Seven Steps To Improve Learning Levels In Our Schools 1. Increase teaching-learning time (reduce demands on teachers’ time that help the higher ups but not the teacher or students). 2. Reduce and streamline NGO-CSR inputs into schools(remove cross-messaging, ensure consistency).

🚨🇨🇳 Communism is the reason China is the most advanced country on Earth. https://t.co/3P96npNZGa

We often take curriculum as 'given' - but each aspect in it is highly contested! Based on my work with 24 states and 7 countries over the last 40 years, I talk on the choices we need to make as we develop curricula, and how to make them and still remain in one piece.

Will be in Kolkata again after a long, long time! Look forward to meeting old friends next week.

Big shoutout to the Indian community in Mernda, Melbourne. You are filthy pigs. Shame on you for dumping all of your rubbish into our waterways after your Indian Festival last Saturday. You would want to get down there ASAP & collect all of your trash otherwise I will happily

साक्षरता अब साक्षरता नहीं रही....

Why oracy is the new literacy.

Is Education Even Possible Without An MLE Approach? https://t.co/zXVafu3Kt1

We are excited to hear from Mr. Subir Shukla this Thursday as he addresses a key question for our multilingual world. If you know someone interested in Multilingual Education (MLE), please invite them. Registration is free. https://t.co/p28BOT8nV8. #mle #India #translanguaging

On the International Day of Democracy, a reminder that public libraries are the foundation of an informed society. So it’s good to see kids queuing up to sign in, & making a poster to show their library love. And not just kids- everyone is welcome in the public libraries. 🌷

Will be in Mumbai after a long time. Look forward to meeting old friends!

This augurs well for the MLE community. As does the possibility of strong collaboration between the NCMLE and ELNI (the Early Learning Network of India). As was said: You can't have MLE in the absence of quality early learning, and vice-versa too! 🙂 https://t.co/N756ZPWkgg

How can an education system, a school, a teacher succeed in doing well what is needed for children? We dug deep in this conversation, looking at the past for insights on what will work in the present. https://t.co/rFuIJ3z1RC

What we'll need to teach children

Brewing vs Boiling - Looking at Pedagogy Differently

On addressing learning crisis we face today

the panacea (if we’re its advocates/sellers) or as the source of all trouble (if we’re advocating something else)! Our next phase should be about identifying and using principles plus research to decide the ‘contribution window’ of the different improvements we’re rooting for.

too much and it is problematic, too less and it is useless. Or TLM, or assessment, or ‘discipline’ or home languages/MLE, or projects,…. So many components need to find just that right balance between too less and too much. Much of the time, though, we see a component either as

A doctor introduced me to the term ‘therapeutic window’, and it made me wonder whether we need something like this in education too. The therapeutic window is the range within which a drug is effective – too less and it doesn’t work, too much and it becomes toxic. Take ed tech:

Do education people need to 're-understand' adolescents?

Team Ignus Pahal at the ToT for KGBVs, AP. Thanks to SPO, Samagra, and LFE team! Multiple challenges and opportunities too! Girls from the most vulnerable backgrounds, often without readiness for secondary education, yet resilient and supported....