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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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Kindness – See the Good! | Dr. Kaisa Vuorinen

November 2, 2026

Kindness – Character strengths miniseries with See the Good!Happy kids learn best!See the Good! is a scientifically proven Finnish teaching method based on the very latest research on positive psychology and character strengths. Their method helps students to recognize and use character strengths at school and beyond. It guides teachers, builds positive school culture, and…

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Kaisa Vuorinen: Happy Kids Learn Best, But Not Without Happy Teachers

November 2, 2026

Kaisa Vuorinen, PhD, is a Finnish researcher, educator, speaker, author and the founder and CEO of Positive Learning. Her work focuses on positive education, character strengths, socio-emotional skills, well-being, and flourishing in education. Kaisa has trained teachers and educational leaders in over 30 countries and has spoken at numerous international conferences and educational forums worldwide.…

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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. 🔥 This will help give you more valuable conversations to support young people. 🔥 Reduce the time between recording and release dates for guests as required 🔥 Provided more flexibility for mini series 🔥 Allow me to produce…

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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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30 Jan 2018

We are delighted that Education on Fire is featured at number 1 in this article by the Teaching Ideas resources website, thank you.

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Safety Snakes – A new online safety themed Barefoot lesson plan

18 Jan 2018

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…

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Education on Fire sponsor

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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