Nivedita Mukerjee
Education consultancy for parents and schools
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Issue #169, 3rd October 2023
What needs to happen to have all students engaged, excited and empowered in learning environments? What can make a teacher become a facilitator from a lecturer? how can will of the adult shift to the voice of the students? Who makes the rules to manage the systems? What can put our students at an advantage such that they can have a deeper and richer experience giving a wider opportunity of success to each of them? Let us nurture, mentor and facilitate learning for our students and ourselves.
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“Empowerment isn’t a buzzword among leadership gurus. It’s a proven technique where leaders give their teams the appropriate training, tools, resources, and guidance to succeed.”
John Rampton
“The gig economy is empowerment. This new business paradigm empowers individuals to better shape their own destiny and leverage their existing assets to their benefit.”
John McAfee
One Video of the Week:
Kathy D’Antoni, Ed.D., a lifelong educator and statewide education administrator in West Virginia, shares her experiences working with simulated workplace programs in in West Virginia schools. She highlights evidence suggesting that education should move from a compliance model that allows adults to more easily manage the system to a system focused on student engagement and empowerment. She suggests common sense student-centered changes to the school culture to empower students and uplift tomorrows.
Dr. Kathy D’Antoni recently retired from the West Virginia Department of Education. During her tenure, she served as the Associate State Superintendent of Schools and an Assistant State Superintendent, and served on the Governor’s Workforce Council, Council for Community College System, Governor’s Council on Substance Abuse, Prevention and Treatment, and Southern Regional Education Board committees. She is also former Vice Chancellor of the West Virginia Council for Community and Technical College Education.
Dr. D’Antoni has worked extensively with curriculum alignment, curriculum development, workforce development, and economic development projects including the national and international award-winning innovative Simulated Workplace initiative, which was selected in 2020 as a top education innovation initiative by Finland’s HundrED.org She has authored articles and books on effective transition practices from public schools to higher education and education‘s role in the economy.
Guest Expert of the Week: Reading with Ms. Meenu.
Thinking about Reading: Strategies that readers use to construct meaning and decode words.
1. What do readers do to help themselves understand and enjoy their reading?
· Use their schema to make connections between what they already know and new information in the text.
· Create mental images.
· Use their schema and clues in the text to infer its meaning.
· Ask questions before, during and after reading.
2. What do readers do when they come to a word they don’t know?
· First look at the picture and think about the story.
· Next go back, point and slide.
· Go on.
· Then try a word .
Ask: Does it make sense?
Do the letters match?
Does it sound like language?
· Readers also:
Sound out words in chunks.
Find little words in big words.
Happy Reading!
Meenu Gera, consulting home and school librarian and reading guide
Dear reader,
I have been a research scientist, a journalist, and an educator for over 3 decades. I read and, I write. With this weekly newsletter, I share what I read, learn, and, experience. At the same time, I engage with students, parents, and teams of teachers across K-12 schools, higher education institutions, and ed-tech organizations.
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Issue #168, 26th September 2023
Do you need more time with your children or do you need to change what you do in that time with your children? What is quality time? How much is essential and how much is ideal? Is there a connection between quality and quantity of time? Divorced parents, single parents, adoptive parents – the operative word here is parents. So all the other adjectives irrespective, relationship with children affects them in more ways than one for them in their student life and beyond. Here are some powerful yet simple ways to build positive relationships.
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“The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.”
- Theodore Hesburgh
“Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.”
- Plato
One Video of the Week:
According to recent research, it is believed that the average British family only get to spend 49 minutes a day together! It has also been said that the sign of a resilient family – the ones who can bounce back from tough times & experiences is often down to the strength of their relationships with each other In this video – Mother and daughter – Clare and Rosie (9 years) talk about how they are working really hard to save their family unit from completely disconnecting with each other – by embracing the 5 G.R.E.A.T. values. Watch this video to find out more Clare and Rosie are a passionate mother-and-daughter team who are excited to share their Big Dream. Rosie (9 years old) enjoys swimming, singing, drama, storytelling and adores animals. Clare is a secondary school senior teacher who is widely recognized for helping spearhead mental health and wellbeing strategies in schools. In 2015 she was one of the first in the country to be appointed in the pastoral role as The Head of Mental Health and Wellbeing for a large comprehensive secondary school in Surrey. She was also announced as the runner-up for the 2015/16 Community Champion Award. The Community Education Awards recognized Clare for making an outstanding contribution to helping children become positive community members.
Guest Expert of the Week: Reading with Ms. Meenu.
Book Selection: Showing Students how to select their text.
It should be a norm to choose books from a local library at least once a week, usually on Friday afternoons.
