Hans Appel has worked as a counselor in the Richland School District for the past 19 years and at Enterprise Middle School since it opened. He’s passionate about school culture, servant leadership, and kindness. In 2018, EMS was awarded the ASCD Whole Child Award for the State of Washington and the Global “Class Act Award” for creating a culture of excellence through kindness, service, and empathy. Additionally, they were selected as a finalist in the 2019 PBIS Film Festival and took top prize i...
Aug 17, 2020•49 min
Seth from sethperler.com is an executive function and 2e coach who helps make life easier for students who struggle with homework, motivation, organization, grades, focus, study skills, time management, emotions, overwhelm & resistance. He helps complicated, atypical, outside-the-box learners turn it around in a baffling system so they can launch a successful future. His blog gives you game-changing answers in a sea of misguided educational fluff. There’s no instruction book for how to help ...
Aug 14, 2020•47 min
Brenda Mullard has been a licensed art teacher for students in grades K - adult for over 20 years. She has just recently earned her certification as an Integrated Arts Specialist and been given the title of a distinguished educator. She believes that all children should be able to have the arts as part of their life. Kids need to be able to play and experiment with creating and making using different art mediums and materials. Through this experimentation, children develop creative problem-solvi...
Aug 10, 2020•58 min
Michael Arterberry, Master Encourager, and Dynamic Motivational Speaker. As a teenager, Michael was fortunate to receive guidance from positive adult role models who helped him overcome adversities and set high expectations for his future. Grateful for the role these mentors played in his own development, Michael decided to dedicate his professional life to helping people navigate the difficulties of life and launch their future into motion. For more than 25 years, he has been helping teens and ...
Aug 03, 2020•42 min
Ashley James is an entrepreneur, coach and podcaster. In this episode we cover how NLP can support us to understand and enable us to control our feeling of anxiety. Ashley takes us step by step through an exercise that shows exactly how we can take control. Knowing how the brain works provides the insights we need to relieve anxiety in 15 seconds! Ashley is a master practitioner and trainer in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), Time Line Therapy, Hypnosis, and coaching. This combined with being...
Jul 27, 2020•58 min
Pamela Hall, a multi national award-winning educator, is a speaker and author who’s dedicated to helping educators consciously connect with and grow all learners. Pamela’s a life-long learner leading and inspiring thousands of students and educators. Pamela has appeared on P.B.S., many magazines such as Educator Insights, and local news. She’s a passionate educator who specializes in student relationships, class culture, and hands-on, life applicable learning. She encourages educators to be S.T....
Jul 20, 2020•37 min
Chris Tudor is the founder of MASSOLIT, an education website that works with university academics to create short video lectures for GCSE and A Level students. Since it was founded in September 2013, the site's 3,000 lectures have been watched more than 4.5 million times. The lectures cover English Literature, History, Philosophy, Classics & Ancient History, Psychology, Government & Politics https://www.massolit.io/ Twitter: @themassolit Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/massolit/ YouTu...
Jul 13, 2020•41 min
Yoginis Yoga - Specialists in children's well-being and mental health online and onsite training for teachers and childcare providers. Susan Hartley was one of the first children‘s yoga teachers in England having trained with ‘Yoga Bugs’ before they became famous on ‘Dragons Den’. After several years teaching their storytelling based yoga programme in schools and nurseries, she found it exhausting constantly coming up with new stories and also found that this approach didn’t suit all children. E...
Jul 06, 2020•44 min
Dr. Mark T Wade joined me on the Learning on Fire podcast and explored the most important learning and educational moments that shaped his life. This bonus episode shares some insightful understanding of what is important in life. As someone who is very successful it was wonderful hear that the advice he remembers and lives by today: ' Don’t take time for granted' 'Appreciate the small moments' The advice he would you give his younger self: 'You can do and be whatever you want as long as you lov...
Jul 03, 2020•36 min
In this solo show Mark shares his thoughts and experience of what learning has really meant during lockdown. It seems amazing that governments are declaring children need to catchup with missed work. How can there be no allowance for the world shutting down? Why does life have to look the same as before? Surely if nothing else recent events have shown us all that life has to reflect what is happening to and for us? You wouldn't expect someone to run a race with a broken leg you would reframe the...
