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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

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World Schooling on the Water: Danielle Vandehei on Sailing, Unschooling and Finding Alignment

July 27, 2026

Danielle Vandehei is a world-schooling sailor mum who, with her husband and son, spent the last four years building a life around sailing, exploration and learning through experience.Danielle shares how a breaking point on land — a demanding job, a young child, and a longing for more intentional time together — pushed the family to…

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Teaching Chemistry Through Art, Dance and Drama with Zafra Lerman

July 20, 2026

Zafra Lerman is a scientist, educator and humanitarian. She received a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel and conducted research on Isotope Effects at Cornell and Northwestern Universities in the U.S. and the ETH, Zurich, Switzerland. She developed an innovative approach of teaching science through art, music, drama, dance, and rap…

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Ethical Persuasion in Education with Patrick van der Burght (Cialdini Institute)

July 13, 2026

Mark Taylor talks with Patrick van der Burght — business partner of Dr. Robert Cialdini and founder member of the Cialdini Institute — about the science of ethical persuasion and what it means for teachers, parents, and school leaders. Patrick explains why 90-95% of our decisions are made by the brain’s fast, automatic “System 1”…

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Punctuation Mats

16 May 2019

Do your pupils struggle to use punctuation accurately? The accompanying activity sheets and display resources also encourage them to use perfect punctuation every time! To celebrate our English & Literacy season TeachingPacks.co.uk have generously given you the opportunity to download some of their wonderful resources for FREE. During each week of this season I will add a new…

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A Story about a Catalan school.

03 May 2019

Guest blog post by Jeremy D Rowe. This story starts in a very unlikely way: we went to a symphony concert at Barcelona’s Auditori, with the Orquestra Simfonica de Barcelona, which was to include Brahms’s 3rd Symphony and Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite. Before the concert started, a short video was shown about music teaching in a local…

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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.

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