It is important for children to consider:
· The size of the print: Is it too little? Too big? Just, right?
· The words and lines on a page: Are there too many? Too few? Just the right amount?
· The pictures: Do they seem like they will help me read the words?
· Repetition: Is it a predictable text, what I need?
· The words: Can I read all of them? Most of them? None of them at all.
It is important to teach children how to make thoughtful and appropriate choices.
· Content Schema: What’s my schema for this? What do I know about this topic, author, or type of text?
· Myself as a Reader Schema: What do I know about myself as a reader and the books in the classroom to help me make a good choice?
· Motivation: How hard am I willing to work to learn to read this book?
· Variety and Purpose: Have I selected more than one type of text and level of difficulty? Do I have books that are good for practicing what I’m learning or we’re learning how to do it?
Happy Reading!
Meenu Gera, consulting home and school librarian and reading guide
Dear reader,
I have been a research scientist, a journalist, and an educator for over 3 decades. I read and, I write. With this weekly newsletter, I share what I read, learn, and, experience. At the same time, I engage with students, parents, and teams of teachers across K-12 schools, higher education institutions, and ed-tech organizations.
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Issue #167, 19th September 2023
‘Learning’ it is said, brings a constant change in performance in our quality of life and work. What have you learned today? what have you shared today? what are you going to teach tomorrow? How are you planning to learn and/or share and/or teach? That is the way of life in the times we live in today. The way we learn and the experience we have while learning, shapes our decision, our confidence, and our beliefs in whether we want to learn more or at all.
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“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.”—Alvin Toffler
“He who learns but does not think is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.”—Confucius
One Video of the Week:
How we learn is more important than what we learn. This is the heart of Dr. Glenn Dakin’s work and talk. Learning experiences have the power to transform our worldviews. To do this, we need to understand how each learner learns. Do people learn differently? How personal can and should the learning process become? Does everyone use the same skills differently? These are the kinds of questions that Dr. Dakin has asked for 50 years in his career; from his beginnings in gas stations and retail management all the way to his work with firms and institutions such as the Department of the Interior, PepsiCo, Unisys Corporation and American Intercontinental University, where he teaches educators from elementary to higher education. As a Master of Education instructor, Dr. Dakin has concentrated his career on exploring how we apply and plan our learning experiences to enhance what we learn and how we learn.
Guest Expert of the Week: Reading with Ms. Meenu.
How Do Active Readers Read a Book?
Before reading, active readers:
· Read (or find out) the title and the author and look at and think about what they notice on the cover and the back of the book.
· Ask: What do I know about this type of test? This story? This topic? This author?
· Take a thoughtful peek inside and predict what the story might be about, or what they might learn.
During reading, active readers:
· Read the pictures.
· Read the words they know.
· Use their own words to read a book they’ve heard before
After reading, active readers:
· Ask: What was this book about?
· Ask: What did I learn?
· Ask: What do I understand now that I didn’t understand before?
· Ask: What did I learn about myself as a reader?
Meenu Gera, consulting home and school librarian and reading guide
Dear reader,
I have been a research scientist, a journalist, and an educator for over 3 decades. I read and, I write. With this weekly newsletter, I share what I read, learn, and, experience. At the same time, I engage with students, parents, and teams of teachers across K-12 schools, higher education institutions, and ed-tech organizations.
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Issue #166, 12th September 2023
Read because you can. Read because you should. Read because it is an amazing skill. So, what have you read recently? Read to yourself, read to your children, read to your students, read to your friends. Go ahead. Read this newsletter and find many reasons to read. Enjoy.
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Two Thoughts of the Week:
“Think before you speak. Read before you think.” —Fran Lebowitz
“The more that you read, the more things you will know.The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” —Dr. Seuss
One Video of the Week:
Why reading is so important in today’s society – a 9-year-old’s perspective Luke is passionate about reading and believes the reduction of readings is causing a lot of society ills
Guest expert of the week:
Reading with Ms. Meenu.
Why do reading and learning matter?
· I want children to understand that readers read to get smarter and to learn about themselves, other people, and the world that reading is something they can do independently that empowers them to control their lives and make the world a better place.
· I want children to know that smart is something you get and that through hard work, effort, and determination they can accomplish their goals.
· I want children to know that readers read, write, think, and learn with purpose and enthusiasm and see themselves as problem-posing, problem-solving citizens of the world who have what it takes to figure things out.
· I want children to engage in conversations and discussions about big ideas with open hearts and minds to be willing to share their own thinking and to appreciate, learn from, and respect the ideas and opinions of others.
