Masterclass With Fearless Educator: Recent Episodes
Future School Leaders
About Speaker:Dr Dawood Vaid is a Mindset Coach, an educationist and quizzer. An Electronics engineer, MA in Education and an MBA. He left his lavish career as a Patent Attorney in Switzerland, Moscow and Dubai to work on SDG (Global Goals) and Skill workshops. He has authored The Education Riddle.He heads an online e -school and sustainable Academy, GoldenSparrow Hub Schooling headquartered at Mumbai. He loves horses, quizzing and travels.#theTrainer #professionaldevelopment #educators
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About Speaker:Nancy Ekpezu is the founder of the Educational Administration Network Facebook group and has authored several books on school administration, management, and personal development. As the Lead Consultant and Trainer of Pezu Smith Consulting, she is passionate about helping organisations in Nigeria and Africa function effectively. Nancy hasreceived several awards and recognitions for her contributions to education, and she offers coaching, consulting, and speaking engagements#theTrainer #professionaldevelopment #educators
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About Speaker:Maya Menon has been a full-time teacher trainer since 1996, conducting professional development programmes for heads and teachers of schools across India and abroad.Her areas of professional experience include conceptualising, designing and implementing a wide range of school and teacher-related projects and services – including the Wipro Applying Thought in Schools Teacher Empowerment Project initiated in 2001.#theTrainer #professionaldevelopment #educators
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About Speaker:Dr. Swati Popat Vats is the founder President of Early Childhood Association India and Association for Primary Education and Research. As President of Podar Education Network she leads over 490 preschools and Daycares in India and UAE. She heads the teacher-training wing at Podar. Swati has coined the term ‘Kiducation’ for early childhood teachers and parents to help them understand that young children need education from the point of view of their development. She is also an expert on the global think tank of Kidzania.#theTrainer #professionaldevelopment #educators
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About Speaker:Andy Homden has served as a teacher and leader in some of the most prominent international schools in the world, Andy co-founded Consilium Education in 2014. The establishment of new schools, strategic planning and caring for the ‘deep structures’ of a school have been central to his career as an educator. His Session Topic: What are the deep structures of a school, why are they important and how are they changing?#theTrainer #professionaldevelopment #educators
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About Speaker:Dr. Tabrez Ahmad expertise is in the area of cyber law, intellectual property rights, energy law, and jurisprudence with a background in commercial law.He served in academic and administrative positions such as Vice Chancellor of the GD Goenka University and Pro-Vice Chancellor of Galgotias University; Director & Dean School of Law, UPES; Professor & Founder Director, Alliance School of Law.He is also the founder of Technolex Foundation.#EducationRevamp #sustainableschools
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About Speaker:Evan Luthra is a leading Blockchain expert of 2022 by USATODAY. I have been building and investing in fast growing technology products since I was 13 , building 30+ apps and selling my first company at 17. Most Recently I was honored as a Forbes 30 under 30 recipient. I have been in crypto since 2014 and in 2017 used to run a crypto investment bank where we took projects like hashgraph from $10M to the current $10B+ market cap..I am an equity investor in Hashgraph, ripple and over 400+ token projects. In 2021, I invested in 250+ private sales and advised 20+ projects pre listing. I also have a NFT portfolio including 6 Bored Apes , 6 cloneX , Xcopy and many more blue chips. Business Insider recently selected me as a NFT Expert to follow on Twitter.#EducationRevamp #sustainableschools
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About Speaker:Pratham Mittal is a serial entrepreneur who has founded companies like Neta App, Outgrow and Masters' Union, a leading business school in Gurugram. After a successful SAAS start-up in the US, Pratham is now all set to disrupt the Indian education space. With an undergraduate from University of Pennsylvania, Pratham wishes to bring world class education to India with Master's Union where students learn business by running businesses.#EducationRevamp #sustainableschools
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About Speaker:Dr. Ashok Pandey is widely acknowledged as an innovator, classroom practitioner and effective educational leader. The Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, IIMA, has recently published a case study on the impactful Professional Development Programme he carried out at Ahlcon International School. Recipient of the National Teacher Award 2012, Extraordinary Leadership Award 2021 by the Education World, and The Forbes India Top 100 People Manager's Award 2020 make him a reputed thought leader on contemporary educational issues. He is presently serving on the Governing Board of the National Council for Teacher Education, NCTE, Cambridge NEP Advisory Board for India and South Asia, and GEMs Education India.#EducationRevamp #sustainableschools
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About Speaker:Sudhir Aggarwal was named as ‘IT Industry Leader’ in 2010 by eGov (CSDMS). Currently,working as Director and Faculty – Digital Transformation with the Wadhwani Institute of Technology and Policy. He is an Adjunct Faculty with RGIPT. He has 3 Copyrights to his credit and a few papers published. He has varied experience in conceptualising new initiatives, working on programs, executing projects, policy advocacy, and government ecosystem building. He is a thought leader on various aspects of Digital India. He has worked with Deloitte, Microsoft, Thomson Reuters, Oracle, IBM, and HCL & Niveshan Technologies among Indian MNCs.#EducationRevamp #sustainableschools
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About Speaker:Sushama Sharma is the founder member and the Director of Anand Niketan, a school that draws its inspiration from Nai Talim, known as Gandhi's vision of Education and Gandhi's larger vision of equitable, non-violent and sustainable society. Anand Niketan, restarted in 2005, inherits its space, philosophy and spirit from the earlier Nai Talim experiment (1937-1970) and continues to explore their relevance in today's context. The school aims to create democratic environment where holistic development of children can be nurtured such that all three faculties Head, Heart and Hand are developed in a balanced and integrated manner to its fullest potential.#SchoolofThoughts #meetingofminds #educationphilosophy
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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”. From the last 18 years of 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 the nation on 25 January 2020.#SchoolofThoughts #meetingofminds #educationphilosophy
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About Speaker:Santhya Vikram is a passionate educator, dreamer, believer and a crusader for the cause of children. She is deeply moved by the need for renewal in the human spirit and in education. She believes in an education that is forming, life giving and nourishing. Set in a 30 acre organic farm, in an ecologically sustainable green building and a Railway carriage that serves as the library for the whole community, Yellow Train is a Waldorf Inspired School in Coimbatore, India – from Kindergarten to Upper School. The school holds in reverence the work of Rudolf Steiner and strives to bring to the children in Yellow Train an essence of wholesome and spiritual education. #SchoolofThoughts #meetingofminds #educationphilosophy
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About Speaker:Bodhirupa Sinha spent her childhood and part of her college days at Visva Bharati, Santiniketan, the Ashram set up by Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore, which later became a Central University of repute, specialising in indepth research in Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, World Literature, different kinds of art forms and above all, in educational pedagogy. For the last eighteen years, Bodhirupa Sinha has been associated with Patha Bhavana, Visva Bharati at Santiniketan in the capacity of Principal . In her long career as an educationist and academic visionary Bodhirupa has delved into the world of education extensively, particularly in Pre- Primary, Primary, Secondary and Higher secondary education.#SchoolofThoughts #meetingofminds #educationphilosophy
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About Speaker:Dr. Chhalamayi Reddy has an innate passion for innovation in education. Exploring and Enriching the practices of learning and actively engaging academicians, teachers and children in the process of self discovery are the two major areas around which her work revolves. A student of Sri Aurobindo International Center of Education, Puducherry. She received her Ph.D. from Pondicherry University, on Sri Aurobindo’s critique of poetry. She is the Director Principal of Sri Aurobindo International School, Hyderabad for three decades and a residential school ‘New Creation- a Free Progress School’.#SchoolofThoughts ##meetingofminds #educationphilosophy
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About Speaker: Vishnu Karthik is currently the CEO of Xperiential Learning Systems (The Heritage Group of Schools - a group of K-12 experiential learning schools. Apart from being on the board of The Heritage Schools, he is responsible for strategic projects for the group, including new campus initiatives, curriculum development, instructional leadership, continuous school improvement, and technology integration. He is Keenly interested in building professional learning communities, instructional leadership, cognitive neuroscience, education technology, leadership coaching, authentic assessments, and deeper learning curriculum. #Soulfulस्कूलConference #mysphere #zamit
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About Speaker: Dr Nikita Ahya is the Deputy Director, Branding and Communication at KIIT and KISS. She has pursued Bachelors in Political Science, Masters in International Relations and PhD in Economics. She is a restless blogger, collaborator and a plus size body positivity enthusiast. But of all, she is an innate teacher. With her knack for writing and flair of creativity, she has overhauled Branding at KIIT and KISS. She believes in the power of teamwork and loves everything youth and the potential to change. She has taught and led the Humanities Section of KIIT to glory. #Soulfulस्कूलConference #mysphere #zamit
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About Speaker: Meru Miller is currently the secretary of Rural Institute for Community Education. He is working on innovative quality education focusing on transparent management practices, child rights, joyful learning, integrated and inclusive education. He has experience for more than 50 years in working for the development of children with special reference to child protection, prevention of abuse and penalisation. He has organised national and international workshops on prevention of child abuse and child trafficking.
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About Speaker: Dr. Abdulla Rasheed Ahmed is an enthusiastic educationist with 30 years of experience in the field of education. He was a former Minister of State for Education in Maldives. Before He was the Vice Rector of Avid College, Maldives. He served as a principal of government schools for 18 years. He did a school management diploma from NIE, Sri Lanka, Bachelor of Commerce major in Accounting and HRM from University of Tasmania, Master of Educational leadership from Nottingham University and Doctor of Philosophy in Instructional Leadership from Asia e University, Malaysia.
