Azim Premji University will hold the exhibition of the open-access digital repository, along with a few hundred print copies of archived books, titled Schoolbooks and related documents: A journey through two centuries, jointly with Vidya Bhawan Society.

Paul Reimer, Rohit Mehta and Punya Mishra, in i wonder… magazine, use research in science education to illustrate how teachers can create immersive, full-body thinking and knowing experiences for their students.

Gomathy Ramamoorthy, in Learning Curve magazine, writes how the rules of division are a process but understanding the concept needs reasoning and focused inferential work.

Harini Nagendra, Faculty, Azim Premji University, in Deccan Herald, delves into the agitation of the pourakarmikas, or the waste pickers, for the right to work with waste, but with dignity. 

Shubhra Chatterji, in Learning Curve magazine, shares an initiative that reinforces that all children can and will learn if the learning is made relevant to their lives, presented with empathy and understanding and has the teacher’s involvement in the entire process.

S Giridhar, in the Hindu Business Line, explains how a thorough recruitment process can ensure that an institution achieves a vibrant, creative, and collegial atmosphere and how over time, ownership and belonging become a part of the organisational DNA.

Kaustubh Rau, in i wonder… magazine, explains based on his own classroom experiences, how the lines between art and biology are fluid, and learning and practices from one field can inform and enhance understanding in the other. 

There should be no pressure on schools to complete the grade-specific syllabus; the focus should instead be on tracking the progression of students as per the learning loss, write Shilpi Banerjee and Aanchal Chomal, in Deccan Herald.

Shantha K in Learning Curve magazine says teachers should be more sensitive and provide ample support during class time, encourage more classwork and remove the concept of homework.

In Mint, Anurag Behar explains how distancing from the field, flattens the details, the nuances and the complex inter-relationships. What could be done to eliminate these distortions caused by distancing and avoid losing perspective?

S G Dani and Medha Limaye, in At Right Angles (AtRiA) magazine, explain the commonalities of the geometry of sulvasutras with Euclidean geometry and how exposure to the different perspectives could enhance students’ interest and their ability to grasp geometry.

Rupamanjari Hegde, in Learning Curve magazine, highlights how curricular changes become meaningful only when they are able to effectively transform the classroom teaching process, which can happen with the active intervention of the teacher.

Vignesh Narayanan H, in i wonder… magazine, explores the human body, ​‘an eternal battleground’, its invaders and the fight against them, through a first-hand account by a soldier (cell) in the human immune system.

Anurag Behar, CEO, Azim Premji Foundation, in Mint, writes that the unprecedented education crisis requires both competence and courage of our state-level leadership, and the sensitivity to recognise that their actions affect the future of millions of children.

Anurag Behar, in Mint, highlights the work of Government school teachers who have been at the forefront to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic. He says that their deaths, a tragedy, could have only resulted from extreme callousness — deploying teachers in situations of high risk, without adequate protection and safety.

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.