Through Creative Language Development Effort (CLDE) developed by the organisation, the learning is more organic, quicker, and much less stressful for the child and the teacher, writes Indira Vijaysimha in Learning Curve magazine.

Anurag Behar, CEO, Azim Premji Foundation, in conversation with Govindraj Ethiraj, Founder, IndiaSpend, reiterates that the practitioners — the teachers, principals, block education officers, and textbook writers — should ask the questions that seem most important to them and discover what works for them.

G S Rautela, in i wonder magazine, explores some concepts in science textbooks that can be brought to life in classrooms using a variety of locally available low-cost materials.

Going on a nature walk and creating a nature map that reflects the experience of sights, sounds, smells, tastes, textures, and memories is a great way to begin, shares the team at Nature Classrooms at Nature Conservation Foundation (NCF), in i wonder magazine.

Working with waste and natural materials inspire the value of recycling and respect for nature in young minds, writes Ruchi Kotpala, based on her art class experiences, in Learning Curve magazine.

Reetika Khera, Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi), elaborates upon why the conceptualisation of food and nutrition security should begin from the mother’s womb at a colloquium held at Azim Premji University, Bengaluru.

S Giridhar, in The Hindu Business Line, writes that we must lubricate every pipeline of the organisation with empathy and connectedness, so that the core spirit of belonging that defined the organisation when it was established, is nurtured and preserved.

Sudheesh Venkatesh, in Deccan Herald, highlights how ​‘giving’ can take various forms like Azim Premji University’s book collections from the celebrated scientist P M Bhargava and eminent educationist David Horsburgh among others, curated with love and care.

Yash Kumar Singhal, a high school student, shares his project experience during the COVID-19 pandemic in Learning Curve magazine, which started with the idea: ​‘If we can’t go to school, why can’t the school come to us?’ 

Jyotsna Lall and Hyder Mehdi Rizvi, in Learning Curve magazine, explain how these interventions have helped the children expand their worldview, gain platforms for expression, gain confidence and positively impact attendance and thereby, regularity in attending school.

To change things, a movement is required, like never before – and each of us has a part to play, writes Harini Nagendra, who leads the University’s Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability, in Deccan Herald.

Ganitmala models the number line and allows exploration with numbers, including comparing numbers and all four operations – addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, explains Swati Sircar in At Right Angles (AtRiA) magazine.

Dhanashree Paranjpe, in i wonder magazine, explains how science can be taught from this approach, thus enabling students to improve critical thinking, gain tolerance to ambiguity, be able to recognise bias, and appreciate ethical concerns.

Sikkim SCERT took help from MGIEP, UNESCO, and Azim Premji University for this embedding which was being attempted for primary level textbooks for the first time in the world. Anupama SM and Swati Sircar, in At Right Angles (AtRiA) magazine, share their experience.

Kavita Krishna, in i wonder magazine, explains how diverse activities in the local environment give children the chance to engage in practical action by exploring the theme of water in a school located in a drought-prone district of Andhra Pradesh.

Shehnaz DK, in Learning Curve magazine, highlights how even outside the school, with activities like swimming, students overcome their fear and enjoy the activity which also teaches them about speed, body movements, and lung strength.

Swati Sircar, in At Right Angles (AtRiA) magazine, explains the reason behind changing definitions in textbooks with a closer look at isosceles trapeziums. She also highlights how most textbooks are not uniformly adopting this change in definition. 

While many teachers report that students find these easy to understand, research shows that the models leave students with misconceptions about food relationships. Saurav Shome in i wonder magazine explores ways to address those.

Rajashree Srinivasan, in Learning Curve magazine, shares her ideas to develop an inclusive teacher preparation programme aimed at improving the learning and development of all children. 

On a day 65.5 million years ago, a piece of extra-terrestrial rock crashed into Chicxulub Puerto with an explosive power. Did the dinosaurs survive it? Do they still walk the earth? Shreya Ghosh in i wonder magazine explores the possibility.

Jayasree, in At Right Angles (AtRiA) magazine, shares an instance where she tried to get a quantification for the idea of steepness from a group of students. She explains the need to articulate to them the reason for nudging them to a specific path. 

Vishnuteerth Agnihotri and Anagh Purandare in i wonder magazine delve into these models and explain how a learner can be guided to recognise and replace inaccurate models of learning with scientifically accurate ones.

The mark of an educated mind is to put data to test and search for the truth. A sound knowledge of Mathematics helps. Our schools can prepare children to learn to question, become positive sceptics and not rest till they arrive at the truth, says Sudheesh Venkatesh in At Right Angles (AtRiA) magazine.

Exploring how different children engage with phenomena, like sound, may help us to think of many possible ways to engage children in scientific thinking at the middle school level, shares Anish Mokashi in i wonder magazine.

Pooja Vishnoi in Learning Curve magazine highlights how teachers put into practice values and morals in the school environment rather than conducting a separate class for value education at Azim Premji School, Barmer.

Mohammad Umar in At Right Angles (AtRiA) magazine highlights how as a mathematics teacher, his interest is in finding different ways to get the answer while making sure that the students enjoy the activities.

Anurag Behar in Mint writes that questions and issues in action fields must be determined by the real world. While the National Research Foundation proposed by the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 may boost research in India, we cannot wait till then.

In her debut novel set in 1920s Bengaluru, Harini Nagendra has tried to bring out not only gendered roles and status of women but also intersectionalities of caste, class, religion, occupations, and more. Priya Varadarajan reviews the book on mon​ey​con​trol​.com.