What to Ask Your Child After School
"How was school?" gets you one word. Five questions that open a real conversation, and what the answers tell you.
Read more →Perspectives on education, parenting and rural development from teachers, parents and students across the Anubhuti community.
The reading gap in Classes III–V isn't a story about effort or ability. It's what happens when a child learns in one language at home and is tested in another, and what changes when someone sets out to close that distance.
"How was school?" gets you one word. Five questions that open a real conversation, and what the answers tell you.
Read more →Enrolling a child in an English medium school is a beginning, not a guarantee. What has to happen in the classroom for the language to actually take root.
Read more →Shyness, disengagement, and difficulty hearing the teacher can look identical from a distance. How our teachers learn to tell them apart.
Read more →Concepts land in the language a child thinks in. The vocabulary can follow. A note on the sequencing behind our maths classrooms.
Read more →What digital learning actually looks like in rural Chandrapur, and why the most useful technology is rarely the newest.
Read more →How a donated cupboard, a rotation system, and a rule about reading aloud turned into the busiest room in the school.
Read more →A school is not an island in a field. What changes for a village when a good school opens in it, and what the school owes back.
Read more →A hungry child cannot concentrate for six hours. Why the midday meal belongs in a conversation about academic outcomes, not welfare.
Read more →Three families in Chandrapur explain what changed their minds about educating their girls past Class VIII.
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