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Trust: The cornerstone of effective teaching and learning

Resolutions

Breathing is injurious to health

Learning disparities unveiled: Navigating educational challenges for optimal student triumph

Imagining an education for all

Savitribai Phule and Fatima Sheikh: Pioneers of Indian education

A community’s struggle for dignity

When caste dawned upon me

‘Open’ing libraries, transforming lives

The struggle for education – Journeys of a Munda-Oraon and a Mahar

The margins of the society: a spotlight

Factors and multiples

Understanding metrics

The underdog’s tale

ChatGPT in schools

Climate change, storytelling, and the subversive power of imagination

Creating a multi-intelligent curriculum

Angela Ruiz Robles: e-book pioneer

Cave dwellers

Life lessons from a game of sport

Circle of learning

Teaching in context

Digital technology and the teacher’s professional identity

Let curiosity flit, fly, or float

Frayed bonds: The erosion of sacred bonds in teacher-student relationships in modern education

Who is the ideal teacher?

It’s the process, not the product

What art gives to the curriculum

Arts equalize, not divide. Arts are freeing, not restrictive

A matter of right or privilege?

Our journey with Pratham books

What do learning objectives mean anyway?

A journey through schooling: perspectives and dilemmas

My struggle to remember names

The metaverse in schools

Making the classroom more interesting

A. Lalitha: Engineering woman power

Befriending ancient art

Beyond ABCs: Nurturing inclusivity in early education

Complicating the Library

Why should schools be good neighbours?

The student

Books and us

Five ways to support the wellbeing of school leaders

Planning ahead for students in an ever-evolving world

Working at micro to impact the macro level

We hire teachers to teach, but won’t let them

Teacher evaluation: time to rethink and reform

A commitment to assessment

What makes for good observation?

Sporting horizons

C is for climate change

TREAT – Theatre for Reinforcing Education And Teaching

Design your party

Showing that you care

Ambition

It’s time for a math teaching revolution

Ada Lovelace: STEM pioneer

Gamification in learning

Exploring the psychology of emotions

Annual day: a platform for leadership development

From a quiet to an active space

Parent-teacher meeting – a student’s nightmare!

What do you do in your kitchen?

Not by profession

Cooking up a fragrance

Education 4.0: tracing the shift from traditional to future-oriented learning models

When stories dominate the classroom

Are you a STEM school?

What’s our purpose?

What drives schools? A critical sociology perspective

Factors that drive schools

The peer pressure of tomorrow

School as a safe space

Children play all the time…why don’t teachers?

Understanding how children perceive writing

Embracing mistakes, fostering growth: A collaborative journey in teaching English

Learning by doing: Research within the curriculum

Hedy Lamarr: A beauty with brains

Why are our school canteens junk food hotspots?

Mathematics – possibilities beyond the conventional classroom

About the children, for the children

A journey of surprises

“We need to control the children”: Some thoughts on children and punishment in the India of 2023

Choices

An over ripe imagination in a medieval zenana

Library narratives

Integrating sustainable development goals with school education

Going green

For the love of a good story

Literature helps us to

The magic of sharing stories

Picture books: bringing together the world and the word

Stories hidden within stories

Learning difference: through the lens of stories

It’s all in the pictures

Come say hello

Turning the page on climate change

Philosophy through literature: Gareth B. Matthews’ method

Taxonomy through tales

Superbug stories: Finding our place in a complex health problem

Like finding pieces of your soul: Books and the magic of rereading

Climate crisis and the battle for imagination

Building bridges through stories

An entry to other worlds

Exploring Arunachal Pradesh through prose and poetry

A land of stories

Teenagers and the Bard

Literature in high school

Lessons in literature

Nurturing new poets

Help the imagination take wing

Let’s not give the short story short shrift!

‘Draw’ing from the world for children

Fiction and the learning of history

The abiding mystique of Indian mythology

From essays to tweets: Writing education for the digital generation

The complex art of translation

Bringing good books to children – in Telugu

Rediscovering reading in my native tongue

Stories and the spoken word

Finding your place in the family of things

The healing pages: How children’s literature shapes our worlds

When the stories we tell – and read – are real

Maximizing assessment effectiveness: The significance of aligning question papers with Bloom’s taxonomy

Enhancing teachers’ English language proficiency and pedagogy

Maryam, the mathematician

Touch me not!

Letter writing to elicit expression

Fighting climate change by minimizing food waste

Fascinating fungi-facts

Chocolate, anyone?

Bringing the OUTSIDE inside the classroom

Grisly tales from Indian history

Rebuilding hope: a journey with a government school

The three Cs of modern education

Have you heard of e-techno schools?

Championing creativity in the classroom

Embracing change

Can the museum be a space of discovery and delight?

The library as museum

A little museum with BIG ideas!

The ‘outclass’ plug-in

Yet another beginning

Beyond the ritual of I-Day

Children and the library – a fresh future

Adapting the flipped classroom

Working with technology: digital tools for teachers

Capturing creativity: how teachers can use photography to make classes exciting

Learning right from wrong: why moral reasoning matters

STEM education in Indian regional languages

Bal sansad election: disseminating democratic values in school

Silent struggles: invisible disabilities in educational spaces

Excellence

Displaced and devastated: indigenous communities

Who will help our teachers thrive?

The magic and meaning of palindromes

Adaptive curriculum for the self-directed learner

Communicating peace

Leveraging Bloom’s Taxonomy for advanced question framing

Pictures can re-make our world

The harm that AI can cause

Pushed to the edge: what can we do about student burnout?

Teachers as designers of transformative classrooms

How parents can add value to government schools

Spicing up the everyday routine: the video games way

“Colour, colour, which colour do you want?”

World peace follows inner peace

Keep calm and stay positive

When parents drive teachers up the wall

Music to the rescue

If you can’t go outside, go inside

Mindful moments for a calm life

Keep calm and create curiosity

Keep calm and embrace self-care

Finding peace of mind with nature

Chaotic lessons

Cutting out stress

Calm in a storm

Keep calm and remember the little things

Keep calm and dream big

Keep calm and stride on

Keep calm and bloom

Keep calm and freeze

Putting anxiety to rest

Finding peace by living naturally

What we can learn from the children

Keep calm and click refresh

Coaching children to be centered

A cool me for a cool them

Staying calm in an unquiet world

Keep calm and dance

One child at a time

Keep calm and stay healthy

The calmness quotient

The Lifelong Learner: Learning to stay calm

Keep calm and seed the future

How we learn to speak

Who will win this game?

