Pre-Primary Sources

6. Coloring Pages, Part 2, with Tiffany Pearsall

We're back with Tiffany Pearsall! In part one, we talked about creativity; but a lot of the information out there is really about coloring pages and mental health. Where does using this research fit i...

13 Mar 43min

5. A New Vision for a High Quality Preschool Curriculum with Dr. Denisha Jones

Dr. Denisha Jones, of Defending the Early Years (DEY) and I discuss the 2024 publication from the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine called A New Vision for High-Quality Preschool...

27 Feb 40min

4. No Benefit to Group Care Prior to Age 3? with Heather Bernt-Santy

In the enormous child care care ecosystem conversation, there is an idea that one to one care, like a nanny, parent, or grandparent, is ideal until a child is three years old, at which point they are ...

13 Feb 37min

3. Coloring Pages and Creativity, with Tiffany Pearsall

While there isn't often a hard and fast rule, coloring pages are often looked at as "busy work" or as having no place in a child led classroom, with beliefs about the potential for negative impact on ...

5 Feb 38min

2. Teacher as Researcher, with Alexandra Dutton

The Reggio Emilia approach values the idea of the teacher as researcher; program director Alexandra Dutton, of Old Firehouse School, has nearly 20 years of experience supporting educators in their rol...

16 Jan 41min

1. Critical vs. Radical Scholarship

Before we talk about specific research in early childhood, I wanted to talk about the history of the institution of science-- how it has served to both expand human knowledge and block out those it ha...

2 Jan 50min