In the book "Child Care Justice: Transforming the System of Care for Young Children," Michael Gramling writes about child care as a human right and offers a challenge to those of us in the field of early care and education: "If the early childhood workfor

Yay! Family child care provider and brilliant respecter-of-childhood Melinda Marshall joins the show this week to talk about the importance of adults understanding their own childhood trauma, stress and relationships to help support children's emotional d

In his new book, Inclusion Includes Us: Building Bridges and Removing Barriers in Early Childhood Classrooms, Mike Huber talks about "multiple experts" who can contribute to a sense of belonging, including the child as expert. Listen in as he and Heather

Lisa and Jeff go off the rails from the beginning and spend the whole episode chatting about the 2023 Playful Change Challenge and specifically about the fun new spreadsheet Jeff's created to track his progress. There are formulas and everything--what fun

Tiffany and Heather revisit the Ypsilanti Perry Preschool Project as described in Louise Derman Sparks' article, "What I Learned form the Ypsilanti Perry Preschool Project: A Teacher's Reflections." It's a fascinating retelling of what was measured, what

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 emotional distress he saw as a result of the boy's experien

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 "dependency labor" and the two of them had a wonderful, deep, th

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."

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, real and pretend, safety and courage."

"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, even children.....