The Powerful Pedagogy Wunderled

Nicola is a progressive early childhood educator with over 20 years experience in cultivating impactful and effective learning spaces for young students.Her passion and expertise is an ability to balance play and rigor while integrating the arts and community to create a holistic, child-centered environment that fosters multiple intelligences, socio-emotional growth, character and a love of learning.

Jane Racoosin has worked in early childhood education for over 20 years and she has witnessed how children’s learning and emotional development are impacted by an exploration-based education approach. In her own classroom, she saw that children gained confidence and creativity when curriculum was developed in collaboration between teachers and children. She wanted to offer the same high quality early learning experience to all children across the five boroughs regardless of cost. In 2013...

Dayna Abraham has become a trusted and proven leader in the parenting community. She is the founder of the popular parenting site 'Lemon Lime Adventures' which has accumulated over 41 million viewers in less than seven years. She is also the CEO of Calm the Chaos, a seven-figure company which offers Dayna's compassionate framework to support thousands of parents worldwide. Her work has also been showcased in Huffington Post, Babble, Scary Mommy, Buzzfeed, ADDitude Magazine, and Positive ...

Kisa Marx is a former academic-centered daycare provider turned heart-centered founder of her Play & Nature-based program, Kidcrew Adventures Early Childhood Community. With over twenty years of experience working in the field of early education, she is passionate about using her voice to speak for those who cannot yet speak for themselves. She believes that childhood is sacred, play is revolutionary, and she along with countless other early educators get the privilege of preserving ...

Rae Pica is an education consultant dedicated to the development and education of the whole child. Rae has been an early childhood education consultant since 1980 and is internationally known as a speaker, online course creator, and author. Rae has written 22 books, including the text Experiences in Movement and Music (in its 5th edition), What If Everybody Understood Child Development?: Straight Talk About Bettering Education and her most recent book, Children’s Lives and Spark a Revol...

Pete Moorhouse is an early years creative consultant, researcher, author and artist educator based in the UK. He is a trainer for Early Education and deliverers training nationally and overseas and is also an endorsed Froebel Tutor. His work in school is centered around nurturing children's creativity and his practice is inspired by Froebelian principles and practice in Reggio Emilia. Pete is the UKs leading authority on woodwork in Early Years education and has written several boo...