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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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3 min update on future podcast release days

October 31, 2026

Mark Taylor will be adding extra podcasts to the current weekly schedule on an ad hoc basis.šŸ”„ This will help give you more valuable conversations to support young people.šŸ”„ Reduce the time between recording and release dates for guests as requiredšŸ”„ Provided more flexibility for mini seriesšŸ”„ Allow me to produce the show in a…

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Antivirus for What We Eat: How Jordan Robinson Turned Coding Into Food Safety

October 26, 2026

What if there was antivirus software for what we eat? Software architect Jordan Robinson, a father of two and former lead instructor with Cultivating Coders, shares how teaching kids to code and refurbishing thousands of donated computers led him to build Piece of Mind. Anxin: Piece of Mind is an AI-powered food-safety platform. It helps…

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Rob Heller: Teaching Teens Life Skills, Social Skills and Resilience in a Phone-Based World

October 19, 2026

Rob Heller is a successful entrepreneur, youth development innovator, and founder of the Boost Program, a comprehensive personal development curriculum designed to equip teens and young adults with the essential life, social, and mental health skills that traditional education overlooks. After selling his insurance firm for eight figures to a publicly held company, Rob witnessed…

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Top 10 resources you can use to support learning

As discussed by guests on the podcast these include:

A Children's Podcast, Mentoring, Online Teaching and Learning Tool, Science, Maths, Spelling, Reading & Writing, Arts, Resilience Empathy & Global Citizenship, Parent Engagement, Whole School Mental Health

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Primary Resources English

24 Mar 2019

Primary Resources English Improve your children’s report writing skills with our complete teaching resource pack! This includes printable posters, examples of reports, writing checklists, activity resources and eye-catching display materials! To celebrate our English & Literacy seasonĀ TeachingPacks.co.ukĀ have generously given you the opportunity to download someĀ of their wonderful resources for FREE. During each week of this…

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Word of the Day

17 Mar 2019

    To celebrate our English & Literacy season TeachingPacks.co.uk have generously given you the opportunity to download someĀ of their wonderful resources for FREE. During each week of this season I will add a new resource for you to use in your class. This week:         Introduce a new word toĀ your class…

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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, whenĀ teachers share their reading lives and books…

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National Association for Primary Education

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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