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PreKTeachandPlay.com Podcast

How do you help all children thrive? Get in-depth discussions and insider tips with Dr. Kristie Pretti-Frontczak. Each episode gives access to real-world strategies and tools for dealing with behaviors that are challenging, pressures to “ready” children for Kindergarten, and the goal to build kinder, more inclusive, and more creative classrooms, which address the whole child. The host, Dr. Kristie Pretti-Frontczak, has 30 ears of experience in teaching and supporting early educators. You, too can become an ECE {R}evolutionary and reclaim children's right to learn through play, reimagine inclusive classrooms, and revolutionize early care and education.
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Now displaying: October, 2020
Oct 23, 2020

What does inclusion mean to you?

For me, it is a fundamental human right...NOT just a rite-of-passage. It is when we experience a true sense of belonging. ​​

In this PreK Teach and Play podcast episode, I talk with Ijumaa Jordan and Isela Garcia about what inclusion means and explore our top tips for early educators.

This conversation was originally recorded for the 2020 Summer Leadership Institute sponsored by Inclusive Schooling and hosted by Dr. Julie Causton and me. The recordings from over 30 hours of expert conversations about inclusion from Pre-K to post secondary is available NOW on-demand!

During my conversation with Ijumaa and Isela, we explored:

  • How to shift our mindsets (regardless of where instruction takes place) to see our work as being with children vs. doing to children
  • Barriers to inclusion and how leaders can work to remove them
  • Tips about what makes inclusion a true possibility

 

Oct 1, 2020

When I talked with Dr. Susan Hopkins for Episode 46 of the Pre-K Teach and Play podcast, we explored what the term "self-regulation" really means.

In this bonus episode with the incredible Dr. Stuart Shanker, we go even deeper.

For example, did you know that at one time there were 447 different definitions of self-regulation in education....446 of which were all about self-control?

Yeah, I didn't either! 

In this Pre-K Teach and Play bonus podcast episode, Dr. Stuart Shanker explains how his fascination with the American Revolution as a young school boy in Canada resulted in a passion for understanding how children (and humans in general) develop.

In this bonus episode, Dr. Shanker discusses: 

  • What he discovered about the difference between the educational, neuroscientific, and physiological understandings in terms of what it means to self-regulate
  • The science of stress and why we need to reframe labeling reactions as stress-behavior...not misbehavior
  • How our brains have grown and evolved over time
  • What it really means to be a stress detective
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