Our skewed obsessions

Finding your peace

The library as a space for art exploration

The why, where, and how of assessments

My first lessons as a teacher

A new vision for education

Indian teachers in Bhutan: A cross-border story of love and respect

Children and EQ: how to use emotions as super powers

Ways to build the skills that count

Breaking through structures of power

Unravelling the tangled ball of learning using frames

The delicate dance: navigating the teacher-student relationship

Make wonder a part of the curriculum

Teaching, learning, and my own journey through these areas

The lifelong learner: Making an impact

The power of inquiry-based learning in English education

The primitive world of plants and fungi

Lessons from history – the importance of alliances

Making the elephant dance: unpacking India’s public education system

Private schools and the government: a symbiotic relationship?

Unveiling the magic of math

Why swings?

Balancing compassion and consequences

Fostering positive body image, self-acceptance, and resilience among young adults

Why homework?

Structure, control, and flexibility

‘Tinkering’ your way into learning

A paradigm shift in teaching pedagogy: the need of the hour

Reimagining New Year resolutions

Getting smart about data

Learning math through inquiry

Towards a data-rich school: thoughts and ideas

Data as culture

Data privacy in schools

The teacher as a data-driven decision maker

Design thinking as a teaching framework

Cleaning up speech!

Moving beyond comfort zones

Animals on the move

The transformative power of belief

Children, citizenship and poetry

Pedagogical Content Knowledge – An attempt to outline it

Five ways to combat teacher burnout

Searching for meaning in a school library

Arts-based teacher training – an imperative need

To a librarian, with love

Growing up with a library movement

Productive disruptions

Getting on ‘board’ for social studies

How can I help you improve?

Pedagogical neutrality and conflicts in the classroom

The emoji war

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson: Path-breaking Victorian

The ‘rock’ing social sciences

The infinite boundaries of zero

Elm-watching in Hyderabad

In harmony with nature

Plural perceptions and deciphering the whole

Get ready…to pause

Children, citizenship and poetry – 2

A meditative experience

Integrating content and language

Science and its PCK

Becoming a library practitioner

The sports coach

Making classroom discussions relevant

Combating the curse of knowledge

Draw what’s inside your body!

NFT learning

It’s time to listen to those unheard voices

Let’s get beezy with Bees!

The key to student success

Anna Mani: Weather Woman

The biological cell

The picture book playground

Re-imagining learning spaces

The science behind the MCQ

Lessons in lesson planning

Making mental models

Emphasis on PCK in teacher preparation

A new discourse about disability

We need more than lip service

Every day, a Teacher’s Day?

Hot deserts

Thematic displays changed my practice

It’s all about teacher excellence

Putting some teeth into learning

Young and eco-anxious

Crunching numbers with Vikram and Betaal

I ‘swear’ to be good

Those three hours

From once upon a time to here and now

Means versus the end

Healthful lessons

Mamitu Gashe: Frontline warrior surgeon

ChatGPT

A literary tale

Cold desert – Ladakh

The many routes to handling conflict

A 10-year-old romance: libraries in schools

Children should be encouraged to ask questions: Shobha Tharoor Srinivasan

Being polite to being nice

How do we prepare to deal with tragedy?

Nurturing spaces for ‘wild’ ideas

Thinking – and doing – differently

The makers of history

The future of the past

History’s Silent Half

NEP 2020: Artistic imagination and the creative quotient

Shaping mindsets through historical thinking

Tech challenges in the history classroom

One story or many narratives

Partition history, education, and reconciliation

Tales from here and there

Experience at the centre of all learning

Explore, experience, and analyze

Make history come alive

Revamping the approach to teaching history

New present, newer past & newer textbooks

Archives and ‘Active Learning’ in the history classroom

Initiating a magical journey

Is the history textbook history now?

Was it really the straw that broke the camel’s back?

A folktale walked into a history class…

Hidden inside migration stories

Multiple histories and a common past

Math too has a history!

Seamless boundaries

A visual journey of girls’ education

A matter of our times

The vexing question

History here and now!

The Many Histories of Modern India

The transformative impact of good memories in learning spaces

Artificial intelligence in the classroom – a benefit or hindrance?

Decoding learning disabilities

New beginnings

Table patterns

Measuring school effectiveness

Caring for the animals

Case studies in the science classroom

Why do we chop off children’s wings?

A wealth of treasure to dip into

The National Curriculum Framework and School Education: Some insights

What comes out of the wood(work)?

Roads to learning, old and new

Wangari Maathai: Mother of trees

Is writing a dying art?

India’s investment in education

What’s the ROI on our education?

Freshwater rock pools

What is gender-affirming care?

Learning principles that work magic

The library as playground

From unsteady steps to unleashing potential: A dance teacher’s triumph in empowering special children through movement

A bit of spring cleaning for the mind?

The ABCs of early learning

The myth of the unbiased teacher

Just Imagine

Students as Futurists: Imagination in the classroom

How correct is our correction?

Integrated approach to enhancement of students’ speaking skill

Fostering engagement with learning materials: a collaborative approach

Our journey to Kaziranga National Park

Communication Skills: Challenging English language dominance in the classroom

Can a school be happy with unhappy teachers?

Bridge-building women

An inward exploration

Student – Teacher ratio: prescription vs reality

Mobile phone in the classroom

It’s magic

Generative AI – the mind in the machine

Nurturing readers through reading aloud

Reading room

Solving the heavy bag problem

Using stories to make learning effective

Enhancing focus and productivity: The power of checklists for primary students

Nurturing a lifelong learning mindset

Staying au courant

Let us teachers continue to learn

A book club for teachers

Excitement leads to engagement

Staying alert to opportunity

Learning to teach, teaching to learn

Being a lifelong learner

Teaching Gen Z

Going with the flow

The craft and the art of teaching joyfully

Planned, or unplanned, we learn all the time

A bit of reflection makes all the difference

Teachers as learners: embracing a paradigmatic shift

My utterly teacherly family!

