...and what we can do about it. Hello! How have you been? I hope you and people around you are safe and taking enough precautions to get...

...and what we can do about it. Hello, learner and educator! Whether a school leader, academic head, teacher, parent or friend, each of...

This blog comes from a combination of experiences of creating assessments for students I used to teach and creating diagnostic...

In our blog on strategies to build children’s vocabulary, we mentioned that for a new word to become a part of our regular vocabulary, we...

This is a blog which is born out of my reflection notes from a few of my earliest attempts at getting students to go through...

This is part 4 of a series of blogs to enumerate habits essential to building scientific temper in students. You can read our blog on...

Children are naturally curious. They absorb new things and want to know more about everything. The behaviour and reaction of adults to...

Pattern recognition is on the one hand easy, while recognition of genuine patterns is complex. Human brains are wired to find patterns...

This is part 2 of a series of blogs to enumerate habits essential to building scientific temper in students. You can read our blog on...

This is part 1 of a series of blogs to enumerate habits essential to building scientific temper in students. This week we focus on making...

This is part 4 of a series of blogs to enumerate skills essential to building literacy among students. Read our blog on reading skills...

This is part 3 of a series of blogs to enumerate skills essential to building literacy among students. Read our blog on reading skills...

Last week, we started a series of blogs to enumerate skills essential to building literacy among students. In the first blog (here), we...

Reading is the first essential literacy skill. How can parents, teachers and other caregivers ensure that children fall in love with...

I had the pleasure of attending parts of the K12 Conference hosted by Ashoka University on 5 and 6 June 2020. One of the sessions was on...

Thinking is one of the top 15 activities that we talk or write about, at least in the English language. We use thinking more than...

In the article Foundational Reading Instruction: Decodable Texts or Levelled Texts, I talked about what phonics is and why phonics...

The following piece draws on and summarises various articles, papers and discussion threads on the best types of texts to build a strong...

The Big Questions: How do our brains RECEIVE and PROCESS information? How do we REMEMBER, and how do we FORGET? What does it mean to...

How is information stored in our brains? Is our brain like a filing cabinet with many drawers? Does each drawer store different pieces of...