Expert articles on school management, WhatsApp for schools, and digital education for Indian school leaders.
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It is February. The annual exams are six weeks away. The principal of a CBSE school asks the Class 6 Maths teacher how the syllabus is progressing. The teacher says "Almost done, ma'am. Just two chapt...
Bullying in Indian schools is one of the most underreported problems in education. National surveys suggest that 40 to 50% of Indian students experience some form of bullying during their school years...
A principal of a school with 8 classes, 5 subjects per class, and 3 exams per term needs to process 120 data points per exam cycle just to understand the academic health of the school. In reality, mos...
Every evening in thousands of Indian schools, a class teacher sends a homework notification to the parent WhatsApp group. Within the next hour, responses trickle in. "Noted ma'am." "Ok, will do." A th...
The daily attendance routine in an Indian school classroom follows a familiar pattern. The class teacher calls out names from the register. Students respond. The teacher marks present or absent in the...
Chronic absenteeism, defined as missing 10% or more of school days in an academic year, affects an estimated 15 to 20% of students in Indian schools. For a school with 200 students, that means 30 to 4...
The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012, places a clear legal obligation on every person who has knowledge of or reasonable apprehension that a child is being sexually abused. This i...
A parent sends a message to the class teacher at 9:14 AM: "Ma'am, Kavya has been saying that some older boys are troubling her after school. She is scared to go to the playground now. Please look into...
Trust between parents and a school is not built in a single PTM or a glossy annual report. It is built in the daily moments of communication: the teacher who replies to a concern within hours instead ...
Admission season is the most critical period in an Indian school's year. For most private schools, the window between January and March determines the student strength for the entire academic year. Re...
Every school has two types of parents. The first type appears at every school event, volunteers for activities, and is visible to teachers and administrators. The second type never appears at events b...
Most Indian schools have an intuitive sense of which parents are engaged and which are not. The class teacher knows that Mrs. Sharma always attends PTMs, responds to homework messages promptly, and pa...