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About Speaker: Samuel H. Kim is the Founding President of the Center for Asia Leadership. The Center’s mission is to help key leaders in multiple spheres in Asia build robust frameworks, devise effective policies, and formulate new strategies for increasing their communities’ growth and sustainability. He holds an MPA from Harvard, an MA from Seoul National, and an LLB from Handong Universities. He has edited fourteen books to date, covering topics as political reform, innovation, education, entrepreneurship, economic development, the future of work, and women’s leadership. #Soulfulस्कूलConference #mysphere #zamit
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About Speaker: Dr. S.K. Rathor is a Founder, Chairman & MD of SANFORT Group of Schools. He is a Founding President of Early Childhood Care & Development Educators Association, a voluntary organisation working for the welfare of early learners, educators, and parents. He is the most sought-after speaker on education and entrepreneurship in the country. He inspires and encourages thousands of people to realise their true potential and help them to become successful Entrepreneurs and tens of thousands of parents have been benefited from his Parenting Workshops “Art of Parenting”. #Soulfulस्कूलConference #mysphere #zamit
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About Speaker: Shantanu Das is a Principal at Sarala Birla Academy. He has done his schooling from St.Joseph Academy, Dehradun and holds a Masters in Physics and Business Administration and a Diploma in German. Trekked the Indian and Nepal Himalayas, the Rockies, the Andes, the Alps and climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro. Travelled to the Northernmost tip of Arctic Europe during the Polar Night and hiked Glaciers in Patagonia and Iceland. Been a part of a 4X4 self-drive across Botswana, Namibia and South Africa #Soulfulस्कूलConference #mysphere #zamit
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About Speaker: Zubair Ahmad is COO & Member of the Board for Springdales Dubai. He is a postgraduate–Master of Business Administration, a senior Professional with 20+ years of diversified experience in the field of Strategic Planning, Project management, School Operations & Administration, Human Resources and Quality Assurance. His close association with the CBSE in his various capacities has helped him to contribute to the School Operation Models both in India and in UAE. #Soulfulस्कूलConference #mysphere #zamit
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About Speaker: Anez Katre has more than 25 years of experience in the leading training and professional development in premier schools across India. She has also worked as a certified programme leader for Cambridge Assessment English and has written numerous academic papers on a wide range of educational topics. Anez is currently the Project Head at Zamit. With her joining us a Co-presenter Payal Mathur who has over 25 years of experience in education as an assessment specialist, examiner Trainer for the entire suite of English Proficiency Exams offered by Cambridge, a teacher tutor with Cambridge and an Examiner Support Coordinator for the popular IELTS test in Africa, Middle East, South Asia and Europe. #Soulfulस्कूलConference #mysphere #zamit
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About Speaker: Dr. Kiran Bedi is the first woman to have joined the officer ranks of Indian Police Service. She was the 24th former Lt Governor of Puducherry. Also served the United Nations as Civilian Police Advisor in Peacekeeping Operations. Winner of gallantry award and the Magsaysay Award also known as Asia’s Nobel Peace Award. She has a biopic on her life called Yes Madam Sir. Made by an Australian. She founded two Foundations, Navjyoti and India Vision Foundation which serve the underprivileged in rural, urban areas and in prisons for the last 30 years. Her latest book Fearless Governance, now translated into Hindi and Tamil is based on ground realities as she saw in serving as the Lt Governor Puducherry as released by Ms Indra Nooyi, Prof Debashish Chatterjee and Smita Prakash. They called it a “blueprint for Good Governance cutting across leadership qualities both, in the private and public sector”. #Soulfulस्कूलConference #mysphere #zamit
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About Speaker: Girish Nair founded Curiosity Gym and MySphere to address the shift from a Knowledge based to a Skills based education ecosystem. Mr. Girish has 32 years of experience in industry and academics, and has a background in technology and management at various companies in India and in Silicon Valley, California. He has worked at Intel, Webvan and Siebel in the US and was Netcore CEO previously as also a Partner at a Seed capital fund. Curiosity Gym offers hands-on learning experiences, incorporating technology to inspire innovation. MySphere is a digital portfolio for students to showcase skills and experiences, vital for internships, college admissions and building an interest based network. #Soulfulस्कूलConference #mysphere #zamit
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Speaker: Arun Warhadpande- Ex Air Force & Free Thinker
Guest: Punam Pant- Computer Expert In Schools
Moderator: Shikha Jain- Valistus International School
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About Speaker: Dr. Shankar Goenka is the recipient of a string of prestigious awards from India and abroad in Creative Thinking, Transformational Leadership, Capacity Building, Happiness and many more… He has facilitated more than 2,00,000 people & his clientele which include an ocean of school children from 200+ schools, universities from India and overseas, professionals, academicians, CEOs, judges, Bureaucrats, Business owners from more than 150 Corporations, PSUs, most of the Fortune 500 Companies. #Superस्कूल #howtomakehighlyeffectiveschools
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About Speaker: Dr Nalini Anand is PhD in Child Psychology, MBA in Marketing and Operations, B. TECH in Electronics and Communication with 22 years of experience in IT and Edu Tech industry. Currently working as Director Asia Pacific in K12 activities academy. A Unique Ed Tech company that provides experiential learning opportunities to make every school a Highly effective school through our platform INVENT - Internship In Virtual Enterprise. The program is outcome driven and helps students explore and learn about different types of enterprises, functions, and levels. During this learning, they also learn enterprise culture, collaboration, building strategy, building executable plans and driving outcomes that are measurable. #Superस्कूल #howtomakehighlyeffectiveschools
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About Speaker: Dr. Sumer Singh is an alumnus of the Doon School & St. Stephen’s College. He received an Honorary Doctorate in Education from De Montfort University, UK. He was Head of School at Lawrence School, Sanawar and Director of Asian School, Dehradun, Daly College and Daly College Business School, Indore. He is currently President of the Boarding Schools Association of India, on the Boards of PPS Nabha and Info Beans and on the Council Board of World Leading Schools Association. He has authored six books and held three one-man exhibitions of oil on canvas. He has designed schools and is currently working as a consultant in the realm of school education. #Superस्कूल #howtomakehighlyeffectiveschools
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About Speaker: Dr. Neeta Bali started her career as Head of Department Mater Dei School, Delhi, for 18 years, as a Vice- Principal, Apeejay School, Noida for 6 years; Headed GD Goenka World School, Sohna, as Director-Principal for 6 years; Kasiga School, Dehradun for 2 years and briefly served Podar International School- Powai, Mumbai. As of date, she is serving a second stint as Director-Principal at GD Goenka World School in Sohna, Haryana. Dr. Bali also specialises in teaching subjects such as the English Language, Psychology and Career. Her repertoire includes various curricula such as the ICSE/ISC and CBSE; IBO Accredited programmes – PYP and IB-DP and Cambridge accredited programmes – IGCSE and AS and A-Levels. #Superस्कूल #howtomakehighlyeffectiveschools
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About Speaker: Daniel Curry has decades of experience as a leader in the field of education. He has lived throughout the United States, Europe and the Middle East. Most recently, he founded an international school in Ras Al Khaimah, UAE and led it during its first five years. Dan has been a coach, teacher, principal, and superintendent in both public and private schools in California and internationally for over 20 years. Prior to that, Dan served in the United States Air Force, 1987 onwards, and was stationed throughout the Middle East and Europe. Dan is passionate about serving students and families with a caring and compassionate approach to education while also striving for academic excellence. He is readily available to students and parents to discuss their interests, concerns and hopes. #Superस्कूल #howtomakehighlyeffectiveschools
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About Speaker: Prof VM Chariar joyously practices an immersive and experiential pedagogy for which he has been awarded the Teaching Excellence Award by IIT Delhi. He loves to transform the conventional role of teacher to that of co-learner which enables the innate creativity and qualities of each element of the collective to be experienced and expressed. In addition to IIT Delhi, he is much loved by students at BITS Pilani, IIT Kharagpur & School of Planning & Architecture. Prof Chariar lovingly creates impact in water, sanitation & well-being through IITD partnered ventures Ekam Eco Solutions & Joy Is You. He loves to co-create on discovering self joyously, designing with empathy and appreciating natural abundance. #Superस्कूल #howtomakehighlyeffectiveschools
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About Speaker: Amrita Chandra Raju is a Principal of The Hyderabad Public School. She is a post graduate gold medallist in English Language and Literature. She has been an educationist for more than 30 years. She has garnered experiences from a host of actives ranging from academic to cultural. She brings to the table a rich understanding of various aspects of educational management- an appreciation of the true spirit of a public school with an innate Indianness. Ms Amrita Chandra Raju’s strength is her ability to ensure an educational ambience where all stakeholders of the schoolwork together as a team and feel encouraged, respected, safe and valued. #Superस्कूल #howtomakehighlyeffectiveschools
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About Speaker: Shailesh Tewary is a Founder President Hridai, Society for HRD Advisor Human Resources, Labour & Employment and Director – Globalx Biztrade Solutions Pvt. Ltd. He is also a Dean International Relations of The Libertas University, Croatia. His core competencies include taking lead role on strategic alignment, collaborations, organizational agility through structured training and development processes. Focused skills and abilities to leverage likely internal and external relationships to resolve complex business issues related to global employment, management development, statutory & legal matters, and overall productivity enhancement. #Superस्कूल #howtomakehighlyeffectiveschools
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About Speaker: B.R. Sitaram is a PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Delhi, worked as a scientist at the Physical Research Laboratory from 1983 to 1996 and as the Director of the Vikram A. Sarabhai Community Science Centre from 1996 to 2002. His main interests are in the teaching of science and mathematics and in the use of computers in education. He was one of the chief designers of the syllabus for the teaching of computers in Std. VIII-X in the state of Gujarat and was the subject expert for the textbooks for the same. He has served on committees in science education at the Ministry of Human Resource Development, New Delhi. #Superस्कूल #howtomakehighlyeffectiveschools
