Rajesh Rengan, who stays in Boston, visited the school and interacted with teachers and students of 1st to 4th. Made valiant efforts to speak in his American accented Hindi. Rajesh talked about the differences in the education system in the US and in India. Most students enter schooling late in the US. As a result, … Read more

Tidbits about Arvind Gupta and other great teachers. Arvind’s father was an illiterate in a small town in UP. He ensured that his four children received a good education. He sent all of them to the best convent school in his town. Arvind was a bright student – but given his family background, he could … Read more

Josephites visit PTP, 29 Dec, 2018 The Joseph gang landed up on Saturday for a visit to Peepal Tree School, Pune. Vinod Nair was the first to come, followed by Rohitesh, Gautam and Amarjeet. The trio of Rex, Rajiv and Balbir landed up 45 minutes later. The gang trooped into different classrooms to spend about … Read more

Attended a session by Dipankar (he insists on just using the first name). Dipankar is an interesting combination of academia and entrepreneria – he is a Professor at IIT Bombay, a place where he also did his B.Tech before going to Rice Univ for his doctorate in physics. He has been entrepreneurial since his student … Read more

Ajay is a COEP Electrical batch of 1990. He joined Tata Electric, immediately after campus. There he was looking after testing of power plant equipment. Later on he was deputed on a project that Siemens was doing for NTPC in Dadri, where he represented Tata Electric. He continued to be in charge of testing of … Read more

He gave us a very good technique for math. We can use matchsticks and group them into groups of 10. This will help students understand the decimal system better. In mathematics division is the most difficult. He talked about MIS: this basically covers – Technology, Investments, Hardware Software and Training. All these account for only … Read more

Samruddhi is a teacher with more than 2 decades of teaching experience. She had visited Peepal Tree Pune when it had just opened. She was running a science lab then. She had been the Principal of a school prior to that. Neelam joined PTP through her reference. Samruddhi has spent about 2 years in the … Read more

With a background in science, Pradeep Gothoskar started his education experiments with science teaching. Then he realised that teaching is more skill than science. His world view of teaching changed. To use an analogy he moved from the classroom to the sports ground, becoming a coach, instead of the stereotype dictator that teachers tend to … Read more

Manoj Joshi invited me to his TFI school, Royal Roses English Medium School. It is on the hillock adjoining the main Sinhgad campus. The last 200 m is a steep climb, that’s where the electric cycle helped. Reached 5 minutes late. He introduced me to another TFI colleague – Vijayan – who was older than … Read more

I have seen you struggle – as on the one hand you deal with the shivering vernacular medium student who does not dare open his mouth in class – and on the other hand the convented well educated English medium-ed girl who wonders why she ever has to be taught a language that she probably … Read more