Nivedita Mukerjee
Education consultancy for parents and schools
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Issue #84, 15th February 2022
What are good study habits? How do they lead to to low stress exam time for students? Here are some tips for building good habits that your students/children will find useful. Don’t mist the talk by Yana, a high school student on the method she used to make most of her time for study and other goals as well. Check out today’s showacase for Sanjanja’s conversation with me of how when you think you will, you can. Despite all odds.
All the best dear students for your ongoing and ensuing examinations. Teachers and parents have worked together very hard through the year to support you in your learning journey. Put in your best for yourselves and for your biggest supporters.
Three Images of the Week
Two Thoughts of the Week
“Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.” –Pele
“Learning is like rowing upstream, not to advance is to drop back.” —Chinese Proverb
One Video of the Week
You never know how much time you really have until you start to use it. Are you as efficient and productive as you can be? High school junior Yana Savitsky shares how the Pomodoro method changed the way she thinks and acts towards her work, allowing her to make the most of her time and achieve her goals.
Yana Savitsky is a sophomore at Lake Forest High School. Taking rigorous academic courses at the AP and honors level, she is constantly flooded with strenuous assignments. Outside of academics, however, Yana has a passion for storytelling and helping others, whether it is visually, through the lens of a camera in New Media, or speaking out for social change and volunteering. Nonetheless, Yana seeks to efficiently and effectively complete her coursework, and even excel in it through maximizing her time with the Pomodoro Method, conveniently the topic of her TED talk.
Showcase of the week
”I can and I will.” Here’s a story of grit, determination, transformation and defying all odds.
Sanjanja Nagar, in conversation with me.
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Issue #83, 8th February 2022
Did you know gardening boosts children’s confidence? Chunking of information improves working memory?Providing environments to fail and learn improves growth mindset? What are the 3 top tips for practices that successful students have? That I.Q., hard work and goal orientation are necessary but not sufficient for student success?
Teachers, check out the master class I am doing this Friday on Rubrics, Assessment for Student Success. If you ever wondered Why is Rubric considered one of the best ways for assessment? How to create a Rubric? When to use a Rubric? Who is the Rubric for? What makes a good Rubric? Then this two hour session will help you with that. This is a CENTA (Center for Teacher Accreditation) certified master class. Join me if you wish for a engaging learning session.
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Two Thoughts of the Week
‘Any fool can know. The point is to understand.’ –Albert Einstein
‘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
One Video of the Week
Douglas talks about the research on top students learning habits. Douglas is the founder and Global Chairman of Elevate Education. Douglas and Elevate has spent the last 13 years benchmarking the practices of the highest performing students in order to identify exactly what drives student performance. Today, Elevate works with over 1200 schools across Australia, the UK, South Africa and the US in order to raise student and school performance.
Douglas has been profiled in a series of books on Australia’s top and emerging leaders.
Showcase of the week
https://m.centa.org/pwa/masterclasses/package/ind/263
This is your link for registering to the professional development session on Rubrics as a way of assessment. See you there.
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 intend to share what I read, learn and, experience while 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 #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.
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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.
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 intend to share what I read, learn and, experience while 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 #81, 25th January 2022
Independence? Freedom? Rights? Duties? what does it mean for a child, for a girl, for a woman? Girls can be brave and boys can be sensitive. No? I have put together two very powerful talks in this issue. Have a listen and let me know what you think.
Happy Republic day to Indians all around the world.
Three Images of the Week
Two Thoughts of the Week
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
One Video of the Week
Males are expected to achieve career success while female counterparts are often expected to stay home and take care of children. Camila challenges widely-held assumptions about “traditional” roles in relationships. Camila Coutinho is one of the most influential bloggers in the world due to her simple, fun and creative writing style. Coutinho created “Garotas Estúpidas” (“Stupid Girls”) in July 2006, the first fashion blog in Brazil, which covers the main highlights of national and international fashion, beauty and lifestyle. Coutinho originally created “Garotas Estúpidas” (“Me, Stupid?”) as a way of sharing her passion for fashion with her friends, but her project collected national and international recognition in 13 years of existence.
Over the years, Coutinho has collaborated with a variety of international fashion brands such as Jimmy Choo, Dior, Burberry, Diane Von Furstenberg and Dolce and Gabbana. She was the first Brazilian digital influencers to join The Society Management. With over 2.4 million Instagram followers, Coutinho is one of the most recognized bloggers worldwide, and appeared in the prestigious list on Forbes Brazil’s 30 under 30 in 2015 under the fashion and lifestyle blogger category. In 2017, she reached the Business of Fashion 500 list as one of the most influential people on fashion in the world. Coutinho launched her first book, “Estúpida, Eu?” in 2018, which tells the story of her career; transforming her hobby into a business.
Showcase of the week
She has a dream. She will find the way. She will learn, she will teach. Despite and inspite of odds.
Here’s a story of a fiercely independent girl coming from a society where girls are considered a burden on the family. Listen in.
