I'm Mark Taylor and I interview educators from around the world so that I can enable you to support your children to live, learn and grow to their full potential
Latest Podcast Episodes
Finding Your Voice: Supporting Complex Kids with Community and Courage
Michelle Choairy is a mom of a complex kid. She has been her son’s best advocate and has learned through the years what it takes to get the best care for her child. She is the Founder of Collective Wisdom for Complex Kids, a support group for mothers with children with disabilities. She has a…
Read MoreUnlocking Potential: How Middle School MBA Transforms Young Minds
John Foster is an author, executive, angel investor, and lifelong student of markets, John’s career failed its way through process engineering, operations, business management, M&A, and corporate strategy; finally failing big enough to exit. He now teaches kids the lowdown on business and entrepreneurship, hoping they will fail bigger and sooner. John discusses the transformative approach…
Read MoreMy 1st AI Generated Podcast
Today I wanted to share with you my 1st AI generated podcast. Why do this? I wanted to see what was possible and if it in anyway will be helpful for me and you in the future. I used https://notebooklm.google – added my website and details of the last few Education on Fire podcasts and…
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20 resources you can use to support learning
As discussed by guests on the podcast these include:
Mental Health, Wellbeing, Empathy, STEM, Maths, Spelling, Coaching, ELT & SpLD, PE, Parent Engagement, Teacher Observations, Productivity Tools
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Most Recent Blog Posts
Primary Music Lesson 3
Mark Taylor, director of Rhythmically Speaking, prepares a primary school class for Samba ensemble with a phonetic pattern to help learn the key rhythmic element for the reco-reco or scraper.
Read MorePrimary Music Lesson 2 – Phonetic phrases to help learn rhythm
Mark Taylor, creator and host of the Education on Fire Podcast shares his Rhythmically Speaking project and prepares a primary school class for Samba with a phonetic pattern to help learn the key rhythmic element for the ganza or shaker.
Read MorePrimary Music Lesson – Rhythm Games
Here is Mark showing how to engage a whole class in a primary music lesson with fun rhythm games. This is an introduction to his Rhythmically Speaking samba project.
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National Association for Primary Education
Our aim is to achieve a higher priority for the education of children from birth to 13. High quality learning in the early years of life is vitally important to the creation of an educated society. Young children are not simply preparing for the future, they are living a never to be repeated time of life and the best way to learn is to live.