Learning Forward

Joy Of Learning (JOL) comes alive with heartwarming stories from educators at school. Triumph DGS's inspiring team proudly created this episode @ The Doon Girls' School, Dehradun - Prachi Jain, Mansi Sondhi Arora, Ritika Chandani, Shalu Rawat, Mohini Bohra Chauhan and Prachi Parashar. The onus of helping students, cultivating hope and friendship lies on both parents and teachers. It will help them improve academically and also boost their confidence and self-esteem to pursue their long-term goals in school and life. Learning Forward India Academy Cohort of 2020-21 is exploring 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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Bhava Samvad or Emotional Dialogue:Saturday, March 19, 2021, at the Kalinga Literary Festival, Author Sandeep Dutt (School Improvement Coach, Mountaineer) conversed with Jaya Bhattacharji Rose (International Publishing Consultant) on his book 'My Good School'. Kalinga Literary Festival (KLF), Mystic Kalinga Festival, Kandhamal Literary Festival held every year at Bhubaneswar, Kandhamal. KLF organising KLF Corner, KLF Bhav Samvad held every weekend. Sandeep is a passionate educator. He is one of those individuals who have dedicated his life to making the greatest impact on the greatest number of people. Sandeep focuses on school transformation with an emphasis on culture as a service. With over 30 years of experience, it has empowered thousands of teachers and touched the lives of near a million children. Jaya an independent international publishing consultant and columnist based in New Delhi. I have also co-founded the literary agency Ace Literary Consulting which looks at the best of the best literature across genres. The hour-long conversation is really full of passion, learning and humility. Does your school empower every individual? My Good School standard core curriculum helps empower every individual; the Learning Forward India Foundation builds a Good Schools' global community. With a mission to help customise your school curriculum for the My Good School experience; and offer an equal opportunity to all with equal emphasis on  Service, Skill, Sport and Study. The dialogue will discover what goes into the making of a good school and how The Fabindia School in Bali (Rajasthan) has today given learning models and ideas and has been the learning lab for generations.

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Episode #69: Sandeep Dutt in conversation with Chris Unger, a Teaching Professor in the Graduate Programs in Education, including the Doctor of Education program. His primary interest is in the design, development, and proliferation of learner-centred and agency-focused schools and schooling, entrepreneurship as a means of creating new possibilities in education, the support of change agents and change agent work in our educational ecosystem, and the transformation needed in support of youth, our communities, and society. His expertise lies in education entrepreneurship, experiential learning, school design, change agent activities, and networking. Chis shares how the factory model of schooling has got is all wrong and why we must focus on adults as much, we focus on children. The idea of gardens growing across the worlds and joining them for a revolution in education by building networks and strengthening relationships is the key take away from this podcast. Every garden has green shots, and we need to nurture an ecosystem to create a joyful learning environment. He shares a policy prescription for educators and institutions worldwide and talks about incentivising the learning communities.  Chris wants to support the development of new models of teaching, learning, and schooling. How? By inspiring and empowering educators to do just that!

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Visionary JMMS @John Martyn Memorial School, Salangaon Dehradun - Parineeta Negi, Ambika Gurung, Manmohan Kaur and Bharti Dangwal.: a story about Humility and Appreciation, the teachers share the joy of learning with a story about how the two values enhance the learning experience of a child. Learning Forward India Academy Cohort of 2020-21 is exploring 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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Episode #68: Kevin Fullbrook is Hundred Country Lead and Ambassador and the Deputy Director at Al-Bayan Bilingual School, Kuwait. Having started his career as a Math and Physical Education teacher in a remote Australian school, he then worked at a range of schools across the country before serving in leadership positions in the Middle East, China and Australia. Having participated in the Think Tank on Global Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 2016, Kevin then went on to be named one of 'The Educator' magazines Rising Stars of Education under 40 years old. Kevin talks about how the stakeholders connect to make a great school experience, why everyday learning is enjoyable and how we have a common ground to cover: children's love. It is most important to set aside all distractions and focus on the moment when we are with children, for the best learning experience. Schools can be similar and yet poles apart, even in the same neighbourhood. Every school is unique and different. End of the day, it is simply the teachers' love for the profession that helps spread the joy of learning.