· I want children to understand that learning is for always – it’s ongoing, lifelong, and vital.
Meenu Gera, consulting home and school librarian and reading guide
Dear reader,
I have been a research scientist, a journalist, and an educator for over 3 decades. I read and, I write. With this weekly newsletter, I share what I read, learn, and, experience. At the same time, I engage with students, parents, and teams of teachers across K-12 schools, higher education institutions, and ed-tech organizations.
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Issue #165, 5th September 2023
Happy Teachers’ Day dear parents, for you are the first teachers of your child, Happy Teachers’ day dear teachers, for your dedication and passion makes the job of teaching a career to cherish, Happy Teachers’ day dear students for no matter what age you are, listening to you and being with you teaches adults how to be adults and yet nourish their own spirit. We learn to be better people and more responsible adults when we are around children.
What is being responsible? what do we understand by taking responsibility of oneself? how can we help our children and/or students to be responsible as kids and adults? here are some thoughts.
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“Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.”
― Anne Frank
“There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.”
― J.K. Rowling
One Video of the Week:
“Why are some people changing for the better, while others are changing for the worst?” Charlie Johnson shares how he discovered the power of self-accountability and how to push forward no matter the obstacles.
Dear reader,
I have been a research scientist, a journalist, and an educator for over 3 decades. I read and, I write. With this weekly newsletter, I share what I read, learn, and, experience. At the same time, I engage with students, parents, and teams of teachers across K-12 schools, higher education institutions, and ed-tech organizations.
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Issue #164, 29th August 2023
Bullies use violence in 3 ways 1. Political violence to intimidate 2. Physical violence to terrorize 3. Mental/Emotional violence to undermine.
What is your attitude towards oppression when you feel it on yourself when you see it on others? Bullying may happen to you as parents and teachers in the workplace and with students in schools and institutions while growing up. I have done workshops and discussions with many of you in person and virtually on various aspects of understanding bullying, tackling bullies and most definitely not being a bully yourself.
What ticks you off? and what makes you tick? what makes you rise up and when do you collapse? when are you strong, formidable, and indomitable in spirit and what weakens your spirit? When is it alright for you as a person to give in and when do you think you should stand up whether for a cause or a person?
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“When you’re nice, you’re not bullying people. But when you’re kind, you stand up against the bully.”
– Daniel Lubetzky
“The solution to putting an end to bullying is to stop it at the source but also to find out what is causing the person to behave the way that they do.”
– Hunter King
One Video of the Week:
From the day her 13-year-old daughter, Megan, took her own life following a brutal cyberbullying attack, Meier has passionately shared Megan’s story, transforming awareness into action and creating systemic change. Adults, if you want to help young people who are being bullied, then listen up! Meier is Founder and Executive Director of the Megan Meier Foundation.
She travels throughout the country as a keynote speaker on bullying and cyberbullying, addressing students, educators, administrators, parents, youth rallies, counselors, law enforcement, and other professionals.
Dear reader,
I have been a research scientist, a journalist, and an educator for over 3 decades. I read and, I write. With this weekly newsletter, I share what I read, learn, and, experience. At the same time, I engage with students, parents, and teams of teachers across K-12 schools, higher education institutions, and ed-tech organizations.
3-2-1 Tuesdays with Ms. Niv is a newsletter you can subscribe to and enjoy your learning journey with me.
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A little bit about CENTA® :
CENTA® is a social enterprise, working in education with the aim to making it an aspirational field, by assessing and certifying the competencies of education professionals. We are a rapidly growing community of 9,00,000+ teachers from 90,000+ schools across 6,000+ countries.
About the CENTA® School Leadership Programme and Certification:
CENTA® is launching this program to provide current and aspiring school leaders an opportunity to get CENTA Certified in School Leadership. Developed with the latest research in consideration, this program involves intensive and practical professional development that will prepare you to become a great school leader!
For more details, please visit the website:
https://centa.org/learning/centa-school-leadership-programme-and-certification
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Issue #163, 22nd August 2023
Teaching for Discovery and learning for reasoning. How are we as educators and parents planning for doing that with our students and children? What are some of the competencies that our student leaders, teacher leaders, and school leaders should need to hone in themselves to be better at helping the current generation to succeed in the increasingly complex world they are stepping into. What attitudes will make them problem solvers, socially responsible, and compassionate? Here are some thoughts, do you agree? would you like to add to these?
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Two Thoughts of the Week:
“Good feedback is THE most powerful tool you can use to help teachers improve. And yet, you can never have the impact you want to have with teachers if you are accidentally killing their motivation and ability to act on your feedback.”
Robyn Jackson
“The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.”
