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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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STEM Identity, AI Powered Learning, Career Readiness with SmartLab

October 27, 2025

Dr. Jennifer Berry doesn’t just talk about STEM—she redefines how student see themselves in it. As a leading voice in inclusive STEM education, Dr. Berry champions a powerful idea: STEM identity is not something students are born with—it’s something they build. As the CEO of SmartLab, she is dedicated to bridging the gap between today’s…

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Let Play Lead the Day – Championing children’s freedom to play

October 20, 2025

Ben Case is part of the Tapestry education team and a former primary and early years teacher. He works closely with settings to support their use of Tapestry and believes tech is only successful if you bring staff with you. As a teacher Ben regularly presented at TeachMeet Sussex and he now helps to host…

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Closing the Attainment Gap: How AI Tutors Are Scaling Quality Math Education – Third Space Learning

October 13, 2025

The AI maths tutor that gets pupils reasoning out loud. Third Space Learning believe an AI tutor should do more than just generate questions and mark answers. What if it could provide scaffolded support according to knowledge gaps, speaking to students and encouraging them to verbalise their reasoning as they go? What if every pupil…

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Teresa Cremin – NAPE Annual Schiller Lecture 29th April

12 Mar 2019

National Association for Primary Education in collaboration with the School of Education, Oxford Brookes University, present the Annual Schiller Lecture TERESA CREMIN READING FOR PLEASURE: developing readers for life The lecture will explore the cognitive, social and emotional benefits of reading and in particular will focus on how, when teachers share their reading lives and books…

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The 4th Ultimate Wellbeing in Education Conference

03 Mar 2019

                              The 4th Ultimate Wellbeing in Education Conference with Damian Hinds MP. This landmark event will explore ways in which both student wellbeing and staff wellbeing can be improved in schools, colleges and universities.   Through discussions and advice from a…

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Tower of London

10 Feb 2019

A short video from my recent visit to the Tower of London while recording a podcast for the National Association for Primary Education.

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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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