The teacher-training workshop at Delhi Public School, Nashik was held on 16 December 2017. The participants came from diverse backgrounds and schools—we had teachers from primary classes, teachers from Maharashtra State board schools, Science, Social Science, English and Art teachers. We began the workshop with a brief introduction to the Anne Frank project followed by…
Anne Frank—A History for Today, a travelling exhibition for schools was set up at the Shiv Nadar School, Noida on Monday 27 November 2017. We began the peer guide training with a brief round of introductions followed by a discussion on Anne Frank, the Diary and the Holocaust. Most of the students—from grades 8 and…
Bright and early on a Sunday morning, eighteen students of Delhi Public School were bustling about their multipurpose hall, unpacking trunks, fishing out dismantled structures and carefully unrolling panels all over the floor. In a matter of hours, these students, from classes X and XI and XII, inspected, prepared and set up an entire exhibition…
At 8 a.m. on a Saturday morning, Delhi Public School, Pune, witnessed an outburst of energy as forty-one teachers started their day enthusiastically playing zip-zap-boing, before turning balls of energy into kittens, kittens to umbrellas, umbrellas to flowers and flowers into earrings and the like as part of the icebreaking session for the day. The…
Human rights are for everyone. It does not matter which social strata one belongs to, or the level of education. We began the workshop on human rights—to introduce the PeaceWorks Human Rights Defenders Module—for teachers at DPS Coimbatore with a round of introductions and a brief discussion on what the words human rights means to…
