The Intentional ECE

The Intentional ECE is a podcast for educators seeking fresh ideas and practical tools to bring authenticity to their teaching and meaningful learning to their classrooms. Host Cathy Belgrave explores ways to create nurturing, impactful learning spaces where teachers and children thrive. Designed for educators and administrators in preschool, kindergarten, and elementary settings, each episode provides insights to inspire action, strengthen advocacy, and foster a supportive community around children’s learning and well-being.

The Intentional ECE is a education podcast hosted by Cathy Belgrave, with 88 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Cathy Belgrave hosts The Intentional ECE, a education show with 88 episodes published.

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  Liberation Architecture: Designing Spaces Where Children Don't Have to Recover with Kisa Marx

  Sep 29, 20261h 1m

  What would it mean to create a learning environment that children don't have to recover from? Kisa Marx - educator, author, and Liberation Architect - invites us to look through a kaleidoscope rather than a binary lens, shifting our perspective until we can truly see the child in front of us. A powerful conversation about cultural humility, child-affirming spaces, universal truths, and what it means to free the children in our care. Learn more/connect with Kisa: Website Instagram: @am_still_learning, @theplaylabfoundation Substack LinkedIn

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  Trusting Children, Trusting Ourselves: Play, Social Justice, and Teacher Education with Norline Wild

  Sep 22, 202656 min

  The most important readiness isn't academic - it's social, emotional, and human. Norline Wild joins the conversation to explore what it means to prepare future educators to truly see children, know their students, and bring intentionality and joy to their practice. From picture books and play to developmentalism and systemic change, this is a conversation about what teacher education can be when relationships and curiosity are at the heart of it. To learn more about Norline: Website

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  The Room We Build

  Sep 15, 202618 min

  This year, something's shifting in how educators think about the start of school - some are waiting to build the space together with the children who arrive. In this episode, we explore what that small choice reveals about a much bigger question: what do we actually believe about children, learning, and our own role as educators? A quiet invitation to revisit your values - not to change them, but to ask how they show up now - so that you, and the children in your care, can thrive. Values to Action: A Guidebook for Early Childhood Educators References From Teaching to Thinking - Ann Pelo, Margie Carter Revisiting Journeys - Miriam Beloglovsky, Jessica Frazier Finding Our Way - Ann Van Dam, Fiona Zinn ASPIRE - Sue Roffey Ecological Systems Theory - Uri Bronfenbrenner

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  Building Community: Partnership, Space, and the Educator's Role with Jessie Frazier

  Sep 8, 20261h 3m

  Community in an early learning centre isn't something that happens by accident - it's built intentionally, through partnership, dialogue, and a willingness to ask hard questions about what we value and how we structure our time. Jessie Frazier joins the conversation to explore what it really means to create community with children, families, and educators - from integrating families into planning, to designing spaces that feel alive, to the self-work that has to come first.

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  Building the Path While We Walk It with Paige Wernick, Ron Grady, and Misty Paterson

  Sep 1, 20261h 15m

  What if the divide between infant and toddler, preschool, and school-age educators isn't really about age groups at all - but about status, hierarchy and whose work gets recognized as teaching? In this panel conversation, Paige Wernick, Ron Grady, and Dr. Misty Paterson explore the depth of knowledge educators carry, how it’s often not seen, the structural barriers that keep us from building bridges across rooms and programs, and what becomes possible when we stop treating collaboration as a ‘nice to have’ but as an essential part of an educator’s work. It's a conversation about power, perception, and what it might take for every educator, and every child, to truly thrive. To learn more about Paige, Ron and Misty: Paige Wernick Ron Grady + website Dr. Misty Paterson + website

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