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Early Childhood Journeys

Marissa Calderón

Education

Kids & Family

Frequency: 1 episode/21d. Total Eps: 60

Join host and a First Things First Champion for Young Children recipient, Marissa Calderón as she captures the journey of educators and advocates alike by highlighting their work through interviews and candid conversations, including best practices in the early education field.

A practical listen and brain nugget for the early education practitioner, child advocate, parent and community alike.

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Cute or Racist? Overdue Curriculum Conversations in Early Childhood

Season 3 · Episode 57

Thursday, December 17, 2020 • Duration 39:34

Episode 57 features returning guest, Tina Wiggins Sykes and podcast guest debut of Gloria McGinty. Tina Sykes and Gloria McGinty are Arizona based Early Childhood Professionals, ECE Coaches, Trainers, College Instructors, Equity Specialists amongst their past or current roles. They are also long-time friends and colleagues of host, Marissa Calderón. All are involved in equity work both personally and professionally and lend some powerful insights to this subject matter.

In this episode, host Marissa discusses the frustration in shifting white dominant curriculum practices that can come off as racists and culturally offensive, especially around the holidays. How do we begin to have these tough conversations in early childhood in public when we know they are being had in private? Addressing these uncomfortable topics can feel intimidating. A very insightful and relatable topic for many early childhood practitioners and eye-opening for early childhood program administrators.

Notice: Podcast subject matter is not representative of podcast guest/host employers or specific agencies. Opinions are their own.

Connect with host, Marissa and the award-winning Early Childhood Journeys podcast at: earlychildhoodjourneys.com or email at marissa@earlychildhoodjourneys.com

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Teaching Kindergarten Online During COVID19 thru an Equity Lens

Season 3 · Episode 56

Saturday, August 15, 2020 • Duration 50:05

Episode 56 features a Kindergarten Virtual Zoom Chat that was converted to an audio podcast with light editing for clarity.

Guests, Lauren Degregorio is a K-1 teacher in New Mexico, previously a Kindergarten Teacher in Arizona. Catherine Norwood is an Arizona Instructional Coach for an Arizona school district. Both Educators are connected thru AZ's The Kindergarten Experience past grant work with podcast host Marissa Calderón.

Discussion related to tips and strategies on how to meet the online kindergarten child's needs, what is equitable for the child and their family, what is realistic for families and what is based on the science of learning for young children. Website links are also included and real-life stories of parents and families on the difficult adjustment this new normal has created. The importance of social and emotional development and trauma that school districts have to recognize and focusing on strategies for parents and teachers. Discussion also includes recognition that many teachers are essentially learning a new method of delivery of information and it's stressful for everyone.

Connect with host, Marissa and the award-winning Early Childhood Journeys podcast at: earlychildhoodjourneys.com

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Ep. 47 Kindergarten Readiness Tips with Teacher Julie Decuir

Season 2 · Episode 47

Monday, February 11, 2019 • Duration 12:52

Episode 47 is the first of a series of Kindergarten Readiness Tips and Insight episodes! Joined by Sierra Vista Unified School District in Arizona, Kindergarten Teacher, Julie Decuir. Podcast host, Marissa and Julie chat about the true skills future kindergartners need vs what some parents may think their child needs to master for school. Julie has been a Kindergarten teacher for 17 years and she shares her tips and insights for parents during this busy time of year of kindergarten registration.

Connect with host, Marissa and the Early Childhood Journeys podcast at: earlychildhoodjourneys.com

Music track is called Lemon Tea from GYVUS provided by Chillhop Music, a platform dedicated to finding and sharing the best chilled hiphop, jazzhop and triphop music and connecting people.

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Ep. 46 Confessions of a High School Senior

Season 2 · Episode 46

Tuesday, January 29, 2019 • Duration 17:21

Episode 46 is with a very special guest. Podcast host, Marissa chats with her own daughter, Salma, who is a High School Senior. Salma shares her confessions about her destain feelings on homework packets, math and other high school frustrations. She can't wait for graduation and shares her plans for the future. A connection with Early Childhood and a candid conversation every parent of a teenager can relate to with added insights for the High School teacher too.

Connect with host, Marissa and the Early Childhood Journeys podcast at: earlychildhoodjourneys.com

Music track is called Lemon Tea from GYVUS provided by Chillhop Music, a platform dedicated to finding and sharing the best chilled hiphop, jazzhop and triphop music and connecting people.

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Ep. 45 Kindergarten Teacher Kristen Orton

Season 2 · Episode 45

Monday, January 14, 2019 • Duration 25:43

Episode 45 is with Kristen L. Orton! Kristen is a Kindergarten teacher at Vernon Elementary School in Vernon Arizona. Vernon is a very rural community in Apache County, in the White Mountains area of Northern Arizona. She was recently hired last year to teach Kindergarten and if she wasn't busy enough finishing her Masters, she had the vision that the K-8 school she was just hired at, also needed a preschool classroom. After a in-depth proposal, several school board meetings and community buy in, her vision to have a preschool classroom came true. Listen to the conversation as we break down how it went down with host Marissa Calderón.

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Vernon Elementary School District

Connect and follow Kristen's Preschool programs journey through her Blog at Edublogs

Email Kristen.

