Nivedita Mukerjee
Education consultancy for parents and schools
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Issue #126, 6th December 2022
Are we too close? or are we too far apart? I am talking about intimacy and understanding personal space. What do we understand about it as adults? how can we help our students and children learn and understand it? After the past couple of years of social distancing, a deluge of screen time with age-inappropriate material, an understanding of personal space has got muddled, and with it the understanding of intimacy. The intimacy that heals. The intimacy that is thrust upon. Personal spaces that are too far apart. Personal spaces that are invaded. It is the last month of this year, reasonable time to have a chat with your family? a discussion with your students? What does intimacy mean to you? It is an option to know what we want. How much intimacy do we want? With who all we want intimacy and of what kind. We have different needs for different people at different moments. It is a good time as any to discuss and understand. Say yes to what you want and no to everything else.
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Two Thoughts of the Week
“Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give. ” Bertrand Russell
“Intimacy is healing.” Dean Ornish
One Video of the Week
Most people equate intimacy with sex but there is a whole range of possibilities that can bring us fulfillment. And while there are many tools for personal growth that help us to be healthier or more productive, we often lack the means to specify the level of intimacy we want. Wilrieke designed her cuddle workshops to teach people how to understand their needs and boundaries so that they become more comfortable with intimacy. Wilrieke’s talk will reveal the empowerment, confidence, and happiness we stand to gain when we design our own ways of being intimate. Wilrieke Sophia was born in the Netherlands and studied Forestry and Nature Conservation. While running her own herbs and spices company, she began developing her idea of Cuddle Workshops for teaching and facilitating personal growth through intimacy. Wilrieke is well-known in Europe with a fast-growing demand for her seminars and speaker appearances.
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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 #125, 29th November 2022
There is good stress and there is bad stress. What makes it good or bad? Does the source of stress make it good/bad or do we make it in our minds? or both? How do we recognize anxiety and how do we handle it? Can we teach ourselves, our children, and our students how to work through stress?
Here are some thoughts, try them out and share what worked and what did not work for you. You can post your comments on the blog post. Go ahead and subscribe if you have not yet and enjoy my learning journey every week.
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Two Thoughts of the Week
In times of great stress or adversity, it’s always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.–Lee Iacocca
It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.–Bruce Lee
One Video of the Week
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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 #124, 22nd November 2022
What is working hard? what do we understand by rigor? what inspires us to persist? can we do it consistently as educators and parents with our students and children? can we institutionalize the concept of meaningful rigor? here are some thoughts for you to consider.
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Two Thoughts of the Week
One thing was clear: To give our kids the kind of education they deserved, we had to first agree that rigor mattered most of all; that school existed to help kids learn to think, to work hard, and yes, to fail. That was the core consensus that made everything else possible. — Amanda Ripley
Every obstacle is destroyed through rigor. – Leonardo da Vinci
One Video of the Week
Get smarter with the power of ‘yet’. Teachers, and parents, are you listening?
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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 #123, 15th November 2022
Happiness and having fun are often used in the same breath. How do you have fun yourselves? Can learning be fun? is having fun frivolous? or can we achieve some learning, some work, happiness, bonding, collaboration, and enduring understanding while having fun? What is your idea of fun? Is there a formula for having fun? Find out in today’s issue and subscribe if you haven’t yet.
Happy Children’s day! Have fun folks 🙂
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Two Thoughts of the Week
Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one. Dr. Seuss
Never, ever underestimate the importance of having fun. Randy Pausch
One Video of the Week
Why Having Fun Is the Secret to a Healthier Life | Catherine Price
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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 #122, 8th November 2022
What does it mean to be accountable? is it being responsible? is it to not make excuses? is it to accept one’s role in an activity? is it to ensure self-governance? is it to be aware of the consequences of one’s words and actions? What does it mean to you as a teacher, as a student, and as a parent? Can we learn/teach/role model it? How can you address the elephant in the room and have accountability conversations with yourself and with those whom you care for?
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Two Thoughts of the Week
“Accountability means to say what you do, and do what you say”.
— Pearl Zhu
“The best kind of accountability on a team is peer-to-peer. Peer pressure is more efficient and effective than going to the leader, anonymously complaining, and having them stop what they are doing to intervene.” – Patrick Lencioni.
One Video of the Week
Could a conversation change the fate of an individual, a family, organisations, or whole countries facing failure, underperformance, and disappointment? In this talk, Tafadzwa Bete Sasa shares two questions and a skill that can transform accountability conversations from awkward exchanges about elephants in the room to acts of love that help our loved ones, colleagues, and leaders improve and do better.
