Nivedita Mukerjee
Education consultancy for parents and schools
3-2-1 TUESDAYS WITH MS NIV
Issue #129, 27th December 2022
It has been a very busy year and I am looking forward to another busy one. I like high octave, high activity, high output, high engagement… for I always think carpe diem, seize the day. However, the end of the year is a good time to put a halt on all that and do some self-reflection. After all, it is quite the practice for educators to plan their lesson, go through executing the lesson plan as diligently as possible, include deviations, and at the end of the unit, jot down their reflections as a feed-forward.
Here are 5 questions that I am reflecting on. What are yours?
- What made me happy or miserable this year?
2. What were some of the best or worst moments of this year?
3. Which of my current habits will help me in short-medium-long term goals?
4. Which relationships helped me become a better version of myself?
5. What will I do less/more next year?
Happy New Year dear readers. Looking forward to learning-teaching with each of you in 2023. You can participate in my learning journey by subscribing to this free newsletter with your email.
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Two Thoughts of the Week
“A prudent question is one-half of wisdom,” says Francis Bacon.
“A man must find time for himself. Time is what we spend our lives with. If we are not careful we find others spending it for us. . . . It is necessary now and then for a man to go away by himself and experience loneliness; to sit on a rock in the forest and to ask of himself, ‘Who am I, and where have I been, and where am I going?’ . . . If one is not careful, one allows diversions to take up one’s time—the stuff of life.”
― Carl Sandburg
One Video of the Week
Maria sees her secret to improvement and success as being reflective. Although self-reflection requires patience and introspection and is sometimes uncomfortable, it can be productive and serve as a concrete way of attaining one’s full potential. Maria is a grade eleven student in her first year of the IB DP program. Originally from Russia, Maria grew up in Tashkent, but moves periodically between Virginia, USA and Tashkent. She identifies as an ethnic Russian-Korean, part of the group of Koreans that were resettled in Central Asia during the 1920’s-30s.
She loves to golf, read fantasy fiction novels, and watch anime. In her free time, she likes to sleep, and write her own fiction stories. As a teenager, suddenly, on the brink of being thrown into a world of adulthood and leaving home, she recognizes the simultaneously scary and anxious experience for both herself and her friends. For that reason, she finds one of the best ways of coping with and facing new challenges to be the small quiet, contemplative moments of momentary self-reflection on long car rides, and solitary golf games. She hopes to share her passion for the limitless possibilities of continuous improvement through self-reflection with her friends and audience.
Showcase of the week
Have you ever wondered…What will teaching look like in 2030? 🤔
As CENTA is turning 8 🥳, CENTA is launching its global initiative, ‘The Future of Teaching’, through 4 online events in the week. 📱
Join in to ask questions at these events❓, vote in polls ✍🏻, and give your views 💬… AND raise your hand 🙌🏻 – you could get selected to join the live online stage and share your views! Parts of these will feed into a global publication 🔖 to be released post-June 2023 and shared with policy-makers, industry leaders, media, and more.
As a CENTA Master trainer, I would look forward to your active participation in this journey – beginning with the events in the coming week! 💫
Here’s the registration form, use coupon code NM10 to get a 10%discount on your registration amount: https://m.centa.org/pwa/tq_registration/TPO/new/0/outside?_ga=2.17552889.1971720538.1662956587-1663591830.1660621246
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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 #128, 20th December 2022
Why is it so hard to stay resolute on a resolution? Do you make one? Have you ever made one? Would you like to make one?
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year dear students, parents, and teachers. Let me know how did it go this year if you made a resolution and if you are planning to make another… you have some more time to go before we roll out of this year and ring in the new. Here are some tips for you.
Three Images of the Week
Two Thoughts of the Week
Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account. Oscar Wilde
Don’t make resolutions without an action plan.
The secret to success is right in your hands.
J. Allen Shaw
One Video of the Week
Getting up in the morning to workout on January second is pretty easy, but why does it become more difficult as the year continues? In this dynamic presentation, Adithya explores the science behind motivation.
Adithya Chakravarthy is a Grade 11 student at the University of Toronto Schools. At his school, Adithya is a senior executive in the Speech and Debate Society. Since grade 9, he has debated in tournaments across North America and Europe. He is also one of leading Indian Classical Vocalists in North America and has performed in venues across the globe.
