“How dare you decide to open a school without teaching for at least 8 years?” You will almost never hear this in a class which is about designing a school but professor Linda Nathan kept reminding us exactly this while giving all of her expertise from decades of designing and…

Four years is a fairly long time in a role. In this time one would expect to have attained a certain level of mastery in the core skills required for that role. I worked as a program manager with Teach For India — an organization that was so much more…