In this episode, we look at the recent federal budget and try to look for opportunities to grow as a self-managed profession in terms of the quality of our work with children.

In this episode, we re-imagine the role of educational (or pedagogical) leader as one who is a respectful challenger in order to help us confront ideas and make the familiar strange.

In this episode I explore the idea of moving away from "environment as the third teacher", to context as the third teacher and challenge the idea that environments for children need to be more of the same from a catalogue.

In this episode, we question the ethics of current documentation practices with a focus on a deeper consideration to involving children in deciding what is significant and what is made visible for others to see.

In this episode I try to explore the key tenets of Reggio Emilia and ask if in fact, makes this approach to early childhood education unreachable for most.

In this episode I explore the notion of children's identity and how it might be being railroaded by Familiy trees and portraits. 

In this episode I examine what many educators are suffering from: "Documentation fatigue" and try to offer some solutions - loosely under the banner of what I call the 5 Ps.

In this episode I try to explore and rethink some of the most common 'sacred cows' in early childhood - water, sand and playdough.

In this episode I try to explore and rethink some of the most common 'sacred cows' in early childhood - water, sand and playdough.

In this episode I examine three questions around quality:

1. Can quality look like something?