Eight ways to stay foolish, stay hungry

Continuing to stay relevant

Analog games – an off screen experience!

From reflection to growth – a journey through writing

A socially responsible teacher

The power of yoga for teachers

Building a community of readers and writers

The classroom as a model for the world

Learning to be human

What makes work education ‘educative’

Work education or education for work

Work education for ananda

Learning English through the classics

Tales about trees

The Hum Hindustani Project: A gentle engagement with nationhood

The world runs on coffee!

An equitable learning space

Is AI doing the homework?

Unlearning and learning

Teachers as artists

Maria Mitchell: Stargazer to trailblazer

A little appreciation does wonders

A visit to a bookstore

The TikTok phenomenon

What the Summerhill school can teach us

Curative circles

Critical literacy on the shelves

A ‘comical’ journey in the history classroom

Is my size and your size the same?

Moulded lesson plans vs customized: – an educator’s perspective

Effective ways to help students handle peer pressure

Agreeing to disagree

Rethinking the social contract

Creating that sense of belonging

The notion of purity

Janaki Ammal: Magnolia Lady

Teaching from the heart

Teacher etiquette

Nature education as a two-way street

Intertwining theatre and learning

Who’s that personality?

Teacher beliefs in the classroom

Conundrums of teaching online

Love me as I am

Understanding the enigma of dyslexia

Library, children, reading, and art

The coolest grandma in the world

Mathematics as a muscle memory

Beyond boundaries: exploring academic enhancement in schools

The book that changed my views on education

A key driver to NEP’s education transformation approach: Stronger focus on empowering educators

How neighbourly are schools?

Schools as neighbours: A journey of impact

Vidya Vanam: an involvement with the community

How schools build community

Making and mapping connections

Changing neighbourhoods: one book at a time

Schools in conflict zones

How can schools be good neighbours?

Schools and other institutions

Schools and society

Beyond the school walls

The school around the corner

Who stole my playground?

Pre-primary education: balanced approach, need of the hour

Stories: a way to know and live life

The power of teacher collaboration

Bittersweet memories of Tagore's Shantiniketan

Books for the library, about the library

A useful resource despite a few shortcomings

Clarity amidst chaos

The Koreaboos

Welcoming the whys

Can assignments be meaningful?

Preparing to learn outside the classroom

Teacher education and NCTE regulations

Building collaborative ideation

What colour do you see?

Plants that care for you

Bolstering conceptual understanding

What’s the deal with the EdTech boom?

Johnstone’s approach to understanding gas laws

Forests – an introduction

Talking inclusion

Corona days in a neighbourhood library

The perfect ‘harmony’

Essence is One

Making friends at the library

Conservation awareness through an audio book

Math can be fun!

Learning through reflections, working from strength

Taking responsibility, leading the way

New age parents

When improvisation is key

Rethinking sports in schools

Leaders learn leadership by leading life

Books in the time of COVID

Setting up peer and self assessment

Developing relevant design tasks

Doing the “ground” work

Increasing access and engagement in a virtual classroom

A rockstar content creator on YouTube?

The Toshali Sands of time

The unfinished bridge between the library and school

Cognitive offloading and COVID learners

Running Notes

Leadership in uncertain times

Metamorphosis: A lockdown story

Time to recharge

The new age dad

A teacher’s right to disconnect

The world of teachers in a pandemic-world

A pluralistic approach to economics

Recipes to cook your mistakes (and eat them too)

What we learnt from Shreya

Parents as partners

Money-minded

Beaches and coastlines: what do you see?

Celebrating languages

Getting familiar with our fundamental rights

Teachers as standard bearers: professional norms and NEP 2020

An immersive and healing experience

Bringing picture books to life

A bit of music can dispel the blues!

Can comprehension be taught?

A spinner of tales

Having those difficult conversations

Why we need to implement project-based learning

The storyteller teacher

What is my role as a teacher?

The ‘little’ lessons of life

Are we bringing up our children the right way?

The story behind the storyteller

When trees, animals and birds talk about climate change in verse…

Difference need not be disruptive

To Snap or not

Back to the classroom: what needs to change?

Prepare to inspire

English proficiency is not a measure of intelligence

NEP 2020 and learning outcomes

Bridges across the City of Joy

Free play in early years

Bottles, brains and butterflies

Children as self-directed learners

Drama can make the difference

Library: A place to begin and a place to be

No more tense moments in grammar class

Habitats: Forest-floor

More power to teachers

What’s it all about?

Bringing the lab home: OLabs

Tap, listen, explore

Sciences beyond silos

Making science meaningful

Teaching science as a way of thinking

To err is Newton, to forgive divine

Middle school science – what it can be

Putting the body into science education

The science in nature

Why teach science when we can have so much fun with it?

Science is history

Themed learning for primary school

Being a part of the natural world

Tinkering: how we can think with our hands

Metals really matter: in life and learning

The sun’s yearly journey in the sky

A true scientist in the field

Nature’s perfumery

Experimentation: the core of chemistry

The sun and the shadows

Curiosity drives the classroom

Corona vs science literacy

In defence of termites

Life can offer science lessons

Connecting with communities

Measuring ‘talent’: lessons from the Indian Olympiad programme

‘Stamp’ing your way into the insect world

Provoking thought in the wild

Journeys beyond Earth

Understanding and utilizing rare earth elements

The journey towards artificial intelligence

Play: outdoors vs. indoors

Food for thought

Sweating the small stuff

Teen sexual health: a persistent blind spot

All eyes on the teacher

Assessing the assessors

Shifting goalposts, unfulfilled demands

Learning that informs life

Wayfinding into the homeland and heartland

Fun as a complement to learning

WAR – the nadir of human civilization

Relevant for the ‘intentional’ teacher

Accommodate to augment

More on NEP 2020: What really changes?

Spark that curiosity!

An environment that welcomes all

Teacher evaluation: striking the right note

Mindful teaching and learning

That extra something: beyond teaching

Building context-sensitivity in questions

Why I love going back…to the LEC community

Nurturing human values

SEL: An essential tool for healthy development and meaningful learning

Time to go back to the old teaching methods?

The parent-teacher partnership

How can teachers’ abilities be enhanced?

