The uncertainty surrounding school opening (for national board affiliated schools – start is usually June; international schools will commence in July/August and the thousands of preschools) is a guaranteed truth, and despite conversations with local authorities and administration it would be naive to believe that answers can be guaranteed at this point when the country […]
Beyond our control, the external environment has ensured that the children in this country have grown up to maturity levels that are unusual for their age, and in many ways ‘extra ordinary periods of growth’. For starters, their vocabulary includes words like pandemic (for most adults, this word was introduced when WHO declared it as […]
Simply put, cognitive development is a journey of a child who develops skills to explore, evaluate, analyse … essentially “figure things out” independently. The development is a process of knowledge acquisition, embracing and mastering a variety of skills, working out cause-and-effect by learning to solve problems and representation of ideas as they emerge because of […]
Over the past few days, I have been in conversation with senior industry leaders (not only from the education space), and parents (not by design actually) and whether it was pre-planned or happened by chance, different perspectives shared were interesting. While I share them with this blog, I hope it gives us in the education […]
Over the past few days, I have been in conversation with senior industry leaders (not only from the education space), and parents (not by design actually) and whether it was pre-planned or happened by chance, different perspectives shared were interesting. While I share them with this blog, I hope it gives us in the education […]
Parenting comes with its own set of trials and tribulations, and the pandemic appears to have brought out the ‘worst-case’scenarios for some in terms of their relationships with their children, and for many, they have emerged stronger. Often when the variables around change – could be emotional, physical and in many cases financial, the behaviours […]
Since the world and particularly India went into its first lockdown in March 2020, with the obvious school closures as an important fallout, there was another kind of development that was brewing. This was the start of a strain on the the home and school relationship which even at that point seemed to be fragile. […]
For the upcoming ACE Leadership Workshops for Heads of Schools, as a team of educators, we have narrowed down key skills that leaders will need to focus on as they conclude a year of lockdown and new normal. The road ahead will be peppered with new challenges, and the past 10 months are simply indicative […]
Was an interesting question raised by a fellow educator in a webinar on Saturday about school opening in India and why as a country, we ‘restricted’ the urge to open with the ‘start-again’ procedures post lockdown when the rest of the world seemed to operationalise much earlier. By August/September many schools world over were open […]
As the Centre gives a go ahead, at least 7 States are gearing up to welcome high school students – Grades 9 to 12 back to campus with all the social distancing, sanitation protocols in place. Considered the ‘business end’ of life for a student’s academic journey before University transition, the grades culminate into those […]