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Any crisis presents the opportunity to help one learn, cultivate compassion and increase resilience while building a safer and more caring community. Every parent has the right to information on COVID-19, to diminish students' fears and anxieties around the virus, as they all gear up to head back to school soon. Several considerations must be taken into account to maintain safe school operations, and if done correctly, it can promote emotional and physical well-being. Educational institutes will, and must take corrective measures at all levels. Envisage, an architecture and interior design firm in Gurugram, is consciously making an effort in developing design standards that can help institutions maintain ideal social distancing norms yet promote collaborative and flexible learning. They have designed and implemented various school projects and one of their recent projects, Mann School, was ranked number 1 in Delhi for its design and architecture. "As a parent with school-going children myself, and an architect by profession, the apprehension of sending children back to what was once a safe-haven is undoubtedly a question in mind for many of us," says Meena Murthy Kakkar, Design Head and Partner at Envisage. To prevent the spread of the virus while getting back close to the true normal, one can make changes in Infrastructure and administration while balancing the new mindset that revolves in the presence of the pandemic."