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

Eric Franzen is the co-founder and owner of Ideal School. They are an internationally-accredited dual language online school. They are accredited in 86 countries by Cognia (formerly AdvancEd) and serve students and families from North America to South America and the Caribbean. Ideal School are connecting students in real-time with real, experienced, caring, and bilingual teachers from around the...

Nadim Saad is a parenting coach and best-selling author, who founded The Happy Confident Company to help children thrive, by offering them the insights and tools they need to face life’s challenges and become the best version of themselves. Nadim works with renowned therapists, teachers and children, drawing from the latest research in child psychology and neuroscience to develop programmes that h...

Today I share some details about how the podcast will be developing in the coming months. LIVE Podcasts can be found at https://www.youtube.com/@educationonfire5530/streams BookTastic Children's Book Festival https://www.booktastic.org.uk/ Contact me via https://www.educationonfire.com/ Thank you to our principal sponsor National Association for Primary Education Take a FREE look at one of their P...

Written by Claire Banks and Mick Waters,  A Curious Curriculum: Teaching foundation subjects well  details the insightful and transformational steps that a school can take towards designing and delivering a rich, rigorous and wide-ranging curriculum.  Before becoming Director of Education for The Olympus Academy Trust, a cross-phase multi-academy trust in north Bristol, Claire Banks...

Sam Kendall leads all of Eden’s work with schools, young people and their teachers and has done so since 2010. Eden’s Schools Team design and deliver programmes and projects for children and young people and offer training, consultancy and resources to schools towards Eden’s vision for children and young people who are motivated and equipped to create, and flourish in, a better future in which all...

The Literacy Lab Appoints Johnathon Hines as the First National Education Ambassador for its Leading Men Fellowship. Georgia’s first Black male Pre-K Teacher of the Year hopes to inspire other young Black men to pursue teaching as a career. The Literacy Lab is a national non-profit organization that provides students – in communities experiencing racial and/or economic inequities – with evidence-b...

Punchdrunk Enrichment is a charity creating transformational theatre for education, community and family audiences. Their immersive experiences for schools are designed to inspire and engage the imagination, inviting pupils and teachers on an adventure with a lasting impact. I'm joined by Peter Higgin - Artistic Director and joint CEO. Peter has been involved with Punchdrunk for his entire profess...

SYMMETRY Neuro-PT, founded by a Mom on a Mission Dianne Kosto, makes neurofeedback accessible and easy. They are a growing company with team members located in various states across the globe, seeking to further their mission while developing a company culture of integrity, mission-driven focus, service for others, and excellence in all that they do. Families are traumatized when a loved one is st...

Jos van der Westhuizen is the CEO and co-founder at Remio. Remio is a VR app that provides an immersive educational campus in which students can learn, collaborate, and play. Their educational use case enables you to turn a space into a virtual learning institution. The Remio platform is built for knowledge transfer and higher education use cases. Try a weekly class in VR and you’ll understand the...

Andrew Tomlinson is a former journalist and head of content and commissioning at BBC Education. In 2018, he launched BBC Teach, an online portal that provides teachers with free curriculum-based resources. Today, it is used by almost half of all teachers across the UK.  We discuss the role BBC Teach and BBC Bitesize has in supporting teachers and how they have become an important trustworthy...

Schools Consent Project send lawyers into schools to deliver hour-long workshops on consent, including the legal definition of consent, how to identify consent, the ages of consent, bystander intervention, the offences of rape, sexual assault and ‘sexting’, responding to disclosures and ways to obtain help. Their work gives young people agency, enabling them to understand the law around sex and co...

eQuoo is a clinically proven emotional wellbeing app for schools and students. The aim is to improve student emotional health by tapping into skills to boost the 5 most important dimensions through digital gaming. Reduce anxiety Relationship skills Reduce depression Resilience Personal growth Purpose-built for students and staff in education, eQuoo is a team of psychologists, mental health advocat...

