Mrs Briggs

Assistant Principal: Barriers to Learning , English teacher, SSAT leadership fellow, MA:IE graduate, former ULSU executive. Jasper’s mum. Dog lover.

[Mrs Briggs @briggsdoesteach]

@SianEli22973440 @SPryke2 @teachals @Team_English1 This is amazing but struggling to find how to DM you!

[Mrs Briggs @briggsdoesteach]

@coldplay Hi Coldplay. I’m sure you’re busy etc but we’re coming to see you tonight and our first dance nine years ago was Green Eyes, so hoping you might consider playing it tonight. 👍🏻

[Mrs Briggs @briggsdoesteach]

@MissIgnateArt You are brilliant Meg, I’ve loved getting to know you this term ❤️

[TELA CPD and ACHIEVE with TELA Teacher Training @TELAteaching]

An afternoon of big smiles, chatter and believing that they are now 'teachers'.
All trainees celebrated with each other, wrote themselves a Dear me letter and chatted to TELA's new cohort who will be starting their journey in August.
#teachertraining

[Mrs Briggs @briggsdoesteach]

@AndyCart2531 ‘This is the very painting of your fear’. I’ve thought about your tweet and I actually think fear is a key motivator for much of the action. A tricky one and requires some quite sophisticated thinking from students.

[Ben Newmark @bennewmark]

Looking at national figures and I think we need to better understand our single biggest issue is attendance. Nothing else looks higher leverage for the time being.

[Ben Newmark @bennewmark]

Keep thinking about when we all laughed at Theresa May for only coming up with running through fields when asked about what she'd done wrong.
Maybe this is all.. our fault?

[researchED Leicester @researchEDLeics]

@briggsdoesteach @uniofleicester Next year we’ll provide the cheesy music too! 😂

[Mrs Briggs @briggsdoesteach]

Best education podcasts please?

[MYoungTECC @myoung90642548]

Vacancies - Exciting times - opportunity to join our amazing languages department. We are looking for an outstanding second in department - come and join our wonderful team https://t.co/r34pupGimt

[Mrs Briggs @briggsdoesteach]

If you do nothing else today, read this.

[Ben Newmark @bennewmark]

New. @TomRees_77 and my talk on the SEND Green Paper @researchEDLeics
https://t.co/HQtZRDgLpe

[Ben Newmark @bennewmark]

The bit they cried at was the first part. About holding your child up for meritocratic judgement and being asked to provide the evidence they had failed.

[Mrs Briggs @briggsdoesteach]

@bennewmark And many others trying to hold it together. ❤️

[Ben Newmark @bennewmark]

During our talk I saw three people crying. I know this isn't very conferency but I think it's important to flag this up. This is what deficit framing does to people. We are entitled to better.

[Mrs Briggs @briggsdoesteach]

Don’t know if any other @uniofleicester alumni found the @researchEDLeics handle #rEDLeicester disconcerting. A stark reminder that life has changed dramatically from the times when #RedLeicester meant a student night of cheesy music at the Union.

[Mrs Briggs @briggsdoesteach]

After a Twitter haitus during maternity leave, I am delighted that my glorious return was @researchEDLeics. It’s been incredibly sharpening to hear again from those who are forever fighting the good fight. Provocative in all the right ways. A cracker of a day. #rEDLeicester

[Amy Lowde @AmyLowde93]

“Students need rich stories told beautifully by their teachers” - a perfect description for History from @Counsell_C at #rEDLeicester @researchEDLeics

[Alice Visser-Furay @AVisserFuray]

Listening to @teacherhead talk about what it means to be evidence informed. He is getting us to think about research in more nuanced ways--does it really say what we think it says? Instead try evidence- informed wisdom. Learn about learners--do they understand? #rEDLeicester

[Mrs Briggs @briggsdoesteach]

Research tells us what HAS happened, not what COULD happen. Does that mean that perhaps what HAS happened wasn’t working? Or that it was a bad idea in the first place? #researchEDLeicester