Learning Forward

Episode #88: Sandeep Dutt in conversation with Philip Burrett, an ex-school master and deputy Headmaster at The Doon School, with 43 years of teaching experience. Now a school consultant, trainer, coach, school mentor and traveller. Has taught in co-ed and single-sex boys schools in Delhi and Mumbai till he arrived at The Doon School Dehradun (India) in 1985. He believes that boys end up in trouble; when we look around, we see many reasons. He is very concerned about handling boys and how we can best educate them. His efforts are to move them away from the pseudo masochism that most boys think is needed to become new warriors-men with empathy and kindness. Now retired seeks to take boys into the outdoors to train, coach and mentor. The need of the hour is to help boys become men and make these rites of passage enjoyable. Once a teacher, always a teacher, works to help colleagues and live well with his family. Philip's father served in the forces, and this is where he learnt the meaning of colour, the need to respect women and persevere. His passion for the outdoors must be his DNA, and he finds that learning is only outside the classroom, beyond the closed spaces and boxed mindsets. Finds that boys in particular call for trouble, and the prisons are full of men. This happens because they lack role models. It is time now for 'men empowerment, and this gives due credence to the Mankind Movement he once followed. We can not make half-baked men; there is a definitive need for rituals, routine and rhythm to help reform the world in distress.

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My Good School opened for the world on the 18th of July 2020 with Dr Karl Clauset as the Guest Of Honour, RP Devgan Chairman Learning Forward India, Board Members of Learning Forward, School Heads, Educators and passionate people who love to help schools deliver better.  A tailor-made school experience for every individual. We see the possibility of a nation where every school offers young people the opportunity to be rewarded for challenging themselves, rewarded for engaging with adult mentors, rewarded when finishing school, and rewarded for giving back to their communities. We believe we can help connect young people with new opportunities to change their world.

My Good School is a standard common core curriculum, with a focus on the personal and social development of an individual; by offering an environment where experiential learning is made possible through activities beyond just study; this brings to life learning that would otherwise be theoretical and uncoordinated. Encouraging students to become involved in activities in the community outside the confines of the school curriculum will help develop their confidence, knowledge and networks. With teachers’ encouraging young people, they can benefit fully from what both the school and outside interests can offer, this can be a key factor in their progressing successfully through adolescence into a fulfilling and rewarding adult life.

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Learning Forward India is an affiliate of Learning Forward, an organisation that serves more than 11,000 members with exclusive benefits and reaches more than 40,000 stakeholders through its regular communications. Learning Forward advances the broader education field's understanding of effective professional learning elements and their impact on practice and outcomes with strategic priorities that focus on standards and research, leadership and practice, and policy and advocacy. The organisation helps education leaders build knowledge, skills, and systems to improve teaching and learning through conferences, publications, learning networks, and consulting services.



As an affiliate of Learning Forward and we work for school transformation, emphasising culture as a service. We focus on governance, training, and learning, work on stakeholder engagement, and help with every individual's personal and social development. We'll design a plan that meets your unique needs and improves teaching and learning in your system.

Schools Can Change - upgrading or setting up a school; we closely work with the client organisation to further the promoters' vision and mission. We assist the school in finding and mentoring the right people to help build a good leadership team. Plans starting Rs. 25000.00 per month.

Professional Learning Program - in association with Learning Forward, the focus is on building professional learning communities. The program leverages the best in adult learning, research on organisational change, and practical experience to create sustained improvements in educators. Most of our Learning Programs are 11 Monthly Sessions. Schools pay Rs. 25.000 per month, and Individuals Pay Rs 1100.00 per month.

www.LFIN.Academy

My Good School - in association with EBD Educational Pvt Ltd, our partner schools work for an individual's personal and social development by offering an environment where experiential learning is made possible through activities beyond just study. The My Good School curriculum helps transform student learning at school. Schools pay Rs 25,000.00 per year, and Individuals pay-by-use.

