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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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Digital Seatbelts: Making Broadband Safer for Children with Network-Level Parental Controls

November 10, 2025

Mashood Ahmad is the CEO and founder of Gigabit IQ, an award-winning UK broadband provider dedicated to delivering safer, smarter, and faster internet through fully managed Wi-Fi and industry-leading online safety tools. A recognised voice in digital inclusion and child online protection, Mashood is a Council Member at ISPA UK and a vocal advocate for…

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Free Music Education for All Students: Digital Resources & Live Performances | Aurora Orchestra

November 3, 2025

Aurora Orchestra’s creative learning programme supports teachers to bring rich musical education and experiences to all children. The Aurora Classroom programme encompasses: digital resources for primary and secondary schools flexible cross-curricular resources for SEND settings training for teachers from our team of experts world-class programme of live activity for children and young people. Music at…

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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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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

My new audio course is live on Listenable

07 Aug 2021

I’m so excited to let you know my new audio course ’10 Pieces of Advice You’d Like to Have as a Child’ has been published on Listenable. Listenable is just like an audio version of Netflix. You pay a small monthly fee and get access to hundreds of courses in a variety of categories. I was…

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The Executive Function Online Summit 2021

02 Aug 2021

How TEFOS Benefits You? Dear Compassionate and Proactive Parents, If your child struggles with Executive Function, in other words, if they don’t get important stuff done, because of things like procrastination, not getting started, not following through, disorganization, not paying attention, overwhelm, being unprepared, forgetful, late, unmotivated, TEFOS is for YOU.   TEFOS, or The Executive…

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Online Children’s Book Festival – June 26th and 27th 2021

14 Jun 2021

A FREE CHILDREN’S BOOK FESTIVAL is being hosted by Independent Thinking this June. This special event grew out of our recent podcast guest Ian Gilbert finding himself on a Zoom coffee morning chat with a wide range of authors, all brought together by Sue Atkins, TV’s celebrated ‘parenting coach’. Post-lockdown, it is even more vital to help…

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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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