Jessica Crane

Head of English at Michaela Community School. 2018 TeachFirst Ambassador - Yorkshire and The Humber.

[Jessica Crane @JCranex1]

And this is why teaching is the best job in the world 🥰

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

James Clear: The ability to bounce back quickly is a key skill in life.

[Blake Burge @blakeaburge]

Underrated life skill: Making people feel important. Put your phone away. Listen closely. Ask thoughtful questions. Remember details. Remember names. Be fully present. The ability to make someone feel seen is one of the rarest and most valuable skills. And it's not that hard.

[Blake Burge @blakeaburge]

The older I get, the more I realize that becoming a better person is mostly about returning to simple things. Move daily. Eat real food. Keep your word. Work hard. Sleep well. Spend time outside. Love your people deeply. Most answers are simpler than we make them.

[Nicola Burkinshaw @NABurkinshaw]

She never seems to post about children actually learning, does she?

[Jessica Crane @JCranex1]

What has happened to our country? We have absolutely no institutional seriousness. It is painfully embarrassing

[Department for Education @educationgovuk]

Gemma Collins is in the building and she's got questions.

Coming soon📷

@bphillipsonMP

[Voltaire @VoltaireQuote]

“The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.”

[Words of Wise | Mindset Coach @Wordofwise_]

"If suffering really taught lessons, the world would be populated by wise men. Pain has nothing to teach those who do not find the strength and courage to listen to it."

— Sigmund Freud

[Thomas Sowell Daily @DailySowell]

“Some of the most vocal critics of the way things are being done are people who have done nothing themselves, and whose only contributions to society are their complaints and moral exhibitionism.”

— Thomas Sowell

[Michael Warburton @For_Film_Fans]

“Practice any Art: music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, no matter how well or badly, not to get money & fame but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow.”

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

I’m in love with this sentence:

“The degree to which a person can grow is directly proportional to the amount of truth he can accept about himself without running away.”

[Dr. Arthur Brooks @arthurbrooks]

Friendships account for 60% of the difference in happiness between individuals. That’s an extraordinary number, and a reminder that friendship isn’t a nice extra in life. It’s central to human flourishing.

In this week’s episode of Office Hours, I turn to Aristotle and his Nicomachean Ethics to ask an age-old question: what makes a good friend? I share Aristotle’s three types of friendship, and suggest something that might sound counterintuitive: the best of friends are perfectly useless.

Watch the full episode here: https://t.co/FosRvzPV0R

[Rob Henderson @robkhenderson]

"You will have so many opportunities to do the wrong thing: To gossip, to lie, to cut corners, to take short cuts. It’s never worth it, because then it makes it harder to like yourself. No amount of money or fame will make you feel good if you aren’t proud of how you’ve acted."

[Katharine Birbalsingh @Miss_Snuffy]

Damn right I’d have your back. 👇

Every single time.

Teachers are treated like crap everywhere.

I expect a lot of my staff and they damn well expect a lot of me.

I deliver.

Always. 💪

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

Life isn’t fair. And teaching children otherwise sets them up to fail.

Some people will always have more.

Some will always have less.

The question is: Do you teach children to chase their potential or their excuses?

[Sam Strickland @SamStrickers181]

Agree or disagree about after school, weekend & holiday revision sessions but I always wonder where’s the outrage when schools have horrific behaviour or incredibly low exam outcomes for kids.

[𝕁𝕖𝕤𝕤 🌍🐱🖤 @MissCatnach]

What works for one school won't always work for another. Don't believe in holiday/Saturday sessions? Don't do it in your school. Don't want to work somewhere that does these things? Don't. Don't want to send your children to this sort of school? Don't. Simple. Each to their own.

[Natasha Porter OBE @NPorter_]

Perhaps next we could be really angry at those schools where kids are failing to get 5 good GCSEs and it is just being accepted as inevitable because of the challenges they face?

[Katharine Birbalsingh @Miss_Snuffy]

The Michaela annual ski trip for staff! 🥰