Learning Forward

Episode #16: Sandeep Dutt in conversation with Dr Neeta Bali, Director- Principal and Head of School at GD Goenka World School. Dr Bali has the skill and passion to turn around any institution as a Head and her track record as a Head clearly reflects this. Her repertoire includes varied curricula- CBSE, ISC, ICSE, IGCSE and IB-DP as well as AS and A levels. A seasoned speaker, an author and a teacher trainer. Well versed with modern pedagogy and educational practices. She shares the idea of 'AQ' - adversity quotient - how we need to prepare the young people with skills for the future, and be ready for the chaos they may find in the world around them.

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Episode #15: Sandeep Dutt in conversation with Priyakee Gupta, who gave up a career as an Advocate to become a Teacher and a school promoter. A  firm believer of Sarswati - Goddess of Wisdom. She is of the view that a Teacher is even beyond the best Mother or any other individual who helps make a person become a holistic being. She co-owns a beautiful school with her husband, lives on campus 24x7x365! Here is a great educator with English and Law at her core, who is perhaps a great mentor in her own way for the hundreds of teachers she has worked with.

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Episode #14: Sandeep Dutt in conversation with Smriti Krishnia, a young leader now serving in the Indian Revenue Sevice, with Economics at her core she studied at the Lady Shriram College for Women and went on to do her Masters at the University Of Oxford. With Internships at UNIDO and The Fabindia School, she has worked with Sandeep to build Learning Forward India and is the spirit behind the book My Good School - Taking Learning Forward At The Fabindia School. 

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Episode #13: Sandeep Dutt speaks with Sumit Dargan a Thought Leader at INACE.ORG, an experienced educator, has had the opportunity to deal with students and faculty over a large and diverse background of nationals, expatriates and boarding communities and have worked concertedly to further the optimal skills of the learners to newer heights. Sumit talks of education as a service and for him stepping out it the key to better learning.

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Episode #12: Sandeep Dutt in conversation with Dr Charu Mathur Advocate on Record at Supreme Court of India, has rich and diverse expertise in corporate commercial civil criminal and constitutional matters, is a regular practitioner who represents many educational institutions and leading private groups. She also caters to advisory and consultation assignments. Fond of reading, a great Mom and one who in her way does her bit for affordable quality education.

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Joy Of Learning (JOL) 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. In this episode, the hosts Vaishali Phatak, Kalyani Chaudhuri and Sandeep Dutt speak with Jyotsna and Param Obhan and explore how we need an understanding between parents and teachers to help build thoughtfulness in children. The podcast will help people take stock of their values and how they wish to lead their lives.

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Extract from the discussion organised by the Rajiv Gandhi Institute for Contemporary Studies over a Webinar on Thu 11th Jun 2020 from 4.30 to 6 pm. The panellists Dr Alok Shukla, IAS, Principal Secretary, Education of Chhattisgarh;  Chitra Ravi, an educational visionary, who is the Founder of a school education reform company called Chrysalis; Prof Pankaj Jain who runs Gyanshala affordable schools, in Ahmedabad and many other locations, who has focused on quality with cost-effectiveness; and Sandeep Dutt, School Education Coach, and Founder LearningForward Foundation, who has mentored hundreds of Principals and teachers. The host of the Webinar was Vijay Mahajan the Chief Executive Officer of the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation and the Director of the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Contemporary Studies. Sandeep talks about how with Happy Teachers at the core we can build a My Good School that has diversity, inclusion and belonging at its' core, accepting every individual as special and how we can build a school system to ensure the personal and social development of every individual.

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Sandeep Dutt in conversation with Bharati Thakore, the founder and CEO of New Millennium Education Partners shares with Learning Forward India why it is most important for us to help private schools to survive through the current times and what the government must do to help deliver affordable quality education.

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Episode #11 - Sandeep Dutt speaks with Shivranjana, a writer trained in Development who has spent the last 7 years studying the psychology of emotional abuse, specifically within the family and has written her first book Hineni on the subject. Interested in looking at the systems and the human being in relation to these systems, this work led her to gain deeper  insight into oppression and oppressive structures of all kinds, which she now uses in all of her work. Besides writing, Shivranjana also is an illustrator and particularly, likes making comics. She shares how the heart and mind together open a new world, that for her is real education. With people before economics, we build an inclusive world that is perhaps the best learning space.

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Episode #10: Sandeep Dutt in conversation with Bharati Thakore, the founder and CEO of New Millennium Education Partners and the India Head of the prestigious Collège du Léman International Boarding School, Geneva, Switzerland.  A millennial education entrepreneur with experience in education-centric - media, communication, research, film-direction, event curation and corporate development. Bharati Thakore's mission is “to create a spark that moves individuals to be an irresistible force for quality education”. She talks about the love for learning and how she is building her own legacy to make a difference in the world.

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