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 article, “Who Gets to Be Neutral? The Respectability Politics of Leading for Educational Justice.” 

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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 quality child care fit with what research tells us are indicators of quality? We don’t think so. 

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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 of the conversation, they discuss Heather’s decision to reject the industry standard descriptor  “developmentally appropriate” in favor of more child-centering terms like “developmentally informed” and “developmentally responsive.”

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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 get here? There is no “quality” without “care.”

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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 care and education settings where play is devalued or simply doesn’t exist. 

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“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, where Heather interviewed Dr Lori Desautels, author of the book Connections Over Compliance. The conversation starts with Mike inviting Heather to make some connections between that interview and her current work writing a book about schema play and advocacy. 

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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…

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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 speaking to groups about play and movement in childhood.

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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 has some great ideas for anyone who wants to work in a way that aligns with their authentic self.

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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 understanding their need for, and right to, movement. 

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