391 episodes

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 the classroom. I hope you are seeing this first hand and are excited about what you can share with your pupils. We are having conversations, sharing organisations and communities that are supporting education in a way that you may have not experienced.

Educational change will come from us all working in way that supports the best interests of each of our pupils, personalised learning. Governments and policy makers will follow when they see fully how it can be different. So let us teach, coach, mentor and create an environment that fuels every child with feedback, inspiration, resilience and empowerment. The Education on Fire community is shining the torch, so no matter where you are in the world or how you are supporting children this podcast is here for you.

‘Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.’

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

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    • 4.9 • 21 Ratings

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 the classroom. I hope you are seeing this first hand and are excited about what you can share with your pupils. We are having conversations, sharing organisations and communities that are supporting education in a way that you may have not experienced.

Educational change will come from us all working in way that supports the best interests of each of our pupils, personalised learning. Governments and policy makers will follow when they see fully how it can be different. So let us teach, coach, mentor and create an environment that fuels every child with feedback, inspiration, resilience and empowerment. The Education on Fire community is shining the torch, so no matter where you are in the world or how you are supporting children this podcast is here for you.

‘Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.’

    387: Own Your Work Journey with Edward D. Hess

    387: Own Your Work Journey with Edward D. Hess

    Edward D. Hess is Professor Emeritus of Business Administration, Batten Fellow and Batten Executive-in-Residence Emeritus at the Darden Graduate School of Business, University of Virginia, and the author of Hyper-Learning: How to Adapt to the Speed of Change,” which was published by Berrett-Koehler in August 2020.
    Professor Hess spent twenty years in the business world as a Senior Executive and has spent the last 18 years in academia. He is the author of 13 books and over 140 articles and 60 Darden Case studies. His work has appeared in over 400 global media outlets including Fortune magazine, European Business Review, HBR, SHRM, Fast Company, WIRED, Forbes, INC., Huffington Post, Washington Post, Business Week, the Financial Times, CNBC Squawk Box, Fox Business News with Maria Bartiroma, Big Think, WSJ Radio, Bloomberg Radio with Kathleen Hayes, Dow Jones Radio, MSNBC Radio, Business Insider, and Wharton Radio.
    His recent books and research has focused on “Human Excellence in the Digital Age: A New Way of Being; A New Way of Working; Humanizing the Workplace; and Hyper-Learning”.
    Website
    https://www.edhess.org/
    Social Media Information
    https://ideas.darden.virginia.edu/authors/edward-d-hess/
    linkedin.com/in/edward-d-hess-41638b16

    Resources Mentioned
    www.ownyourworkjourney.com

    Show Sponsor – National Association for Primary Education (NAPE) 
    SEND Conference Friday 26th April – Hybrid event https://nape.org.uk/conference-2024
    Welcome to the NAPE Conference 2024, which is focusing on SEND: challenges and strategies! Join us at the University of Bedfordshire for a day filled with insightful discussions, workshops and networking opportunities. This event is designed to address the unique challenges faced by individuals with special educational needs and disabilities; we hope you come away at the end of the day fired with ideas and knowledge about SEND.
    Learn from experts specifically chosen to talk to you, some of whom are practitioners who have come away from their school to be at the conference. We have an excellent keynote speaker, and you can choose two of the workshops, one in the morning and one in the afternoon.
    Don't miss out on this valuable opportunity to collaborate and learn together! https://nape.org.uk/conference-2024
    Support the show at www.educationonfire.com/support
    Have you seen our live shows on YouTube? www.EducationOnFire.com/youtube

    • 1 hr
    386: Strengthening Executive Function Skills for Children with Dr. Lynne Kenney

    386: Strengthening Executive Function Skills for Children with Dr. Lynne Kenney

    Dr. Lynne Kenney is the nation’s leading pediatric psychologist in the development of classroom cognitive-physical activity programs for students grades K-8. Dr. Kenney develops curriculum, programming, and activities to improve children’s cognition through coordinative cognitive-motor movement, executive function skill-building strategies, and social-emotional learning.
    Dr. Kenney is a pediatric psychologist on the Language & Cognition Team at Wellington-Alexander Center for the Treatment of Dyslexia, Scottsdale, Arizona. She has advanced fellowship training in forensic psychology and developmental pediatric psychology from Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School and Harbor-UCLA/UCLA Medical School.
    As an international educator, researcher, and author, Dr. Kenney is dedicated to improving the trajectory of children's learning, particularly in high-need, low-income communities.
    Website
    www.lynnekenney.com

    Social Media Information
    @drlynnekenney (X, FB, Instagram)

