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 conversation, is for any adult who interacts with other adults

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. Deborah Serani and Afsaneh Moradian drop by to talk about the

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 Heather Bernt-Santy refute those claims, and talk about how we

"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. 

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."

Mike Huber has listened to some episodes of the Child Care Bar and Grill podcast about schema play, and has some questions for Heather

Chad Nunamaker and Dr William Mosier, authors of the article "Promoting Inquiry Based Science Education" are Heather's guests in this episode, with a lot to say about science anxiety in early childhood educators, self regulation, and "supporting the devel

Most of us in ECE agree that infancy is just as full of learning as preschool, but what should practice look like under that philosophy? Is it letters and numbers and shapes? Is it group activities? Lisa Murphy and Heather don't think so.

In this week's episode, the Two Pushy Dames (LeeAnn Soucy and Kathy Gallo) drop in to push back on the academic pushdown that makes "letter of the week" instruction so prevalent and popular in early childhood programs, why it doesn't work, and what we can

In which Mike Huber and Heather have a very smart conversation about adult behaviors that are challenging for children, but also manage to work in references to cinematic classics Wayne's World, Stepbrothers and The Big Lebowski.