Jun 29, 2020•10 min
Imagen gives the opportunity for agencies and brands to collaborate with Gen Z Imagen is a Gen Z startup based in Shoreditch, East London. Their mission is to help Gen Z to shape their future. They enable agencies and brands collaborate with Gen Z for brutally honest insights about branding, marketing or products. No more guessing, they crowdsource the best feedback, ideas and insights from their Gen Z consultant community to enables agencies and brands to build all of the above with Gen Z in th...
Jun 22, 2020•32 min
What do you think is the most important advice you could give your children so they can grow up to be the best version of themselves? This bonus episode is a compilation of responses to that question from my first 9 guests who appeared on the Learning on Fire Podcast. This podcast had some wonderful conversations around 10 set questions: 1. Who are you? 2. What does your life look like now and how is it different from when you were growing up? 3. What was valuable about your school experience? 4...
Jun 18, 2020•23 min
Today we focus on EYFS with Ben Case from the Foundation Stage Forum and Tapestry - An Online Learning Journal. The Foundation Stage Forum is a gathering place for anyone involved in Early Years and Primary teaching and learning. Tapestry builds a very special record of a child’s experiences, development and learning journey through their early years and primary education. Using photos, videos and diary entries, a teacher or early years practitioner, along with the child’s parents, ‘weaves’ the ...
Jun 15, 2020•31 min
In this solo show Mark explains where Education on Fire is heading and how you can be part of the community to steer it. The podcast has been downloaded in 121 countries since it's launch in 2016. Let's join together and support the children of the world learn from the wisdom of those who have been interviewed on the show. Listen now to find out more. 'Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire'
Jun 12, 2020•10 min
Is the current age-based system of organising learning in schools in need of radical change? Dr. Patrick Alexander from Oxford Brookes University shares his thoughts based on his new book - Schooling and Social Identity: Learning to Act Your Age in Contemporary Britain. Patrick Alexander is a social anthropologist specialising in education, childhood and youth studies. Patrick's research and teaching interests include the sociology of schooling, youth and youth subcultures, gender, ethnography, ...
Jun 08, 2020•46 min
Jordan Firth is a presenter on BBC Bitesize's 'Teacher Talks' on BBC iPlayer, Year One teacher and presenter of the Hands Up! Podcast. The amount of work and support from all sectors to support teachers and parents educate their children during the pandemic has been truly inspiring. The BBC here in the UK have been a guiding light and their resources have been and continue to be invaluable for so many people. Jordan explains his experience as a primary teacher and the journey that has taken him ...
Jun 01, 2020•33 min
Have you ever wanted to turn your expertise and knowledge into an online course to help others? I chat to Billy Bross who explains how his idea took him from a side project to a full time business. Billy Bross had a thriving career as a consultant in the energy industry, working with important clients like the Department of Energy, Native American tribes, and Fortune 500 companies. It was an interesting and rewarding career, but deep down he was looking for something more. He wanted to do someth...
May 25, 2020•32 min
Shrub Oak International School is a private, coeducational, therapeutic day and boarding school for students ages 8-30 on the autism spectrum who face complex challenges and have high personal attention needs. Located on 127 acres of rolling, wooded hills approximately 30 minutes north of New York City, Shrub Oak offers unparalleled educational opportunities for students in a family-centric, supportive environment. Classrooms are equipped with state-of-the art technology, and our curriculum is b...
May 18, 2020•27 min
Do you want to know how to become a successful animator and create a YouTube channel with over 260,000 subscribers? Listen to how Evan Burse from The Cartoon Block did it. Evan has been an animation professional for over 10 years. He’s worked on such shows as Batman: The Brave and the Bold, Black Panther, Marvel’s Hulk and The Agents of S.M.A.S.H., and Teen Titans. Since 2009, Evan has been passionately teaching aspiring artists how to draw their favourite characters on his YouTube channel, Cart...
May 15, 2020•48 min
Health and nutrition education for teachers and parents. Support your children to learn about their wellbeing in school or online. The Yoghurt & Juice Network was an idea born during a long car journey, where founders and Nutritionists, Yasmin and Jenna, were fed up of listening to the responsibility of the current state of children’s health being passed between parents, schools, industry, government and so on. As a result, they decided to take on some of the responsibility themselves, by cr...