It’s always possible to learn new tricks!

Crypto kids

The power of words in the primary classroom

The what and how of teacher talk

Do we use language to hurt or heal?

Libraries as windows and mirrors

The delicate art of appreciation

A task-based approach to second language acquisition

Making space for the small greens

Making time for music

Talking families

What’s in a name?

Experience and exploration in learning to teach

Leveraging parental engagement

Giving children’s literature a fillip

Gaming: a powerful way to learn

The green school

Learning with pleasure

What is wrong with the Indian education system?

Getting to know the inter-tidal zone

Tackling the tsundoku

Two teacher friends and a visionary principal

Panchranga – the five flavours of friendship

Stronger together

Professional kinship

A ‘critical’ workplace friendship

The joys of teaching and learning together

Fostering bonds between teachers

Comfort and care: tools to build student friendships

Can a teacher be a friend? A student wonders

Connect and collaborate with colleagues

A staffroom type situation

Our friends, our pillars

‘Work friends’ can make a difference

Willingly genuine!

Sharing trials and triumphs

Opening the classroom doors to co-teach!

When conversations can bridge the gap

The magic of the collective

Timeless teacher stories

Teacher camaraderie as a building block for success

A circle of care, trust and maitri

SEL: That special ingredient

Learning to deal with death

The Everything School

Can we really teach how to feel?

KYS: Know Your Students

Celebration without waste

Art as a pathway to inclusion

Unsettling the library educator

Natural calamities – a challenge for survival

Putting numbers in their place

A potato problem from history

Drawing from diverse approaches

Lend me your ears

Nai Talim: searching the past to find alternatives in the present

Hanging on so that we can hang in!

Lessons in friendship

Reflecting to learn

Spin the wheel to decide

“Doing science” with a trailblazer

How scribing empowers the differently-abled student

Instructed versus acquired learning

Habitats: Forest canopies

Celebrating the library

Good management: key to progressive schools

Education for peace

Figuring out what’s (not) working

The ‘feeling’ economy

ASER – Shifting the narrative from schooling to learning

A framework for a ‘breadth of skills’

Digital natives v/s digital immigrants: Bridging the gap

Literature in the language classroom

Neither winning nor losing the debate

Turning the pages of history

Rising from the abyss

SEL begins with teachers

Assessment for learning

A case for a simple structure and form

Building resilience

Making learning more enjoyable

Remembering a library mentor

Engaging students with the world

Rebirth of reading

Trust: The cornerstone of effective teaching and learning

Resolutions

Breathing is injurious to health

Learning disparities unveiled: Navigating educational challenges for optimal student triumph

Imagining an education for all

Savitribai Phule and Fatima Sheikh: Pioneers of Indian education

A community’s struggle for dignity

When caste dawned upon me

‘Open’ing libraries, transforming lives

The struggle for education – Journeys of a Munda-Oraon and a Mahar

The margins of the society: a spotlight

Factors and multiples

Understanding metrics

The underdog’s tale

ChatGPT in schools

Climate change, storytelling, and the subversive power of imagination

Creating a multi-intelligent curriculum

Angela Ruiz Robles: e-book pioneer

Cave dwellers

Life lessons from a game of sport

Circle of learning

Teaching in context

Digital technology and the teacher’s professional identity

Let curiosity flit, fly, or float

Teaching history through fiction

Handling those unexpected questions

A bag full of fun

The power of ‘why?’

The Storymaker factor

Constructivism and Covid

Energizing and enlivening the online class

Think like a musician

“While” away at the window

Mind games for mindfulness

Sadfishing

Entertaining, educating, enriching

What one thinks they want vs. what they really want

The many ways we can cut waste

Small steps can make a big difference

Waste management: It just takes a bit of will – and vision

Integrating art with language

A visit to the sacred city

My learnings as a teacher

Corona conversations

Every child learns differently

Connecting with nature in a virtual learning mode

For your bookshelf

Inside-out games

Let’s re-think assessments!

Infinity in solitude

Embarking on a new journey

Where does our food come from?

Design as a solution for ethical dilemmas

Exploring children’s agency in the library

Fraud-free exams in the time of remote learning

Roles and rehearsals: Think like an actor

Art sparks and dazzles!

Teen activism

The continued relevance of reading cards

The scale on which a teacher’s work is weighed

The scale on which a teacher's work is weighed

Can we listen to the young?

Covid-19: Tussle over fee structure clouds online schooling

The Intertidal zone – Rocky shores

The question of power

In ‘Keep’ing with the times

What it takes to make a good school

There but not yet there

Education in these uncertain times: need for a paradigm shift

Celebrating feminine energy

The unjust exclusion of silence

Looking good can be bad

Paying attention without knowing it!

Trekking through nature’s thoughtscape

Giving peace education a fillip

Sound stories for little ones

Children’s play is serious business

Bringing Non-Fiction into the light

Let’s speak up

Getting creative with social studies

The glories and perils of student activism

The ‘XYZ’ of today’s generation

Sneak peak into art integrated learning

Mathematical wonders!

Second language acquisition through folklore

Multidimensional word building activities for the classroom

NEP 2020 and the role of the teacher

Teachers beyond classrooms

Unlearn to learn

March is here again

The joy of teaching poetry

Themes that go unnoticed

A crucible of ideas

Euthenics to human ecology

A miscellany of life and living, and much more…

Choice, chance and challenge

The syllabus and the textbook

The future of home science

The seat of gender equity

Decolonizing home science

Giving home science its rightful place

What’s scientific about the home? Everything!

Sharing household duties is the new normal

The science of living… in a changing world

Economics of the home and hearth

Observing the observer

Catching them young

Fascinating facts about finance

Cornerstones of life

Enabling social change

Situating the subject in the learner’s reality

The first college of home science

Busting the myth

What other teachers say…

Dearth of teachers at school level

Teacher development can bring a turnaround

A collaborative science

Home science or self-reliance?

The many meanings of home

Diet in everyday life

An educator’s tryst with health and nutrition

Professionally qualified to run a home!

Where everything is aligned

Building connections

An ode to home

Fitness – the key to a productive and healthy life

Is online learning redefining education? A discussion

Using assessments to inform classroom instruction

Showing the soft side

Possibilities of play

Crumbs of learning to show us the way

“Opening” up a school library

Private tuitions and the pandemic

The importance of untruth

Learning about pandemics while living through one

Flight or fight?

