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In this reader submission, Dr Sonja Gedde – Vice Principal and director of professional learning at Fossil Ridge High School in Colorado – shares a strategy of creating ‘RAD’ tasks to help educators in their planning and collaboration for disciplinary literacy instruction.

How can school leaders support teachers to continually improve their classroom practice? In today’s reader submission, Secondary School Principal Aprajita Ralli shares examples of teacher development at Sreenidhi International School, including goal setting, mentorship and feedback.

Our ‘Leading voices’ series features school principals from across India. Amitava Ghosh is Founder-Principal of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan’s R. K. Sarda Vidya Mandir, Raipur. Students from his school have won national and international recognition for their science achievements. Anannya Chakraborty asks him 5 questions about running successful STEM initiatives.

The National Education Policy (NEP) spotlights competency-based learning and assessment as central to transforming education. In today’s reader submission, maths educator Richa Thakur shares how this approach is being integrated into the curriculum at Khaitan Public School in Ghaziabad and discusses some of the challenges and solutions of implementation.

Climate change education provides students with the knowledge required to understand and practice climate action. Several UNESCO studies offer international insights into what students know, how confident teachers are on the topic, teacher training plans and current curriculum content. Find out more in this infographic.

Our ‘Leading voices’ article series features school principals from across India. Dr Jyoti Arora is the Principal of Mount Abu Public School in Sec-5 Rohini in Delhi. Anannya Chakraborty asks her 5 questions.

‘…despite our demanding schedules, I feel that it is vital for all … to engage in reading for pleasure.’ In this reader contribution, Amita Sinha – Literary Head at The Kalyani School – shares advice for prioritising reading for pleasure and developing a culture for reading.

In our latest reader contribution, Anuradha Chaudhary – a grade 8 teacher at DLF Public School in Ghaziabad City, India – shares examples of strategies to create a nurturing, inclusive and supportive learning environment for students.

‘In India, where only 45% of schools have access to functional computers and just 33% have internet access, unplugged methods to improve Computational Thinking offer a promising solution.’ Researchers Shashaank Varma and Anveshna Srivastava share a simple unplugged sorting activity you can use in your own classroom to develop students’ computational thinking skills.

During the COVID-19 pandemic Neeraja Raghavan set out to build a learning community across India. Her new book ‘A Learning Community of Reflective Teachers: From Whispers to Resonance’, showcases the power of teachers debating, discussing and learning from each other. In this exclusive extract she discusses multiple ways of engagement that exist in such learning communities.