{"id":7685,"date":"2025-03-25T09:37:51","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T04:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artforakanksha.org\/?p=7685"},"modified":"2025-03-25T09:37:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T04:07:51","slug":"kshitij-pawar-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devp.artforakanksha.org\/?p=7685","title":{"rendered":"Kshitij Pawar Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Kshitij<\/b> <b>Pawar<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> an alum of Akanksha KCTVN school in Pune, is an art teacher for children in grades K-2. Once a shy and curious child with a love for art and math, Kshitij now inspires young minds by encouraging them to explore colors, forms, and self-expression. His approach to teaching art is creative and hands-on \u2014 making short instructional videos, showcasing step-by-step processes, and ensuring children learn through fun, engaging methods. <\/span><b><i>\u201cAs a teacher, you have to be creative and mindful, you have to figure out new interesting ways for children to learn, and because I am an alum, I know certain things about how to make learning interesting.\u201d<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Guided by his own experiences as a student, Kshitij is passionate about passing on his knowledge and helping children solve problems with patience and creativity. Looking ahead, he plans to pursue a Master\u2019s in Art and work towards organizing installations, competitions, and exhibitions to show his students how art connects to everyday life.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kshitij Pawar, an alum of Akanksha KCTVN school in Pune, is an art teacher for children in grades K-2. Once a shy&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7686,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devp.artforakanksha.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devp.artforakanksha.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devp.artforakanksha.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devp.artforakanksha.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devp.artforakanksha.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/devp.artforakanksha.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7687,"href":"https:\/\/devp.artforakanksha.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7685\/revisions\/7687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devp.artforakanksha.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devp.artforakanksha.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devp.artforakanksha.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devp.artforakanksha.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}