Mark Taylor

Education On Fire - Sharing creative and inspiring learning in our schools

Do you feel the education system is sucking the life out of you and the pupils you serve? I think many of us wish we could click our fingers and make it fit for purpose. A place of growth with shared learning that empowers pupils to be their best selves, so they can create a world they want to inhabit now and in the future. While a magic wand or a visionary politician might sound like the answer I believe change is already happening. Educators are changing futures one conversation at a time. New technology and the environments where we learn are beginning to look different both in and out of t...

Author

Mark Taylor

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Education

Podcast website

www.educationonfire.com

Latest episode

Jul 6, 2026

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Episodes

374: How to become the solution to any problem with Tracy Pleschourt 18.12.2023

Tracy Pleschourt is a certified professional and personal coach as well as an entrepreneur. She is also the founder of Self-Made U, a life coaching school that teaches men and women how to become the solution to any problem they face. Alongside her daughter Gracie, who is 22, she also hosts the Tracy & Gracie Becoming Podcast, a show that gives life coaching advice from two different generatio...

373: Raising financially responsible children with Kevin Whelan 11.12.2023

Education, support and guidance to help  parents, grandparents and relatives  raise  financially responsible  children, teenagers and young adults. Kevin Whelan is an economist, author, the Founder of WealthBuilders and one of the UK's leading experts and authorities on SSAS Pensions (Small Self Administered Scheme). Kevin and WealthBuilders are on a mission to help parents lea...

372: Professional Learning Community with Nathaniel Provencio 04.12.2023

Nathaniel Provencio has worked in the public education field since 2001 as a classroom teacher, building administrator and associate superintendent . In 2010, he became the principal of Minnieville Elementary in Prince William County, Virginia. Under his leadership, Minnieville Elementary was recognized as a Virginia Distinguished Title 1 School, became a National Model Professional Learning Commu...

371: How to create a compelling and unique CV with Graeme Jordan 27.11.2023

Graeme helps people to understand and communicate their value to their next employer. Delivering workshops in schools, he encourages students to recognise the achievements they already have and the value of the things they are already doing so that their CV can be compelling and unique. With 11 years experience as a CV writer across 6 continents, Graeme has worked with people from apprentice to CE...

370: Online mentoring program for tweens from I believe in Me 20.11.2023

Katie, Becky, and Allie are three moms who know what it's like to raise a family, with a total of 17 children between them, they are in the trenches of motherhood. But along with being a mom, with their education and professional backgrounds in business, health, and beauty, these 3 women came together to create a company called I Believe in Me - which is an online mentoring program for tweens. For...

369: ONVU Learning with Matthew Tiplin 13.11.2023

ONVU Learning is a 360-degree video lesson capture system that helps teachers reflect, collaborate and analyse their entire teaching and learning process. It creates a community space where teachers can share best practice and learn easily with their coaches and peers. When Matt was an Ofsted inspector, he decided that something drastic needed to change in the way we both judged and developed teac...

368: More Than A Score with Alison Ali 06.11.2023

Children are More Than A Score More Than A Score is here to change the way children are assessed and schools are judged. Primary school children in England are let down by a system that cares more about measurement than education. It’s damaging, and they deserve better. We want pupils to enjoy an exciting learning experience and then move on to secondary school with a love of learning. We don’t wa...

367: Positive Mindset Habits for Teachers with Grace Stevens 30.10.2023

A former corporate girl, Grace quit her VP life to pursue her dream job as a public school teacher. After 20 years in the classroom, she now focuses full-time on helping educators have a more positive teaching experience. Grace combines her signature mantra, “Your energy teaches more than your lesson plans,” with two decades of study in behavioral therapy, positive psychology, and NLP to create sc...

366: Little Troopers with Louise Fetigan 23.10.2023

Little Troopers is a registered charity supporting service children who have parent(s) serving in our British Armed Forces, regular or reserve. These children often face unique challenges including frequent house and school moves, as well as regular periods of separation from their serving parent(s) for varying lengths of time due to exercises, training, operations and other service commitments. A...

365: The Socratic Experience with Michael Strong 16.10.2023

Michael Strong is the most experienced developer of innovative educational programs in the US and the Founder of The Socratic Experience, an online school based on Socratic dialogue that emphasizes personalized and purpose-driven education for students in grades 3-12. His remarkable career in education spans over three decades, and includes creating many high-performance school programs that promo...

364: Are you stuck? Try BREAKTHROUGHS with Keith Nelson 09.10.2023

Keith Nelson's academic foundations include a B.A. from Harvard, Ph. D from Yale, and stimulating experiences as a collaborative faculty member at Stanford, Graduate Faculty of New School for Social research, and the Developmental Psychology mecca called Penn State University. His teaching includes courses on Fostering Creative Breakthroughs. Basic theory-based research has been translated widely...

363: Global Equality Collective with Nic Ponsford 02.10.2023

After working in education for over 20 years as a teacher, school leader, trainer, and coach, Nic wanted to find an accessible means to make ordinary classrooms extraordinarily inclusive.  Nic is passionate about creating a level playing field for everyone in education, but especially those from underserved groups. In 2017, Nic set up the Global Equality Collective (GEC) to address 'one of th...