Tami Harel is the Chief Audiologist and Director of Clinical Research at Nuance Hearing. Tami is an Audiologist and Speech Pathologist with a Masters Degree in Communication Disorders and is currently working on her PhD in Gerontology. With more than 15 years of experience with hearing aids and auditory rehabilitation, in the public and private sector, she joined Nuance Hearing in the early stages...

Dr. Jen Forristal, BSc ND, is the CEO of The Umbrella Project and a Naturopathic Doctor with a primary focus in pediatric mental health. She has worked extensively with schools, researchers, and organizations, developing mental wellness strategies for families facing social, emotional, and mental health challenges and those looking for optimal health and performance.  As the founder of The Um...

William Tucker and his wife have helped over 100,000 kids & civilians in the slums of India, improving their quality of life through literacy education, emergency aid, and other philanthropic initiatives. As a Co-Founder of Charity United, a U.S.-based charity that provides humanitarian aid to children and civilians in need, William helps ensure children receive food, clothing, shelter, and ed...

Boundless Life build a collection of thoughtfully designed communities located in beautiful destinations around the world comprised of private homes, co-working spaces, a school system based on experiential learning and locally adapted recreational hubs where like-minded families can develop connections, work, sustainably explore different parts of the world and be immersed in the local cultures....

Michaell Magrutsche is an Austrian/Californian multidisciplinary artist, awareness and creativity educator, speaker, and author. Michaell’s dyslexia and dysgraphia forced him to develop an awareness of seeing the world purely from a human perspective. Creating art completed his awareness of what it is to be human-relevant vs system-relevant. Michaell’s talent is recognizing awareness to seed a new...

RS Assessment conducted a study among 21,000 key stage 2 pupils in English schools recently. The study was funded by the Nuffield Foundation and aims to better understand the longer-term impacts of the Covid lockdowns on this cohort of kids’ attainment, wellbeing and attitudes to learning. What is self-efficacy and why should we be paying attention to it in Primary Schools? We talk a lot...

With a background in finance, an aha moment from an exhausted mother of 3, Shamanth Pereira, occurred when cleaning up her then-4-year-old's hundredth toilet roll lovingly placed down the loo. This waste and the fact that we cut down 27,000 trees daily just to wipe our bums fuelled Shamanth to create 'Something Cheeky', a bamboo, fully decomposing, organic toilet and kitchen rolls delivered to you...

The new Khalifa International Award for Early Learning (KIAEL), funded by the United Arab Emirates, wants submissions from UK academics, projects, schools and nurseries displaying brilliance and innovation in the early education sector. Two winners in each of the categories “Best Research & Studies” and “Best Programmes & Teaching Practices” will receive $50,000. The recipients will be ann...

From the start of March 2023 the Education on Fire podcast will return to releasing 1 episode a week on a Monday. The reason for this is the Primary Education Summit . I will be involved in hosting 4 live discussion panels and coordinating the events during March which will need a lot of my focus. With a natural break in place I started considering how the podcast could/should change to support me...

Common Seas is a social enterprise tackling the plastic pollution crisis by driving new policy, investing in the circular economy and catalysing a cultural shift in how we make, use and dispose of plastic. Common Seas has four interconnected programmes. Together, these achieve the system change we need to halt plastic pollution and protect our ocean. Their mission is to quickly and significantly r...

Shaunak is the founder and CEO of Yellowdig. Yellowdig is a community-driven active learning platform adopted by over 130 colleges and universities, K12 schools, and corporate training clients. Yellowdig’s mission is to transform every classroom into an active, social, and experiential learning community. Shaunak graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering from IIT Bombay...

Whether you are a principal, a superintendent, a school board member, or a leader without a title, Don Berg wants to help you understand what he has discovered about the psychology of learning.  And how knowledge of that psychology will enable you to be the best school leader you can be from whatever position you happen to occupy.  His work on educational leadership includes innovative i...

CARGO is led by Lawrence Hoo, a POET and Charles Golding filmmaker and creative director. From their own experiences in school and from their observations today, they understood that there are large parts missing from the History that is taught in schools across the UK. These missing parts include: The perspectives of individuals of African and African Diaspora descent. Recognition of the resilien...