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About Speaker: Dr. Ramesh Bijlani is a medical doctor, writer, teacher, scientist, and above all a person committed to using his unique blend of talents for touching the hearts and lives of his fellow beings. Educated at the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, where he did his MBBS and MD; and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge MA, USA, where he did a master’s course in nutrition, Dr Bijlani spent nearly 30 years on the faculty of AIIMS, teaching and conducting research on nutrition in relation to cardiovascular disease and diabetes. He has more than twenty-five published books to his credit, including one on ‘Integral Education’, the system of education based on the philosophy of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. #Superस्कूल #howtomakehighlyeffectiveschools
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About Speaker: Dr. Amrita Vohra with over 25 years of transformative work in education, Dr Amrita Vohra is a passionate learner and educator currently serving in a dual role as Director Education for GEMS Education, India and Executive Principal for GEMS International School, Gurgaon. A PhD in English Literature and a certified Program Leader for Cambridge Professional Development Qualifications for teachers and school leaders. Her key research interests are women and child psychology, pedagogy, assessment, inclusive education, teacher professional development, curriculum design, school improvement, quality assurance, early childhood, and theatre in education. #Superस्कूल #howtomakehighlyeffectiveschools
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About Speaker: Dr. DP Kothari is an educationist and professor who has held leadership positions at engineering institutions in India including IIT Delhi, VNIT Nagpur and VIT University Vellore. Dr. Kothari has written 63 books, holds 52 PHDs, 845 research papers, 3 patents, 38 foreign visits and 50 years of teaching research and administrative experience. Now, hon. adjunct professor VNIT Nagpur. As a recognition of his contributions to engineering education, he was honoured as an IEEE Fellow. #RawAndReal #whywasschoolcreated
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About Speaker: Akshal Agarwal's entrepreneurial ambition started at a very young age, whilst pursuing law from the National Law University, Mumbai. He secured an All India Rank 13. Subsequently, Mr. Agarwal was admitted into the prestigious Young Leaders Program (MBA) of the Indian School of Business in collaboration with Kellogg’s and Wharton. He also secured entry to Stanford University’s Prestigious Seed Program 2021-22. His interest in education developed after he was exposed to global pedagogic practices when he attended the London School of Economics and Political Science in the United Kingdom. He aims to make NatureNurture a path breaker in the field of education to shape the next generation of young minds graduating from Indian schools. #RawAndReal #whywasschoolcreated
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About Speaker: My Body is My Body is written and animated by award-winning singer/ songwriter Chrissy Sykes, the MBIMB programme is supported by (The International Society For The Prevention Of Child Abuse and Neglect), Compassion International, The Global Goodwill Ambassadors Foundation, Cognizant Outreach and hundreds of smaller NGO's, Charities, Education Departments and Organisations and has been presented to over 1 million children around the world. The programme is currently available in 25 Languages. Chrissy spends her time teaching educators and community leaders around the world how to introduce this programme into their local areas and schools. #RawAndReal #whywasschoolcreated
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About Speaker: Dr. Abdulla Rasheed is an enthusiastic educationist with 30 years of experience in the field of education. He is currently working as a Minister of State for Education, Maldives. Before this, he was the Vice Rector of Avid College, Maldives. He served as a principal of government schools for 18 years. He did a school management diploma from NIE, Sri Lanka, Bachelor of Commerce major in Accounting and HRM from University of Tasmania, Master of Educational leadership from Nottingham University and Doctor of Philosophy in Instructional Leadership from Asia e University, Malaysia. #RawAndReal #whywasschoolcreated
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About Speaker: Joshua Kwaku, born and raised in Milan, Itlay. At the age of 20 years-old he decided to go outside of his own bubble to explore the world in a solo adventure. With 50 euros in his pocket and a one-way ticket he left without knowing where this new chapter would have brought. After 7 years of incredible and mind-blowing adventures and experiences, touching almost every remote corner of the globe, living and sharing with many indigenous communities, he came to the conclusion that this modern/western world, based on materialism, consumerism, and superficialities is leading nowhere if not far from the source of life: Mother Nature. #RawAndReal #whywasschoolcreated
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About Speaker: Deepika Goyal is an MBA from the Indian institute of foreign trade. She founded Popcorn in 2000 as a small kindergarten furniture company and today its India’s largest educational furniture supplier and has sold to over 8000 institutions. She has always been very passionate about providing safe furniture to children across all school platforms as ergonomic furniture goes a long way in providing a great learning environment. Popcorn has offices in New Delhi, Mumbai and Dubai and the company has sold furniture to schools in Dubai, Muscat, Singapore, Ghana and Nepal. #RawAndReal #whywasschoolcreated
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About Speaker: BK Shivani has been a practitioner and a teacher at Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual Organization. Her widely popular television show Awakening With Brahma Kumaris aimed at Self transformation enjoys the rare distinction of having completed 2,000 episodes. Viewers of her show have overcome mental stress, depression, addictions, low self-esteem, and unhappy relationships, by taking personal responsibility of their emotions. In March 2019, BK Shivani was awarded the prestigious Nari Shakti Puraskaar, the highest civilian honor for women in India, for her role in transforming human behaviours. #RawAndReal #whywasschoolcreated
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About Speaker: Shri Rajiv K. Podar is the Managing Director of Podar Enterprise. He was instrumental in setting up of the Textile Units of the Group and later diversified the activities of the Group into new areas of Sports, Affordable Housing, Skill Developments and Advisory Services. Shri Podar is the Founder Chairman of the International Business Linkage Forum, Vice Chairman of Anandilal Podar Trust and Board of Trustee of the Richmond the American International University in London. #RawAndReal #whywasschoolcreated
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About Speaker: C. Suriyaprakash, PhD is professor or Organisational behaviour at Jansons School of Business, Coimbatore. As a tertiary educator over thirty years, he believes in the holistic development of children and the role of teachers as a model and not mere repository of knowledge. He strives to create a value-based learning environment to bring out the full potential of his students. He recently founded an NGO, Child First Society, to place the child first in the education arena and emphasise the need to focus on education serving both the purposes of earning a livelihood and learning for life. #RawAndReal #whywasschoolcreated
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About Speaker: Vinayak Sudhakar started his career taking on administrative roles and teaching Business Studies and Mathematics at an international School in the United Arab Emirates. He returned to India and worked in a Chartered Accounting Firm specializing in Institutional Accounting and Colleges in audit practices. Mr.Sudhakar in his previous role as Senior Manager, worked with Cambridge Assessment International Education for over 15 years which was a leading provider of International examinations for ages 5 to 14 years. In his previous role in School Development, he has supported over 500 International Schools in implementing international assessments and qualifications, networking schools and training teachers to share best practices. He has visited schools in several countries including Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Germany, Malaysia, UK and the UAE supporting teachers and students. He has a Master’s Degree in Commerce and recently completed a programme on strategic leadership for schools in a changing environment from the IIM, Ahmedabad. Vinayak Sudhakar, based in Mumbai, worked for the International Baccalaureate as the Development and Recognition Manager for India. He is currently the Associate Director of Partnerships for CIALFO based in Mumbai. #XPLAINed #Mastercourse #Loveyoursubject
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About Speaker: Professor Vijay Chandru (PhD, MIT 1982) is engaged with interdisciplinary research in digital health at the Indian Institute of Science. An elected fellow of the Indian academy of sciences and engineering, he is a co-founder of Strand Life Sciences, India’s leading precision medicine solutions company. Strand was India’s first sanctioned start up in 2000 that was promoted by faculty of a public research institution. Professor Chandru is a technology pioneer of the World Economic Forum and recipient of the Hari Om Trust Award of University Grants Commission in 2001 for serving science and society. #XPLAINed #Mastercourse #Loveyoursubject
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About Speaker: My name is Rohan Sureash. In May 2021, I graduated from UWCSEA East Campus, Singapore, and received the IB diploma scoring 45/45 points. Now I am currently a recruit in the Singapore Armed Forces, serving my mandatory 2 years of National Service. In 2018, I started my own social enterprise called rohanschefology.com. This is a private chef service where I visit my clients and prepare them a fine dining meal in the comfort of their own homes. Apart from cooking, my hobbies entail playing tennis, Taekwondo, and exploring the outdoors #XPLAINed #Mastercourse #Loveyoursubject
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About Speaker: Samuel Hungsoo Kim, a Korean national, is the Founding President of the Center for Asia Leadership. He is passionate about nurturing and empowering talent in Asia and runs over 70 programs annually, in 31 Asian countries, to help the region’s decision-makers and emerging leaders face today’s varying complex realities by initiating and managing the process of making critical adaptations and improvements.His research and programs focus on Organizational Adaptability and Resilience, Futures Thinking, Decision Making, Learning Organization, Moral Leadership, and Power and Influence. He has worked for or with over 30 renowned organizations, including the United Nations, UNESCO, Samsung, and Toyota. Samuel holds an MPA from Harvard University. He is the editor of 13 books and regularly writes opinion pieces and editorials. #XPLAINed #Mastercourse #Loveyoursubject