One word that can change your life

Building a ‘valu(e)’able generation

Adversity is the best teacher

Familiar but small

Music and our minds

Learning comes from passion

An important resource

Can plants teach us geometry?

A sense of Summerhill

How relevant are schools today?

Understanding oceans

On and off the screen

Seven wonders: Seven essential good practices for early years educators

Don’t always stick to your lesson plans

Rethinking the context of teaching

Colour columns

Breathing life into a public library

When parents and teachers work together

An alienating education?

Teaching to remember

Understanding ‘understanding’

Obligation to feel solidarity

Learning science by doing science

The Marshmallow experiment

Parenting with a difference

From reluctance to empowerment

Music and Artificial Intelligence

Learning during the pandemic

A sports day without a victory stand

Playing with their future

Life in the oceans-Planktons

Helping children find themselves

Reassembling the assembly

Teaching vocabulary: A daunting task

How my educational ideas developed

A letter to fellow educators

Making memories, celebrating life

Reflections

The school principal who wrote a novel

Zing thing: ways of a teacher

Learning from life

The accidental teacher

Child as author

A kind of chemistry

A student by heart

A fresh start?

A journey that goes on

Making meaning of it all

Pandemic panorama: a day in my life

With a prayer in my heart

Ready for new beginnings?

Finding happiness and hope

Life paths and life lessons

Sakera

Waiting for that change!

My most memorable years

Braver, stronger, wiser

Making the best use of time

Getting ready for every day

The day that made me smile

Every ending is a new beginning

Once an educator, always an …a learner!

To stop, please start

Creative beginnings and crisp endings: pillars of a happy class

Origin Stories

Let's get moving

Let’s get moving

Are we ready for ‘hybrid education’?

The marvellous world of chemical compounds

A mirror to education in our times

The power of storytelling

Literature circles in libraries

Learning online: a student’s perspective

From tech averse to tech savvy!

Pause for a moment – or half

Making space for grief

In the lap of nature

The practice of critical pedagogy

To be or not to be

Digital tools to create music

Make way for integrated learning

Keeping children engaged

Imagining the possibilities…

The Hacker University

Jewel in the Crown

An endangered species?

What do marks tell about students?

Bringing science home

Why 20th century syllabus in 21st century education?

Up close and far away

Making edtech an ally

From the fearsome belly of the earth

The freedom vs. equality conundrum

Riding the tide of edtech

‘Blending’ learning

Making health a habit

Paper-start reading – a joyful experience

The plus and minus of fractions

The power of read-aloud

Re-imagining schools after a catastrophe

Health and hygiene in government schools

Ocean’s deep dark zone – Benthos

Redefining ‘new normal’, one phone call at a time

Growing is fun

A hypocrite

Democracy in the Indian Constitution

An anti-bullying strategy

When students become autonomous learners

Give me a date

The not-so-random story

The Witch Renaissance

A tale of two Maitreyas

Six ways to improve your child’s communication abilities

Learning from a master: The art of S. H. Raza

Fostering choices

Nriching our virtual classrooms!

E-library for teachers: Integrating AI-assisted self-learning resources

Library for everyone

Can the National Education Policy 2020 change India’s educational landscape?

Where there is a will…

My kind of heaven

Library as a place

Corners and centres: those spaces within

What it means to me: readerspeak

What makes a library collection?

Where stories find a life

Making collections speak to everyone

Bringing new readers in: the jhola library

The care-work that books can do

Libraries, literacies, learning

It takes a village… and a library

Finding art through books

A step into a community of readers

Kitaab Mahal – a palace for joy, hope and reading

Art and revolution at the free library

When the library goes digital

Flexibility is key

A living library

A hope for renewal

My library, my world

Schoolbooks Archive

Golden memories

“Self”-made artists

Earth stories for kindergartners

How can a teacher’s stress be reduced?

Question of the Week

Disappearing wetlands – paddy fields

Avatar – transforming learning

Trading on name and reputation

The coaching centre conundrum

English medium schools: pragmatic or problematic?

Teaching for deep learning

What’s left in memory

Who owns learning?

Talking your way out of problems

Where there is no will…

Let nature turn teacher

Future of work

Juggling freedom and choice

Freeing up the learning mind

Building care into the system

Playing your way into math

Keep calm and turn your self-care on

Caring for the carers

Question of the Week

Taking play seriously

It’s time… to talk about it!

It's time… to talk about it!

Reflections on language pedagogy

A ‘smart’ way to assess projects

Flexibility in assessment: the way ahead

Meeting the challenge of task-based assessment

Leave it to the children

Reaching head, heart and body

English, English and English!

Triggering creative expression

Word problems – from foe to friend

Understanding diverse contexts

Like a tree in the forest

Carrying meaning through language

Taking a path less travelled

Support and strength in networks

WhatsApp: a tool for revision

Improving teacher education

Calm the butterflies

Handling the decimal dilemma

Swatting away the worry bugs

A treasure trove of teachers, untapped!

Question of the Week

Combating drugs

Museums that teach

An artist’s boon; a pirate’s bane

Chemistry out of the box

Do you have the time for this?

Building teacher capacity

“I am like this only” vs “I would like to be like that”

The A to Z of creative writing

Mangroves: a national wealth

Asking better questions makes for better answers

Teachers as unsung heroes

Paying heed to the child’s needs

Paying heed to the child's needs

Dandelion

Question of the Week

How city government schools work

Stories of history and history as stories

Using data to improve learning

Fostering engagement in the classroom

Our stories, our selves

Make the world come alive through design

Mindfulness in a noisy class

The principles of good programming skills

From ‘onion peels’ to ‘critical analysis’ – A journey of learning

Pratyaksha darshan – The effectiveness of show and tell

Controversies in disciplines are useful!