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 intend to share what I read, learn and, experience while 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 #80, 18th January 2022
Self acceptance, family acceptance, social acceptance. Not all three always coincide! How are we similar and how are we different? which of us has special needs and which ones amongst us has regular needs? are we unique or dis-similar? What are our vertical identities? which are our horizontal identities? Some questions that as educators and parents we face everyday. How should we deal with special people? What should our behaviour be with our special students and/or children? Some very interesting thoughts you would find in this issue that I have put together to help all of us to think about. We are all special isn’t it, in some ways and more…We need diversity of affection in a fragmented world. Love, no matter what. Don’t miss Andrew Solomon’s powerful and heartwarming talk in this issue.
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Two Thoughts of the Week
“Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or in the same way.”
― George Evans.
“The highest result of education is tolerance.”
― Helen Keller.
One Video of the Week
Every child is different and regardless of what these differences may be, whether a child is differently abled, homosexual, a prodigy or even a criminal, a parent’s love for that child is unconditional, according to Andrew Solomon.
Andrew conducted a series of interviews with parents who had a child living with disabilities or was different in some way. In this TEDTalk, Andrew is able to effectively capture the joy and personal fulfilment parents raising children under extraordinary circumstances feel. The true power and emotion of the unconditional love parents give to their children is further presented through the selfless wish for their children with special needs to live easier instead of the parents themselves birthing a child in different circumstances.
This talk truly captures the true emotion and love dedicated to parenting a child with special needs.
Showcase of the week
Anita Eipe and Noni Vyas, SplEdBuddy Co-founders – in conversation with Nivedita
Their primary aim is to address the needs of students who struggle accessing meaningful education in mainstream education systems. They want to support students such that they can stay in schools by providing the specialized and focused attention they need in order to succeed.
SplEdBuddy is an ed-tech platform conceptualized by Anita Eipe, who is a special educator by profession and also heads a school for children with special needs and different abilities along with Noni Vyas, who is an educator by profession and is currently the principal of an International Pre-school.
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 intend to share what I read, learn and, experience while 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 #79, 11th January 2022
Learning gap. Learning incline. Learning disparity. These have become the words much thrown around and feared in the world of education during the past couple of years of pandemic. Yes, the schools have been shut. Yes, the children have needed additional home support for learning. Yes, some children have not been able to be with their teachers online because of the digital divide. Yes, some children have faced sickness and death at home. These are all facts. But these are also incidents that have taught each of us – whether student, parent, educator much beyond what we could have learned about life and life-skills during peace times. No? What do you think?
Check out the African proverb in the thoughts for the day section of this issue. Are we more skilled life-sailors with all the turbulence that we have been subjected to in the past couple of years? What has it taught us about priorities? life? learning? and relationships? we are figuring out as we go along… what works best for us, our family, our team, our organisation. Success is contextual. My idea of my success is different from yours. Like wise one student’s success is different from another and is mostly different from what their parent’s idea of success is. Last couple of years, each one has had same yet different context to deal with. We were in the same storm but on different boats…and we all learned. But differently. It was learning nonetheless and big ones at that. Let us take all the things that we have learned to make a new way forward.
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Two Thoughts of the Week
“Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.”
― Richard Feynmann
“Smooth seas do not make skilful sailors.”
— African Proverb
One Video of the Week
The COVID-19 pandemic changed the way we work for good. Can it also change it for the better? Consultant Patty McCord reviews four key insights employers and employees alike gleaned from their shift to working from home — and shares how companies can use what they learned in lockdown to creatively rethink how we do business.
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Issue #78, 4th January 2022
Who is a great teacher? What do you remember about a teacher you loved? Which kind of teachers are loved by their students? Why are some teachers more successful in getting their subjects across? What can we do as educators and/or parents to teach our students/children what we want them to learn, understand, apply and develop an attitude that will help them in the coming years? Which teachers listen to their students and not just hear? Which teachers let them try? Which teachers learn as they teach?
You might find some answers, some provocations, some ideas in today’s newsletter. Happy New Year to all of you dear readers. Looking forward to continue enjoying sharing my learning journey with each of you in 2022.
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Two Thoughts of the Week
“I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.” Albert Einstein
“I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.” Alexander the Great
One Video of the Week
For the last 24 years, he has repeatedly asked students the same question, “What makes a good teacher great?” Azul Terronez is the author of the best-selling book “The art of Apprenticeship” Azul has coached teachers and schools leaders around the world in Spain, Chile, Canada, India, United States and China and he is currently serves as a teacher coach at Shanghai American School.
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 intend to share what I read, learn and, experience while 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 #77, 28th December 2021
Life long learning. These three words go hand in hand with education as that is one of the core attitudes we want to build in our students/children. For that, we have to role model it ourselves as educators and parents. What are you planning to learn in 2022? Why have you picked what you want to learn? Who do you want to learn with and/or from? When in the day/week you have kept the time out for your own learning? How do you see yourself improved as a result of your learning?