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About Speaker: Kamala Mukunda is trained in educational, developmental, and cognitive psychology, and has been working at a teacher-run school for nearly 30 years. She has a deep interest in conveying relevant psychological research to teachers, because she believes that this will enrich their professional lives and spark a lasting sense of wonder in learning. She has published two books for teachers and parents: What Did You Ask at School Today, Books 1 and 2. #XPLAINed #Mastercourse #Loveyoursubject
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About Speaker: RamG Vallath is the happiest and most positive individual he has ever met. Having graduated from IIT and completed his post-graduation from XLRI, RamG went on to build a highly successful career. But a crippling disorder derailed his dreams. However, RamG reinvented his life as a bestselling author and motivational speaker. Today, he has addressed over 50,000 professionals and over 60,000 students and helped them instil traits such as growth mindset, resilience, and positive thinking. He is the author of the bestselling book, Active Parenting that helps parents with practical tools to raise truly successful adults. #unlearning #learn_relearn_unlearn #unsungeducators
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About Speaker: Jim Connor is the founder and co-creator of Whispering Seed, a small NGO working in Myanmar (Burma) on youth empowerment and teacher training by bridging sustainability and holistic education. With over 20 years’ experience living and working in Asia, he and his children started Sprouting Seeds Café, Bakery and Eco Shop, a training centre to empower local youth and teachers. Currently they are developing Whispering Earth Living and Learning Sustainability Training Centre, a 14 acre learning centre located in rural Myanmar focusing on Permaculture, natural building, organic farming, seed saving and holistic education. #unlearning #learn_relearn_unlearn #unsungeducators
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About Speaker: An architect by education and filmmaker by profession. Over 6 years of travel with Thannal he has directed two video songs about natural building and also launched India's first Natural building app. This collective understanding between architecture and filmmaking has given him a new perception to portray the dimensions of natural building. #unlearning #learn_relearn_unlearn #unsungeducators
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About Speaker: Gautham, educator, entrepreneur, and global citizen, hails from Attappady, a remote village in Kerala, India, and works as a web developer. Realizing that education is the practice of living and letting live, his parents established Sarang, a life-based learning center. His education at Sarang helped him take on many roles in life with clarity. At the time his parents dreamt of education beyond schools, it was unheard of. Today there are many working in the field of education taking inspiration from Sarang. Working towards taking the Sarang experience to children, parents, and teachers, Gautham is seeking team members and resources. #unlearning #learn_relearn_unlearn #unsungeducators
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About Speaker: Pooja Joshi Samant is a Founder Trustee & Executive Director of Mimaansa. She have been running the organisation for last 8 years. Learning Disability was a reality, and someone had to address it. A disability which affects about 12 million kids in India could not have any more gone ignored. Which is how Mimaansa with its early intervention model took form. She continues to look after the monitoring & evaluation of the program along with Fund Raising. Mimaansa recently bagged the best innovation award in India from among 367 entries. We have also been featured by The Vodafone International foundation in their coffee table book on 50 most inspirational women in India. Mimaansa also received a Key transparency award from Guidestar which validates Mimaansa to be a fair and transparent NGO. #unlearning #learn_relearn_unlearn #unsungeducators
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About Speaker: Prof (Dr) Rashmi Diwan, Head, National Centre for School Leadership, National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration. She is instrumental in establishing the first National Centre for School Leadership at NIEPA under the aegis of Government of India. In her professional journey of more than 35 years at NIEPA, she is committed to teaching, capacity building, empirical research and extensive published work primarily in the areas of school education, leadership and management. She has also led educational programmes in East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii in United States of America, National Centre for Leadership and Teaching in the United Kingdom and several Educational Institutions in Paris, France, Helsinki, Finland, and several others across the world. #unlearning #learn_relearn_unlearn #unsungeducators
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About Speaker: Deepti Gubbi, Currently Head of Education at - Jai Vakeel Foundation. She is a Child Development Specialist, and an Autism Interventionist and therapist for specific learning differences. She has been working for and with children with special learning needs for the last 20 years #unlearning #learn_relearn_unlearn #unsungeducators
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About Speaker: Sam Durrant taught French for many years in comprehensive schools in the UK. I mainly specialised in pastoral care at Key Stage 4, administering GCSE exams for 16-year-olds at all ability levels. I have worked in Goa for 6 years. Our curriculum combines an in-depth mastery of academic subjects like Maths, English, Science, Humanities and Languages along with the development of the skills needed for a happy and successful future. SO a deep subject knowledge as well as developing higher order thinking skills such as; learning from mistakes; positivity; self-awareness; team-work; research; extended writing; presentation skills; critical thinking and problem solving. Transferable skills that last a lifetime #unlearning #learn_relearn_unlearn #unsungeducators
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About Speaker: Mechai Viravaidya is a widely acclaimed leader in the fields of public health, education, and community development. Since 1974, Mr. Mechai has initiated community-based family planning services, innovative poverty reduction and rural education programs, large-scale rural development, and environmental programs, as well as ground-breaking HIV/AIDS prevention activities throughout Southeast Asia. In 2008, the Bamboo School was established to be a lifelong learning center for students as well as other citizens and a hub for social and economic advancement. He has received many international awards including the United Nations Population Award, the Bill and Melinda Gates Award for Global Health, the Prince Mahidol Award for Public Health, the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Public Service, and the Skill Award for Social Entrepreneurship #unlearning #learn_relearn_unlearn #unsungeducators
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About Speaker: Sandeep Pandey is social & political activist. Founder of Asha for Education and Asha Trust which works for education of underprivileged children. Have fasted twice to get Justice Sudhir Agarwal's U.P. High Court judgement, that children of all receiving salaries from government must attend government school, implemented but have been unsuccessful. Have been a member of Central Advisory Board of education during UPA government. My areas of interest include Education for underprivileged children, Human rights, Empowerment of marginalized communities, struggles for strengthening of Democracy, Right to Information for Transparency and Accountability, Right to Food, Employment Guarantee Scheme, People’s politics, Governance, Communal Harmony, Nuclear Disarmament and Peace, India Pakistan Friendship, Corporate Accountability #unlearning #learn_relearn_unlearn #unsungeducators
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About Speaker: Maxine is an award-winning educator who draws on outstanding leadership experience in Australia and internationally. She has led International Baccalaureate schools in Asia and Australia for 20 years. Maxine has consulted on leadership and strategic planning in Australia, Asia, Europe and the USA. Completing a Leadership Fellowship at Columbia University, USA and a Master of Education at Deakin University, Australia she is both qualified and passionate to inspire educators to plan for success in OUR NEW COVID REALITY. #SacredSchool #InternationalSummit
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About Speaker: Delfina is a Delicate Activist who designs educational and social innovation journeys. She is the initiator of Iniciativa Murmullo, which is born from the joint need of a community of professionals who considers their practice as the path of development, learning and growth. This community works steadily towards the inner life of social organisations to generate practical, reflective, and collaborative practices, thus creating conditions conducive to life. Delfina’s strategy is to hold sustainability of the viable spaces within organisations to generate systemic well-being. Communities of practice represent the container where synergy occurs in such a way that regenerates the social tissue of the system. She believes that we can work as a community to become the community we want to see in the world. #SacredSchool #InternationalSummit
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About Speaker: He realised that school had impeded his education. Sal’s gap-year turned into a gap decade. He travelled and worked around the world, learning new languages, customs, cultures; working different jobs and upskilling his life-skills; sailing boats, writing books, driving trucks, running warehouses, working in labs, building houses. You name, he probably did it - adapting to everything new (again and again), building resilience, and fine-tuning his love of people, for learning, and for this beautiful planet. After ten years, when starting a family, he knew his true calling was in Teaching and Learning - after all, that’s what he had been doing all his life. Sal Gordon joined the green school bali to teach Mathematics, Science, Thematics and later becoming Head of Middle School for two years - before moving into the ‘Head of Teaching and Learning - Principal’ role in August 2019. #SacredSchool #InternationalSummit
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About Speaker: Mohit Rauniyar is the Co-Founder of Canopy Nepal, a social enterprise working to create educational accessibility for underprivileged students and promote interactive learning in Nepal. He has been in the education field for the past 9 years and is actively consulting various educational institutions in Nepal. Rauniyar is also a part of the Global Shaper Kathmandu, which is a part of the Global Shapers Community, and is also a Guide at The Resolution Project and a Global Changemaker at Youth Forum Switzerland. #SacredSchool #InternationalSummit
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About Speaker: Dr David Porritt is an experienced UK and International School Principal having worked in the role for 25 years. He is the proud Principal of Budapest British International School. He is a regular programme facilitator, executive coach and leadership mentor as director of coaching services at KAA. David has facilitated several coaching programmes in schools internationally and works directly as a coach with numerous school leaders worldwide. He has recently completed a Doctorate in leadership and coaching in schools. David facilitated several cohorts of international teaching staff through the International Programme for Middle Leaders for the Council of British International Schools and has taught several Heads and principals how to facilitate their own programmes. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Leadership and Management. #SacredSchool #InternationalSummit
