Zoë Ansah FRSA
@maximeconatus
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Teaching music, writing, working really hard for a soft life. Always thinking about music, education, and the intersections thereof.
South East London
Joined March 2021
Educators change lives!
The college professor that pushed Ryan Coogler to write movies 🥰
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I want to drop-ship @C_Hendrick's latest onto every elementary school teacher's desk. "In education, the idea that reading comprehension is a teachable, generic skill that can be applied to any given text is an error, but a natural one, which is partly what made it so durable.
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When students can’t find the "main idea", the problem is almost never a missing strategy.
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Parents ask me constantly what they should focus on with young children. What curriculum? What materials? What early reading program? My answer is 'focus.' One of the most important educational indicators in young children is their ability to focus for longer and longer
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Let’s not even get into the phonics to spelling pipeline…
People seem to be forgetting that you have to teach children things for them to know it
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🚨 NEW: The Government has launched the Education Record app GCSE students will be able to see their results digitally from this summer
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Yesterday it was playtime just as the first snow was falling - a heartwarming moment to see all the children so excited! ✨
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Tech literacy is not a bonus skill anymore. It is as essential as reading or writing. If we don’t teach our children that then we are failing them.
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Attention sits at the heart of learning. When pupils focus, they encode information more deeply, reduce cognitive load, and make room for meaningful understanding. Decades of cognitive science show that without attention, even the best teaching can’t take hold. If we want better
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Working memory is limited and that’s exactly why managing it in the classroom matters. When tasks are clear, distractions reduced, and new ideas introduced in small, well-sequenced steps, pupils free up cognitive space to actually think. The science is clear: protect working
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So what are the foundations for a safe and happy life for children in the UK?
“Nine in 10 children in Norway say they’re happy with their life.” What’s their secret? A child-centred society, strong early years support, and policies that truly listen to young voices. Listen back to #TheBigConversation⬇️
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Recommending my beginner piano students add this to their libraries - essential and rudimentary 😌✨
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The ABRSM's popular and well-established Manual of Scales, Arpeggios and Broken Chords is now published in a new modern edition. Still containing all the standard scale and arpeggio patterns, it has...
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17 years ago, in the first A-level lesson I ever taught, a student wrote such a fantastic first homework that I stuck it on the wall as a model answer. Last night, I cheered as he launched his first book via @BitebackPub - and could not be more proud of him.
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Wrote my second LinkedIn article - check it out here:
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It’s just gone midnight, and I should probably be asleep. But I’ve been thinking about tomorrow - the final assessment for my data apprenticeship.
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