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School Chameleons

Beyond the Bell brings you the people shaping Indian education, the leaders, changemakers and quiet fixers you rarely hear from directly. Conversations on education, leadership and community, from School Chameleons and the Free Press Journal.

Episodes

  1. 6d ago

    The Biggest Mistake Schools Make Today | Neelu Kalro, JBCN International School | Beyond the Bell Ep 3

    What if the thing that matters most in a child's education never shows up on a report card? In Episode 03 of Beyond the Bell, Neelu Kalro, Principal of JBCN International School, Chembur, makes a case that many schools are quietly getting backwards. Character is not the soft extra you add once the syllabus is done. It is the thing the syllabus is supposed to serve. We get into: Why emotional empathy belongs inside the curriculum, not in a once-a-term assemblyWhat an emotionally safe classroom actually looks like on an ordinary TuesdayWhat AI is changing about the job of a schoolA conversation for every educator who has ever suspected that the marks are not the whole story. https://youtu.be/cgjnt9cU8bk

    The Biggest Mistake Schools Make Today | Neelu Kalro, JBCN International School | Beyond the Bell Ep 3

  2. Jul 23

    Stop Fixing What Your Child Is Bad At ft. Jitendra Karsan, Safari Kids | Beyond the Bell Ep 2

    What does a three-year-old understand about the world that most of us have completely forgotten? In Episode 2 of Beyond the Bell, Sudipta Dhruva sits down with Jitendra Karsan, Founder of Safari Kids India, who built the country's most thoughtful preschool networks. It started with his own daughter's undiagnosed learning difference, and a question that stayed with him: how did a good school miss this? This conversation gets into why every child is wired differently, why our schools quietly teach to the "lowest common denominator," how curiosity and creativity get stamped out, and why the first six years shape a person more than any exam ever will. Along the way: compassion as a skill you can teach, raising kids in a screen-filled world, and why "everyone's a winner" might be doing more harm than good. 🎧 Also on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Amazon Music  💙 A School Chameleons production, in collaboration with The Free Press Journal https://youtu.be/cgjnt9cU8bk

    Stop Fixing What Your Child Is Bad At ft. Jitendra Karsan, Safari Kids | Beyond the Bell Ep 2

  3. Jul 8

    What It Takes To Run Asia's Biggest School System ft. Dr. Prachi Jambhekar, BMC

    Government schools are often defined by assumptions rather than stories. In our first episode, we sit down with Dr. Prachi Jambhekar, Deputy Municipal Commissioner (Education) at the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to go inside Mumbai's public school system: what actually works, what the myths get wrong, and what's quietly changing. A School Chameleons × Free Press Journal production. https://youtu.be/cgjnt9cU8bk

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Beyond the Bell brings you the people shaping Indian education, the leaders, changemakers and quiet fixers you rarely hear from directly. Conversations on education, leadership and community, from School Chameleons and the Free Press Journal.

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  • Creator
    School Chameleons
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    3
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © 2026 Beyond The Bell