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About Speaker: Michel is a primary school principal, an experienced meditator with training in Search Inside Yourself, and a certified ICF Leadership coach and NLP coach. He ordained as a Buddhist monk for a short time and part of his responsibilities at Panyaden include leading meditation retreats for the staff. Panyaden is a unique bilingual and green international school with mindfulness at the centre of its values-based education. “Mindfulness is not something we teach students. It’s something teachers and leaders must model. Mindfulness is about cultivating the heart and sharpening the mind of all the school stakeholders." #SacredSchool #InternationalSummit
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About Speaker: With rich experience in managing and coordinating large teams including government, private and international organizations, Bhushan now works as an Executive Director for Kids of Kathmandu. Over 4,000 students from all over Nepal are served by his projects that build schools with modern infrastructure in remote and underdeveloped areas of Nepal. Furthermore, he is also the project director of e-education Japan, which develops concepts and contents related to teaching materials, especially STEM subjects, to enable public schools in Nepal to significantly improve their education materials. He is also a lecturer at the Shanker Dev Campus, affiliated with Tribhuwan University, Nepal. A graduate of the Mphil program, he's been featured in the United Nations documentary, 'Nepal: Rebuilding after the earthquake'. #SacredSchool #InternationalSummit
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About Speaker: Akash Deep Singhal Graduated from IIT Bombay, Akash is Founder and CEO of OneLXP, a B2B SaaS-based Learning Experience Platform (LXP) for premier schools and universities across the globe.He is a serial entrepreneur with 9+ years of experience in the startup ecosystem. He has previously co-founded a healthcare startup, Medd which after a tremendous response and 3 rounds of investment was later acquired by 1mg/HealthKart+ Originating from a technology background, he has helped several organizations in developing scalable tech architectures and growing the business to reach profitability. He has also been a successful participant of Google Summer of Code. #SacredSchool #InternationalSummit
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About Speaker: Candida Williams is currently with Singapore MathGym as their Lead in Academic Partnerships, empowering and facilitating a global partnership base whilst understanding social and client responsibility principles/practices to ensure partnership sustainability. With over 16 years of experience in strategic partnerships and client management, Candida has been working with various industries and handling Corporate HR, Corp Comms, Marketing and now with Schools.A passionate and purpose driven individual who wants to make an impact through education and the challenges in the need to transform and empower children. #SacredSchool #InternationalSummit
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About Speaker: Jaspal Sidhu, a Singaporean, leads Indonesia’s premier chain of private schools operating at multiple price points under the umbrella ‘SIS & Inspirasi Group of Schools’. In a strategic partnership with the International Finance Corporation (World Bank), the Group is in an expansion mode in Indonesia and as well as other parts of Asia. In 2019 the Group was awarded the prestigious Financial Times (UK) -IFC (World Bank) award for its transformational work in education. This year Capital Finance (London), named the Group as the “Best Educational institution in SE Asia” for its impact work. Jaspal was also part of a committee with Harvard University and IFC (World Bank) looking at developing a set of principles called “Ethics in Education” for various stakeholders. Jaspal is also an advisor to the Indonesian Education Forum that advises the government on education policies. #SacredSchool #InternationalSummit
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About Speaker: Dr. N. Mythili is a former Assistant Professor at the National Centre for School Leadership. Currently she is working as an associate professor with Mahindra University. She has been leading research and discourse on School Leadership, in Indian context through her research monographs and peer-reviewed articles published in international and national journals. Her recent works include ‘Women in School Leadership’ published by Sage and ‘Pedagogical Leadership: A handbook for leading learning in Schools’. The handbook on Pedagogical Leadership defines school leadership and explores the process of leading schools by principals in Indian context. This book is being used to redefine the roles of principals as pedagogical leaders taking a shift from administrative roles in all schools affiliated to CBSE (India and Abroad), NVS and KVS. #EnlightenedLeader #LeadershipConference
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About Speaker: Kanak Gupta is Group Director of Seth M.R. Jaipuria Schools, which is running 37 schools (Nursery to Grade 12) pan-India with 30,000+ students and 2000+ educators associated with the group, primarily at Tier 2/ Tier 3 cities. Kanak is an educator with 16+ years of experience working in India, UK, and Germany. Kanak works with leading media networks as consultant and television panelist, he is also co-founder of Theatrecian, the most prolific English theatre group in India, and co-Trustee of We Log Charitable Trust, involved with pollution issues, police reforms and protection laws. Kanak has been awarded 'Young Creative Entrepreneur' by the British Council in India, Indian Educator of the Year by Achievers Forum, and recognized as one of the 40 under 40 educators in India, among other awards. #EnlightenedLeader #LeadershipConference
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About Speaker: Sahithi Divi Forbes 30 under 30 2021 and Founder impactscientist, national brand ambassador for SDGs by CISMSE on a mission to bring out the stories of women made products form bottom of the pyramid and create a women leadership platform for incubating and providing partnerships individuals and entrepreneurs of various stages. #EnlightenedLeader #LeadershipConference
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About Speaker: Arunachalam Muruganantham is a social entrepreneur from Coimbatore Tamil Nadu. He is the inventor of a low-cost sanitary pad-making machine and is credited for innovating grassroots mechanisms for generating awareness about traditional unhygienic practices around menstruation in rural India. His mini-machines, which can manufacture sanitary pads for less than a third of the cost of commercial pads, have been installed in 23 of the 29 states of India in rural areas. His social entrepreneurship has given low-income women dignity, by making it possible for them to afford to buy sanitary towels and provide them with an income at the same time. In 2018 his innovation and life story were featured in the movie Padman starring Akshay Kumar. In 2016, he was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India. #EnlightenedLeader #LeadershipConference
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About Speaker: Dr. S.K. Rathor, is Founder, Chairman & MD of SANFORT Group of Schools. He is a Founding President of Early Childhood Care & Development Educator’s Association, a voluntary organisation working for the welfare of early learners, educators, and parents. He is the most sought-after speaker on education and entrepreneurship in the country. He inspires and encourages thousands of people to realise their true potential and help them to become successful Entrepreneurs and tens of thousands of parents have been benefitted from his Parenting Workshops “Art of Parenting”. #EnlightenedLeader #LeadershipConference
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About Speaker: Major Mohommed Ali Shah is the most sought after International TEDx speaker who has given the highest no. of TEDx talks not only in India but in the world. He was recently invited to speak at the Prestigious Seeding Stem Global Summit conducted jointly by the esteemed Cambridge University and London University and his keynote address on 5th September 2020 was highly applauded by all! His storytelling makes kids and elders aware of the Indian culture, rituals, and the significance behind the festivals. As a motivational Speaker he specialises in converting one's negatives into positives, disadvantages into advantages, liabilities into assets, darkness into light, weaknesses into strengths. #EnlightenedLeader #LeadershipConference
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About Speaker: Carlos Manuel Jarquin is a 16-year-old with a mission to solve energy production and energy storage via nanotechnology and advanced materials and creative writing. He is a high schooler at The Buckley School with an interest in Nanotechnology and Material Science. He's a student intern at The Climate Crew, & Author of "100 Nano-Stories: Bookmarked!", an e-book on Medium.com which talks about the material science of nanomaterials, aerogel, & graphene. #YoungMinds #PoweredByTheSmartClass #Youngchangemakers
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About Speaker: Soborno Isaac Bari is a Bengali American prodigy, author and university professor, born on April 9, 2012 at New York. His parents noticed he began talking in full sentences at 6 months and was able to solve mathematics, physics, and chemistry problems at 2 years old. His parents started recording his problem-solving abilities and shared his videos on social media, some of which caught the attention of local TV channels and colleges in New York. In 2016, at age 4, Bari received a letter of recognition from President Barack Obama for his accomplishments in math and science, and in 2018, at age 6, he received a letter of recognition from Harvard University for his problem-solving abilities. #YoungMinds #PoweredByTheSmartClass #Youngchangemakers
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About Speaker: Amit has been awarded amongst ‘India’s Top 30 Marketers’ in Education Sector, He is a certified digital marketing expert and has over 16 years of diverse experience in Marketing & Finance roles across industries like Education, Retail, Financial Services.With his growing proficiency & Industry recognition in the Education Space, Amit has recently co-founded the brand ‘The Smart Class’, an E-Learning platform that specializes in delivering online master- classes across critical skills required by students, faculty members as well as young industry professionals.Amit has previously worked with Sushant University (Erstwhile Ansal University) as ‘Chief Marketing Officer & Director- Admissions’ where he spearheaded the growth initiatives through innovative marketing & brand promotion campaigns across platforms. #YoungMinds #PoweredByTheSmartClass #Youngchangemakers
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About Speaker: Harsimran Kaur is an acclaimed author of The Best I can do is to Write My Heart Out, I am Perfectly Imperfect, and Clementines on My Poetry Table. She is a record holder under the India Book of Records and Asia Book of Records for her first publication at fourteen. Her work, consisting of Poetry, Fiction, and Academic writing, has been featured and recognized on various national and international forums. She is also the founder of Pastlores, an online club dedicated to literature enthusiasts. #YoungMinds #PoweredByTheSmartClass #Youngchangemakers
