Dear Meek Dictators, we wish you a happy teachers’ day!

We are sure you know how we came about celebrating 5 September as Teachers' Day in India. For the uninitiated among us, we started celebrating a National Teachers' Day in India, following up on a promise a few of his students had made to Dr. Radhakrishnan. 

Bonus Readings for September 2022

We decided to talk to Piyush after we read his recent thread on Twitter about the pain points he picked from his conversations with parents

Parents resort to symbolic punishment when they label or stigmatize certain activities or traits as antisocial, deviant, or undesirable.

#TeachWithInnerkern Highlights

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We deep-dived into Colin Beard's research on #ExperientialLearning to explore how he broke the process down for us into 6 Dimensions. Would you consider these 6 Dimensions of #ExperientialLearning when you plan lessons next time? #Thread #TeachwithInnerkern #Education https://t.co/fWNxnKaoPh

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Some of the popular notions about education could be myths. We looked at Daisy Christodoulou's list of education myths for you. Here they are: #Thread #TeachwithInnerkern #Education https://t.co/KWCnIvkFby

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Math is the most mercilessly 'stereotyped' subject in the world, to the extent of causing severe math anxiety for many of us. We dug into Jo Boaler's research to find five of the most widespread stereotypes about mathematics. #Thread +0 #TeachwithInnerkern #Education https://t.co/MuRdSVxrmQ

We hope you found this issue of #WorkLessons @Innerkern helpful. Share this issue with your friends, family and colleagues and encourage them to subscribe.

Once again, if you are an Indian School Teacher reading this, we wish you a happy Teachers' Day. May you continue to be the exceptional and passionate teacher you are, making a difference in the lives of the hundreds of children you teach every year. May you have the courage and sense of purpose to inspire hope about learning in your students.

Thank you for your time. 

Warm regards

Rosama Francis & Sojo Varughese