362: New communication strategies for parents of teens with Jeanine Mouchawar 25.09.2023

Jeanine Mouchawar is a life coach for parents of teenagers. She helps make parenting easier by teaching new communication strategies that stop the battles and create a calm, peaceful home. Parents learn how to teach their teens cooperation, responsibility, and critical life skills to empower them for success. In the process, they create the positive, meaningful relationship they always imagined. J...

361: How children can become involved in documenting their own learning with Tapestry 18.09.2023

Ben Case from Tapestry, an online learning journal used in thousands of primary schools and early years settings, has been working with teaching staff at Arundel C of E Primary School for the past two years to support the work they've been doing to encourage pupils to reflect on, and talk about, their own learning. This has involved using Tapestry's child login feature which enables children to ad...

360: Dolphin Computer Access with Noel Duffy & Josh Murphy 11.09.2023

Assistive technology to improve accessibility in education for students with visual impairments or neurodiverse conditions. Noel Duffy , Chairman of the Board, Dolphin Computer Access Awarded the RNIB (Royal National Institute of Blind People) Lifetime Achievement Award in April 2022, for 30 years’ work empowering visually impaired people to succeed in a digital world, Noel Duffy has been the driv...

359: A life in education with Prof Dr Ger Graus OBE 04.09.2023

Prof Dr Ger Graus OBE, an iconic figure in the field of education. A renowned expert on educational innovation and community engagement, he was the first Global Director of Education at the world-famous children’s entertainment-education company, KidZania, and founding CEO of the Children’s University. With his extensive experience at the very highest level of the learning industry, Professor Grau...

358: Canaries Among US with Kayla Taylor 28.08.2023

Canaries Among Us is a raw and honest exploration of the everyday lives of children challenged by learning differences, anxiety, and bullying. Author Kayla Taylor blends science and poignant storytelling to create this necessary, timely, and stigma-tackling resource for anyone interested in child well-being. A lifeline to those who learn and think differently, Canaries Among Us explores one of the...

357: Bullying and anxiety to America's #1 Heavyweight Boxer with Cam F Awesome 21.08.2023

Cam F Awesome is a Keynote Speaker, Diversity Consultant, Event Emcee, and a multi-time National Champion Heavyweight Olympic boxer. As a motivational speaker, Cam shares lessons he's learned traveling to 30+ countries as Captain of Team USA. Cam's Olympic journey was featured in the NETFLIX Original Documentary, COUNTERPUNCH! Growing up, Cam dealt with academic and social challenges. Bullying and...

356: Voice 21 - oracy education charity with Amy Gaunt 14.08.2023

Voice 21 is the UK’s oracy education charity. They work with schools to transform the learning and life chances of young people through talk. They campaign for oracy to have a higher status in the education system. Oracy skills are vital to success in school and in life. And yet, for many children, especially those growing up in poverty, opportunities to develop these vital skills are missed....

355: Project Based Learning with Ryan Steuer 07.08.2023

Ryan Steuer sees Project Based Learning as a way to change the world and is the founder of Magnify Learning, a PBL professional development organization that equips teachers, instructional coaches, and principals across the country to engage learners, tackle boredom, and transform classrooms. Prior to founding Magnify Learning, Ryan was an engineer for a Fortune 50 company, 8th grade English teach...

354: Transforming young people’s life chances with Neil Moggan 31.07.2023

Neil Moggan is a former Director of Sport, Health and RSHE at a secondary school where children's life expectancy ranged by 13 years depending on what side of the main road outside the school they were born on. This led to Neil being so passionate about transforming young people’s life chances. Neil has been recognised for his work in reducing obesity, early intervention mental wellbeing programme...

353: 'The Power of Thought' children’s book series with Lynn McLaughlin 24.07.2023

Lynn McLaughlin has served in many roles as an educator … Superintendent, Principal, Vice-Principal, Teacher, and Educational Consultant. In addition to her business, Lynn now teaches future Educational Assistants at her local College. As a best-selling and award-winning author, Lynn has now teamed up with her niece, Amber Raymond, to co-author a children’s book series titled, “The Power of Though...

352: Eteach and Early Career Teachers with Chantal Dos Santos 17.07.2023

Chantal was a teacher for the past 17 years. Starting off in Primary education in the beginning of her career, then moving on to teaching maths and science. She has taught in South Africa, America and the UK. She was then Head of Science for a few years before becoming the Head of the Upper School at an independent boy’s prep school. Chantal heads up the ECT side of Eteach; looking at how we can a...

351: Creating freedom to educate on your terms with Lila J Wohlwend 10.07.2023

Lila Wohlwend is a best-selling author, business owner, investor, and homeschooling mom who helps other families learn how to have more financial freedom, time freedom, and location freedom. When she is not working with real estate, she helps homeschools her two children. She has written a curriculum to teach business and money principles to both home school & traditional students. S...

350: School & Multi Academy Trust Growth Guide with Al Kingsley 03.07.2023

Al Kingsley has spent the last 30 years in the Educational Technology space and almost 20 of those as a school trustee and governor. He is Group CEO of NetSupport Ltd, an internationally acclaimed EdTech vendor, and Chair of Hampton Academies Trust and the Richard Barnes (AP) Academy, all in the East of England. He also chairs his region’s Governor Leadership Group. Alongside these roles, Al also...

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