The scope of initiative

The native flavour in learning

Tackilng thoughts of self-harm

What we lose in the race for marks

Looking beyond failure and learning

The teacher has failed

Training ourselves to see better

Learning from COVID-19

Pathways to concept-mastery

Hanuman’s tail – continued fractions and Ramanujan

Math in action

Making smart use of technology

Investigating irrationals

The magic of magic squares

The art of mathematics

One problem – many solutions

Tangrams in early mathematical education

Maths education in India: policy and reality

Moving from fear to fascination

Math for the mind’s eye

The multiple challenges of math

Rewriting math textbooks

The not-so-hidden aesthetics of maths

Why Maths?

The gentle man who taught infinity

What’s it about math?

Let’s explore the expo idea!

Computer programming – a road to mathematics

The role of technology in math education

Developing knowticing among mathematics teachers

The joys of solving problems

Abstract to concrete – biology to the aid of mathematics

Hands on paper, hands-on geometry!

Pallankuzhi – a school math project

What does mathematics have to do with social justice?

Reinventing math

Folk mathematics

Can we use our participation in PISA to improve our maths learning levels?

Exploring explorations

Amid the uncertainty…

New and unfamiliar

When students’ voices take centre-stage

A clutch of immoral letters

Emotional literacy through picture books

Treasures linked to geography

The Pyramids – a cross-curricular trip

The queen of all subjects

Untreated pandemic

Every boy has a story

Curriculum, and Forms of knowledge

Getting down to the micron

Our journey with books

How does practice change?

When hands-on learning became a habit

The invisible route to language

Individual vs collective learning

I want to be a teacher…

Are we slacking on time?

What makes a school flourish?

Sing, draw, play or invent

How to maintain the quality of education during online teaching

Spelling the dream

Unlocking libraries during this lockdown

From ‘Brick to Click’: creating meaningful and safe virtual spaces for children’s learning

COVID-inspired classrooms

Social distancing and schools in the time of COVID-19

Road map to effective learning and community building

Corona lessons

Collaboration in virtual classrooms

Getting our priorities right

The intrigue of teaching and learning during lockdown

Did we use the lockdown wisely?

Recalling a forgotten tryst…

Online education, social justice and digital exclusion

My life now, in six words

A teacher’s conundrum

And the job must go on

The new normal through a parental lens

Fostering students’ ownership of the school library

Salt pans – a human-made wetland of significance

Linguistic imperialism – a threat to multiculturalism and global development

A village in our school

Educating the special child

Buzz groups as a technique to develop socio-emotional learning

Reflections of an intolerant teacher

Vidyarambham: a new appraoch to learning

Arresting the downward tumble

Reshaping education during the pandemic

Finding new ways to learn

Class beyond rooms: connecting is the new constructing

We imagine, therefore, we invent

Post-coronavirus times, education and the Ship of Theseus

Things change

A learn-force raring to do

Tenth Grade, 2025: Just another day

Paidos. Agogos. Educatum.

Bottom-up policymaking: Keeping schools at the centre

May their tribe increase

A new beginning

Escape from reality

I observe, therefore I am

Team teaching: a true account

Parents in the library

Screen time panic

Pay attention… naturally

Rendezvous with Nick Middleton

Misconceptions can mess it up

Lockdown lessons from a Netflix show

The challenge of the exceptional

The anatomy of an “aha!” moment

Simulating in-class experience when teaching remotely

Ideas for a communicative English virtual class

Books as a solution to teen issues

The role of a teacher amidst the pandemic

What teachers need to know about conducting assessments online

Home/House-work

Choice and accountability

Are our students ready to learn on their own?

The language of life skills

A treehouse of learning

Have we not done enough?

The tiffin box dilemma

Undoing gender socialization: beyond the pinks and blues

The world of e-waste

Mad about this lesson plan?

Online learning: the students’ view

A participatory path to democracy

Mathematical knowticing that informs practice

Mathematical knowticing that informs practice

Developing a healthy body image

Building global communities through education

Memories, books and libraries

The limits of individual autonomy

Math teacher or mathemagician?

Auto teacher

How to teach critical thinking

Building a culture of care

Learning during the lockdown

The parent trap

How leaders make themselves

Programming in that role play

Being in the moment

The challenge of working with first graders

Ponds – A multipurpose habitat

Education of emotions

The phenomenon of learning: beyond reason and reasoning

Libraries that live and breathe

Lesson plans: no magic formulae!

Storytelling can outlive any pandemic

Education that enriches life

DIY steps for the digital world

Small school in COVID times… ‘to sit beside’ again…

Small school in COVID times… 'to sit beside' again…

Creating learning experiences – virtually

A safe space for learning

A simple prayer

Imbibing the ‘never say die’ spirit from children

Capitalizing a crisis

Online teaching: what I think

Nurturing scientific thinking through stories

Transformations big and small

The continuing (r)evolution

The emergence of alternatives: a brief history

A matter of design: learning through art

Recommending John Holt: ‘What oft was thought, but ne’er so well express’d’

Recommending John Holt: ‘What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd’

From experience to understanding: Dewey’s pedagogic creed

J. Krishnamurti and school education

‘Open’ up to learning

'Open’ up to learning

When the learning comes home to stay

Lifelong love for learning … at the heart of Waldorf

Cinema in the classroom

Tadaa! – how StoryPedagogy came to be!

Integrating life with learning

Revolutionary life, revolutionary ideas: Navonmesh Prasar

A million mutinies in education

Simple steps to develop the Critical Edge

10 years in and it’s just the beginning

Adopt and adapt – when learning is globalized

Allowing aspirations to soar: Telangana’s social welfare schools

Envisioning Education Policy

How ready are we? NEP 2020 and early years schooling

Wild Shaale: Bringing Indian biodiversity to classrooms

Introducing India’s environmental concerns to young readers

In search of beginnings

Weaving stories, opening worlds

Say “Hola” to Spanish

Learning to think logically

What’s the takeaway from a class?

The basis of belief

Feed it back – effectively

Educational ecology of memorization

Those darn formulae!

An action plan for project work

What happens when we talk science?

How much is too much with students?

Stopping to reflect

Question of the Week

Drowning in corrections!

Start – Stop – Assess – Repeat

Election duty offers a reality check

Edupreneurship for a new ecosystem

Libraries and my life

Entrepreneurship in education: the way forward?

The trappings of civilization

Discover, describe and draw birds

Healing touch

Exploring the world!

Balancing trust and skepticism

Breaking news, making news, faking news

Slow and steady makes sense

Where’s the enthusiasm for maths?

