The National Education Policy (NEP) announcement yesterday has created a new sense of excitement for educators (a welcome break from discussing the virtues of online learning, how one can optimise, when schools will open, and whether or not parents should honour their fee commitments). Since last evening social media has been abuzz with discussions, questions raised, doubts […]
Sunday afternoon got educators from across the country together – North, South, East and West as one voice, #SaveOurSchools. This mind you took only a matter of minutes to form a common group of like minded educators and parents only days ago, and one virtual meeting on Saturday (these days, in the education space anything […]
A friend who has no children (not out of choice mind you!), a very successful entrepreneur whose worked globally contributing to the efforts of several relief organisations for children very candidly asked me yesterday about the hue and cry about ‘education and fees’. What’s the real narrative she asked me, because according to her (from […]
Through the numerous online discussions, it is evident that flexibility and acceptance of changing variables is non negotiable and perhaps a more ‘healthy’ way to approach processes in the next few months. Resistance and ‘wanting’ it back like it was is delaying what will eventually happen, so you might as well focus on what can […]
A child’s progress – the child’s learning story in a school as she/he progresses from one grade to another is often defined by a report card that documents the child’s ‘performance’ evaluated year on year. Different pedagogical approaches offer a variety of strategies to assess the learning outcomes and skills-check. The lockdown times and its […]
The past few weeks have been extremely anxious moments spent by those in the education industry – be it owners of schools, principals, parents and teachers as everything they attempted to channelise landing up as a discussion points in courts – well, in some states!! Waiting for verdicts, contesting them and getting decision makers to […]
We all agree that with every generation passing, the new ones that are coming in are a bunch of restless souls. Restless and eager for more, toddlers are brighter, eager to run before they can walk, kids are sharper, curious and have plethora of questions and teens are raging with growth hormones at an age […]
As an educator, I have always valued the advantages that technology brings but I will admit that for the longest time, many of us only spoke about it during educational conferences, discussing about a “volatile” world with many disruptions, ‘VUCA’ as we called it! It was a given that embracing technology and using it as […]
What’s going to really happen when we hit June 30th? Bengal has already announced an extension till July 30th restricting travel. Unlockdown1.0 for the rest of the states (notice how these days we do not call it country, we call it state decisions) will be followed with some ‘normalisation’ and then what? Families torn with […]
The ABC protocols of Lockdown & Unlockdown times continue with central and state governments operationalising “Mission Begin Again” SOPs for essential/ nonessentials services & businesses. With the first lockdown in March 2020, many of us as educators spoke about this on webinars that expect this year’s learning with more time i.e. in lockdown and in […]