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About Speaker: Jenk is a 16-year-old social entrepreneur, professional actor, public speaker, and social change activist as well as the Founder of Thred Media, one-stop digital publishing company producing original content aimed at young people. He is the youngest CEO in the UK. The central tenet of the Thred business is the social change focused where they write on all aspects of youth culture seen through the lens of social change. It reaches teens and young adults in 130+ countries a month and has won several awards including four W3 Awards, an International Davey Award, Amazon AWS Activator Award and been a finalist for a global KidScreen award. Jenk is a member of The Knowledge Society (TKS) and sits on the Marketing Board for Founders4Schools, WorkFinder App, UpNext Education and Prospect 100. #YoungMinds #PoweredByTheSmartClass #Youngchangemakers
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About Speaker: Arnay is a two times TEDx speaker. He is a youngest soft skill trainer and Reporter at National Newspaper in India and USA. He gives talks on various topics such as attitude of gratitude, anger management, how to be multi-talented, how to become a storyteller, how to stay positive, mantra of life, how to be an avid book reader and many more. Currently, Arnay is the founder of The Talk Bar, StoryTelling Society of India and eReadingShala. He has a Reading speed of 650 words per minute. (Average reading speed of an 11 to 14-year-old is 150 to 200 WPM, and Average adult reading speed is 300 WPM)
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About Speaker: Souhardya De is a seventeen-year-old Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of London, an author, art and culture columnist, and podcaster. He is the recipient of the Rashtriya Bal Shakti Puraskar, the nation’s highest honour for civilians under 18, and has been presented with the honorary Colonelcy of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, bestowed upon him by the Governor Andy Beshear, for his contributions to the revitalisation and popularisation of Indian art, culture and heritage. His upcoming work based on the Mughal India will be out with Rupa Publications India. #YoungMinds #PoweredByTheSmartClass #Youngchangemakers
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About Speaker: Aditya Pachpande is an entrepreneur, and an innovator, who while still a student of grade 9, is a force to reckon with in the field of education and innovation. He co-founded NextGenInnov8 Global Solutions Pvt. Ltd. – a company dedicated to spark the power of innovation in every child. As a way to combat COVID-19, he created SURAKSHA BOX – a UVC light sterilization box, which is used to sterilize essential items like food and groceries and protects all strains of COVID-19. The Box also has a Govt. Of India Patent Published and certified by ICMR Approved Lab. Winner of multiple awards and the youngest ever student to complete three summer academies at Harvard and an entrepreneurship course at Babson. He has an MOU with Harvard for bringing Summer Business Academy Program to India. #YoungMinds #PoweredByTheSmartClass #Youngchangemakers
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About Speaker: What started as a surprise video interview planned for fathers on 'Father’s Day' along with her father turned young Hasini into the Founder of THE FIRST STEP at the age of 12. Her acumen in bringing out the best in the people she interacts with, has sprouted as her venture 'THE FIRST STEP'. Through this project she interviews children in the age group of 7 to 17 who have stretched their limits to pursue their passion. She shares their stories on her YouTube channel to inspire millions of children across the world. Her live event on YouTube in September 2020 saw 1000 plus children from across India interacting with Young Entrepreneurs leaving them motivated to unleash their hidden potentials. #YoungMinds #PoweredByTheSmartClass #Youngchangemakers
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bout Speaker: Dr. Vandana Shiva is an Indian scholar, environmental activist and anti-globalisation author. She is often referred as "Gandhi of grain" for her activism associated with anti-GMO movement. She has written and spoken extensively about advances in the fields of agriculture and food. She has assisted grassroots organisations of the Green movement in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Ireland, Switzerland, and Austria with opposition to advances in agricultural development via genetic engineering. In 1991, she founded Navdanya a national movement to protect the diversity and integrity of living resources, especially native seed, the promotion of organic farming and fair trade. #YoungMinds #PoweredByTheSmartClass #Youngchangemakers
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About Speaker: Tanushree’s keen interest in education and love for children lead her to many non-formal learning spaces as a young person navigating the frameworks of society. The question of right education was integral in her explorations, where she discovered education as a way of life. In 2008, she was part of a group that started a learning space called Shibumi, on the outskirts of Bangalore. Can one nurture a mind that is awake? Staying with this question has been the basis of her investigations in education. #Swadeshiस्कूल #ProgressiveEducation #UnconventionalMinds
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About Speaker: Serving as the Director - Secretary of the Palar Centre for Learning (KFI) comprising Pathashaala school, Outreach programs and a Krishnamurti study centre. He was Principal of The School, KFI from 1991 to 2009, where he guided several initiatives such as Mixed Age Group Learning in Junior and Middle school, Active Learning for SSA that was taken to 50,000 classrooms in October 2007, a dynamic wide learning programme for High School students and establishing a short-term Teacher Training programme. The core of his work has been to facilitate the building of a robust and sustainable staff culture through which initiative and change can emerge from within an educational institution. #Swadeshiस्कूल #ProgressiveEducation #UnconventionalMinds
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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About Speaker: Christina Furtado, Executive Director, Equal Community Foundation Christina has been associated with Equal Community Foundation since 2015. She is passionate about ECF's mission to raise 'Every Boy in India to be Gender Equitable' and is currently focused on leading ECF's efforts to scale the approach of engaging boys in gender-transformative programmes across India. Equal Community Foundation was established by Will Muir and Rujuta Teredesai in 2009 and has been implementing its flagship gender-transformative programme for boys, Action for Equality, in Pune, Maharashtra for the last 10 years. ECF has also built the capacity of over 50 organisations across India to implement similar programmes for boys, most recently having served as the technical capacity building partner for ICRW on their Gender Equality Movement in Schools programme in Rajasthan and UNESCO-India on their 'Transforming Men-talities' programme for CBSE school networks in India. 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
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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
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About Speaker: Swaminathan Ganesan, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Smartail, is a solution-based technology specialist and product leader. He is leading Smartail through the transformation that is defining a new era in the Education industry with AI. With an overall 17 years of experience in the IT Industry, he is passionate about building products and leading high productivity teams. He is a subject matter expert in building Software as a Service products and implementation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the real world. He enjoys mentoring and engaging with young engineers. #Swadeshiस्कूल #ProgressiveEducation #UnconventionalMinds
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About Speaker: Seetha Ananthasivan is a Founder and Executive Trustee of Prakriya Green Wisdom School, Bengaluru. She has an abiding and intensive interest in designing processes and curricula for education for sustainable living. She has been working for over two decades on applying ecological principles in many areas of learning - including holistic education in schools, building culture for ecological communities and applying holistic thinking to management processes. Over the last two and a half decades she has also been the progenitor for several national and international conferences that have focused on climate change, economics for wellbeing and holistic education. #Swadeshiस्कूल #ProgressiveEducation #UnconventionalMinds
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About Speaker: Sunanda Ali is Executive Director of The Peepal Grove School in Andhra Pradesh. She have been involved in Education for many years and my interest and passion for it has remained constant. She also loves reading, music and trekking in the wild and enjoy sharing these interests with my students and colleagues. She like working collaboratively with people and feel that the process of working together is as important as the result. The world has become a very difficult place especially over the last twenty years and I feel that all of us need to work together to make it a better place for ourselves and the generations to come. #Swadeshiस्कूल #ProgressiveEducation #UnconventionalMinds
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About Speaker: Dr. Manjula Pooja Shroff is MD & CEO of Kalorex Group, she has been instrumental in founding and managing several premier schools. Kalorex, since its inceptions in 1995, is a name synonymous to professionalism and excellencein schooling. It has under its umbrella, the Delhi Public Schools, Calorx Olive International School at Ahmedabad and Calorx Public Schools across the Western Belt of India with 40+ educational Institutions. Kalorex is recognized as a quality conscious group with a focus on Innovation and use of Technology in Learning.Her concern for the marginalized and those with special learning needs is evident through the projects Visamo Kids and Prerna- a school for dyslexics.She is a recipient of several awards, among them, the prestigious Secular India Award from the President of India, Shri Shankar Dayal Sharma & Woman of the year by American Bibliography Society, North Carolina #Swadeshiस्कूल #ProgressiveEducation #UnconventionalMinds
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About Speaker: Mahesh is an ex-banker with BFSI and entrepreneurship experience of over 6+ years. He has completed his education from premier institutes like IIM Ahmedabad (MBA) and IIT Guwahati (BTech). He is actively involved in financial markets and investment planning as he holds Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) from the CFA Institute USA. Mahesh is on a mission to raise awareness about financial literacy in teenagers through his AmbiClass initiative because irrespective of career path, everyone will have to deal with personal finances. #INVEST #LearnToEarn #FinancialLiteracyForEducators
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About Speaker: Dr. Bindu Rana is an educational entrepreneur and a well-known educationist with an expertise in curriculum design and pedagogy. She is credited with having led the largest R&D initiatives ever undertaken in India, building a formidable repository of constructivist educational content and disruptive teaching systems, and created proprietary Learning Systems for pedagogic excellence adopted by hundreds of schools in India. Dr Rana has authored over 900 curriculum textbooks in her illustrious career span and has also been instrumental in setting up more than 50 plus brick-and-mortar schools in the country. She was titled the Gem of India in the year 2017 and has won several national and international awards for her exemplary work.