Tafadzwa Bete Sasa is a high-performance strategist who designs and facilitates tools and knowledge for sustained growth and success that benefit people and organisations. She holds a BSc in Human Resource Management and (at the time when this Talk was delivered) is an MBA candidate at the African Leadership University.
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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Fermata is an Italian word. Fermata in music means a pause on a note at the performer’s discretion.
This ‘pause’ directs us to ‘tune in’, to reflect and reassess the path we are on and course correct towards growth. At Fermata, we guide you to – design your life, career, and business. We help you explore and discover the world of possibilities and opportunities and make conscious choices.
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Issue #121, 1st November 2022
What according to you is courage? Is it mental strength? Is it moral strength? Is courage facing danger, facing fear, going through difficulty? Is it strength to venture, to persevere?
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Two Thoughts of the Week
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
― Lao Tzu
“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
One Video of the Week
The beautiful balance between courage and fear
After being diagnosed with a rare genetic condition that deteriorates muscle, Cara E. Yar Khan was told she’d have to limit her career ambitions and dial down her dreams. She ignored that advice and instead continued to pursue her biggest ambitions. In this powerful, moving talk, she shares her philosophy for working on the projects that matter to her most — while letting courage and fear coexist. Watch for heart-stopping, vertigo-inducing footage of a trip that shows her living her theory to the full.
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 for you to subscribe to and enjoy your learning journey with me.
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Fermata is an Italian word. Fermata in music means a pause on a note at the discretion of the performer.
This ‘pause’ directs us to ‘tune in’, to reflect and reassess the path we are on and course correct towards growth. At Fermata, we guide you to – design your life, career, and business. We help you explore and discover the world of possibilities, of opportunities and to make conscious choices.
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Issue #120, 25th October 2022
Do you react or respond to change? how does your student/child respond to change? how does your institution respond to change? is change always good? always bad? or the outcome is dependent on your response. We have all heard change is constant… so how do we learn to live with it and teach our students/children/teachers to work with it? here are some thoughts.
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Two Thoughts of the Week
“A scholar who loves comfort is not fit to be called a scholar.”– Confucius
“It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change.”– Charles Darwin
One Video of the Week
Embracing Change: Making New Choices Instead of “Safe” Choices
Aden Nepom is a Senior Facilitator for On Your Feet Improvisation for Business and President of the Art of Change – Skills for Life. She helps people navigate our ever-changing world by coaching skills and exploring habits that develop people into stronger collaborators, better business partners and more influential communicators. She has worked with clients at Dell, Nike, Lockheed Martin, IAAP, the Federal Reserve Bank, Uber and more.
Aden is also an internationally touring Improv Theatre performer and teacher! When not working with clients, you might catch her in ridiculously entertaining (sometimes heartfelt, sometimes hilarious… sometimes both!) shows like USS Improvise the Next Generation the Musical, B.A.B.E. Presents “I Love Musicals” an entirely improvised 1950’s sitcom-musical, or Manacle: Improvised Love Stories – a show in which Aden and real-life husband Eric convert audience stories into improvised One Act plays.
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 #119, 18th October 2022
Choices and voices, in person and online, tutoring and mentoring, exams and individualised expectations, technology and pedagogy… it is no more an either/or world in learning and education. It is a yes… and… version of learning that we are moving towards. More than classrooms, more than institutions, more than content. What are some of the key words of future of learning? What is it now that we have included in the post pandemic vision of education? Here is a glimpse. Please share your thoughts by commenting on this post and subscribe by entering your email id here to receive this news letter every week on Tuesdays.
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Two Thoughts of the Week
‘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
‘Don’t just teach your children to read. Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything.’ –George Carlin
One Video of the Week
Even before the global pandemic, universities around the world were facing a wave of change. The rapid evolution of digital technology has produced societal changes and different expectations in our learners. The lockdowns in the UK and the pivot to remote working threw these changes into sharp relief and ignited a heated discussion about the relative values of in-person sessions and online activity. In this talk, I aim to demonstrate that there is a false dichotomy between “face to face” and “online” and that the power has shifted from universities to learners in ways that have been supported by advances in connectivity. Finally, I will discuss how universities can reinvent themselves to lead by example in the climate emergency and increase participation through accessibility and flexibility to create work-ready graduates who are willing and able to participate as citizens.
