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Silos of Care, Networks of Neglect: Why Our Children Feel So Alone

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Silos of Care, Networks of Neglect: Why Our Children Feel So Alone

To the grieving parents of Shourya Patil and sisters Nishika (16), Prachi (14), Pakhi (12): Your love was real, yet it slipped through exhausted fingers. To the teachers at St. Columba’s and the Ghaziabad family: You nurture in silos—lessons planned, homes provided—but in the vital interplay, signals crossed, and our children paid. NCRB data screams […]

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Gen Z’s IQ Shock: A Story We Can’t Scroll Past

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Gen Z’s IQ Shock: A Story We Can’t Scroll Past

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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When Passion Is Used as Payment: A Reflection on Teacher Compensation and Conditioning

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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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The CLO Teacher: Why Mental Health Must Be Your Foundation, Not Your Add-On

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The CLO Teacher: Why Mental Health Must Be Your Foundation, Not Your Add-On

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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When No Becomes a Breaking News: The Untold Story of Oversensitive Students

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When No Becomes a Breaking News Event: The Untold Story of Oversensitive Students

Every time teachers sit together and talk about mental health, someone eventually sighs and says it — students today are too sensitive. And not sensitive like heartfelt-poem-writing sensitive. Sensitive like… one small correction and their emotional Wi-Fi disconnects. Before you picture strict teachers with thermocol rulers, let’s be fair: they’re not complaining. They’re confused.How did

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Why Technology Alone Can’t Teach India: The Real Path to Meaningful IKS Learning

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Why Technology Alone Can’t Teach India: The Real Path to Meaningful IKS Learning

We love calling technology the magic wand of education.And with 25 crore students, who wouldn’t want a shortcut? But here’s the truth no app store wants to admit:Tech-enabled education is a business plan. Education itself is a human plan.Especially when we talk about Indian Knowledge Systems (IKS), which is less of a subject and more

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17 Classroom Tasks AI Can’t Fake (No Matter How Hard It Tries)

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17 Classroom Tasks AI Can’t Fake (No Matter How Hard It Tries)

A practical guide for teachers who want real thinking, not robot homework Whenever I walk into a teachers’ CBP, the first ten minutes are always the same. Someone sighs, someone else rolls their eyes, and then the chorus begins:Students are submitting AI-made assignments… We have to evaluate this junk… Their basic reading, writing, and arithmetic

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When Teachers Say, “We Need to Teach Parents More Than Children”

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When Teachers Say, “We Need to Teach Parents More Than Children”

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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