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197: Innovation School with David Miller

By Mark Taylor | April 16, 2021 |

David Miller is Director of the Innovation School at Kelvinside Academy. David has had a long career in education and in 2008 was the recipient of the Guardian Award for UK Teacher of the Year. In the same year, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts and made a National…

196: Broad and balanced curriculum Q&A with Dr. Tony Eaude

By Mark Taylor | April 12, 2021 |

Towards a balanced and broadly-based curriculum was the theme of the National Association for Primary Education conference in March 2021. The keynote lecture was given by Dr. Tony Eaude.

This is a follow up Q&A that I hosted and taken from a subsequent Facebook live event. NAPE has been a long term supporter of the Education on Fire podcast and I have been involved with the association for over 5 years, the last 18 months as vice chair. I thought this discussion was very insightful and wanted to give you the opportunity to hear it.

A balanced and broadly based curriculum Q&A with Dr.Tony Eaude – NAPE 066

By Mark Taylor | April 9, 2021 |

Towards a balanced and broadly-based curriculum was the theme of the National Association for Primary Education conference in March 2021. The keynote lecture was given by Dr. Tony Eaude. This is a follow up Q&A taken from a subsequent Facebook live event. Tony suggested four main arguments for a balanced and broadly-based primary curriculum: that…

195: Sharpen the new platform for smart note taking

By Mark Taylor | April 5, 2021 |

Aidan Whytock is the founder of Sharpen, the new platform for smart note taking. A successful actor and entrepreneur, Aidan has drawn on his background to design a tool specifically for the education sector to provide a revolutionary new way to access and apply learning. Sharpen fills a real gap in the education landscape for…

194: Montessori Centre International with Maccs Pescatore

By Mark Taylor | March 29, 2021 |

Maccs Pescatore is the CEO of Montessori Centre International (MCI), a leading provider of, and facilitator in the provision of Montessori training and education in the UK and around the world. It provides the sector’s marker of quality assurance through its Standards & Training Accreditation Review (STAR) framework. Resources are made available to parents and…

Christian Schiller Lecture 2021 with Dr. Tony Eaude – NAPE 065

By Mark Taylor | March 28, 2021 |

Towards a balanced and broadly-based curriculum was the theme of the National Association for Primary Education conference in March 2021. The keynote lecture was given by Dr. Tony Eaude. He suggested four main arguments for a balanced and broadly-based primary curriculum: that the law states that schools must offer this (as it does) and that…

193: Organization for Social Media Safety

By Mark Taylor | March 22, 2021 |

After a long career in business, Ed Peisner founded the Organization for Social Media Safety in 2016 after his teenage son Jordan was viciously assaulted in West Hills, CA. The attack was filmed and uploaded to social media by an associate of the attacker. The video went viral, viewed by millions, and Jordan was left…

The climate emergency and ecological crisis with Teach the Future – NAPE 064

By Mark Taylor | March 15, 2021 |

Teach the Future is an inclusive, well organised and persistent campaign by secondary and tertiary education students to greatly improve education on the climate emergency and ecological crisis in the UK. In this episode Robson Augusta chats to Mark Taylor about how it is never too early to start learning about how the climate emergency…

192: Just Like Us with Dominic Arnall

By Mark Taylor | March 15, 2021 |

Just Like Us is the charity for LGBT+ young people. Their mission is to empower LGBT+ young people to make education more inclusive, and they work directly with educators at all types of schools. It was founded five years ago for a simple reason: growing up LGBT+ is still unacceptably tough. You can book a…

191: Connecting people

By Mark Taylor | March 8, 2021 |

This solo episode with Mark Taylor is a catch up about what is going on within Education on Fire. We have some shoutouts to listeners who have got in touch and give details of the free resources available at EducationOnFire.com If you would like to support the Education on Fire GoFundMe campaign to create a…

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