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Text to Task: Simplifying Education

Text to Task: Simplifying Education

By: Gargi Sarkar
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Summary

Welcome to TEXT TO TASK: Simplifying Education. I'm Gargi — Fulbright Teaching Scholar, published author with TESOL International Press, and a global digital leader reimagining how we teach and learn in the 21st century.

This podcast started in a bedroom. No studio, no production house — just a deep belief that education has the power to transform lives, and that the right conversation at the right moment can change everything. From that small personal space, TEXT TO TASK: Simplifying Education has grown into a community heard across 50 countries worldwide.

Each episode brings real stories from classrooms, bold research-backed ideas, and practical strategies you can take straight into your teaching — through conversations, solo explorations, and insights from the field. We cross borders, challenge assumptions, and celebrate the kind of learning that doesn't stop at walls.

Wherever you are in the world — welcome. This space was made for you.

Gargi Sarkar 2024 Education Language Learning
Episodes
  • What Rocky Taught Me: ESL lessons from Project Hail Mary

    What Rocky Taught Me: ESL lessons from Project Hail Mary
    May 5 2026

    An alien with broken sentences. An astronaut with no Wi-Fi. And three classroom activities that will change how your students learn English — and how they see themselves. Fulbright Fellow Gargi Sarkar shows ESL educators how Project Hail Mary teaches what no textbook can: how to think alone, connect across difference, and break free from the scroll.

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    Want to know more about me and my work go to: https://gargisarkar1611.wixsite.com/gargi-sarkar

    Connect with me: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gargi-sarkar1611/

    Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gargispeaks/

    Contact me: gargisarkar1611@gmail.com
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    6 mins
  • The Exam Factory

    The Exam Factory
    Apr 5 2026

    Every night in Kota, 150,000 teenagers’ study until they can't think straight — not because they want to, but because a $227 billion coaching industry convinced their parents this is the only way. This episode goes inside the machine — the suicides, the manipulation, the ranking obsession — and asks the one question coaching centers are terrified to answer: at what cost?

    Like the show? Please subscribe, review, download and share.

    Want to know more about me and my work go to: https://gargisarkar1611.wixsite.com/gargi-sarkar

    Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gargispeaks/

    Contact me: gargisarkar1611@gmail.com
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    8 mins
  • Equal Education – The Beautiful Lie

    Equal Education – The Beautiful Lie
    Mar 5 2026

    Equal education sounds like justice. It isn't. It's the most expensive lie we keep telling our children—and the data proves it's widening the very gaps it promised to close.

    Like the show? Please subscribe, review, download and share.

    Want to know more about me and my work go to: https://gargisarkar1611.wixsite.com/gargi-sarkar

    Connect with me : https://www.linkedin.com/in/gargi-sarkar1611/

    Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gargispeaks/

    Contact me: gargisarkar1611@gmail.com
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    10 mins
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