3-2-1 TUESDAYS WITH MS NIV

Issue #82, 1st February 2022

Care about test scores? or care about your students and the school community? Schools, teachers and students are coming back after a long and painful pandemic. What is our primary responsibility to ourselves and our children and staff? How can we give more voice and choice to each of us? How can we lift each other up? What is long lasting and significant, academic failures or emotional rehabilitation? I leave you with these thoughts as schools start reopening after a long gap of 2 years. Governments are trying to normalise the situation. However, something that wreaked havoc over last 2 years and has not edged out yet, will take time. Let us take time to heal each other. There is a lot of learning in that. Academic gaps and academic failures, let us map the gap and work with intention but with kindness over the rest of the school year.

Don’t miss Lucio Padilla, a school principal’s talk on how he and his school community focussed on bouncing back after disaster struck his school.

Three Images of the Week

Two Thoughts of the Week

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. Thomas A. Edison

Remember that failure is an event, not a person. Zig Ziglar

One Video of the Week

Lucio Padilla was determined to bring his school’s test scores up, but in the face of a natural disaster he learned what success really looks like.

It was 2007 and then first-year principal Lucio Padilla’s elementary school had just been deemed “bottom of the barrel” by the local newspaper. Lucio and his fellow educators were determined to turn things around by focusing on preparing students for their upcoming standardized tests, but then disaster struck. An earthquake made Jefferson Elementary un-usable, and forced them to miss their scheduled testing window. It also forced both faculty and students to think on their feet. It built character, resilience and pride, and made Lucio rethink the value of data-driven success.

Showcase of the week

Dreams do come true and uncertainties in life are building blocks to confidence. Possible?

Yes, says Komal Yadav an alumni from VIDYA school, Gurgaon. A school that empowers children from underprivileged backgrounds.

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