    Resources Mentioned
    ADHD Foundation
    Show Sponsor – National Association for Primary Education (NAPE) https://nape.org.uk/
    SEND Conference Friday 26th April – Hybrid event
    London School of Public Relations – www.lspr-education.com/podcasting-course/
    Delivered by Mark Taylor.
    The 1-day Essentials of Podcasting Certificated short course is highly practical and packed full of useful information to get you on the road to producing your own professional podcasts. The Podcasting course will help you to create, edit, deliver and promote your podcast. The course also provides useful tips and tricks from industry experts on producing professional and effective results.
    Support the show at www.educationonfire.com/support
    Have you seen our live shows on YouTube? www.EducationOnFire.com/youtube
    Mentioned in this episode:
    London School of Public Relations - Podcasting Course with Mark Taylor
    The 1-day Essentials of Podcasting Certificated short course is highly practical and packed full of useful information to get you on the road to producing your own professional podcasts. The Podcasting course will help you to create, edit, deliver and promote your podcast. The course also provides useful tips and tricks from industry experts on producing professional and effective results.
    LSPR

    • 56 min
    385: A Gobblegark's Guide To Your Brilliant Neurodivergent Brain with Suzanne Robertshaw

    385: A Gobblegark's Guide To Your Brilliant Neurodivergent Brain with Suzanne Robertshaw

    A Gobblegark's Guide To Your Brilliant Neurodivergent Brain is Suzanne Robertshaw's new book.
    Suzanne has been a teacher for 23 years. She has worked as a SENCO, supporting students with learning differences since 2015. She feels passionate about the positives of being neurodivergent which she regularly promotes on her Instagram page - @teachingwithadifference.
    Suzanne has spoken at several teaching conferences and regularly trains teachers about how to support students with learning differences. She has a Postgraduate cert in Dyslexia Research and Practice and has also worked as an ADHD consultant and dyslexia tutor, helping lots of families. Her work over the years with amazing, young people who have brilliant brains inspired this book.
    A Gobblegark's Guide To Your Brilliant Neurodivergent Brain is quite a magical book. You'll meet caterpillars and gobblegarks and best of all? You'll see how fantastic being neurodivergent is! Win keys by completing some challenges along the way, each one leading you closer to the treasure and to knowing a bit more about yourself and your brain. Built-in breaktimes ensure that you won't get overwhelmed.
    Afterall, it can be tiring investigating your brain, making your way through a maze, and finding out how to use the strengths of your brain and understand yourself!
    Downloadable worksheets let you truly make this book your own because you can go back to activities as many times as you need, or do them in different ways, (and of course skip the ones you don't!). Let's make our brilliant brains even more amazing with this Gobblegark Guide!
    Website
    www.suzannerobertshawauthor.my.canva.site
    Social Media Information
    Instagram - @teachingwithadifference
    Resources Mentioned
    ADHD Foundation

    Show Sponsor – National Association for Primary Education (NAPE) https://nape.org.uk/
    SEND Conference Friday 26th April – Hybrid event

    London School of Public Relations – www.lspr-education.com/podcasting-course/
    Delivered by Mark Taylor.
    The 1-day Essentials of Podcasting Certificated short course is highly practical and packed full of useful information to get you on the road to producing your own professional podcasts. The Podcasting course will help you to create, edit, deliver and promote your podcast. The course also provides useful tips and tricks from industry experts on producing professional and effective results.
    Support the show at www.educationonfire.com/support
    Have you seen our live shows on YouTube? www.EducationOnFire.com/youtube

    • 31 min
    384: A new innovation to support your college searching journey with Troove

    384: A new innovation to support your college searching journey with Troove

    Dave has lived and worked around the world, and is now based in Burlington Vermont with his wife and two Golden Retrievers. Their 3 “kids” have now graduated from college, but it was his experience with them on their college journeys that started his innovator’s brain cranking on what became Troove. 
    Having worked in admissions through grad school, he was amazed by how little technology and the internet had impacted the college search and admissions process. And even more, he was dismayed to discover how often students were transferring or dropping out altogether. 
    In early 2020, this led directly to his founding Troove, a 2-sided, AI powered platform to help students discover their passions, people, and place based on the real experiences of recent alumni and current higher education students.
    Dave Hurwitt is an innovator. Over the course of his career, he’s led the development and launch of new products and services – from toothpicks to wind turbines – that have generated well over $1 billion in sales. 
    If you have a large, front loading washing machine in your house, that was Dave and his team at Whirlpool. They re-envisioned the traditional, small European washer for the US market and took front loaders from 1% of the market to over 50% today, saving billions of dollars in electricity and water consumption in the process.
    Website
    www.troove.me

    Social Media Information
    Instagram: www.instagram.com/troove.me/
    Facebook: www.facebook.com/www.troove.me
    LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/trooveme/
    YouTube: www.youtube.com/@trooveit

    Show Sponsor – National Association for Primary Education (NAPE) https://nape.org.uk/
    SEND Conference Friday 26th April – Hybrid event