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About Speaker: Mandeep Gill is the co-founder of Labour Law Advisor. What began as an ordinary YouTube channel back in 2016 has now grown into a brand with over 1.6 million+ subscribers on YouTube and about 200k on other social media platforms. He along with Rishabh Jain (IITB Alum) started Labour Law Advisor with an aim to simplify complex labour laws and various benefits of social security schemes for the Indian working class who were otherwise oblivious to the same. At some point in 2018 Mandeep started to realise the ugly truths of his household’s financial condition and identified the root causes for the same. While he decided to work towards setting things right, he realised that there are millions of families going through the same and at that point, he made it a mission to educate as many people on personal finance as possible and prevent them from losing what his family had already lost, time. He started creating content on personal finance under the same brand name as the audience he was trying to reach was the Indian working class. He calls his community, JagrukJanta. Before being known as a full-time YouTuber, Mandeep wore multiple hats and sometimes, more than one at a time. A fitness consultant and writer, an educational blogger, a salesman, and a freelance photographer, filmmaker & editor. He is also currently a hobbyist photographer and an amateur filmmaker. #INVEST #LearnToEarn #FinancialLiteracyForEducators
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About Speaker: Nancy Ekpezu is currently the Lead Consultant and Trainer of Pezu Smith Consulting. Nancy has spoken at several reputable platforms within Nigeria and beyond, including a TEDx Talk. In 2018, she was nominated for an award by the prestigious Arc Lights Foundation for Education Advancement in Africa for her contribution to the development of education in Nigeria. In 2020, she was named a Global Educational Influencer by the Excelligent Group in Asia, and in 2021 she was featured among 100 Admired People in Education. Nancy has a passion to see organisations in Nigeria and West Africa function effectively with proper processes and procedures for productivity and sustainability. So, she trains and coaches school administrators and managers. She is the author of the book Dear Educator which was published in May 2019.
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About Speaker: Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak, Sanitation Crusader, has made contribution for solving problems of open-defecation, removal of inhuman practice of manual scavenging associated with untouchability, by inventing appropriate, affordable, technology for household toilets with minimum water use dispensing manual scavenging and maintaining 9000 ‘pay and use’ based public toilets attached with biogas plants linked to Sulabh Effluent Treatment device, constructing 1.5 million household toilets and thereby liberating most of 10 lac scavengers. At instance of Supreme Court has ameliorated widows’ living conditions. Awarded Padma Bhushan, The International Saint Francis Prize for the Environment “Canticle of All Creatures” at Assisi, Italy, Global 500 Roll of Honour Award by UNEP at Beirut (Lebanon), Scroll of Honour by UN-Habitat at Rio-de-Janeiro (Brazil), Stockholm Water Prize, etc. New York Global Leaders Humanitarian Award conferred to him in April 2016”. Mr. Bill De Blasio, Mayor of the City of New York, declared April 14, 2016 as DR. BINDESHWAR PATHAK DAY. He received the 'Gandhi Peace Prize-2016' from the Hon'ble President of India, Shri Ram Nath Kovind at Rashtrapati Bhawan, New Delhi on February 26, 2019, in the presence of Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi. #INVEST #LearnToEarn #FinancialLiteracyForEducators
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About Speaker: Kieron Sweeney is a highly regarded and inspiring international speaker, author, Tedx Speaker and a Public Speaking Mentor. He has trained public speaking and business courses for entrepreneurs and youth for over 20 years in Canada, U.S.A, Europe, Asia, Australia and South Africa. Kieron facilitates seminars in mindset and money, personal growth, leadership, mindset and sales & influence. Kieron mentors early-stage entrepreneurs, financial planners, executives, and youth to achieve a higher level of success by applying public speaking as a tool to advance their careers and life. In 2016, Kieron delivered a Tedx Talk on financial illiteracy in the school system. He teaches a simple money management system called Life’s Golden Buckets and today Kieron will teach us this system.
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About Speaker: We believe in Best of the Best services and do not compromise on the quality of education of our students. We believe the real difference between success and failure in an organization can be very often traced to the question of how well the organization brings out the energies and talents of its people. Our professionally qualified teachers with regular trainings have proved and given enormous results. We look forward to increase every child's maths skills, remove maths phobia, inculcating proportional thinking, problem solving skills and overall school performance, while building confidence and creating positive attitude towards the subject. "It is easier to square the circle than to get round a mathematician".
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About Speaker: Anupama Das began her journey as a teacher and credits her career as a teacher for her successful sting in business consulting IT companies and edu talk anchor. During her journey as a businesswoman she realised the power and importance of inculcating empathy in today's youth and channelizing this energy for the growth of Grass root India and the world. She is currently the founder of Ambiclass and COO of Sambal Foundation. Anupama always says being in a human life is a responsibility given by God to make this world a more empathetic place to live in and I am working on it every second I am living on this earth.
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About Speaker: Dr. Agrawal's Name has been associated with the Dabbawalas of Mumbai for a while . He has been working tirelessly to increase the profile of this integral Mumbai network ever since he began to work his Doctoral thesis "A Study of Logistics and Supply Chain Management of Dabbawalas in Mumbai". He has given several talks on the Dabbawalas and their system around India, as well as in various countries in Asia and Africa and beyond the Pacific in the United States and the United Kingdom. Dr. Agrawal has received several awards for his work as teacher including the 'Utkrusht Shikshak Sanman' from the Mumbai National Congress in 2010 and the Rajiv Gandhi Puraskar in 2007. Along with his regular work, Dr. Agrawal also runs the Mumbai Dabbawala Education Centre under the Kamlabai Educational & Charitable Trust to further the education of Dabbawalas as well as underprivileged children. Now he is also working on a new thesis "Emergence and Importance of Newspaper Distribution Business in Mumbai." (Mumbai Paperwala) #INTERN #SkillsBeyondSchool #IndustryInnovators
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About Speaker: Prof Vijayaraghavan Chariar joyously practices an immersive and experiential pedagogy for which he has been awarded the Teaching Excellence Award by IIT Delhi. He loves to transform the conventional role of teacher to that of co-learner which enables the innate creativity and qualities of each element of the collective to be experienced and expressed. In addition to IIT Delhi, he is much loved by students at BITS Pilani, IIT Kharagpur & School of Planning & Architecture. Prof Chariar lovingly creates impact in water, sanitation & well-being through IITD partnered ventures Ekam Eco Solutions & JoyIsYou. He loves to co-create on discovering self joyously, designing with empathy and appreciating natural abundance. #INTERN #SkillsBeyondSchool #IndustryInnovators
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About Speaker: Mr. Jose Thomas is a rare visionary and personality who continues to prove his mettle both as an entrepreneur and educator par excellence. He is the epitome of making it in life amidst all its share of challenges following a continuous learning path with a self-imposed curriculum complemented by sincere application of knowledge in the fields of his varied interests - the sea-food business, canning, shipping, civil constructions, IT solutions, AI, finance, commerce, aviation, governance, culinary arts, music and above all school education. He is indeed a trend-setter and a master-architect celebrating each person’s talents whilst breaking stereotypes. Consequently, he inspires generations to realize their ikigai in life with a great sense of self-discipline, self-discovery and social responsibility. Mr. Jose Thomas is the Chairman and Managing Director of the Choice Group of Companies with businesses operating in India, USA, Canada, Singapore, South Korea, and Japan. He commenced this journey when he willingly took over the reins of the Choice Canning Company at the age of 17 subsequent to the sudden demise of his father, Mr. OC Thomas. His engagements since then have given shape to himself and the Choice Group of enterprises on the foundations of integrity, sincerity, efficiency and discipline. The satisfaction of social contribution saw light only when he started The Choice School in the year 1991 to bring forth forward-thinking, confident, knowledgeable, courageous individuals of good character who will be ambassadors of positive living and progress in society. Nation-building is an important aspect in the life of Mr. Jose Thomas. The importance of Knowledge, Character, and Health (KCH) is consciously lived by all under the banner of Choice giving credence to the best practices adopted at The Choice School. Much interaction and connectedness across the country and internationally is encouraged for high quality learning. The focus on individual realization is never compromised on. Every child is important, and the power of education is always highly regarded. The Choice School has its branches in three cities across Kerala – in Cochin, Thiruvalla and Calicut providing opportunities to many young people. Mr. Jose Thomas continues to inspire his employees, staff, students and parents at these institutions by his devotion to responsible living just not as an Indian national but also as a global citizen. #INTERN #SkillsBeyondSchool #IndustryInnovators
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About Speaker: Shruti Arora is a professional expert and knowledgeable orator who can persuade people effortlessly through her clear and farsighted vision. She continues her interest in adding values to the current education system by bringing the virtues of ancient education system to solve gaps and issues in the present system. She had participated in live discussions/debates with national speakers on educational issues (Such as Marks moderation politics, improvisation of government school and student security and safety issues) where she has been highly appreciated for her clear views and noncontroversial statements. She has shared Dias with eminent personalities; few of them were Shri Kaptan Singh Solanki (Governor of Haryana), Shri Manish Sisodia (Education Minister), Dr. Udit Raj (Ex. IRS Commissioner, M.P Lok Sabha), Prof. Yashpal (Padma Vibhushan, Former Chairman UGC, Eminent Scientist, ISRO ), Dr Purushottam Lal, (Padma Vibhushan, Chairman Metro Hospitals). Her ideology revolves around the fact that “Importance of Education should be projected, not only as a place to gain content knowledge, but also as a place to learn how to live”. #INTERN #SkillsBeyondSchool #IndustryInnovators
