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Rethinking Assessment

About the Workshop

Ask any child what assessment means and they will tell you — marks, ranks, and the anxiety that comes with both. Ask most teachers and the answer is not very different. Somewhere along the way, assessment stopped being a tool for learning and became a verdict on it. This session invites teachers to reclaim assessment for what it was always meant to be — a window into how a child is thinking, not just what they have memorised. Through practical, classroom-ready techniques, participants will explore how to assess understanding rather than recall, how to give feedback that actually moves a child forward, and how to build an assessment culture in their classroom that feels less like judgement and more like guidance.

Educators who practise what they teach

Every trainer at The Staffroom Academy is an active educator with deep, hands-on classroom experience. No armchair theorists — just practitioners who've been in your shoes.

Geeta Jayanth

Expert Panelist

Kim Noble

Expert Panelist

Mitali Biswas

Lead Expert Panelist

Archana Diwakar

Expert Panelist

Rashmi Shenoy

Expert Panelist

Ashwini V R

Expert Panelist

Saket Sinha

Expert Panelist

Sharanya Prakash

Expert Panelist

About Staffroom Academy

Staffroom Academy is a practitioner-led initiative born from a simple realization:  Indian education is undergoing its most exciting transformation in decades. A bold new vision is reshaping what classrooms look like, how students learn, and what it truly means to teach. But the people expected to deliver it — teachers — are being asked to transform without a roadmap.  


We are a collective of experienced educators, curriculum leaders, and academic heads from some of India's leading K–12 institutions. Between us, we carry decades of classroom experience across CBSE, ICSE, and international boards. We've built curricula, mentored faculty, led schools — and we understand deeply how challenging it is to reimagine your teaching practice while standing in front of a classroom every single day.


That's exactly why Staffroom Academy exists. Not to lecture, but to walk alongside fellow teachers through this transition. Through workshops, expert panels, and hands-on training sessions, we create a space where educators can learn together, share what's working, ask what isn't, and build the confidence to move from rote-driven instruction to competency-based, experiential classrooms — one practical step at a time.

We are not consultants looking in from the outside. We are teachers standing shoulder to shoulder with teachers — because we believe the most promising chapter in Indian education is being written right now, and it will be written by the people who show up to the classroom every morning.


Unlearn textbooks and learn classrooms

The future of Indian education won't deliver itself — teachers will. We make sure they're ready.