Helen is Provost and Deputy Vice-Chancellor, I am responsible for providing strategic leadership of the academic function of the University, including the development of the academic portfolio, enhancement of the teaching and learning experience and leadership of the Deans of Faculty. I joined Chester on 1st April 2021 and before that was Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Education) at Keele University.
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 #118, 11th October 2022
What are your top 3 priorities? Whatever you are looking for – you will find. Are you out looking for opportunities or obstructions? Problems or solutions? friends or adversaries? Often we have found that when we are looking for a particular thing, the signs become prominent around us. We find people discussing it, we find those news articles popping up, events around that topics happening… how does that happen? Coincidence or that our brain is actively seeking what is top of our mind? how do we tune in to what we are seeking? how can we help our children and students tune in and manage their priorities? how do we help ourselves and our students learn to prioritise what really matters and makes a difference to our lives? here are some thoughts for you to chew on as a parent, teacher and a student.
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Two Thoughts of the Week
“The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities. “
– Stephen Covey
“It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.”
― Bruce Lee
One Video of the Week
This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. James Altucher is now considered to be a renowned author and serial entrepreneur, but in this brutally honest talk, injected with outrageous humor, he reveals how at one point failure led him to consider suicide, and how he turned his life around by following five key practices. Improve your physical health (focus on exercise and diet), improve your emotional health (be around people that you love and trust), improve you spiritual health (always expressing gratitude), capture your brilliance (write down ten ideas every day), and finally, give without expectation (give your ideas away). “If you don’t make the choices in your own life, then someone else is going to end up making them for you, and it won’t be good.”
James Altucher is a successful entrepreneur, chess master, investor and writer. He is the author of the WSJ and Amazon Best-Sellers “Choose Yourself” and “The Power Of No” as well as ten other books. He has started and run more than 20 companies, and sold several of those businesses for large exits and failed miserably at all the rest. His book “Choose Yourself” explains how he rose from repeated failure to find success. He has also run venture capital funds, hedge funds, is an active angel investor, and currently sits on the boards of several companies.
Showcase of the Week
Link for registration: https://m.centa.org/pwa/masterclasses/package/ind/315
To Rubric Or Not To Rubric – a recorded masterclass with CENTA certification.
Key Takeaways:
1. Why do we need a Rubric for an assessment?
2. When does one use a Rubric?
3. How to create a Rubric?
4. Who is the Rubric for – student or teacher?
About the expert:
This masterclass is being facilitated by Ms. Nivedita Mukerjee. Nivedita is an education advisor for schools, higher education institutions, and ed-tech companies. Over the last 3 decades, she has taught life sciences and communication in high schools and colleges, co-founded a Post Graduate Institute of Media studies, an IB world school, and, helped set up a private University in Bangalore, India.
The recording will be made available for 3 months from the date of purchase.
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 for you to subscribe to and enjoy your learning journey with me.
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Issue #117, 4th October 2022
We fret about it. We try to avoid it. We are embarrassed by it. We try to hide it. Failure, everyone faces it more often than we would like. If it is so universal, how do we teach our child/student to cope with it? how do we cope with it? Is it a learning moment, a moment of reflection, or of shame, or worse, blame?
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Two Thoughts of the Week
“If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.” – Ken Robinson
“If you don’t try at anything, you can’t fail… it takes backbone to lead the life you want” – Richard Yates
Showcase of the Week
Link for registration: https://m.centa.org/pwa/masterclasses/package/ind/315
To Rubric Or Not To Rubric – a recorded masterclass with CENTA certification.
Key Takeaways:
1. Why do we need a Rubric for an assessment?
2. When does one use a Rubric?
3. How to create a Rubric?
4. Who is the Rubric for – student or teacher?
About the expert:
This masterclass is being facilitated by Ms. Nivedita Mukerjee. Nivedita is an education advisor for schools, higher education institutions, and ed-tech companies. Over the last 3 decades, she has taught life sciences and communication in high schools and colleges, co-founded a Post Graduate Institute of Media studies, an IB world school, and, helped set up a private University in Bangalore, India.
The recording will be made available for 3 months from the date of purchase.
One Video of the Week
He is a veteran in the field of Economics and has donned many hats. A professor by choice, he obtained his Ph.D. from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has been a visiting professor of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Simla, an Honorary Senior Fellow of the Institute of South Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore, a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University, and a Visiting Professor at the Turin School of Development of the International Labour Organization.
Professor Errol D’Souza – the Director of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad speaks about facing failures from his personal life experiences.
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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