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Rachel Higginson FCCT retweeted
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At @CeltAcademies our thinking is critical to ensuring the work is right and framed within genuine service. We are lucky to have such smart and compassionate leaders driving this forward. Please have a look and share
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Rachel Higginson FCCT retweeted
@teacherhead @MaryMyatt @Monnowriverman @Lesley_J_Lowe @volantcoaching @JudeTin @creativeHigg do you know anyone looking for a class teacher role in a fabulous school? We are recruiting and would love to spread the word. stmichaelsaldbourne.co.uk/ou…
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Rachel Higginson FCCT retweeted
📢 Free webinar Wednesday 4th 5pm
'A Human Education for an Artificial World...'
In the noise of the world and of the system we need to simplify and synthesise,
Belonging as an experience, Inclusivity by design, #AuthenticOracy rich...deeply human. 🙏🏼
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Rachel Higginson FCCT retweeted
19 Dec 2025
You are the curators of stories. You grow knowledge, hope and wisdom.
You are shaping the our future despite the uncertainty and challenge.
Our kids are alright ❤️
Thank you from us all at Finding My Voice 🙏🏼✨
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Rachel Higginson FCCT retweeted
I’ve spent decades at the chalkface
I can’t tell you how farcical it is to see the cult around explicit instruction develop
Do people really think we didn’t explicitly instruct or taught by discovery prior to 2014?
I’d laugh if it weren’t for the damage being done to education
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Rachel Higginson FCCT retweeted
19 Dec 2025
The final day of #12GiftsofChristmas is here!
Just pop your email in at marymyatt.typeform.com/mc-12… to be in with a chance of winning @MyattandCo merch!
#EndofTerm #Celebrate #ChristmasHolidays
@MaryMyatt @catherinepriggs @creativeHigg @stevewillshaw @jillberry102
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Rachel Higginson FCCT retweeted
18 Dec 2025
🌲 Authentic Advent Day 18
🧵What is the purpose?
Our accountability systems, curriculum and assessments drive a frantic race to get to the ultimate goal.
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Rachel Higginson FCCT retweeted
14 Dec 2025
Authentic Advent Day 14🎄
🧵Extrinsic versus intrinsic motivation...
Our education system is geared towards reward by extrinsic measures.
Value measured by what we achieve rather than who we are.
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Rachel Higginson FCCT retweeted
12 Dec 2025
OK folks - this is the big one!
An annual @MyattandCo subscription for your whole school. Yes - your whole school!
Don't delay- enter now at marymyatt.typeform.com/mc-12…
@MaryMyatt @stevewillshaw @johntomsett @jillberry102 @creativeHigg
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Rachel Higginson FCCT retweeted
10 Dec 2025
Authentic Advent Day 10🌲
🧵The Power of Words✨
What young people think and what they are able to express are often at odds.
Language shapes our institution and our experience.
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Rachel Higginson FCCT retweeted
9 Dec 2025
Authentic Advent Day 9🎄
🧵'Interthinking'
As Professor Neil Mercer so beautifully puts it, once we have learned the mechanics of communication we can go to a deeper exploratory place and 'interthink.'
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Rachel Higginson FCCT retweeted
8 Dec 2025
Authentic Advent Day 8🌲
🧵Active Learning
Often the link between active learning and Oracy is missed.
When you ask children a question they *might* think about a response.
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Rachel Higginson FCCT retweeted
6 Dec 2025
Authentic Advent Day 6🌲
🧵Say my name...
At Finding My Voice we often start with the simple exercise of walking in a room and introducing yourself by name...
'Hello my name is...'
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Rachel Higginson FCCT retweeted
5 Dec 2025
Authentic Advent Day 5🌲
Silence.
Part of Finding My Voice is learning to be comfortable in silence.
Time to breathe, to be.
When we learn to indulge silence we are less anxious about our turn to speak and more able to truly listen.
Try a bit of silence, you probably need it
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Rachel Higginson FCCT retweeted
4 Dec 2025
Authentic Advent Day 4🌲
🧵Words from one of our beautiful young people.
P was a young person who lacked self confidence but this grew exponentially as she engaged with the Finding My Voice approach.
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Rachel Higginson FCCT retweeted
3 Dec 2025
Authentic Advent Day 3 🌲
🧵Often the most important work we do in school is incidental or organic. This forms the foundation of belonging and powerful, personal development but happens ad-hoc.
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Rachel Higginson FCCT retweeted
2 Dec 2025
🌲 Authentic Advent Day 2🌲
Authentic: undisputed origin and not a copy; genuine.
Why the focus on authentic?
Because in an overwhelmingly dominant, technological world we need to be more human than ever before if we are to thrive.
How can we respond?
A human education.
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Rachel Higginson FCCT retweeted
1 Dec 2025
This week's Listening Letter from @findingmvoice
Very helpful links to help support all our learners via @creativeHigg
finding-my-voice.beehiiv.com…
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1 Dec 2025
And we're off... 🙏🏼
1 Dec 2025
🌲 Authentic Advent Day 1🌲
'To trust children we must first learn to trust ourselves and most of us were taught as children, we could not be trusted.'
John Holt
If we listened as intently to our young people as our accountability systems what would education be like?
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30 Nov 2025
We are back in X land on a mission for the festive season. Do follow for calm in the chaos 🙏🏼
30 Nov 2025
🌲Authentic Advent 🌲
In the run up to Christmas we will be quietening the noise with some reflections from our work and from our precious young people.
Do follow to join the daily ritual 🙏🏼
@MaryMyatt @MannyAwo
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