May 11, 2020•26 min
Today we discuss how the current lockdown and remote learning could change the education system forever. Batsheva Frankel, MAT, is a veteran teacher of over 25 years. In 2011, she began developing the award-winning LaunchBox products, which are games and activities that explore big philosophical ideas. She is also the creator of Lenses of Questioning, a methodology for helping students develop critical and analytical thinking skills. Batsheva has given classes and workshops for educators all ove...
May 04, 2020•38 min
OneStep CPD provides free CPD courses for teachers to give you the tools and support to improve how you teach. Our guest Sally Hill is the CPD Manager at OneStep CPD and dedicated to improving teaching and learning by up-skilling teachers to be more effective and confident when delivering lessons. Sally was previously a History Teacher in Manchester for 5 years, including spells as a Head of Department and CPD Lead. One Step CPD is provided by Twinkl. 'We regularly talk to customers about the is...
Apr 27, 2020•29 min
Jon Vroman joins me on the Education on Fire podcast and explores the most important learning and educational moments that shaped his life. Jon helps others be “Moment Makers”. He is married to his gorgeous and free-spirited wife Tatyana and father of two energetic and playful boys, Tiger and Ocean, and live in Austin, Texas. Jon is the founder of the Front Row Foundation, a charity established in 2005 that creates unforgettable moments for individuals who are braving life-threatening illnesses....
Apr 24, 2020•45 min
A one minute trailer that outlines what the Education on Fire Podcast is all about and how to listen. 'Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire' https://www.educationonfire.com/
Apr 21, 2020•1 min
Professor Barry Carpenter has been a headteacher of three schools in the UK, a national director at the UK government's Department for Education and was the first professor of Mental Health in Education in the UK. Barry's due to retire this June and has had a very high-profile career in education over more than 40 years. In fact, the UK government has just released guidance that Barry developed that helps schools understand how to assess pupils performing below the standard of the national curri...
Apr 20, 2020•28 min
Education comes from life experiences not just schooling. Today we share some of those lessons that have empowered our guest Janelle Christa to breathe life into “conscious entertainment” Janelle is a Hollywood coach, actress, producer, screenwriter and creator of “conscious entertainment”. Having come from a history of affairs, divorce, and family dysfunction as well as a bi-polar diagnosis, she strongly believes that happiness is a choice. Janelle’s level of expertise sees her coaching celebri...
Apr 13, 2020•26 min
Who knew at the time of recording that so many children would be forced to learn online because of countries being in lockdown. However there are many people who have been advocating this for a while. A timely bonus episode as we continue to share podcasts previously released on the network as Learning on Fire. Ai Addyson-Zhang, Ph.D is a Social Media Pedagogy consultant. She created Classroom without walls – Using technology to reimagine education and has recently been featured in Forbes. I am ...
Apr 10, 2020•39 min
Lesley Moffat has taught high school band for over thirty years in the Pacific Northwest. Her ensembles have performed all over the US and in Canada, including four performances at Carnegie Hall. Following decades of chronic illness and exhaustion that were the result of the stress that comes with running a band program that included over 300 students, she revamped her teaching strategies to support a healthier balance and lifestyle. Her first book, I Love My Job but It’s Killing Me, became an i...
Apr 06, 2020•34 min
Teru Clavel talks to Mark Taylor about her book, World Class: One Mother’s Journey Halfway Around the Globe in Search of the Best Education for Her Children and her own educational experiences. Teru Clavel is a comparative education expert and author who has shared her insights on education and globalization on Fareed Zakaria’s GPS, The TODAY Show, CBS This Morning, CNBC’s Squawk Box, as well as Channel NewsAsia. She has written columns for The Japan Times and Financial Times and has been interv...
Mar 30, 2020•53 min
Richard Gerver has been described as one of the most inspirational leaders of his generation. He is an award-winning speaker, bestselling author and world-renowned thinker. Richard began his career in education, most notably as headmaster of the failing Grange Primary School. In just two years, famously transformed into one of the most acclaimed learning environments in the world. He was celebrated by UNESCO and the UK Government for its incredible turnaround. Richard has since transitioned to t...
Mar 27, 2020•1 hr
