That Early Childhood Nerd
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It's spring break 2025, which means the Nerds are descending on Indianapolis for four days of nerdy fun! In this episode, host Heather Bernt-Santy and nerds Lizz Nolasco, Mike Huber, Kisa Marx, and Bethany Corrie wonder about what happens when
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 of her very favorite nerds. In this episode, w
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 thing, and as you might have guessed from the t
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, and almost 2000 shares. The post is a powerful
In another episode that was originally intended as a sessionin a virtual NerdCon conference that didn’t happen, Richard Cohen, Lizz Nolascoand Bethany Corrie talk about children who seem hesitant to join in play. Want to support the show? Y
Physics learning for children under 5? What? Join hostHeather Bernt-Santy, Mike Huber and Krystina Tapia as they discuss one of thebest articles Heather has read in a long time—“Young Children’s Learning in Physics:A (Dis-)Trustful Play with
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 Preschools: What it is and How to Distinguish it Fr
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 Heather Bernt-Santy is joined by Mike Huber and
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 to risk, and young children are suffering from
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 Kisa Marx dig into the idea of supporting play
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 is! Please welcome listeners Gemma Medina and
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 lifespan. Host Heather Bernt-Santy contributed
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 lifespan. In this episode, Heather Bernt-Santy
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, join host Heather Bernt-Santy to discuss their a
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 commodified? Do attempts to make money off of q
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 for quality do not center the child. As part o
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 talking about "care." How in the world did we g
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 for measuring "quality" often lead to early ca
"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 episode, Mike has relistened to TECN episode 226, w
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 conversation going...Thanks for listening!
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 doing what she's doing--writing, talking and spe
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 engaging combination of "woo-woo" and science, Erin
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 honor children and help them flourish by underst
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 starts with an article by Dr Katz called "Th
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 "Distinctions Between Academic and Intellectual Goals for
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