John Buchan
One Video of the Week:
What must leaders in education instill in those they mentor? As we step into an increasingly complex future, we need new models of teaching and discovery. Evan Mazunik talks about (and demonstrates) some of the most vital skills students need to survive and thrive in the 21st century.
Evan Mazunik creates contemporary music as a composer, pianist, director, and educator in Denver, CO. Despite starting piano lessons as a near-sighted 4-year-old with stage fright, Evan has discovered the joy of music through improvisation.
He conducts ensembles to play off the page using sign language for real-time composition. As a performer, he has played at creative music venues in NYC and Denver such as Dazzle, Roulette, and The Stone. As a composer, his commissions have included works for jazz bands, choirs, and various solo instruments and interdisciplinary works for theater, dance, and film.
As an educator, he has led master classes and workshops at the New School, MSU Denver, the University of Indiana, the Royal Academy of Music in London, and many others, both as a soloist and in collaboration with other teaching artists. Evan received a bachelor’s degree in piano performance and a Masters in jazz studies from the University of Iowa.
Dear reader,
I have been a research scientist, a journalist, and an educator for over 3 decades. I read and, I write. With this weekly newsletter, I share what I read, learn, and, experience. At the same time, I engage with students, parents, and teams of teachers across K-12 schools, higher education institutions, and ed-tech organizations.
3-2-1 Tuesdays with Ms. Niv is a newsletter you can subscribe to and enjoy your learning journey with me.
Showcase of the week:
A little bit about CENTA® :
CENTA® is a social enterprise, working in education with the aim to making it an aspirational field, by assessing and certifying the competencies of education professionals. We are a rapidly growing community of 9,00,000+ teachers from 90,000+ schools across 6,000+ countries.
About the CENTA® School Leadership Programme and Certification:
CENTA® is launching this programme to provide current and aspiring school leaders an opportunity to get CENTA Certified in School Leadership. Developed with the latest research in consideration, this programme involves intensive and practical professional development that will prepare you to become a great school leader!
For more details, please visit the website:
https://centa.org/learning/centa-school-leadership-programme-and-certification
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Issue #162, 15th August 2023
Happy Independence Day dear students, teachers, and parents. What are your plans for the day? Here are some ideas for you. Share what you did, words, thoughts, and traditions you enjoyed today. You must watch the video in this issue. The idea of freedom found a new dimension for me. Jai Hind!
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Two Thoughts of the Week:
“To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect, and their oneness.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
“Patriotism can’t be our final spiritual shelter. I will not buy glass for the price of diamonds and I will never allow patriotism to triumph over humanity as long as I live.”
– Rabindranath Tagore
One Video of the Week:
When Sue Austin got a power wheelchair, she felt a tremendous sense of freedom — yet others looked at her as though she had lost something. In her art, she conveys the spirit of wonder she feels wheeling through the world. Includes thrilling footage of an underwater wheelchair that lets her explore ocean beds, drifting through schools of fish, floating free in 360 degrees.
Multimedia, performance, and installation artist Sue Austin keeps a fascinating mission at the center of her work: to challenge the idea of the disabled as “other” and represent her experience as a wheelchair user in a brighter light. She does this by creating quirky, unexpected juxtapositions — bringing a sense of whimsy and empowerment to the discussion of disability.
Austin is the founder and artistic director of Freewheeling, an initiative aiming to further the genre of Disability Arts. In 2012, she was asked to be a part of the Cultural Olympiad in Britain, a celebration of the arts leading up to the Olympic and Paralympic Games. The work she created for the event, called “Creating the Spectacle!,” is a groundbreaking series of live art and video works of an underwater wheelchair.
Dear reader,
I have been a research scientist, a journalist, and an educator for over 3 decades. I read and, I write. With this weekly newsletter, I share what I read, learn, and, experience. At the same time, I engage with students, parents, and teams of teachers across K-12 schools, higher education institutions, and ed-tech organizations.
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Issue #161, 8th August 2023
Health and Finance. Two very key life skills that need to be managed all through our adulthood are somehow much neglected to be taught as curriculum in our schools. What are some of such essential life skills? Are they supposed to be taught by parents? are they supposed to be learned by experience? How do we know that our children/students will learn it in good time and not leave it to chance? Would that be after they have been unable to manage or struggle through parts of their life, aspects which could have been easily taught alongside the 3 Rs? Both of which would most definitely impact their health and life circumstances – emotional and financial. What do you think? what age is your child and what chores, leading to life skills is your child/student able to manage? here are a few checklists and thoughts for you to ponder upon. What are the 21st century lifeskills and when do we start to teach them?
