3-2-1 Tuesdays with Ms Niv

Issue #262, 15th July 2025

“What would I do differently if I knew that no one else was coming to fix this situation?”

Accountability? Responsibility? Excuse/Blame?

Parents often expect the school to handle learning difficulties, hope teachers will motivate their child, or wait for their child to “mature out of” problems. This question challenges them: What if the teacher can’t fix my child’s study habits? What if the school won’t change its approach? What if my child doesn’t suddenly become responsible? It moves them from “someone else should handle this” to “what’s my role in creating change?”

Teachers frequently feel frustrated waiting for administrators to provide better resources, parents to be more involved, or the system to change. This question makes them confront: What if the principal never gives me more supplies? What if parents don’t respond to my emails? What if class sizes stay large? It shifts focus from “if only I had more support” to “what can I control right now in my classroom?”

Students often think “If only my teacher explained better” or “If my parents helped more with homework” or “The school system should change.” This question forces them to ask: What if I’m the only one who can improve my grades? What if no one else is going to make me study or pay attention in class? It pushes them from “someone should help me” to “I need to figure this out myself.”

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Three Images of the Week

Two Thoughts of the Week

“A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.” -Bob Dylan
“Being responsible is an enormous privilege… It’s what marks anyone a fully grown human.” -Barack Obama

One Video of the Week

Candy draws on her experiences of living with Type 1 Diabetes to illustrate the thought process of chronic illness sufferers. She explains the cycle of self-blame; blaming ourselves for outcomes out of our control, highlighting how biological factors are also at play. Candy Gan is a 3rd year Politics and Philosophy student at the LSE, and winner of the TEDxLSE Student Competition this year. She has lived with chronic illness her entire life, but never publicly discussed it until now. Her passion lies in healthcare policies and reform, specifically how society affects individual health. At TEDxLSE, she will be talking about accountability and responsibility, inspired by her personal experiences with chronic illness.

Reading with Ms. Meenu: Tip of the week

Book Reading: 

As we have been talking about different levers for nurturing a child’s development either at home or at school, and of course book reading is pivotal for boosting brain capacity, stimulating language development, spurring vocabulary growth, increasing knowledge about the world, driving kid’s motivation to read on their own and more. Children have so much to learn in the first years of life, and book reading is one powerful strategy to support development as their needs change. Newborns developing their vision may prefer to look at high contrast images like those in black and white board books. Meanwhile 6-12 months olds get their eyes, hands, feet and mouths in on the action by engaging with different page features like textures and flaps. Toddlers are busy building their vocabularies and love simple books full of familiar items, plus a healthy dose of rhythm, Rhyme and repetition. 

The benefits of reading aloud shift with the child’s age, needs, interests and the nature of the texts. Over time, family reading introduces more complex and novel words than typical everyday speech facilitates focus on the learning about print and spelling and delivers fodder for greater comprehension, to name a few benefits. Reading together creates rich conversations. Every parent/teacher should be able to select or have a guide to recommend engaging books to maximize learning.

Books are meat and medicine

And flame and flight and flower, 

Steel, stitch, and cloud and clout,

And drumbeats in the air.

                        ~ Gwendolyn Brooks.

Meenu Gera

Consulting home and school librarian reading guide

Career assessment, guidance, and placement strategies:

Careers in Information Technology

Professionals in this field use computers and technology to create, manage, and support complex systems that power our digital world. They work with both hardware and software, develop and maintain networks, and ensure smooth communication through telecommunications systems. 

International Job Roles & Average Salary per annum

Data Warehousing Specialist$120k	Computer Network Architect$120k	Database Architects $120k
Telecommunication Engineering Specialist $120k	Information Security Analyst$113k	Business Intelligence Analysts $108k
Computer Systems Analyst$100k	Health Informatics Specialist $102k	Information Technology Project Manager $98k
Geographic Information Systems Technologist $98k	Computer Systems Engineers $98k	Document Management Specialist $98k
Computer Programmer$96k	Database Administrators $96k	Web Administrators$98k
Software Quality Assurance Analyst & Testers $98k	Video Game Designer $95k	Network & Computer System Administrator $91k
Web Developer$87k	Search Marketing Strategist $76k	Computer Network Support Specialist $70k

This dynamic sector also includes creative roles like graphic designers, game developers, and technical writers, who combine technology with design and storytelling. 

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Dear reader,
I work with the school leadership team as an advisor and collaborate with teachers as a pedagogical trainer. I also help parents as a parenting counselor and regularly engage one-on-one with students as a personal guide and mentor. This weekly newsletter shares what I read, learn, and experience.

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