    London School of Public Relations – www.lspr-education.com/podcasting-course/
    Delivered by Mark Taylor.
    The 1-day Essentials of Podcasting Certificated short course is highly practical and packed full of useful information to get you on the road to producing your own professional podcasts. The Podcasting course will help you to create, edit, deliver and promote your podcast. The course also provides useful tips and tricks from industry experts on producing professional and effective results.
    Support the show at www.educationonfire.com/support
    Have you seen our live shows on YouTube? www.EducationOnFire.com/youtube

    Mentioned in this episode:
    London School of Public Relations - Podcasting Course with Mark Taylor
    The 1-day Essentials of Podcasting Certificated short course is highly practical and packed full of useful information to get you on the road to producing your own professional podcasts. The Podcasting course will help you to create, edit, deliver and promote your podcast. The course also provides useful tips and tricks from industry experts on producing professional and effective results.
    LSPR

    • 51 min
    383: No child too hungry to learn with Magic Breakfast

    383: No child too hungry to learn with Magic Breakfast

    Magic Breakfast is a registered charity providing healthy breakfasts to children and young people in the UK who arrive at school too hungry to learn, and expert support to their schools.
    Over 200,000 children and young people are on roll at Primary, Secondary, ASL / Special Educational Needs Schools and Pupil Referral Units that the charity works with, in disadvantaged areas of Scotland and England.
    Providing breakfast ensures that children start their school day with the energy and nutrition they need to be able to make the most of their morning lessons. Magic Breakfast also undertakes research, and campaigns for long-term solutions to end hunger as a barrier to learning.
    Website
    www.magicbreakfast.com
    Social Media Information
    Insta: @magicbreky
    FB: @magicbreakfastuk
    Twitter: @magic_breakfast
    LinkedIn: @ Magic Breakfast
    Follow us, tag us and use the hashtag #NoChildTooHungryToLearn

    Resources Mentioned
    Rye Lane

    Show Sponsor – National Association for Primary Education (NAPE) https://nape.org.uk/
    SEND Conference Friday 26th April – Hybrid event
    London School of Public Relations – www.lspr-education.com/podcasting-course/
    Delivered by Mark Taylor.
    The 1-day Essentials of Podcasting Certificated short course is highly practical and packed full of useful information to get you on the road to producing your own professional podcasts. The Podcasting course will help you to create, edit, deliver and promote your podcast. The course also provides useful tips and tricks from industry experts on producing professional and effective results.
    Support the show at www.educationonfire.com/support
    Have you seen our live shows on YouTube? www.EducationOnFire.com/youtube
    Mentioned in this episode:
    London School of Public Relations - Podcasting Course with Mark Taylor
    The 1-day Essentials of Podcasting Certificated short course is highly practical and packed full of useful information to get you on the road to producing your own professional podcasts. The Podcasting course will help you to create, edit, deliver and promote your podcast. The course also provides useful tips and tricks from industry experts on producing professional and effective results.
    LSPR

    • 41 min
    382: NASA STEM educator Jason Dietrich

    382: NASA STEM educator Jason Dietrich

    Jason Dietrich is a highly motivated, certified NASA STEM educator with more than four years of teaching experience seeking to influence and engage students to participate in STEM career pathways.
    He is interested in increasing diversity, equity, and inclusion in STEM as well as building a solid foundation for STEM literacy. In this technology-based society, he seeks to build computational literacy and develop critical thinkers capable of analyzing and integrating data to formulate solutions to complex real-world problems through the use of innovative and differentiated instructional methods. Jason is experienced in training and professional development, global education policy and methods, statistical analysis, curriculum development, and assessment strategies.
    In addition, he has been mentored by a current Virginia Space Flight Academy (VASFA) STEM Engagement Specialist and has authored a NASA application design to identify hidden barriers to STEM engagement. Jason is eager to promote and use STEM engagement activities through NASA’s missions to inspire a diverse future STEM workforce.
    Website
    https://www.vasfa.org

    Social Media Information
    www.facebook.com/VaSpaceFlightAcademy
    www.instagram.com/vaspaceflightacademy/
    Twitter: @VaSpaceAcademy


    Resources Mentioned
    White Flag - Dido

    Show Sponsor – National Association for Primary Education (NAPE) https://nape.org.uk/
    SEND Conference Friday 26th April – Hybrid event

    London School of Public Relations – www.lspr-education.com/podcasting-course/
    Delivered by Mark Taylor.
    The 1-day Essentials of Podcasting Certificated short course is highly practical and packed full of useful information to get you on the road to producing your own professional podcasts. The Podcasting course will help you to create, edit, deliver and promote your podcast. The course also provides useful tips and tricks from industry experts on producing professional and effective results.
    https://www.educationonfire.com/
    Mentioned in this episode:
    London School of Public Relations - Podcasting Course with Mark Taylor
    The 1-day Essentials of Podcasting Certificated short course is highly practical and packed full of useful information to get you on the road to producing your own professional podcasts. The Podcasting course will help you to create, edit, deliver and promote your podcast. The course also provides useful tips and tricks from industry experts on producing professional and effective results.
    LSPR

    • 56 min

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