A New Headmaster's First 30 Days: A Practical Administration Roadmap
Just taken charge of a school? A week-by-week roadmap for the first month — what to verify, who to meet, and which systems to get in order early.
Administration
Clear, practical explainers on PM POSHAN, admissions, school finance, learning outcomes and the policies that shape your work — written for headmasters, teachers and parents.
Just taken charge of a school? A week-by-week roadmap for the first month — what to verify, who to meet, and which systems to get in order early.
A practical food-safety routine for school kitchens — the habits that keep mid-day meals safe, from clean water and storage to tasting before serving.
How simple, free digital tools can cut the hours headmasters lose to repetitive paperwork — and what to look for in a tool you can actually trust.
Why assessment moved away from a single high-stakes exam towards continuous, all-round evaluation — and how teachers can make it work in a real classroom.
The 450/12 and 700/20 nutrition targets explained — what they mean for a growing child and how the prescribed ingredients are designed to meet them.
The Right to Education Act guarantees free, compulsory schooling for children aged 6 to 14. Here are the rights it gives families — in plain language.
Under the RTE Act, every government school has a School Management Committee. Here's who is on it, what it is meant to do, and how to make it genuinely useful.
The registers and records every school must keep, how to keep them well, and how good record-keeping makes every other administrative task easier.
Who cooks the mid-day meal, how many a school should have, what they are paid, and the kitchen and hygiene norms that keep meals safe.
A practical, parent-friendly checklist of the documents, age rules and steps to get your child admitted smoothly into an Odisha school.
UDISE+ is the national database that records every school in India. Here's what it captures, why accuracy matters, and how it touches your daily reporting.
Follow the money and the grain from the central government to the cooking pot — and understand the heads your accounts must keep separate.
Three school certificates parents and students often confuse — what each one certifies, when it is needed, and how to issue them correctly.
What every section of the Monthly Data Capture Format means, the order to fill it in, and the checks that prevent your report being sent back.
A plain-language breakdown of how a government teacher's salary is built — basic pay, dearness allowance, house rent allowance and the deductions that follow.
A simple workflow for building outcome-based lesson plans — from picking the right LO code to designing activities and checking achievement.
Mo School connects former students with their old government schools to fund and drive improvements. Here's how the alumni model works and why it matters.
A practical, step-by-step method for working out rice, ingredients and rupee cost for any day's mid-day meal — with a worked example you can copy.
Practical habits for handling school grants — separate heads, clean vouchers, regular reconciliation — so that utilisation certificates and audits hold no fear.
The National Education Policy replaced the old 10+2 system with a 5+3+3+4 design. Here's what each stage means and how it reshapes a child's school journey.
Why every child reading with understanding and doing basic maths by Grade 3 became a national mission — and what FLN means for teachers in the early grades.
A day-by-day look at Odisha's standard mid-day meal menu and the nutrition logic behind egg curry, dalma, soya badi and the nutrition-rich laddoo.
Odisha's plan to build a model primary school in every Gram Panchayat — the scale, the timeline, and what it aims to change about rural primary education.
Odisha has opened a pre-school class called Sishu Vatika in every government primary school. Here's who it is for, what children do there, and why it matters.
What a Utilization Certificate is, the difference between OGFR-23 and OGFR-24, and a clean checklist to fill one without errors.
What learning outcomes are, why they replaced vague syllabus coverage, and how a teacher can use them to plan, teach and assess with purpose.
A clear breakdown of Odisha's revised PM POSHAN material cost effective 1 May 2025 — the central share, the state top-up, and the extra amount for laddoos and eggs.
What a hand receipt is, when a school needs one, the details it must carry, and how to produce a clean, audit-ready receipt in minutes.
Odisha now requires children to be six years or older as on 1 September for Class 1. Here is what the rule says, why it changed, and what it means for your child.
How the mid-day meal scheme works in Odisha today — costs, menu, nutrition norms, who pays for what, and what changed for the 2025-26 session.