He has won various music awards including the Carnatic Music Idol USA Junior Title. Adithya’s public speaking and debate performances have helped strengthen his persuasion skills. His TEDx talk will be focusing on ways people can motivate themselves to complete various tasks even when they struggle to find the drive necessary. When Adithya isn’t debating or leading a club, you will likely find him reading a science fiction novel or watching cooking shows.
Showcase of the week
Have you ever wondered…What will teaching look like in 2030? 🤔
As CENTA is turning 8 🥳, CENTA is launching its global initiative, ‘The Future of Teaching’, through 4 online events in the week. 📱
Join in to ask questions at these events❓, vote in polls ✍🏻, give your views 💬… AND raise your hand 🙌🏻 – you could get selected to join the live online stage and share your views! Parts of these will feed into a global publication 🔖 to be released post June 2023 and shared with policy-makers, industry leaders, media, and more.
As a CENTA Master trainer, I would look forward to your active participation in this journey – beginning with the events in the coming week! 💫
Here’s the registration form, use coupon code NM10 to get a 10%discount on your registration amount: https://m.centa.org/pwa/tq_registration/TPO/new/0/outside?_ga=2.17552889.1971720538.1662956587-1663591830.1660621246
More details here:
https://centa.org/tpo2022/embed/#?secret=7k8AtVvXDE#?secret=vMFExG4XuI
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 #127, 13th December 2022
What is your life’s purpose?
- Who are you?
- What do you do?
- Who do you do it for?
- What do these people want and need?
- How does their life change as a result?
I asked myself these 5 questions this weekend, to summarise my year, my work, and my purpose – I am an education advisor to schools and higher education institutions so that they can become more enriched, engaged, and happy teaching-learning communities.
It is the end of the year and a great time to reflect on your life’s purpose dear educators and parents, school administrators, and owners of educational institutions. Go ahead, you can ask yourself these questions to have a better understanding of your life and work’s purpose. I am sharing here a few tips for summarising your year’s story as well. While we all teach our students how to summarise stories and literary or scientific texts, it is also a learned skill to be able to summarise our day, our month, and our year… a good tool to be able to reflect upon and move with purpose towards the next story, next year, creating more meaningful lives for ourselves and helping those around us to be more purposeful and intentional.
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Two Thoughts of the Week
“A simple summary of my life is that my parents worked very hard so that I could have a great education, and I took that education and worked very hard to get where I am. I would like my kids’ lives to be exactly the same. ” Guy Kawasaki
“Don’t fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have. “Louis E. Boone
One Video of the Week
Adam Leipzig has overseen more than 25 movies as a producer, executive, and distributor. He has produced more than 300 stage plays and live events, and he was one of the founders of the Los Angeles Theatre Center.
AdamLeipzig.com
Showcase of the week
Have you ever wondered…What will teaching look like in 2030? 🤔
As CENTA is turning 8 🥳, CENTA is launching its global initiative, ‘The Future of Teaching’, through 4 online events in the week. 📱
Join in to ask questions at these events❓, vote in polls ✍🏻, give your views 💬… AND raise your hand 🙌🏻 – you could get selected to join the live online stage and share your views! Parts of these will feed into a global publication 🔖 to be released post June 2023 and shared with policy-makers, industry leaders, media, and more.
As a CENTA Master trainer, I would look forward to your active participation in this journey – beginning with the events in the coming week! 💫
Here’s the registration form, use coupon code NM10 to get a 10%discount on your registration amount: https://m.centa.org/pwa/tq_registration/TPO/new/0/outside?_ga=2.17552889.1971720538.1662956587-1663591830.1660621246
More details here:
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 #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.
Three Images of the Week
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.
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 #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.
Three Images of the Week
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
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 #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?
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 #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 🙂
Three Images of the Week
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
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 #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?
Three Images of the Week
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.
3-2-1 Tuesdays with Ms. Niv is a newsletter for you to subscribe to and enjoy your learning journey with me.
Showcase of the week :
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?
Three Images of the Week
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.
Showcase of the week :
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.
And Finally…
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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.
Three Images of the Week
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.
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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