Classrooms
Beginning with the child’s experience of learning, attention, trust and agency.
About Isha
Working between policy, practice and lived learning.
Isha Kakkad Lakhani is the author of The Better School. Her work across classrooms, campuses and organisations asks how learning can become more human, intentional and future-ready.
Across her practice
Isha has worked directly with school students, trained teachers and advised school leadership on strengthening the learning experience.
Her work brings system-level strategy into conversation with on-ground realities. At 8one, that has included initiatives supporting educators, institutional mental-health systems and the development of education-technology solutions.
She is interested not only in what schools teach, but in the identities, relationships and possibilities they help shape over twelve formative years.
Campuses
Seeing school culture, spaces, schedules and communities as part of the curriculum.
Systems
Helping leadership connect intention with the structures that make change sustainable.
A documented 2026 engagement
Reimagining schools around the learner.
As a facilitator of The F.A.I.R. Project 2026, Isha helped guide a national cohort examining public education through dialogue, school visits and reflective practice.
Read the public programme brief32Changemakers
23States & union territories
Jun–Jul2026 programme
In the field
Where the ideas meet people.
A continuing record of conversations with learners, educators, school leaders and communities, across classrooms, festivals and public forums.
Bring the work into the room
Speaking, educator workshops and school advisory.
Isha works with learning communities that want to move from broad intention to thoughtful, practical change.