Priya Krishnamurthy, in Learning Curve magazine, highlights how there are clear linkages between Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), child rights and children’s own awareness of their rights and their ability to secure them.

Shannon Olsson, in i wonder… magazine, shares tips for teachers to unlock the molecular conversations of nature for their students, which can reveal new ways to interact with our world.

Amman Madan, in Learning Curve magazine, explains how two educationists, Rama Shastry and B Ramdas, of the Adivasi Munnetra Sangam (AMS) set up an alternative model of schooling that respects adivasi culture and ensures that children do not feel alienated and lost.

Saktibrata Sen and Nidhi Vinayak in Learning Curve magazine explain how if early readers experience them simultaneously, it helps them to become motivated, independent readers. 

Kavita Krishna, in i wonder… magazine, explains why pendulums are ideal devices for classroom investigations, and how they can help students develop science process skills.

Language is not only a medium of communication; it helps in thinking, understanding, and expressing oneself, writes Kamala Bhandari in Learning Curve magazine.

Anurag Behar, in Mint, explains how the Theories of Change (ToC) in the social sector have contributed to the narrowing and technocratisation of action over the past few decades.

K K Mashood and Punya Mishra in i wonder… magazine explain children’s ​‘commonsense’ understanding of the world based on intuition and imagination. This, they write, should not be seen as an impediment to learning but as an asset essential for the development of true understanding of scientific concepts.

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, shares ​“concepts in science textbooks can be brought to life in classrooms through simple experiments 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.

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.

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. 

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.