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
Latest Podcast Episodes
World Schooling on the Water: Danielle Vandehei on Sailing, Unschooling and Finding Alignment
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…
Read MoreTeaching Chemistry Through Art, Dance and Drama with Zafra Lerman
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…
Read MoreEthical Persuasion in Education with Patrick van der Burght (Cialdini Institute)
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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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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Most Recent Blog Posts
Safety Snakes – A new online safety themed Barefoot lesson plan
About Safety Snakes: The Safety Snakes campaign offers teachers a range of free resources to help them combine the principles of online safety with computational thinking. We’re providing a new online safety themed Barefoot lesson plan and printed Bee-Bot mat, designed similar to a Snakes and Ladders game. This includes a digital version of the…
Read MorePrimary Music Lesson 12
Primary Music Lesson: Rhythmically Speaking: 12 Building Structure and Variation Mark Taylor, director of Rhythmically Speaking, explores variation around a simple structure to further develop the samba ensemble.
Read MorePrimary Music Lesson 11
Primary Music Lesson: Rhythmically Speaking: 11 Call and Response Mark Taylor, director of Rhythmically Speaking, develops the samba ensemble with a call and response routine.
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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.