Reverse thinking and reverse calculation — that’s what entrepreneurship has taught me. I often begin from the outcome and walk backwards. Perhaps that’s why dreams feel so familiar to me. They are unfinished thoughts, completing themselves without permission. A few weeks ago, I was facilitating a CBP session on life skills with in-service teachers. The […]
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For more than a century, humanity had a quiet superpower. Each generation got sharper than the one before it. Better food. Better schools. Better medicine. IQ scores climbed year after year, so reliably that psychologists gave it a name: the Flynn Effect. Then something strange happened. Around the time smartphones slipped into backpacks and bedrooms,
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The Anecdote That Changed My Coaching Practice I’m nervous every time I take an Uber or Ola. In 2021, an accident. A distracted driver. Since then, I talk to every driver to keep them alert, engaged. “What are your working hours? How many hours daily? Do you send your children to school?” One afternoon, a
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In January 2026, CBSE did something rare. It acknowledged, in writing, that Indian schools are not just academic factories. They are emotional pressure cookers. The mandate was blunt: Every CBSE-affiliated secondary and senior secondary school must appoint two full-time counsellors. One for socio-emotional wellbeing. One for career guidance. Ratio: 1 counsellor per 500 students. Timeline:
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A Research-Backed Analysis of Why the Teaching Profession Deserves Better Than Ideals The Question That Unsettled the Room: A B.Ed Classroom During a recent panel discussion on employability and professional readiness at a B.Ed institution, a fourth-semester B.Ed student posed a question that momentarily unsettled the room—but deeply resonated with many: “Why are teachers not
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A few months ago, I caught myself doing something deeply ironic. I was preparing for a training session on deep learning and critical thinking. My laptop had more than twenty tabs open. Research papers. Articles. Videos. Quotes. My phone buzzed constantly with updates that felt important. After two hours, I had gathered an impressive volume
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A New Way to Think About Teaching and Learning We have it backwards. For decades, we’ve talked about teaching as content delivery, with classroom management as the mechanism to maintain control so that teaching can happen. We’ve added mental health support as an afterthought—something counselors do, or something we address when crisis strikes. But emerging
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A Straight Talk for Teachers and Higher-Ed Faculty (With a Few Laughs) If you’ve ever wondered why the most sincere teacher or the sharpest assistant professor isn’t the one getting the corner room or the “Professor” title, you’re asking the right question. Career ladders in education sometimes feel like they were designed during a power
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Let’s get one thing straight — teaching in the 21st century isn’t about standing at the front of the room and performing a daily TED Talk. It’s about leading a learning revolution, one curious mind at a time. So here’s the promotion you didn’t know you’d earned — you’re not just a teacher, you’re the
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It happened during one of my recent teacher training sessions.We were discussing classroom challenges when a teacher at the back raised her hand and said something that made everyone pause: “Ma’am, sometimes it feels like we need to teach parents more than children.” A ripple of quiet laughter went around the room—but behind that laughter
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