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.
Childhood isn't a waiting room for adulthood. It's a valid place on the life cycle, with its own perspectives, ideas, and theories. Through a story of moss, a spray bottle, and a fairy town built on the carpet, we explore curiosity as a disposition rather than a strategy, and what becomes visible when developmental milestones move out of the foreground: the nonlinear, joyful, whole child in front of us. Inspired by my workshop, Children are Capable & Whole.
The Intentional Educator (https://www.theintentionaleducator.ca/courses)
30 Sept 2026
Liberation Architecture: Designing Spaces Where Children Don't Have to Recover with Kisa Marx
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 (https://playlaboakpark.org)
Instagram: @am_still_learning, @theplaylabfoundation
Substack (https://kisamarx.substack.com)
LinkedIn (http://www.linkedin.com/in/kmarxoftheplaylab)
23 Sept 2026
Trusting Children, Trusting Ourselves: Play, Social Justice, and Teacher Education with Norline Wild
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 (https://www.niagara.edu/directory/dr-norline-wild/)
Who has been a guest on The Intentional ECE
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Rosalba Bortolotti
Kerry Drake
Marta Skrzypczak
Junlei Li
Ann Pelo
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Apple Podcasts (US)
5.0 / 5
2 ratings
Spotify
5.0 / 5
6 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 33 / 100
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