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331: Sustainability in schools with Shamanth Pereira

By | February 23, 2023 |

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,…

330: Khalifa International Award for Early Learning (KIAEL) with Prof. Nirmala Rao

By | February 20, 2023 |

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…

329: Changes to the podcast from March 2023

By | February 16, 2023 |

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.…

Primary Education Summit 2023 – NAPE 083

By | February 14, 2023 |

National Association for Primary Education is proud to present a Primary Education Summit ‘Visions for the Future’ over two weeks starting on 15th March 2023. This is intended to promote discussion about the type of rich and engaging primary education which will enable all our children to meet the challenges they face now and in the future.…

328: Ocean Plastics Academy with Sarah Duffy – Common Seas

By | February 13, 2023 |

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…

327: Yellowdig with Shaunak Roy

By | February 9, 2023 |

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 and completed his graduate studies…

326: The science of achieving equity in schools with Don Berg

By | February 6, 2023 |

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…

325: The missing parts of history teaching with CARGO Classroom

By | February 2, 2023 |

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…

324: How to support Mental Wellness in our children with Adrian Moreno

By | January 30, 2023 |

Adrian Moreno began his career inside the health & fitness space while also gaining unparalleled experience with hypnosis & NLP, establishing himself as a behavior transformation specialist working with entrepreneurs to release the anxiety and worry that keep them from enjoying their life. Now a social entrepreneur, Adrian is working on ending child suicide through…

323: Big Education Challenge – £1 million prize fund to help transform education

By | January 26, 2023 |

Big Change’s brand new challenge prize – Big Education Challenge. The £1 million prize fund seeks to reward bold ideas with the potential to transform education. The Challenge is split into two prizes – the Groundbreaker Prize (for youth-led innovation from applicants aged 18-25 with a bold idea) and the Gamechanger Prize (for experienced innovators…

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