Connect with host, Marissa and the Early Childhood Journeys podcast at: earlychildhoodjourneys.com

Music track is called Lemon Tea from GYVUS provided by Chillhop Music, a platform dedicated to finding and sharing the best chilled hiphop, jazzhop and triphop music and connecting people.

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Ep. 44 AZ AEF Teacher of the Year Kareem Neal & the Ambassadors for Excellence

Season 2 · Episode 44

Monday, December 31, 2018 • Duration 30:38

Episode 44 with Arizona Educational Foundations 2019 Teacher of the Year, Kareem Neal and three of the four Ambassadors for Excellence, Jonathan Perrone, Sheri Loyd and Lee Ann Howell sit down with host, Marissa Calderón. The interview took place at the Highway 85 Creative podcast studio in Peoria Arizona and they chat about their journey in receiving the recognition and how the community can support their work in the classroom.

This episode is marked as "explicit language" due to the use of using "Badass" as to describe these phenomenal educators!

The episode transcript is also available via the EC Journeys Blog page here.

Kareem Neal is the 2019 AEF Arizona Teacher of the Year, a 9th-12th Grade Self-Contained Special Education Teacher from Maryvale High School at Phoenix Union High School District in Arizona.

Jonathan Perrone is a 8th Grade STEAM Teacher at Mountain Sky Middle School of Washington Elementary School District in Phoenix Arizona.

Lee Ann Howell is a 7th Grade Science Teacher at Colonel Smith Middle School of Fort Huachuca Accommodation School District at the Fort Huachuca Army base in Arizona.

Sheri Loyd is a 3rd Grade ELA and Math Teacher at Mountain View School of Dysart Unified School District in Waddell Arizona.

Connect with host, Marissa and the Early Childhood Journeys podcast at: earlychildhoodjourneys.com

Music track is called Lemon Tea from GYVUS provided by Chillhop Music, a platform dedicated to finding and sharing the best chilled hiphop, jazzhop and triphop music and connecting people.

Ep. 43 Tina Martin & the ADAPT Shop

Season 2 · Episode 43

Monday, December 17, 2018 • Duration 24:22

Episode 43 with Tina Martin from Southwest Human Development, Services for Children with Disabilities. Tina has been with Southwest Human Development since 1997 and is now the Assistant Director for this department. She provides us with her story on how she came across the Early Intervention field as well as a tour of the Birth to Five ADAPT Shop. This shop focuses on changing lives — identifying, modifying and building customized equipment that give children with disabilities hope and opportunity. The shop really takes conscious custom innovation for children to the next level!

Learn more about the ADAPT Shop here and how you can support them this holiday season!

Connect with host, Marissa and the Early Childhood Journeys podcast at: earlychildhoodjourneys.com

Music track is called Lemon Tea from GYVUS provided by Chillhop Music, a platform dedicated to finding and sharing the best chilled hiphop, jazzhop and triphop music and connecting people.

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Ep. 42 Talking Autism with Dad & Comic Book Creator Led Bradshaw

Season 2 · Episode 42

Monday, December 3, 2018 • Duration 30:38

Episode 42 is with comic book artist and creator of Jetpulse Comics, Led Bradshaw. Led is also dad to his 8 year old son, Jake who is on the autism spectrum and the inspiration of his phenomenal comic book hero Jake Jetpulse. In this conversation with host, Marissa Calderón, they discuss parenting, how his son Jake created the initial character of the comics through his drawings and how dad Led created superhero flashcards and later comic book stories to encouraged his son to improve his engagement at school.

Connect with host, Marissa and the Early Childhood Journeys podcast at: earlychildhoodjourneys.com

Music track is called Lemon Tea from GYVUS provided by Chillhop Music, a platform dedicated to finding and sharing the best chilled hiphop, jazzhop and triphop music and connecting people.

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Ep. 41 Alebrijes & 21st Century Skills

Season 2 · Episode 41

Monday, November 19, 2018 • Duration 08:36

Episode 41 with host Marissa Calderón reflecting on an upcoming blog post, soon to be released on the Mexican art of Alebrijes. She provides some guides on how to connect students interest authentically while incorporating 21st Century Skills in the classroom.

For the full blog post on lesson guides for Alebrijes & 21st Century Skills in the Early Childhood classroom and to learn more, visit the website at, earlychildhoodjourneys.com .

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Ep. 40 Birth to Five Helpline, Senior Program Manager, Ana Arbel

Season 2 · Episode 40

Monday, November 5, 2018 • Duration 22:13

Ep. 40 with Ana Arbel from Arizona's Southwest Human Development, Birth to Five Helpline. Ana talks about the toll-free hotline for parents of children birth to five, describing it as having a professional friend... who is well-informed and trained in all things Child Development and keeps your conversation confidential!

The hotline is toll-free AND multilingual including in Spanish. Ana is the Bilingual Senior Program Manager of the program and provides host Marissa with valuable advice for parents and for early childhood classroom teachers.

Connect with host, Marissa and the Early Childhood Journeys podcast at: earlychildhoodjourneys.com

Music track is called Lemon Tea from GYVUS provided by Chillhop Music, a platform dedicated to finding and sharing the best chilled hiphop, jazz hop and trip hop music and connecting people.

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More by Chillhop:

http://chillhop.com/listen

GYVUS - Weekend:

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