Posts by Mark Taylor
142: A Visionary Approach to Autism Education
Shrub Oak International School is a private, coeducational, therapeutic day and boarding school for students ages 8-30 on the autism spectrum who face complex challenges and have high personal attention needs.
Located on 127 acres of rolling, wooded hills approximately 30 minutes north of New York City, Shrub Oak offers unparalleled educational opportunities for students in a family-centric, supportive environment. Classrooms are equipped with state-of-the art technology, and our curriculum is based on the most advanced and successful evidence-based clinical and academic approaches in ASD education.
The mission of Shrub Oak International School is to improve the lives of children, adolescents, and young adults on the autism spectrum. We help our students form positive relationships through individualized strength-based and passion-based learning, and equip them with the tools they need to develop friendships, navigate their communities, and maximize their potential. Our singular focus is each student’s success and happiness.
I chat to Director of Education – Caitlin Sweetapple
Caitlin Sweetapple has been working with students on the autism spectrum for over 10 years. Caitlin is one of the founding teachers at Shrub Oak International School and is ecstatic about her new role as Director of Education. Her mission has been simple; foster positive relationships with students, in order to lead them into a lifetime of learning and success.
Caitlin has taught students aged 3-21 years old in various special education settings. She has also taught undergraduate courses at her alma mater, Manhattan College. Caitlin received her Master’s Degree in Belgium from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, where she had extensive training from some of the top leaders in the field of special education and adapted physical education.
Caitlin is Developmental Individual-Differences Relationship-based model (DIR) certified, a Crisis Prevention Institute (CPI) Trainer and a certified Water Safety Instructor (WSI). She is currently a Doctoral Candidate at Molloy College, studying Educational Leadership for Diverse Learning Communities.
shruboak.org
IG: shruboakint
‘Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire’
Show Sponsor
The National Association for Primary Education speaks for young children and all who live and work with them. This includes parents, teachers, governors and all those interested in primary education. NAPE is a non-political charity and works tirelessly to support teachers in the classroom. NAPE leads the Primary Umbrella Group of thirty primary subject associations and unions and gives teachers and schools a voice at governmental level at consultative meetings with ministers for schools.
For full details of how they can support you please visit their website at nape.org.uk
141: How to become an animator with Evan Burse
Do you want to know how to become a successful animator and create a YouTube channel with over 260,000 subscribers? Listen to how Evan Burse from The Cartoon Block did it.
Evan has been an animation professional for over 10 years. He’s worked on such shows as Batman: The Brave and the Bold, Black Panther, Marvel’s Hulk and The Agents of S.M.A.S.H., and Teen Titans.
Since 2009, Evan has been passionately teaching aspiring artists how to draw their favourite characters on his YouTube channel, Cartoon Block. The channel has accumulated over 260,000 subscribers and over 18 million views. Evan enjoys sharing his passion for drawing while inspiring young artists to follow their artistic goals.
His website is dedicated to helping you become a better artist. Whether it’s impressing your friends…or improving your portfolio so you can get a job in the animation/comic book industry; whatever your dreams are, Evan is here to help you make them a reality!
Evan lives in Los Angeles, California
Questions asked on the Podcast
- Who are you?
- What does your life look like now and how is it different from when you were growing up?
- What was valuable about your school experience?
- Which teachers do you remember and why?
- Who did you admire when you were young?
- What was it about that person that had such an impact?
- What was the best piece of advice you have ever been given and who gave it to you?
- What advice would you give your younger self?
- What does your future look like?
- What podcast, book, video, film, song or other resource has had the biggest impact on your life and why?
Resources mentioned
Contact information
The Cartoon Block Youtube Channel
The Cartoon Block Facebook Page
‘Education is not the filling of a pail but the lightning of a fire’
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140: The Yoghurt & Juice Network
Health and nutrition education for teachers and parents. Support your children to learn about their wellbeing in school or online.
The Yoghurt & Juice Network was an idea born during a long car journey, where founders and Nutritionists, Yasmin and Jenna, were fed up of listening to the responsibility of the current state of children’s health being passed between parents, schools, industry, government and so on.
As a result, they decided to take on some of the responsibility themselves, by creating The Yoghurt & Juice Network and providing credible nutrition education, first hand, to children, parents and teachers in schools and colleges. The network strives to achieve it’s aims through delivering classroom workshops, assemblies, whole school initiatives and teacher and parent talks through innovative and creative means.
At The Yoghurt and Juice Network we strongly believe that healthy eating should always be enjoyable, delicious and never a chore. We believe in educating children to allow them to enjoy making healthier choices whilst understanding the benefits to their long term health.
We strongly feel that children should be provided with the best chances possible and understanding the relationship between what they eat and their health outcomes is the perfect place to start.
www.theyoghurtandjuicenetwork.com
Instagram @theyoghurt&juice_network
https://www.facebook.com/theyoghurtandjuicenetwork/
https://www.patreon.com/theyoghurtandjuicenetwork
‘Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire’
Show Sponsor
The National Association for Primary Education speaks for young children and all who live and work with them. This includes parents, teachers, governors and all those interested in primary education. NAPE is a non-political charity and works tirelessly to support teachers in the classroom. NAPE leads the Primary Umbrella Group of thirty primary subject associations and unions and gives teachers and schools a voice at governmental level at consultative meetings with ministers for schools.
For full details of how they can support you please visit their website at nape.org.uk
How to listen to podcasts on this website
I demonstrate how to listen to the Education on Fire podcast here on the website in this 3min step by step video. It includes how to view the show notes, subscribe and find all the related links mentioned in the podcast.
How to play recorder for beginners
Inside the Primary Music on Fire membership we have videos and resources to help you teach the basics of music and beginner instrumental lessons.
To help you at this time we wanted to release our recorder workshop which contains:
– Introduction to the instrument
– Introduction to rhythm & pulse
– Introduction to pitch
– Introduction to notation
– 3 pdf workbooks
– Worksheets for pupils
…….and more
You might want to learn yourself or share with your school for people to learn at home.
Take a look now it’s freely available to all at:
https://www.educationonfire.com/recorder-free/
Keep safe, well and inspiring,
Mark & Carol