Masterclass With Fearless Educator

About Speaker: Deepika kumar, heading the training and customer engagement vertical at fliplearn,previously worked extensively in CSR for 6 plus years in the corporate sector.worked  as a teacher in various reputed schools across India and then moved to teacher  training. Area of specialization were, pedagogy and soft skills and tech education for more than 12 years  #Swadeshiस्कूल #ProgressiveEducation #UnconventionalMinds

About Speaker: Anisha is a team member with Goonj in Chennai, A Non-profit Organisation. During her stint with Goonj, she has Co-Ordinated with various campaigns of Goonj such as Dignity for work, School to school and has contributed strategies to design solutions. Her initiatives to work with ignore and artisan communities have helped the community in terms of their sustainability. She had a flamboyant style of connecting with rural communities to create awareness on Goonj's initiative of NJPC which focuses on menstrual hygiene. Her passions include Theatre Artist. She was instrumental in designing, stage and street plays on various socio-development themes for capacity building. She is currently coordinating the relief work in name of Rahat to address the needs of Ignored and missed communities across India.  #Swadeshiस्कूल #ProgressiveEducation #UnconventionalMinds

About Speaker: Dushyant, is an individual with 11 years of experience in SaaS Tech, Skilling & Education industry. Currently working with LeadSquared as Associate Director, he is working to grow LeadSquared Education vertical and extending their services to Schools, Higher-Ed colleges & institutions and Training institutes. Previously associated with Mercer-Mettl, he was associated with stellar government projects like PMKVY and PMGDISHA-Ministry of IT’s initiative at making rural India digitally literate.  #Swadeshiस्कूल #ProgressiveEducation #UnconventionalMinds

About Speaker: Babar Ali started a school named "Ananda Siksha Niketan"(Home of Joyful Learning) in the backyard of his family's home when he was nine years old, bringing affordable education to an impoverished area of West Bengal,India.At the age of 16, he was named as “Youngest Headmaster in the world” by the BBC. As a TED fellow and public speaker, Babar Ali inspired many individuals and organisations with his mission " Education for All".  For the last 18 years since inception more than 6000 students benefited with complete free education from this institution. His biography is a part of syllabus in different curriculum across the globe. Hon’ble President of India mentioned about him and his work in his speech towards nation on 25 January 2020.  #Swadeshiस्कूल #ProgressiveEducation #UnconventionalMinds

About Speaker: His Holiness Bhaktividya Purna Swami Maharaja established the Bhaktivedanta Academy 37 years ago in Sridham Mayapur. The concept of the Academy is based on the teachings of Bhagavad Gita and Srimad Bhagavatam as presented by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, the Founder-acarya of ISKCON. Maharaja extensively travelled throughout India researching the traditions and culture of Vedic heritage, applying these in the curriculum of the Academy. Over the years, Maharaja has trained hundreds of children from all over the world to develop and practice Krsna Consciousness.  #Swadeshiस्कूल #ProgressiveEducation #UnconventionalMinds

About Speaker: Soumya Aggarwal is the CEO and a co-founder at IGenPlus, an initiative focussed on building next-generation thought-leaders. She believes that young students hold the future in their hands, and it is our responsibility to guide them with ancient wisdom and modern insights. Soumya curates experiences and designs curriculum to introduce teenagers to Yogic thinking, Design thinking and Exponential thinking through fests, conferences, and expeditions, thus equipping them with tools to become future leaders. She is the curator of Families for Change at Vision India Foundation. She has developed Manifesto, a card game on electoral politics. She has also written several articles in newspapers and web magazines on important national issues. She likes to conceptualize and implement new initiatives for youth leadership. She has been recognised as a Youth Leader at Indo-ASEAN Youth Summit by the Ministry of External Affairs. Also, she represented India in the Youth - G20 summit in Japan held in May 2019. Soumya is an alumnus of HEC Paris and Lady Shri Ram College.   #Swadeshiस्कूल #ProgressiveEducation #UnconventionalMinds

About Speaker: Influenced greatly by Mahatma Gandhi, Vinoba Bhave and others, a young and idealistic Dr Jagdish Gandhi ventured out in 1959 to create a new mindset through education. With just five children on rolls, no personal wealth, and the equivalent of ten US dollars in borrowed capital, the motivated Dr Gandhi began his own personal experiment in Lucknow, India, by the name of City Montessori School (CMS). He saw this as a more powerful vehicle to prepare minds to prevent conflicts than working with negotiations and top-down policy efforts alone. Today, at the age of 83, Dr Gandhi has no regrets. He works with the same undiminished zeal towards multiplying his mission for peace through education. In the past 59 years, he has not taken a single day off. He has slept little and has worked through every weekend and holiday. Although the journey has by no means been easy, the citizens of Lucknow have greatly endorsed Dr Gandhi’s mission and values. Their support has made CMS the world’s largest school now with over 55,000 students on its rolls (a Guinness World Record for the largest school in the world since 1999). Dr Jagdish Gandhi believes that children are the world’s future and the best way to mould the future is by nurturing them.  #Swadeshiस्कूल #ProgressiveEducation #UnconventionalMinds

About Speaker: Sai Chandrasekhar is the Chief of Operations at Agastya International Foundation, Bangalore, a non-profit which runs the world’s largest hands-on science education program serving the education needs of economically backward school children in 21 states across India. He is a member of the senior management of Agastya and is actively involved in Strategy and Planning as well in addition to Operations. Sai has spent over 8 years at Agastya and has seen it grow manifold over this period. Sai is very passionate about education and strongly believes in the concept of self-learning. He is an Electrical Engineer and an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. He also attended a program on Strategic Perspectives in Non-Profit Management at the Harvard Business School. Prior to joining ECF, Christina earned her doctoral degree at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and has held positions in academic administration at Brown University, Rhode Island and FLAME University, India.  #Swadeshiस्कूल #ProgressiveEducation #UnconventionalMinds

About Speaker: Krishnan is a sustainable development professional, thinker and strategist, including strategic leadership experience for more than a decade with organisations like ActionAid International, The Climate Group and Population Foundation. His multifarious experience includes varied contexts including India, Nepal and Afghanistan as well as varied sectors ranging from disaster risk reduction and climate change to livelihoods and and tech for development. He has developed country strategies for institutions like Actionaid, Sphere, The Climate Group and CIFF. Krishnan is also an experienced evaluator and an accomplished international trainer. He is a recipient of fellowship grants from Winrock and Prevention Consortium. Krishnan is graduate in Physics and post graduate in business administration.  #Swadeshiस्कूल #ProgressiveEducation #UnconventionalMinds