Where's the enthusiasm for maths?

Subtle hints

Travelling and yet at home

Schools beyond textbooks

Health hazards of a noble profession

Contextual and constructive learning

A fancy for flight

Question of the Week

Live your values

Finding the joy in problem solving

The class 10 jitters

Using tech to teach

Addressing individual differences

Public schools and ‘secular’ prayers

Public schools and 'secular' prayers

How to spot fake news

Fake news and the pandemic of distrust

Uncommon ways to teach common prepositions

Time for reflection?

Classrooms in nature

Parents: A forgotten treasure?

Public education and its social accounting

Tackling disruptive behavior

Spirits of the deep

Bringing empathy into the classroom

Fighting the inner wars

A battle of words

Question of the Week

Teaching the millennials

Learning to ‘see’

For all budding actors

Learning the process of bonding

What’s all the fuss about innovation in education?

Getting to the ‘how’ of education

Getting to the 'how' of education

To preach or not to preach?

Budgeting a small school

A question of sustenance

Beating the heat

How do we handle holiday homework?

Nurturing the creative gene

An educator’s legacy

Private tuition – boon or bane?

Cultivating scientific temper

A tool for emotional wellbeing

Read beyond the lines

How to teach students to not give up on life

Stories waiting to be told

Tackling the bully

Question of the Week

The origins of prejudice

Drawing them in

The many forms of blended learning

Up and down the integer line

Thinking beyond the ordinary

MOOCs and the teacher

The importance of classroom dynamics

Think different

Azoba

Health & PE can be a game changer in schools

Health & PE can be a game changer in schools

The physically active mathematics classroom

Winning on the school playfields

Physics of Sports

A place for health in the PE curriculum

A road map for schools

Building blocks of Indian sports

No policy for PE?

Catch them young

We shall overcome, someday

The right to be fit

Taking the holistic view

Paanch minute aur!

Khel Khel mein

Remaining active for life

Coaching a winner

Bonding with the ball

Running is education

The return of yoga

Keep playing – like a girl

The beauty and the joy of the body in movement

Yoga as a way of life and being

Foods to boost endurance

Body politics in the PE class

Making a difference, together

Training for a champion mindset

Be active, be happy

Lessons in team building from two movies

Ticket to a life with sports stars

They tried… and succeeded

Who stole my playground?

Is the ball rolling in government schools?

From the console to the playground

Playing outside school spaces

Re-imagining the role of play

Classroom education v/s home tutoring

Colour by numbers…with a twist!

Making sound sense

The importance of being trustful

Why a teacher does what she does

Is this how you teach history?

What are you thankful for?

Beyond the culture of fear

Reaching for the sky

“Welcome” back to school

Question of the Week

Feel the magic

Talking ‘failure’

Move over bookworms, the ‘gadget-worms’ have arrived!

Beyond business as usual

Not less than 90%

Fairly unfair

The biology of equilibrium – 1

Why math matters

The significance of classroom communication

Mirrored in words

Teachers as learners

Why bother being disturbed by disturbing art!

Blogs as a tool for reflective teaching

A room where no one hears the bell

A crucible for a new culture

Dismantling colourism in kindergarten

Everyone must read this book

Getting inside the atom

Question of the Week

Tackling substance abuse

Simple inclusive strategies

Re-imagining the gurukul

Indian by choice

A story of the solar eclipse

Understanding the eye: an integrated approach

The strength of ideas

Creating happy classrooms

TPD programs in Tibetan schools

Uniforms suck: teaching through consequences

The staff room: Sanctuary or stressor?

Faculty meetings: Look how productive they are!

The same story a different perspective

Life lessons from my students

Yes my dear, you taught me this

Teaching is a two-way street

I get my answers from the learners

They made the difference

Impressions that last forever

The youngest influencers

Little known ways of knowing

Joyful teacher, joyous students

When we listen, we learn

The lighter side of learning

A wellspring of energy

Looking inward for answers

From teaching to unteaching

An exchange of stories: what I remember my students by

Stories to go back to

When students make their teachers

When a teacher becomes a front bencher

From waste to wow!

Their hearts are in the right place

A tryst with destiny

“What is that?” A teacher learns

"What is that?" A teacher learns

Once a teacher always a learner

Give credit where it’s due

A golden ticket to learning

Children are like trees

Let’s cook history!

Question of the Week

The thorny, prickly tree

How long for the little Picasso?

Learner centred strategies

This heritage resource is a mixed bag

A moving memoir

1089 and the beauty of palindromes

Autonomy and empowerment

Dealing with body image issues

Buildings talk… structures teach!

Three golden rules of teaching: Drawing from the data

Rewards or bribes?

Invent, create, protect

Gaming math on the board!

A student’s best ally – memory or intelligence?

What it takes to run an eco-club

Embracing risk and uncertainty

Why Fridays matter

Is deep learning possible without taking risk?

Of gender identity, self-determination and preferred pronouns

Stimulating the reading habit

Say it with flowers!

Children and education: why policy matters

Winds of change

The Draft NEP: Does it rise to the challenge?

Exclusion by design: math education in the NEP

Catching them early: foundation stage education

Preparation and progression: teachers in the NEP

Skewing priorities: what do we give up, what do we gain?

Sensing a story

A hands-on learning aid

Habitats under threat: Grasslands

Protecting technological innovations

Question of the Week

A corner to read

Do we need a national language?

Language, consciousness and empathy

What’s appropriate?

What's appropriate?

Write to heal

Know your pi and eat it too!

The teacher at work

Contextualizing textbooks: Glimpses from Sikkim

Bringing Hindi alive in Bengaluru

Engaging with children’s experiences

Engaging with children's experiences

Keeping it local

Ideas for a desi classroom

Ideas for a desi classroom

Being a cheerleader for your students

First-hand facts

Designing a city

Math @ ‘The Juice Shack’

Mending walls – inside and out

Can miracles be planned?

