It was a sunny Friday afternoon, I was packing my bags to leave home after a yet another roller coaster day at School. There pops in Mohan with his ever curious eyes and a voice that can put lead singers to shame. “Sir, can you teach me the GHML you told in the morning meeting ? ”…
Read More...The biggest hurdle sometimes, in our endeavors to bring revolutionary changes, is our biased mindset. It takes its seat right inside us, slyly displacing our ability to have just and open takes on issues around us. We keep hunting, desperately yet cluelessly, for whats stopping us from achieving our goals. While the culprit is peacefully…
Read More...Venil Ali never would have imagined that she was destined to work towards improving the state of education in her country. Throughout school she was (like most of her peers) focused on herself – family, academics, goals & dreams. So when, as a part of her B.Sc. Honors program at Xavier’s College Mumbai, she was…
Read More...Having completed my Fellowship with Teach For India, it would be a grave injustice to my work if I do not share my learnings with the outside world. Having observed the municipal school system in Delhi for two years, I feel that what many of us tend to see as issues are not actually the…
Read More...As a student in primary school, Independence Day meant to me the ritual flag hoisting and patriotic songs on DD. As I grew older, it became about the speeches I was asked to give. Once I was back to school – this time as a Teach For India Fellow teaching 30 5th graders in a…
Read More...“A person can be taught to negotiate, pitch to investors and create a business plan but can they be taught to think like an entrepreneur?” Teach For India has partnered with IIT Kanpur for its annual entrepreneurship event – E’Summit’15 – scheduled to be held from the 28th to 30th August 2015. The event is…
Read More...16 year old Priyanka Patil bubbles over with enthusiasm as she talks about her impending departure to Italy to pursue her college education at UWC Adriatic this fall. “I’m thinking of taking up History, Philosophy, English, Biology, Math and even Italian!” she says with the brightest of smiles. A student of Epiphany High School, Priyanka…
Read More...93 women report a rape every single day in India (National Crime Records Bureau). And this is only the reported number of instances, given the cultural and social taboos regarding rape, many cases go unreported. The fear of violence has shaped the lives of Indian women and girls. From getting married earlier, to having a…
Read More...Every child has the infinite potential to shine, given the chance. #FindYourLight as you help every child find theirs! Apply now for the 2016-18 Fellowship at http://apply.teachforindia.org/user/register
Read More...Withdrawal(noun) – a. The action of ceasing to participate in an activity. b. The physiological and mental readjustment that accompanies such discontinuation c. Detachment, as from social or emotional involvement. It has been more than three months since I ceased being the Class Teacher of Grade 5, and the above mishmash of definitions, intentionally so juxtaposed…
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