The sudden lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic has thrust schools and teachers of both public and private institutions into an emergency remote teaching mode. As it becomes increasingly clear that the pandemic situation is likely to force the coming academic year to continue online, at least in some geographies, state governments and even the MHRD are looking for best practices and SOPs (standard operating procedures) for online education that can be shared with the school managements, teachers and parents. At this juncture, therefore, it is essential to review some of the recent experiences of emergency remote teaching and derive some useful lessons. Learning from children Experts suggest that some of the important lessons on the way forward could be learnt best from not just preparing overarching SOPs that largely are framed using a top-down approach, but by rather making the school children important stakeholders in the process. Evaluating how the online medium of teaching