Teacher Tom's Podcast: Taking Play Seriously

Laleña Garcia discusses how comparison and competition among kids have deep societal roots. She shares insights on trans joy, community care, and building inclusive spaces. Through personal stories and projects, Laleña aims to foster understanding and support for all identities. Teacher Tom’s Podcast is all about taking play seriously. In each episode, Teacher Tom inspires early childhood educat...

Deeply passionate about early education, Denita Dinger promotes cultivating curiosity and autonomy in young learners by fostering environments rich in opportunities for play and natural growth—guiding principles she lives by to help ignite a love for lifelong learning in children. Denita discusses the often-misguided focus on kindergarten readiness and how it can detract from the truly valuable sk...

Welcome to Teacher Tom’s Podcast , which is all about taking play seriously. In each episode, Teacher Tom inspires early childhood educators, parents, and other listeners with information, techniques, and best practices to provide children an authentic play-filled childhood. Kisha Reid is an educational consultant and advocate of developmentally appropriate play-based education for young children....

Ari Iny is the Director of Growth at Mirasee and co-host of the podcast Course Lab on Mirasee FM. “Often we’ll get something across our desks that feels urgent, that you feel like, okay, I really need to respond to this as soon as possible … when maybe you don’t.” — Ari Iny Ari Iny started at Mirasee in 2014 as the company’s Facebook ad coordinator. Since then, he has grown through working numerou...

Welcome to Teacher Tom’s Podcast , which is all about taking play seriously. In each episode, Teacher Tom inspires early childhood educators, parents, and other listeners with information, techniques, and best practices to provide children an authentic play-filled childhood.                 “We learn from having the time, space, and autonomy to question, explore, and experiment. We learn when we f...

Welcome to Teacher Tom’s Podcast, which is all about taking play seriously. In each episode, Teacher Tom inspires early childhood educators, parents, and other listeners with information, techniques, and best practices to provide children an authentic play-filled childhood. Kelsie Olds is an occupational therapist best known online as “The Occuplaytional Therapist.” “The push for inclusion in scho...

Welcome to Teacher Tom’s Podcast , which is all about taking play seriously. In each episode, Teacher Tom inspires early childhood educators, parents, and other listeners with information, techniques, and best practices to provide children an authentic play-filled childhood. Lisa Murphy is the founder and CEO of Ooey Gooey, Inc., a frequent lecturer, and the author of five books. She has been invo...

Welcome to Teacher Tom’s Podcast , which is all about taking play seriously. In each episode, Teacher Tom inspires early childhood educators, parents, and other listeners with information, techniques, and best practices to provide children an authentic play-filled childhood. “Teacher Tom” Hobson is the host of this podcast, the founder of Teacher Tom’s Blog and Teacher Tom’s World, and a fierce ad...

Welcome to Teacher Tom’s Podcast , which is all about taking play seriously. In each episode, Teacher Tom inspires early childhood educators, parents, and other listeners with information, techniques, and best practices to provide children an authentic play-filled childhood. Suzanne Axelsson works as a pedagogical consultant to guide creating democratic learning and play spaces in early childhood...

Welcome to Teacher Tom’s Podcast , which is all about taking play seriously. In each episode, Teacher Tom supports early childhood educators, parents, and other listeners with information, techniques, and best practices to provide children with an authentic play-filled childhood. Dr. Denisha Jones is the Executive Director of Defending the Early Years, an education justice advocacy and activist or...

Welcome to Teacher Tom’s Podcast , which is all about taking play seriously. In each episode, Teacher Tom supports early childhood educators, parents, and other listeners with information, techniques, and best practices to provide children with an authentic play-filled childhood. Maggie Dent is an author, educator, and parenting and resilience specialist with a particular interest in the early yea...

Welcome to Teacher Tom’s Podcast , which is all about taking play seriously. In each episode, Teacher Tom supports early childhood educators, parents, and other listeners with information, techniques, and best practices to provide children with an authentic play-filled childhood. Lenore Skenazy is the accidental pioneer of the “free-range kids movement” and literally wrote the book on the subject....

“Teacher Tom” Hobson is an early childhood educator, international speaker, education consultant, teacher of teachers, parent educator, and author. He is best known, however, for his namesake blog, Teacher Tom's Blog , where he has posted daily for over a decade, chronicling the life and times of his little preschool in the rain-soaked Pacific Northwest corner of the USA. For nearly two decades, T...