Learning Forward

Episode #64: Sandeep Dutt in conversation with Jenny Finn, Hundred Ambassador, Country Lead and Academy Member from the United States. Jenny is the Head of School at Springhouse Community School in Floyd, Virginia, where they are reimagining the purpose and practice of education and articulating educational design oriented around vitality and the Earth's wisdom. Jenny Finn’s research, mentoring, and teaching invites people to deepen the relationship they have with themselves to serve the world with greater clarity, courage, compassion, and creativity. Her work has taken many forms including non-profit leadership, trauma and hospice care, chaplaincy, private clinical practice, community building through the expressive arts, and education. Jenny holds a PhD in Sustainability Education and is co-founder of Springhouse Community School in Floyd, Virginia. She sees education as a primary agent to transform culture and its reimagining education in ways that foster the vitality within and around us all. In a candid conversation, she shares how she became a teacher and the fivefold path for educational transformation.

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Aspiration JMMS @John Martyn Memorial School, Salangaon, Dehradun - Renu Raturi, Sandhya Thadani, Sonali Sharma & Asha Bhandari: a story about Responsibility and Cooperation, 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 #63: Sandeep Dutt in conversation with Lisette Rojas from Venezuela, a Country Lead and Ambassador of Hundred. She is skilled at discovering and mentoring top multicultural talent; instilling a culture of success; and creating leaders, not followers. Lissette is the co-founder and CEO of Trix and Trax, an educational program that encourages students to discover and develop their talents. A lawyer by training, with a MIB degree from the University of Wollongong in Australia, she has won multiple awards as TV creator, entrepreneur, and educator. Today, she spends her time implementing Trix and Trax's, “Superhero Talent Program: Peer Learning and Role Playing”, in schools in Venezuela and elsewhere. She's a passionate believer in talent nurturing through fun and creative experiences that ultimately lead to building self-confidence, and long-lasting relationships with students who are encouraged to dream big. Activities such as Trix and Trax are essential to encourage the development of talent in arts, music, and sports and teach values that are important to our educational institution such as creativity, leadership, teamwork, and self-confidence.

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Episode # 62 Sandeep Dutt in conversation with Nathan Strenge, a Senior Learning Designer at Fielding International, works with innovative schools and educators worldwide to create environments where learners and communities thrive. In addition to his role at Fielding, Nathan serves as USA Country Lead at HundrED and is an active member of the Education Reimagined Learning Lab community. He enjoys facilitating conversations that bring together youth, educators, and community members to re-envision the future of education – he’s optimistic that all over the world people are reimagining how education can be designed to cultivate learners with agency and aspirations to contribute to a better world.  He can help schools find the right problem to solve, and illuminate the path to solve it through a workshop called Align to Thrive. He as taught high school statistics and mathematics for ten years before going into school design and innovative education. He has won a national teaching award for my work in personalized learning that focused on relationships and holistic well-being. In the podcast, he shares what youth voice is important, and the need for building learning centres where empathy and listening help change the paradigm. Nathan looks forward to connecting with people working at the forefront of 21st-century learning to make a healthier, more equitable, and loving world.

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BW Education and Learning Forward India presented a webinar on 'Wednesday Wisdom: My Good School Where Passion Meets Education. Dr Anurag Batra in conversation with Sandeep Dutt, School Coach, Bookseller Runner, Mountaineer, Social Entrepreneur & Author, My Good School | 27th Jan | 4:30 PM Onwards. They talk about the changing face of education, how learning happens, and what needs to be done to transform school culture. Dr Batra has some good questions for Sandeep Dutt, who has just written a book and has the wisdom to share with the world. With over 35 five years of pro bono work for schools in India, Mr Dutt is a life-long learner who never passed out from school! 

