Meet your hosts
Meghan Cornwell
Head of Marketing US, Famly
Meghan is the Head of U.S. Marketing at Famly, and brings a decade of experience in early childhood education marketing, with previous roles in childcare nonprofits, B-corps, and as a consultant.
Kimberlee Burt Hendricks
Early childhood educator and advocate
Kimberlee Burt Hendricks is an early childhood educator, entrepreneur, professor, author, speaker, and advocate whose work centers play, family engagement, leadership, and creating meaningful learning experiences for children and the adults who support them.
She is the Founder and Executive Director of A Child’s Space and the creator of A Child’s Space², a reimagined early learning and family engagement concept designed around play, connection, curiosity, and community. She also serves as a Professor at the Erikson Institute for Early Childhood in Chicago, Illinois.
Across her career in education, Kimberlee has worked as a classroom teacher, higher education faculty member, organizational leader, and business owner, bringing a deeply relational approach to each chapter of her work.
A self-proclaimed Edupreneur and known as “The Play and Learn Leader,” Kimberlee brings together education, entrepreneurship, advocacy, and lived experience as a mother of two young children to help families, educators, and communities reimagine what joyful, connected learning can look like.
You know the classics. The Very Hungry Caterpillar. The Little Engine That Could. Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
There are thousands of lesson plans and activities you can find online that use children’s literature to help young children understand themselves, others, and the world around them.
But what if we’re missing a whole other way to experience those same books? What if the stories we share with children have something to say to adults, too?
Kimberlee Burt Hendricks has been reading children’s literature with children and adult audiences alike for more than 20 years, exploring the surprisingly complex ideas that can live within the simplicity of a story.
In this episode of The Tiny Chair Academy, you’ll experience a few stories together and explore how picture books can become playful and powerful invitations to reflect, connect, see things differently, and spark conversations that matter.
Come ready to rediscover what might be waiting for you inside the pages. Join us September 29 - and bring your favorite childhood book. We might just ask about it!
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