www.GoodSchools.IN

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Episode #87: Sandeep Dutt, in conversation with Neelam Sharma, her incomplete dream to join the Indian Army was fulfilled after contributing immensely to RIMC as a teacher and General BC Joshi Army Public School Deputy Head. Uttarakhand has been her home ever since. She has served at day and boarding school, almost two decades; she devoted most of her life’s career to one school at Jaipur, where she began her career as a teacher and moved up to shoulder the responsibilities of a Vice-Principal. Her students were always in awe of her and, to date, seek her life advice, making Neelam a fascinating personality. Her passion for teaching is exemplary and beyond words to most. It is said that “teaching is in her DNA, a family legacy”. Neelam’s upbringing has been at the prestigious Mayo College, Ajmer. Her clarity and humbleness reflect throughout when she declined an assignment for an administrative position in a boarding school. At the Sagar World School, Tijara gathered her details and excelled in all aspects with her vast and expansive experience. Moving on to head a school at Dehradun and finally the last inning as the Principal at Bhopal. She has travelled to several countries to earn and share an immense wealth of learning and experience. In the podcast, she mentions that being from a family of teachers, it was natural for her to become a teacher! Her father and family added to her growth as a passionate educator; she talks about how we need to adapt to help children learn; they must feel loved and respected, find good mentors and are brought up in an environment of trust and well-being.

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Episode #86: Sandeep Dutt in conversation with Ravi Santlani, the Founder and the Chief Executive Officer of ScooNews, a Media platform for the education sector, including print, online, online TV and events. With 15 years of entrepreneurship experience in varied fields, he is essentially a hands-on professional who knows that God lies in the details. His current innings powered by his passion for education and its vast potential to change lives. Ravi believes that it is time to ‘Unlearn’ legacy education and make way for disruption using local and global influences in technology, innovation and creativity resulting in skill development and deep learning. Over the years, his business ventures helped him essay the roles of marketer, financial expert, investment guru, word-of-mouth publicity generator, an extremely efficient project manager, an out and out people’s person and lastly helped him master the art of the fabled Indian ‘Jugaad’. In his current role, he helms ScooNews, a very young and dynamic organisation driven by the zeal to improve the education ecosystem. He sees himself as a facilitator who brings together the right people who are equally crazy for using technology to bring about a positive change in the lives of all stakeholders in any educational institute. His areas of interest are team building activities for improving productivity, product innovation and employee motivation and retention. Ravi has a thing for Augmented & Virtual Reality, and he believes that this technology can change the way students learn today. He dreams of building and sharing a framework on "The Schools of The Future", where children learn 21st-century skills creatively. In the podcast, he shares his experience over the last five years, visiting over 1000 schools, connecting with over 5,000 educators and individuals who are part of the education sector in India. Ravi believes in professional learning communities and talks about peer learning, how from one teacher to another we can build a skilled task force to take learning forward in India and the world. His firm belief in a paradigm shift in teaching and learning promises a world full of future leaders. The next question, what will happen to the knowledge each of us accumulates in our lives? Do we need a solution to some form of knowledge management? Ravi talks about a repository where we can all 'donate' our learning as we do with our organs for social good. He shares the words of Shukla Bose to emphasise the demands for deeper and quality learning post the COVID19 world; we will need to look at teachers as the ones who will lead the rediscovery, be the healers and counsellors...and even more, build a humane society.

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Episode #85: Sandeep Dutt, in conversation with Kavita Anand, Co-founder & Executive Director of Adhyayan, Kavita Anand is catalysing a committed learning community of educators across India to transform the learning of students. For more than three decades as an educator, researcher, funder, school and system leader, and now edupreneur, she would like to ensure a good school for every child. Her school transformation journey started when she worked with college students and set about finding out the challenges for quality in education. Marks versus subjects; is society the challenge; how do we build an exemplar school; the need for the child to lead learning; and finally, how do we provide the scaffolding space for the teachers. Kavita set up Shishuvan and showcased what goes into the making of a good school. Looking at the future and following her passion gave rise to Adhyayan. In the conversation, she tries to explain how we can decode a good school, the framework and policy, and finally establish the impact on learning, driven by data and analytics. When questioned about the visual effect of education, she states that the truth is that an 18-year-old will have forgotten all that they have learnt at school, so best there is the pressing need to make sense of what the child needs.