Me skills, We skills, Why skills, Will skills, Wiggle skills, Wobble skills, What if skills – beautifully explained by the very well-known and respected author and pediatrician Dr. Laura in the video of this week would give you much to think and act upon as parents and educators.
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Every kid in every school no matter their background, deserves to learn the basics about food – where it comes from, how to cook it, and how it affects their bodies. These life skills are as important as reading and writing, but they’ve been lost over the past few generations. We need to bring them back and bring up our kids to be streetwise about food.
– Jamie Oliver
Why can’t it be a curriculum? Why can’t it be a life skill that they learn just to look after themselves in terms of a healthy way of eating? I think we need to shake up that whole curriculum and give them a little bit more of a lifestyle early on, before they leave school at 18.
– Gordon Ramsay
One Video of the Week:
Is the current education system sufficient to make kids succeed in 21st century? Dr. Laura believes otherwise. Her talk will ensure that you and your kids are prepared to succeed in 21 century. Laura A. Jana, MD is world’s leading pediatrician, media spokesperson for the American Academy of Pediatrics, and award-winning author.
With more than 20 years of experience in pediatrics, parenting, early education, public health and media/communications, she most recently served as Director of Innovation at the University of Nebraska Medical Center and has a faculty appointment at Penn State University’s Prevention Research Center.
In addition to her acclaimed ‘Heading Home With Your Newborn’, ‘Food Fights’, and three children’s books, her most recent books – ‘The Toddler Brain’ and ‘Jumping Into Kindergarten’ – both focus on the 21st century skills needed to succeed in today’s world, and how they can best be fostered during the foundational first five years of life.
To everyone seeking the best possible environment for their child’s brain development, Dr. Laura Jana’s insights have been nothing short of life-changing.
Dear reader,
I have been a research scientist, a journalist, and an educator for over 3 decades. I read and, I write. With this weekly newsletter, I share what I read, learn, and, experience. At the same time, I engage with students, parents, and teams of teachers across K-12 schools, higher education institutions, and ed-tech organizations.
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Issue #160, 1st August 2023
What do you do when you are not working? when you are not doing ‘job’, ‘chore’, ‘routine’ ‘work’? What does your ‘leisure’ look like? What does your student do in his/her leisure? What does your child’s leisure look like? Cerebral activities, physical activities, hobbies that build up over time, or hobbies that are time/age/opportunity look like? here are some ideas for you as an educator, parent, and student. What do I do? I like going for nature walks, swimming, listening to music, reading, traveling, writing a blog, and connecting with people in no particular order. My favorite people are students and teachers as you would have guessed by now. I am looking to play piano more regularly, watch uplifting docu features, and do more of what I do already which is connecting with more parents, students, and educators in many and more ways. Have you subscribed to my newsletter yet?
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Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.
– Dale Carnegie
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
– Phyllis McGinley
One Video of the Week:
The Remarkable Impact of Hobbies on Your Career We are masters of feeling guilty every time we get distracted by our hobbies when we feel like we should be working. But what if our hobbies are actually enhancing our careers? Bolstered by a recent scientific study, scientist and punk rocker Karen McFarlane Holman proposes a way for us to quickly dispel guilt and identify our strengths that we may not have recognized before. Karen McFarlane Holman, Ph.D. is a chemistry professor at Willamette University and is the Founder and Director of Science Rockstar Kids, a unique online program that offers interactive online science explorations for elementary school-aged children.
As a recipient of the Carnegie Foundation Professor of the Year award, Karen has been inspiring and empowering tens of thousands of budding scientists for 30 years through her classroom and online teaching, science camps for girls in Saudi Arabia, laboratory research mentorship, a scientific TEDx talk, and 26 book chapters and articles.
As Founder and CEO of Punk Rock Professor, LLC, her current mission is to use creativity and connection in a variety of accessible platforms to inspire kids and adults to follow their curiosity of the world around us. Karen’s dedication to empowering unheard voices extends into music as a punk rocker, having performed on hundreds of stages for over three decades.
She still plays in two actively performing bands, City of Pieces and Hot Sheets. She is a podcaster, longtime radio programmer, and is the Founder of KMUZ-FM, the first community radio station in Salem, Oregon.
Dear reader,
I have been a research scientist, a journalist, and an educator for over 3 decades. I read and, I write. With this weekly newsletter, I share what I read, learn, and, experience. At the same time, I engage with students, parents, and teams of teachers across K-12 schools, higher education institutions, and ed-tech organizations.
3-2-1 Tuesdays with Ms. Niv is a newsletter you can subscribe to and enjoy your learning journey with me.
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