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The Powerful Pedagogy
The Powerful Pedagogy is a conversational early childhood podcast that explores the shifts and changes we have experienced in our field since 2020. Host, Lynnette Arthur, unpacks the social-emotional impact the past few years have had in these powerful conversations. You’ll leave these fun and thought provoking interviews discovering new perspectives to bring to your classroom. This podcast is produced by Wunderled, the leading expert in play based education, serving educators globally. Visit our website at www.wunderled.com
Episodes
25 episodes
Nicola Robinson: Creative Rigor - The Hope for a Equitable Educational System
Nicola is a progressive early childhood educator with over 20 years experience in cultivating impactful and effective learning spaces for young students.Her passion and expertise is an ability to balance play and rigor while in...
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Season 2
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Episode 12
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29:30
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Jane Racoosin : Teaching Beyond the Square - Creating a Culture of Sustainability
Jane Racoosin has worked in early childhood education for over 20 years and she has witnessed how children’s learning and emotional development are impacted by an exploration-based education approach. In her own classroom, she saw that child...
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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29:46
Dayna Abraham: Calming the Chaos - Embracing Sensory Processing
Dayna Abraham has become a trusted and proven leader in the parenting community. She is the founder of the popular parenting site 'Lemon Lime Adventures' which has accumulated over 41 million viewers in less than seven years. Sh...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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44:36
Kisa Marx: Deconstructing Early Learning - Resetting our Teaching Practices
Kisa Marx is a former academic-centered daycare provider turned heart-centered founder of her Play & Nature-based program, Kidcrew Adventures Early Childhood Community. With over twenty years of experience working in the fie...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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37:10
Rae Pica: Sparking a Revolution through Play Advocacy
Rae Pica is an education consultant dedicated to the development and education of the whole child. Rae has been an early childhood education consultant since 1980 and is internationally known as a speaker, online course creator, and author. Rae...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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36:33
Pete Moorhouse: Woodworking in Early Childhood
Pete Moorhouse is an early years creative consultant, researcher, author and artist educator based in the UK. He is a trainer for Early Education and deliverers training nationally and overseas and is also an endorsed Froebel Tutor. Hi...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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34:50
Sherleen Bruno: Erasing the Stigma of Early Intervention
Sherleen Bruno is a learning support specialist who works with young children with learning differences. With over fourteen years of experience in the field of education, Sherleen Bruno has served as a Special Educator to early learners from...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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34:19
Eric Royo: Building Community thru HIP HOP
Founder of Hip Hop Building Blockshttps://hiphopbuildingblocks.com/Born and raised in New York Eric Royo grew up in an era where Hip Hop thrived and was at the foref...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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29:19
Dr. Diana Kashin: Cultivating a Culture of Friendship
Dr. Diane Kashin is a registered early childhood educator in the province of Ontario. She received a Bachelor of Honors Degree from York University, an Early Childhood Education Diploma from Seneca College and a Master of Education and Docto...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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36:54
Linda Rosenblatt: Food for Thought...How Food Affects Behavior
With over two decades coaching people how to retrain the brain with a healthier and happier mindset, Linda teaches adults, youth and families, the importance and value of empowerment, through culinary and nutrition education and energy heali...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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32:27
Ashley Jefferson: Social-Emotional Growth thru Puppetry
Ms. Ashley (she/her) is an early childhood expert and play advocate. She brings her 20+ years of experience as an early childhood teacher, museum curator, and performer as the Founder of Play Plan Afrikan (
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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37:15
Sally Haughey: The Power of Wonder with Wunderled
Sally Haughey is the CEO and Founder of Fairy Dust Teaching and Wunderled. Fairy Dust Teaching is built on the passion for the wonder and magic of early childhood, the idea that young children have the right to play, to be collaborators in l...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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33:39
Self Care is the Best Teacher Care with Carla Ward
Carla Ward is an Early Childhood Educator and the founder of Early Learning Foundations, a business dedicated to education and enhancing the work of Early Childhood Educators. She has held a variety of roles in the education field for more t...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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39:37
Dynamic Duo (NAPCAST) with Mike Browne & Nick Terrones
Napcast is a podcast co-hosted by two male educators of color working with our youngest citizens. Together, they challenge, tackle, and discuss topics at the intersection of education, race, culture, and identity.Bio:
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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30:19
Inspiring Universal Pre-K with Charnea Paris
Charnea Paris is an educator seeking to make dynamic change in the lives of children where it is most needed. She teaches Pre-K at a public school in the South Bronx. One of her passions is incorporating identity work throughout the ye...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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34:13
Social Justice & Diversity Teaching in Early Childhood with Semeka Smith-Williams
Semeka Smith-Williams is a member of the The Institute for Social and Emotional Learning (IFSEL) which empowers educators, young people, and parents to transform their schools into caring, inclusive communities. For the past six years ...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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30:20
Being Play Responsive with Suzanne Axelsson
Suzanne Axelsson has worked with children for over 30 years in roles. She works as a pedagogical consultant using experience and research in listening, philosophy with children and Indigenous Knowledge to guide creating democratic lear...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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36:34
Embracing Technology through Play with Chloe Taylor
Chloe Taylor Technology is a STEM Education consulting company based in New York City. Her company provides future-focused services for schools in STEM education and digital design to help facilitate meaningful learning experiences through t...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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32:39
Inspirational Entrepreneurship with Yesenia Placencia
A native New Yorker, Yesenia started the development of Young Risers in May 2013. Working in NYC private schools for over eight years introduced her to the Reggio Approach. This fostered the idea of opening a school that catered thi...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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30:58
Sustainable Teaching Practices with Robin Koo
Inspired by the Reggio Emilia practice, Robin Koo has been an Art Studio Teacher for over 16 years. She served as the Program Director of Teaching Beyond the Square from 2015-2018. In 2015, when Teaching Beyond the Square hosted the Wonder of L...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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31:13
Celebrating Children’s Differences with Jahidah Diaab
The Blended Garden is an inspiration from nature, where flowers bring the message of inclusion and diversity to children, allowing for rich ongoing dialogue where parents and educators connect meaning to materials through nature's design. Th...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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35:34
Building Teachers Up Beyond Professional Development with Barbara Burrington
Barbara Burrington, a phenomenal Education Mentor, served as Interim Director of the UVM Campus Children’s School (2017 - 2020) where she had worked as Head Teacher from 1993 through 2007. She was the first Director of Community Based ...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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47:18
Raising Resilient Children with Tunu Thom
Tunu Thom is the author of “An Unexpected New Dream.” Inspired by the activism and artistry of Dr. Nina SimoneTunu establishes works that centralize around themes of motherhood, culture, futurism, sexuality, and world politics.…c...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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44:21
The Importance of Choice Time with Renee Dinnerstein
Renée Dinnerstein, author of the Heinemann publication, Choice Time: How To Deepen Learning Through Inquiry And Play, has over 50 years experience working as an early childhood educator. She taught in Rome, Italy, in New York City at P.S. 32...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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36:56