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Aspiration JMMS @John Martyn Memorial School, Salangaon, Dehradun - Renu Raturi, Sandhya Thadani, Sonali Sharma and Asha Bhandari: a story about Humility and Appreciation, the teachers share the joy of learning with a story about how nature shows the best of the two values. Learning Forward India Academy Cohort of 2020-21 is exploring 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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Episode # 67: Sandeep Dutt, in conversation with Kapil Gaba, is committed to fighting systemic inequality by democratising and decentralising access to resources and support networks. Kapil has spent the last 16 years in the education sector and has moved to innovation and entrepreneurship. He believes these will be the drivers of the economy and society for the next 20 years—they're a startup based in the United States of America. OneValley’s mission is to be the World’s Innovation Community that supports the global startups and their founders with critical services and support in their ideation, launch and acceleration. The transition was necessitated by the fact the traditional model of getting a University degree and then getting a job will be increasingly under challenge. With more technology replacing people, there may not be enough jobs to support students in millions completing their education every year. Therefore, a lot of these students will have to become entrepreneurs either by choice or by circumstances. We need ecosystems and communities to support people engaged in entrepreneurship. In the show, he talks about a life-changing incident where one young person lays prostrate on his feet, speaking in a language alien to him and pleading for a job. He delves deep to find out the role of family and leadership, the need to move from rote-learning to critical thinking, handling complexity, and collaborate to meet the social conditions in the complex world.

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Episode #66: Sandeep Dutt on a conversation with Francis Bizoza Bigirimana, Founder and the Team Lead at Teachers Empowerment Platform – TEP an organization focused on building teachers’ capacity through continuous professional development to provide quality education. A teacher by training with a Bachelor’s degree from Makerere University Uganda. His passion for education was ignited in one of his classes at the university where he was a beneficiary of the 21st Century teaching and learning approaches. Francis believes that the best way to improve the quality of education is to empower and equip teachers hence TEP. He has served a two-year fellowship with Teach For Uganda, an experience that has given him a deep appreciation of the plight of both teachers and learners in Ugandan rural public schools. Francis is the son of two teachers, was destined to be one himself! At TEP, the teachers are encouraged to connect, collaborate and share; they must be role model and be best equipped to help young people. He reflects on his past and envisions a great future for teachers, as new technology and methods will help teachers build capacity.

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Humility and Appreciation, narrated by Mohini Chauhan of The Doon Girls’ School at Dehradun. The future of education will be 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. Joy Of Learning (JOL) is based on The Little Book of Values: Educating Children to Become Thinking, Responsible and Caring Citizens by Julie Duckworth and Ian Gilbert, explores twenty-two values that can be taught through schools. This program will inspire you by using examples of where the values are already being used by children and adults in schools and share practical tools to stimulate discussion and philosophical debate. It will also help people to take stock of their values and how they wish to lead their life. There is always something to appreciate, in someone, even the worst character will have something to be appreciated. So we should appreciate it as that’s the only way to build the self-esteem of a student. In a class there are braggers or the boasters who are the opposite of humility, probably they are most in need of appreciation as they haven’t achieved much. And the people who achieve appreciation or are acknowledged tend to be most humble because everyone knows and applauds them. So I think if the teacher focuses on what can be appreciated and bringing ng their self-esteem up by saying good things then they will also come to a point where they will start appreciating themselves and then become HUMBLE. Humility is at the RECEIVING end and Appreciation is at the GIVING end, that is why these two values sync very well. The bottom line is a child has to be a GOOD HUMAN BEING. If the children are coming out of school as good human beings then obviously they were taught by good human beings.

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Episode # 65: Sandeep Dutt in conversation with Enos Magaga an innovator, an ambassador and a HundrED country Lead for Kenya.  A graduate from Moi-University Kenya, with a major in Special Needs Education. He works for BEADS for Education in Kenya, Africa. Magaga views quality education to play a key role in fighting poverty and attainment of a successful life. In 2016, he was awarded by the Kenyan Ministry of Education for being an exemplary Biology teacher. Magaga believes in student-centred teaching pedagogies that instil creative and critical thinking among learners. He teaches at Tembea Academy- a school founded by BEADS for Education in 2013 to foster critical thinking and leadership skills among girls from vulnerable Maasai Communities in Kenya.

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