JUNE 2020

ShikshaLokam, a Shibulal Family Philanthropic Initiative, is a societal platform designed to transform the education leadership by enabling various stakeholders engaged in the K-12 education system through collaboration and co-creation.

In Focus

Building a culture of celebrating Innovations

Launch of Micro-Innovation Awards | Andhra Pradesh

Our school leaders and teachers are leaving no stones unturned in these surreal times. There are so many unseen yet powerful innovations being designed and practised by our education leaders. In an attempt to celebrate and recognize these innovative efforts of our leaders as well as to spread it across in form of 'best practices', Andhra Pradesh Social Welfare Residential Education Institutions Society (APSWREIS) launched the Micro-innovations award this June. The announcement was made by Col. V. Ramulu, IPoS, Secretary, APSWREIS at the end of a 1-week capacity building program for the school leaders, led by our partner organisation, Mantra4Change.

During the week, the leaders were introduced to the domains of school improvement and their linkages to the School Development Plan. Using 'Unnati' - the micro improvement capability of ShikshaLokam platform, the leaders chose improvement projects that they wanted to work on and created them on the platform. Mr Koteswara Rao, a leader and a participant said, "Prioritization matrix, setting of SMART goals, project designing and need to monitor progress are my key learnings from this week." Participants also discussed best practices from their own workplace experiences. During the program, school leaders were energized and excited about being able to connect and learn from each other, and being appreciated for all the work they engage in, in their schools.

To encourage innovation and to bring it into mainstream conversation, Col. Ramulu in partnership with team Mantra4Change announced the quarterly Micro innovation awards. If this idea interests you and if you want to know more, please write to us.

Spotlight

Teachers' Motivation Matters - an Improvement Project

Teachers' morale affects the performance of students. Due to Covid-19, when the sense of isolation is growing, it is important for school leaders to consciously work towards keeping the teachers motivated. On Unnati, we have an action project that lists a few easy steps to boost up your teachers' morale. You'll also find a set of quick learning resources attached to the project.

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Energized School Leadership Development - a booklet

School Improvement doesn't happen in a day. It's a journey which necessitates continuous capacity development and offering coaching support to the school leaders. Today as the ecosystem is discovering new ways to enable learning for children, here is an 'Energized Booklet' for school leaders with easy to scan QR codes to enable their own learning created by CoLab.

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Platform Update

Big Surprises on Samiksha

This month's release of Samiksha brings to you an exciting set of new features. It boasts of a library section, where you can search for, access and import any assessment and observation solution readily for use in your context. Also discover the Program route to your solutions on the app and much more.

Release Note

Grey Matter

It’s a Mindset, It’s a Skill, It’s a Practice

How do you actively design for societal change? How do you distribute the ability to solve a problem? How do you design to share control with others, so that they can act in their own best interests and improve their well being?

We bring to you the second episode of the podcast Sea Change, an initiative of the Societal Platform, where our community of change-makers from the various societal missions are responding to these questions as they share how they have been designing for scale in their own unique ways. Joining Khushboo Awasthi - COO of ShikshaLokam, other speakers in this podcast are Annachi from ASSEFA, Jeroo Billimoria of Childline, Elena Bonometti, CEO of Tostan, Shankar Maruwada, CEO of EkStep Foundation, Lalitesh Katragadda - CTO of Avanti Finance and Jim Fruchterman - CEO of Tech Matters.

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Case Study - Learnings from the Programs

Harmonizing Learning in Covid-19 times

Enabling Learning From Home in Punjab | Mission Ghar Baithe Sikhiya

As the state of Punjab started working to enable continuity of learning and engagement for children despite statewide school closures, the education system planned a multi-pronged yet coherent approach to reach children. The Punjab Education Collective along with the Department of Education was quick to re-imagine the role that teachers and instructional leaders could play in the current scenario and created a state-level structure to design for coherence and quality.