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Zoe Enser 🐉

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Zoe Enser 🐉

@greeborunner

School improvement lead for a diverse MAT. Ex SLT. Ex cleaner. Ex HMI. MA Lit/MA Victorian Gothic (lit/hist). Author of books. TES columnist

Settle, England

teachreal.wordpress.com

Joined June 2012

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Zoe Enser 🐉
@greeborunner
Apr 29, 2025
I'm excited about our new book, pulling together the threads of what great schools do & celebrating them. We've explored curriculum, learning, behaviour, attendance, personal development & leadership. I'm forever indebted to all schools I've visited/ worked with. Link in comment
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Zoe Enser 🐉
@greeborunner
Dec 27, 2022
Cards on the table. When I was a teacher I was on £150k, drove a company car, knocked off at 2 & picked up overtime if I fancied doing some marking at the weekends or over my 26 weeks holiday. Parents, pupils & the media lavished me with praise daily. Lor there's nonsense about🙄
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Zoe Enser 🐉
@greeborunner
Nov 28, 2021
Remember not all teachers had a rosy upbringing and lives. We shouldn't make assumptions about pupils and their families but we should also not make assumptions about educators either. It's not helpful and can hurt.
Zoe Enser 🐉
@greeborunner
Nov 13, 2020
Apparently secondary school pupils are spreading COVID quite widely according to a new report. Funny that
Zoe Enser 🐉
@greeborunner
Jan 5, 2021
Hearing about remote practices i worry people are trying to do too much, perhaps proving how they have improved since the Summer. You can't do it all and certainly not in a day. Balance needed for the students too. Quality not quantity
Zoe Enser 🐉
@greeborunner
Dec 6, 2022
Happy to have received this today. Studied while working full-time, writing and dealing with the various trials of life and death. I will let myself have a moment of pride
Zoe Enser 🐉
@greeborunner
Dec 23, 2020
Schools are not highly controlled spaces. They can't be. Why keep this lie going?
Zoe Enser 🐉
@greeborunner
Jan 22, 2021
Laid my mum to her final rest at Potters Street church in Harlow. Views to the common where she played as a child. Back home where she would have wanted to be x
Zoe Enser 🐉
@greeborunner
Jun 26, 2020
I like rows. Rows are good. I taught in rows for years. But let's be clear, rows do not guarantee attention, good learning or excellent progress. They are one part of a very big picture.
Zoe Enser 🐉
@greeborunner
Nov 21, 2020
I wanted thank those of you who wished my mum well on her 90th (she didn’t understand but knew people ‘liked’ her pic), offered me support when she started going down hill & saw when it was getting worse. She passed last Saturday afternoon at home. Whip-crack-away Pat Harrhy
Zoe Enser 🐉
@greeborunner
Feb 27, 2021
Trying to overcome a massive sense of imposter syndrome. What are your top tips?
Zoe Enser 🐉
@greeborunner
Sep 20, 2020
We don’t need to be ruthless. Fairness is important when we are chasing our goals 😀
Zoe Enser 🐉
@greeborunner
Feb 6, 2022
Just looking at ways schools encourage reading for pleasure. Some of the monitoring/ enforcing (not reading ages or diagnostics) sound exhausting. I think if we want to encourage pleasure in reading & promote a regular habit we should just read great books with them regularly
Zoe Enser 🐉
@greeborunner
Jan 20, 2022
*** VERY EXCITING NEWS *** My brand new book on teaching Shakespeare, Bringing Forth the Bard - with a foreword from the magnificent @OldFortunatus, is now available for pre-order from @CrownHousePub! crownhouse.co.uk/bringing-forth… I can't wait to see it in people's hands.