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What Education Is For: A Final Essay for Every Teacher Who Has Ever Wondered Why This Matters

What Education Is For: A Final Essay for

At the end of a long term, in the face of impossible demands and inadequate resources, it is worth returning
The Headmaster Who Teaches: Instructional Leadership and Why Administrative Management Is Not Enough

The Headmaster Who Teaches: Instructional Leadership and Why

The evidence on school leadership is specific: headmasters who act as instructional leaders produce better outcomes than headmasters who manage
Teaching Children About the Climate Emergency Without Causing Climate Anxiety: A Careful Balance

Teaching Children About the Climate Emergency Without Causing

Climate change is the defining challenge of today’s students’ lives. Research on climate change education identifies approaches that develop agency
Belonging as a Learning Condition: Why School Climate Matters More Than Most People Think

Belonging as a Learning Condition: Why School Climate

Children who feel they belong in their school — who feel known, safe, and valued — learn more, stay longer,
When a Teacher Notices: Early Identification of Emotional Difficulty and the Non-Clinician’s Role

When a Teacher Notices: Early Identification of Emotional

Teachers are not therapists. But they are with children for six hours a day, five days a week, for ten
The Weight of Examinations: Academic Pressure, Student Wellbeing, and the Schools That Are Finding a Better Balance

The Weight of Examinations: Academic Pressure, Student Wellbeing,

India’s board examinations are among the most high-stakes in the world. The pressure they generate is real, documented, and consequential
Bullying in Indian Schools: What the Research Shows and What Schools Can Do

Bullying in Indian Schools: What the Research Shows

Bullying in Indian schools is underreported, underdiscussed, and often addressed through the wrong interventions. The evidence on what actually reduces
The Child Who Will Not Come In: School Refusal, Anxiety, and What Schools Actually Need to Know

The Child Who Will Not Come In: School

For some children, the anxiety of attending school is not a phase or a tactic. It is a clinical reality
The Multi-Grade Reality: Teaching Two or Three Classes in One Room at One Time

The Multi-Grade Reality: Teaching Two or Three Classes

Over 40% of India’s primary schools are single-teacher schools. The multi-grade classroom is not an anomaly — it is a
The Question That Does Not Wait for an Answer: Rethinking Classroom Talk in Indian Schools

The Question That Does Not Wait for an

In most Indian classrooms, teachers talk for the vast majority of the lesson and children talk very little. The evidence