I have enjoyed learning and sharing with you over the years, thanks for coming along my learning journey. If you have not subscribed to my newsletter yet, please go ahead and put in your email id here so that this weekly newsletter reaches your mail box.
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Two Thoughts of the Week
“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.”
― Henry Ford
“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.”
― Albert Einstein
One Video of the Week
Wofford College president Bernie Dunlap tells the story of Sandor Teszler, a Hungarian Holocaust survivor who taught him about passionate living and lifelong learning.
Bernie Dunlap is a true polymath, whose talents span poetry, opera, ballet, literature and administration. He is the president of South Carolina’s Wofford College.
Bernie Dunlap was a dancer for four years with the Columbia City Ballet, kicking off a life of artistic and cultural exploration. A Rhodes Scholar, he did his PhD in English literature at Harvard, and is now the president of Wofford College, a small liberal arts school in South Carolina. He has taught classes on a wide variety of subjects, from Asian history to creative writing.
He’s also a writer-producer for television, and his 19-part series The Renaissance has been adopted for use by more than 100 colleges. He has been a Senior Fulbright Lecturer in Thailand and a moderator at the Aspen Institute.
And Finally…
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 intend to share what I read, learn and, experience while 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 #76, 14th December 2021
I am packing and sending out little gifts for my friends and family. Some thoughts, some wishes and some blessings too. I hope that 2022 will be better than 2021 for each of us. If you are still wondering what your gift should be for your friends, family or yourself, check out the talk by Dr. Jennifer Rothschild in today’s issue.
Dec-Jan are quite characteristic months. We bring to a close the year gone by, carry some hopes to the next and make new wishes, some set goals and some make resolves. All within a span of next couple of weeks. What are your wishes, thoughts, hopes, goals, resolves for 2022? What would you like me to share more of in my newsletter? Waiting to hear from you.
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Two Thoughts of the Week
“Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home.”
- G.K.Chesterton
Maybe Christmas, he thought, doesn’t come from the store. Maybe Christmas… perhaps… means a little bit more!
- The Grinch, by Dr Seuss
One Video of the Week
Finding the perfect gift is tough. Dr. Jennifer Rothschild, professor of philosophy at the University of Florida, shares her secret to finding the perfect gift. By balancing three crucial elements revealed in her talk, we can all learn to be better gift-givers. Jennifer Rothschild is a philosophy professor at the University of Florida. She specializes in ethics, primarily Aristotle’s ethics of virtue. Her work aims to use philosophy to help us understand what makes actions, people, and whole human lives good or bad. Jennifer has enjoyed using her TEDxUF talk to bring together three of her favorite philosophical topics: gifts, friendship, and the structure of action.
Showcase of the week:
Join us as we dive into the stories and crafts of Christmas. Through an interactive workshop, children aged 7 to 12 will spend an hour finding out little secrets and lesser known stories about some of the traditions related to Christmas and learn to make some delightful Christmas decorations as well!
Children will become familiar with artifacts and objects from MoCA, Goa, that reveal interesting stories about the traditions of Christmas. This joyful hour will end with the participants learning and singing a traditional Christmas carol. Brought to you by Museum of Christian Art and ReReeti Foundation
Age group: 7–12 years
Date: 22nd December, 2021
Time: 4-5PM
₹ 150┃Zoom
https://insider.in/christmas-stories-crafts-dec22-2021/event
And Finally…
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 intend to share what I read, learn and, experience while 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 #75, 14th December 2021
Ho! ho! ho! Christmas is here. What are you reading? What are you watching as your countdown to Christmas? Which are your favourite carols? Is Santa able to come to us amidst pandemic and its variants? what happens to the gifts then? What is your notion of gift? Shall we pay it forward this year – in the spirit of Christmas?
Here are some ideas of books to read, movies to re-watch, thoughts for gifts and a talk by a Santa. Enjoy this news letter and subscribe to my newsletter with your email. That would be a great gift to me 🙂 Thanks in advance.
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Two Thoughts of the Week
“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.” – Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
“It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.” – Mother Theresa
One Video of the Week
A wonderful close-up look at Santa Claus. George takes us through his three decade career as Santa Claus, touching on the real reason he still believes….and it’s not for the gifts under the tree, but the joy and love of the children. A wonderful and beautiful account.
In 1980 George Blythe with his high school sweetheart Patty Ripley and two of their four daughters came to Vero Beach from their home in the Valley Forge area of Pennsylvania. They found a historic Sexton/McKee house on the island, and in 1990, as empty-nesters, moved to an Oak Hammock in the western part of the county. George as he had since his teens continued in Real Estate and the Construction Industry.
An Auctioneer he has raised funds for many of our community organizations. George will give us a glimpse into the happiness of presenting Santa Clause to our community. He has been a busy man, in many a December since 1981, talking with our sons and daughters.
Showcase of the week:
And Finally…
Check out this video and go for some moves yourselves with your students/children at home and post a fun reel for your family and friends.
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 intend to share what I read, learn and, experience while I engage with students, parents, and teams of teachers across K-12 schools, higher education institutions and, ed-tech organizations.
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