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Episode # 61: Sandeep Dutt in conversation with Justin is an award-winning leader, connector and advisor for education, social business and Government. His school was awarded 'School of the Year' for his inspirational innovation and impact working in partnership with schools in the UK and developing nations. He has 30 years of education experience and is a consultant and thought leader on learning, innovation and social impact. He is the Founder of Conscious Learning and is Head of Education for the Black Business Institute (BBi). He leads on BBi Project 100 and is actively engaged in leading on 21st Century skills innovation, system change and social justice initiatives supporting diversity and racial equality. He advises on national conferences and facilitates strategic events and is a moderator for high-level Government meetings. He is also involved with Future Capital, working with the United Nations Office for Partnerships to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. Lord Michael Hastings CBE's words, 'Justin is an exceptional educationalist with the sharpest insights into learning, the highest level of emotional intelligence and an astute global perspective. He is a person of the highest integrity, and it is an honour to work with him'. In the podcast Justin shared his passion for empowering young people, they need to find you 'Who am I'; ' Why am I here'; and 'What is it I bring to the world'. Teachers need to prepare for a journey to discover the inner self; they must help young people prepare for uncertainty and give a perspective of human development to education.  When we address the challenges of learning and education, it must be people first and processes later. This alone will help us focus on building the skills and competencies that help people grow up with the right attitude and behaviour.

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Episode # 60: Sandeep Dutt in conversation with Alex Bell, Director of www.PortlandEducation.co.uk with over 2,000 hours of leadership coaching experience and six years of bespoke vision-to-strategy consultancy for schools in the UK and globally. He was named Hundred’s global ambassador of the year for 2020 and is co-founder of non-profits www.Xtalks.org included in the HundrED global collection 2020 and www.LinkOnlineLearners.org included in the OECD/HundrED Covid-19 solutions spotlight. He is co-founder and curator of www.Our-Chance.com, the world’s first free online film festival about education futures, co-founder of global innovation www.Leadership-Lemonade.com and runs leadership development programmes for schools on and offline throughout the year. Alex shares how he grew up in harmony with nature, daydreaming in the countryside, and still claims to have the childlike simplicity in him! He feels that like Picasso was very clear, we need to unlearn and keep it simple, a futurist must do that. There is the need to be simple and clear and he loves the way, Sir David Attenborough in A Life On Our Planet shares the need for harmony with nature and peaceful co-existence, as the first step for saving the world, which is crumbling due to the rampant industrialisation and human consumption. There is the need to reinvent an organic model for learning, if the child does not feel the warmth of relationship, the child will perhaps put the village on fire. Love and Fear are two diametrically opposite ends, and we must all work to build relationships, this alone is the meaning of education.

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Episode #59: Sandeep Dutt in conversation with Hanna Dudich a teacher of English and a vice-principal at Taras Shevchenko Himnazia in Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine. She has been teaching for 20 years. She is a HundrED Ambassador, a PenPal Schools Ambassador, a Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert, a Nearpod Certified Educator, a National Geographic Certified Educator, a Scientix Ambassador, a NAYTEA STEAM Ambassador, a SIMA Teachers Award 2020 recipient. In 2017 Hanna became a Global Teacher Prize top 50 finalist and a Global Teacher Prize Ambassador, which allowed her to connect with leaders in the field of education. Hanna shares how she grew up with limited resources, the role her teacher played in helping her explore the wider world in a country that was very much not connected with the world, tourist did not frequent Ukraine as they do today. She grew up doing a lot of reading and writing, got an opportunity to go on an exchange as a student and get a first-hand feel of what she describes as a 'culture shock'. Today with the world getting smaller due to better communication and use of technology, we can virtually experience how life and living differ in other countries.  Hanna grew up with a teacher who had a great world view, they got magazines in English to read, listened to music in English and made penpals. Today she communicates with people with the use of Zoom, email and even travels. The idea of her teacher to invite visitors and the scant foreign tourist to the class for discovering how people live in other parts of the world may now seem alien! 

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My Good School Where Passion Meets Education: An insightful discussion with the author, Sandeep Dutt and Dilip Chenoy, Secretary-General, FICCI on the book's nuances that will encourage you to observe, question, evaluate, and choose a school that will truly prepare your child for a life beyond the campus. Established 90 years ago, the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) is the largest and oldest apex business organization in India. A non-government, not-for-profit organization, FICCI is the voice of India’s business and industry. From influencing policy to encouraging debate, engaging with policymakers and civil society, FICCI articulates industry views and concerns. FICCI Alliance for Re-Imagining School Education (ARISE) is a collegium of stakeholders representing different facets of School Education. Members include several high quality and reputed independent schools from across the country, eminent educators, foundations, civil society representatives, think tanks and technical experts. The fundamental vision of FICCI ARISE is to become a catalyst in government and private efforts to raise the quality of learning outcomes across schools and ensure that no child is left behind.

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