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Episode #84: Sandeep Dutt in conversation with Abhijit Sinha, the creator of Project DEFY, enabling underserved communities to create an education for themselves through self-learning spaces called Nooks. At Nooks, individuals (children and adults) learn what makes them curious and caters to their needs and interests. Nooks are Schools without Teachers, Exams or even any curricula. They are controlled and managed by the learners themselves, who take complete charge of their own learning. Through DEFY, Abhijit has worked with over 17 communities and enabled 7000+ individuals to become self-learners. He has set up Nooks in 3 countries such as India, Uganda, and Rwanda and is now looking at setting up a Nook Hub in Zimbabwe. Abhijit believes that education should bring education back into the learners' hands, and the onus to choose what, when and how they learn should be a decision left to them. Nooks are cost-effective, self-learning environments where the learners design & define education for themselves. A community space that fosters curiosity, innovation, creativity, and critical thinking. A safe space where people from abject poverty, vulnerable communities, at-risk environments can come and create relevant life goals. In this podcast, he reflects on his personal experience and how dissatisfied he was living in the industrial age! Chasing a material life and not living one complete day, he says we need to slow down, think and work to become complete human beings. This is only possible when we live for the present moment and not keep working for the future under the pretext of getting educated. Abhijit doed not want education to be merely a transfer of instruction. Education is a much more interesting process of self-discovery and understanding of local and global surroundings.

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Lakshmi Tahiliani Ghosh, MPhil Chemistry, a post-graduate in Education and, an APS-CSB and CTET qualified teacher, TGT Science at Hyderabad for the last 6 years, worked as a lecturer for 2 years, and as a translator, content developer and editor in the Hindi language for 5 years.

औपचारिक शिक्षा की शुरुआत शायद लिखने की शुरुआत के तुरंत बाद लगभग 2000 ईसा पूर्व के मिस्र में हुई थी, कि लिख पाना इज़ाद करने के बाद उसे अगली पीढ़ियों तक पहुँचाया जाना सबसे ज़्यादा ज़रूरी था।
कहा जाता है कि स्कूल अपने आधुनिक रूप को सबसे पहले 1635 में अमरीका के बॉस्टन लैटिन स्कूल के द्वारा प्राप्त हुए। हालांकि विभिन्न देशों के इतिहास अलग अलग बात कहते हैं।
शुरुआती स्कूल केवल शासकों और उनके वंशजों को शिक्षित करने के लिए बने थे मगर धीरे धीरे वह सर्व सामान्य के हाथ आ सके।
औपचारिक, अनौपचारिक, गुरुकुल पद्धति या अन्तर्राष्ट्रीय प्रणाली से संचालित, रॉयल या पब्लिक, ग्लोबल या नेशनल, ऑफ लाइन या ऑन लाइन स्कूल हमेशा से भविष्य संचालित करने वाली पीढ़ी के सबसे करीब रहे हैं और इसलिए उनका स्वरूप भी विकसित होता आया है।
स्कूल पढ़ने-पढ़ाने व सीखने-सिखाने को ज़रूर बने हैं, मगर वह कदापि पढ़ने-पढ़ाने व सीखने-सिखाने तक सीमित नहीं हैं, स्कूल सिर्फ़ स्कूल नहीं हैं!

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Joy Of Learning (JOL) comes alive with heartwarming stories from educators at school. Mohini Chauhan @ The Doon Girls' School, Dehradun created this beautiful episode. Learning Forward India Academy Cohort of 2020-21 explores the future of education, built on immutable values alone: Appreciation, Caring, Co-operation, Courage, Freedom, Friendship, Happiness, Honesty, Hope, Humility, Love, Patience, Peace, Quality, Respect, Responsibility, Simplicity, Thoughtfulness, Tolerance, Trust, Understanding & Unity.

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