0253 Your Image Of The Child
Your image of the child, what you believe about children, will impact every interaction and decision you make about your work with them. Lizz Nolasco and Rixa Evershed drop in to talk about what that…
00:53:50 |
Wed 19 Oct 2022
NERD_0254 Liberated By Play
In this episode, Lizz Nolasco, Rixa Evershed and Heather unpack this quote from Denisha Jones: "Joy, engagement and reflection are the keys to liberation for both children and teachers. Through the f…
00:44:58 |
Wed 12 Oct 2022
NERD_0252 Why It Matters
Recently, on two different occasions, Heather has been challenged with questions of why learning about child development and developmental theories "matters"...so of COURSE she had to talk it through…
00:37:50 |
Wed 05 Oct 2022
NERD_0251 Meeting Parent Needs
Bethany Corrie, Lizz Nolasco and I got together to think and talk about seeing parent/family questions like "Do they learn things here or are you just babysitting?" as an opportunity to see and meet …
00:42:35 |
Wed 21 Sep 2022
NERD_0250 Nerd Game Night!
Holy cow! It's the 250th episode of the show, so I invited some of the Nerd Collective to play one of my favorite games ("Ransom Notes") and laugh with me. Hope you laugh, too! Thank you all so much …
00:42:39 |
Wed 14 Sep 2022
NERD_0249 Mark Making In Early Childhood
You'll see children's scribbles and mark making processes (and products!) in a whole new way after listening to Carol Garboden Murray talk about them!
00:35:27 |
Wed 24 Aug 2022
NERD_0248 Disconnects In Early Learning And Assessment
In this episode, Heather brings out her much-highlighted and post-it-noted copy of Michael Gramling's The Great Disconnect in Early Childhood Education: What We Know vs What We do for a conversation …
00:58:04 |
Wed 17 Aug 2022
NERD_0247 Recess, Schoolification and Behaviorism
Carol Garboden Murray, Mike Huber and Heather have some strong feelings about a recent article published in Young Children ("Outdoor Recess Matters! Preventing and Reducing Children's Challenging Beh…
00:46:28 |
Wed 27 Jul 2022
NERD_0246 Finding Your Way Through Conflict
Authors Chris Amirault and Christine Snyder drop in on the show to talk about their GREAT new book, Finding Your Way Through Conflict: Strategies for Early Childhood Educators. This book, and convers…
01:01:47 |
Wed 06 Jul 2022
NERD_0245 Exciting Children’s Books For SEL
Are you looking for good children's books that tells stories about consent, strong emotions, pronouns, and more? Free Spirit Publishing children's authors Lydia Bowers, Deborah Kris Farmer, Dr. Debor…
01:10:16 |
Wed 29 Jun 2022
NERD_0244 No, We Are Not Grooming Children
This is a serious one, folks. Starting with a quote from a Washington Post article titled "Teachers Who Mention Sexuality are 'Grooming' Kids, Conservatives Say," Richard Cohen, Mike Huber and Heathe…
01:03:37 |
Wed 22 Jun 2022
NERD_0243 Tired Of “Education”
"You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time." ~Angela DavisHeather and Richard are ready for an anti-"education" revolution.
00:47:41 |
Wed 15 Jun 2022
NERD_0242 Interrupting, Interfering…Teaching?
A brand new guest joins the show! Liz Hicks joins Heather to talk about the teacher urge to interfere with and interrupt play in an effort to "teach."
00:40:40 |
Wed 01 Jun 2022
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