Berries, branches and brainwaves

Making the most of a messy moment

When I learnt empathy from my students

Integrated lessons

Before the numbers

Taking on the Telugu challenge

What does a teacher do? A graphical exploration

Teaching from the heart

What marginality means

Music and math: a natural combination

Drawing from intuition

“Moving” with numbers

Building the right atmosphere

The power of estimation

Why we teach the way we do: philosophically speaking

The path to practice

Evolution of the teaching philosophy: a teacher’s perspective

Teaching like learning matters

An invitation to wonder

Mithali Raj: An innings that starts with school

Making science popular

Love is all you need

Taking stock of schooling systems

Reading the book of memory: teacher narratives

The nature of knowledge

For the early days…

Solute, solvent and solution – 2

The killer whale

CBSE examination reforms: returning to the Stone Age?

A fairy tale re-told

Small steps for larger school reforms

Little tours in mathland

A future without schools

Mothers and "map of India" chappatis

Mothers and “map of India” chappatis

Integrating to learn, learning to integrate

It all depends on the teacher

Questions in search of answers

Where school is free

The flies from the forest

Visible reactions

Tribal students on a coding journey

An open letter to parents

The inner courtyard of cognition

Tools to develop a school culture

Making school data work for teachers

Where are the boys?

The pragmatics of planning

Reframing the academic narrative

An event or a process?

Balancing work and play

Finding ways to cope

A dose of discovery

Word pictures

Conquering the kingdom of fears

What counts as knowledge?

What would you like to do today?

Health & Healing

Health & Healing

The change agent

When questions turn into answers

The story weavers

Don’t always go by the book!

Don't always go by the book!

Gearing up to teach

“What good is trigonometry in my life?”

"What good is trigonometry in my life?"

Letting children think things through for themselves

Staying cool during exams

Gap year – lost in translation

Building bridges of peace

Leading by example

Exploring the past

Will I?

Those unexpected turns

Learning to adapt

The power of collaboration

The here and now: why it matters

The CCE conundrum

The picture tells it all

Eins, two, teen, nalgu….

It’s elementary, dear chemist!

It's elementary, dear chemist!

How plants make their own food

Education 4.0: Personalization of Learning

The inner beauty of math

Abode of peace

A room full of surprises

Moving towards a world of open education

My rendezvous with FOSS

Opening up the code

The present is open to all

Learning from and for life

Is open education really open?

Reimagining civics

No democracy for city-dwellers?

The State and us

Debating democracy

An "open" path to learning life skills

An “open” path to learning life skills

From civics to social and political life – confronting 'blunt situations'

From civics to social and political life – confronting ‘blunt situations’

Making civic education relevant

Civic lessons from cinema

Nurturing decision-makers

Equity by design

Electoral literacy clubs: preparing future voters of India

Engaging with politics: teaching democracy

The political classroom

Educative engagements

The everyday business of being a citizen

A commitment to good governance

Building better communities

Sowing the seeds of citizenship

Making the constitution matter

Weaving the fabric of citizenship

We The People – Project Citizen India

The gendered position

Making sense of civics

Living democracy

Teaching fundamental duties

Making inclusion a habit

How to be a peace educator

Walking the long road to equality

Live and let live: the soul of the Constitution

These rights are fundamental

Indian Constitutional debates: a timeless chronicle

Why we need the rule of law

How laws are made

From research in action to action research

Making them emotion-able

The case of the struggling “new” teacher

Writing up to the challenge

When words confuse the numbers

It’s all connected!

Here the real and the virtual meet!

Bringing mistakes into the curriculum

Connections and convergences

Embrace the exam…like it was your best friend!

Excavating information on the Net

The science of knowledge making

A glimpse into Nature’s bounty

A glimpse into Nature's bounty

Embracing education for life

Linking data to atoms

Integrating ICT in schools: Designing interventions for scale

Raising a boy

Towards a multilingual approach to teaching

Can vocabulary enhancement increase classroom participation?

Understanding corporate schools

Draw, play, and do math

Institution or organization? Unraveling the structure of school

Reading to teach

Care and the teacher

What to show and why to tell

“…absent, miss!”

The experience of poetry

EdTech to energize the classroom

Nature education in schools: Where do we stand?

A whole-school plan to support student wellbeing

Storybook delights!

Postcard lessons

Why study birds?

From lecturing to mentoring

The joy of listening

Breaking away from technology

Life as a laboratory

FEEDFORWARD an identity

Connections that span lifetimes

A visit remembered

Along the back roads of memory

Inspiration from a multitude

My teacher, my mirror

Teachers inspire future teachers

Teachers who made a difference

She changed my world

Giving roots and wings

Learning and growing… beyond the textbook

From flame to flame

The “Unteacherly” advantage

The "Unteacherly" advantage

Lessons in gravity and grace

Learning, laughing and living

I doubted, he believed, I succeeded

Unforgettable moments from a “favourite” student

Unforgettable moments from a "favourite" student

Can I be a teacher like my teacher?

A thoughtful Teacher’s Day

A walk down memory lane…

Bits and bobs from the past

Finding hope in the classroom

The learner in me nurtures the teacher

Experience is my biggest teacher

A student’s musings

They shape lives

Connecting with the computer

The world according to textbooks

To tell the truth

Art on the wall

Discover, describe and draw birds

From sweets and seeds to atoms and reactions

My sad story

What a math teacher needs to know

A singular ten-year journey

How I learned about learning by doing

Working from within their world

How safe are our children in school?

I believe, therefore I am…or not!

Limits of law and gaps in guidelines

Safe, not straight

Creating safe environments

Guru or Google?

It’s about time!

There’s magic in these bookish spaces!

Handling the homework bogey

The five Es of EVS

The long, grey road

The making of a critical reviewer

Language and literacy essentials

Where the real friends are the textbook

The start of a new journey

A treasure trove of amazing tales

Ideal textbook material

A slip between the cup and the lip…

The first ‘R’

Taking workshop lessons into the classroom

Good garbage

Of skills, learning, intelligences and … the marketplace

Unweaving the rainbow

Debunking the math myth

Why the Arts are hard to learn

Balancing the training equation

Journey outside the classroom

The world as a classroom

Travel. Think. Transform.

Bringing travellers to classrooms

Beyond borders

Packing learning into a trip

Tryst with nature

Having a field day of learning

Packing the picnic hamper

Adding depth and relevance to EVS

Shining a light within

Gaining respect for cultural difference

The world as our laboratory

The travelling teacher

Some things don’t change