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About Speaker: Antony is an educationist with more 24 years of experience and a certified Coach. He started his career as a teacher at Don Bosco School. In Rajya Shiksha Kendra (Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan program of Government of Madhya Pradesh), Bhopal, he was instrumental in introducing research based monitoring indicators and building the capacity of SCERT and district education officials for research and training. He worked in UNICEF to implement the quality package in Madhya Pradesh. As an Area representative for North India for Sight savers International he established its eye care program. As a Project Director in Save the Children he led the Technical Cooperation fund established by European Union for Ministry of HRD, Government of India and in coordination with NIEPA, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, Nottingham College for School Leadership, CSIE Bristol and Institute of Education, London. The project saw the mainstreaming of School Leadership and teaching standards in SSA. He has organized thematic workshops for National and State level education officials. He is currently working as Chief School Excellence, Bharti Foundation. He is instrumental in expanding the education footprint of Bharti Foundation to 16 states and establishing systems and process for school excellence A graduate from the Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA), Gujarat, he has traveled extensively to most states/UTs of India, he has also visited Scotland, England, South Africa, Spain, Thailand, Honk Kong, Malaysia and Australia. He is also Global Goodwill Ambassador (Humanitarian) registered charity in USA. He is pursuing his Ph.D from Amity University, Noida. Along with a colleague he has authored “The Skills Edge”, a book for promoting Skills Approach in School Education. #INTERN #SkillsBeyondSchool #IndustryInnovators
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About Speaker: Niharika is a Management Consultant turned Tech Enthusiast who is passionate about building products that make Enterprises more efficient and agile. She works at Facebook where she leads growth for its B2B product (Workplace) in India and South Asia with the aim to accelerate digital transformation of organizations. An Indian School of Business Alumnus, she comes with an exhaustive experience of working in the technology space and has built her expertise in B2B SaaS and Product Strategy. She has worked for Tech giants like Microsoft where she helped in digitization of SMBs in India and at Uber where she was driving disruption of enterprise mobility. Her passion for technology has also won her the Women in Corporate Award by Women's Web. She is a strong proponent of women representation in tech and works as a mentor for the Cherie Blair Foundation where she helps women-led early-stage startups in formulating their product and business strategies. #INTERN #SkillsBeyondSchool #IndustryInnovators
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About Speaker: Leading Brand Solutions for India's biggest and most exciting brands across the Tech, Tech OEM, Auto, BFSI, FMCG etc. Kanika is proud to drive Revenue for Twitter India's largest business portfolio. With this role intersecting marketing, technology, digital first thinking and culture, She have found a #passion that she can drive with #purpose. Before Twitter, she was the Marketing Head at Reebok and led the brand through a number of noteworthy milestones:- 1) Delivered extremely strong brand health metrics. Like Topping the sports and footwear category in Brand Equity’s most Exciting Brands despite lowest MWB spend and achieving the Highest Quality of Consideration Score (QCS) in the world 2)Re-positioned into a premium fitness brand through an invigorated brand ambassador mix, inspirational brand communications, revamped point of sale consumer experience and digital transformation. 3) Disrupted the market with a Women’s First approach. Created FitToFight and GirlsFight Campaign with Kangana Ranaut breaking stereotypes and addressing issues of Gender Pay Gap and Eve Teasing. 4) Moved to an always-on Digital Approach with focus on content, influencer and community marketing and a Mobile First + Omni Channel Strategy and Implementation 6) Spearheaded Thought Leadership with FitToFight Awards, Youth Talks, Fit India Survey etc Recognition:- 1. Asia’s Top 50 Brand Leaders in the CMO Asia Awards, Singapore, August 2017 2. Leadership Award at the 4th Femina Women Leadership Awards in Feb, 2017 3. Special Mention in Impact’s Most Influential Women in Marketing and Media 2016 4. Top 10 young marketing heads of India 2015 by Pitch Magazine 5. Most Influential Marketer of the year (Sports Category), 2015 by Brand Academy 6. Active speaker/jury member at forums like SHEORES, IAMAI, Exchange4Media, DMAI, CMS etc #INTERN #SkillsBeyondSchool #IndustryInnovators
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About Speaker: Abdul Basit Saboowala, popularly known as Holo Abdul for building science fiction hologram technology as watched in movies like 'Star Trek' & 'Iron Man' bringing it to reality with his global multi-award-winning social impact tech venture Holo Shiksha powered by Holo Abdul with a vision to revolutionize classroom experience with its world's first patent-protected 'Holographic Classroom' and 'Virtual 3D Classroom' Technology'. Apart from being the head of Holo Shiksha, Abdul began his journey as one of the Youngest Physics Professor in India and have been taking lectures at Schools & Colleges across the country. He is also an active Innovation Mentor and currently mentoring 100+ startups internationally. Furthermore, Abdul is a Forbes India Great CEOs Nominee and have received multiple National & International Awards such as by India Google Techstar, Nehru Science Centre, IIT Bombay, EO GSEA, Asia Top 500, etc. #INTERN #SkillsBeyondSchool #IndustryInnovators
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About Speaker: Suranjoy Singh is originally from Ishok Makha Leikai, Bishnupur District was brought up in a humble fisherman's family. Since his early adulthood he was in the profession of fishing. His passion and philanthropic sentiments towards people's suffering was deeply rooted ever since his youth. The suffering of the flood victims on account of the construction of Ithai dam in the region was the driving force for him to begin the journey of Social Work during 1980s and 1988 that he along with some local volunteers pioneered The People’s Resource Development Association”. Suranjoy Singh was graduated from Science stream in Manipur University and awarded the District Youth Award by NYK, Bishnupur District, govt of India. He has keen interest in serving people who are downtrodden. At present he is the secretary of People’s Resource Development Association, Bishnupur and committed his works for the welfare of people in the society, with high spirit of social work and shares the vision that a better world is possible for every being. He oversees all the activities and development of the organization of PRDA. #INSPIRE #WhySchoolsMatter?
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About Speaker: Inspired by the teachings of Srila Prabhupada, Bharatarshabha Dasa joined ISKCON movement in 1992 while studying B Tech in Computer Science from REC Calicut. Since then, he has dedicated his life in the service of society through various initiatives. Akshaya Patra has immensely benefitted from his many contributions to address classroom hunger across the country. In this direction, he has been handling multiple areas related to public affairs, strategic outreach, policy planning and implementation, programme management and emergency food relief activities. Bharatarshabha Dasa serves as the Regional President for Akshaya Patra's feeding initiatives in Delhi NCR, Uttar Pradesh, and Uttarakhand. He has been instrumental in the commencement of the organisation's feeding operations in various parts of India, such as Karnataka, Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, and NCR region. #INSPIRE #WhySchoolsMatter?
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About Speaker: Yogendra Bangar is the founder of Aajibaichi Shala, India’s first school for grandmothers. The school focuses to provide quality education to our Indian Grannies. The school was founded in 2016 on International Women’s Day in Fangane village in Maharashtra. Bangar is an activist and the zila parishad teacher of the Motiram Dalal Charitable Trust. The school had a simple name, it was set up by a simple man, and the idea was also simple. However, the simplest of ideas are somehow always the most life changing. This was a school set up solely for elderly women of Fangane, who wished to be able to pick up pencils as their children and grandchildren did and sign their names. Today, they wear bright pink saree-uniforms and head to school together to learn their rhymes, math, alphabet, and art — and like any other students, complain about homework and tests. They are living a life they never had access to. Pretty in pink, sprightly of step and wide toothy and toothless smiles are what their Sundays are about now. Aajibaichi Shala is a Maharashtrian grandmother’s lesson to all of India, and it’s one of India’s proudest stories. #INSPIRE #WhySchoolsMatter?
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About Speaker: Prashant Gade, a 29-year-old, maker by profession and innovator by soul. Prashant is the founder and CEO of Inali, INALI works for the upliftment of people with certain upper limb disabilities. Inali was started by Prashant in 2018 with a thought to help a seven-year-old girl with missing limbs and the journey continued, till date through Inali 3500 free electronic prosthetic arms has been provided to people living in rural parts of the country. Inali has been recognized by several institutions like Infosys foundation for the innovation of the India’s most affordable prosthetic arm “Inali Arm”. Prashant currently heads the research and development of Inali and has a vision to create an organization in India which creates affordable but advance health care products. His initiatives has been Awarded with Infosys Social Innovation Award 2018, Nasscom Social Innovation Forum 2019 Award and James Dyson Award. Also featured at: Kaun Banega CrorePati, Better India, Logical Indian and Deccan Chronicle #INSPIRE #WhySchoolsMatter?
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About Speaker: Jinan KB has been deeply concerned with the total absence of knowledge creation in Indian society. Even though human beings are biologically equipped to create knowledge, we, as children gets conditioned to analyze second-hand information, which now can be replaced by intelligent machines. He believes that education needs to be reimagined based on the natural ability in children to create knowledge, to develop qualities, abilities, and sensitivities that can’t to taught to machines. Jinan has been studying how children develop their cognitive system meant for creating knowledge naturally for around 35 years and have been able to decode the whole system #INSPIRE #WhySchoolsMatter?
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About Speaker: Geeta Dharmarajan is an inspirational writer, editor, social entrepreneur, and educationist. An award-winning writer for children and adults, with over 48 published books and more than 450 pieces in leading newspapers and magazines, she has over 40 years of professional experience, having served at the India Today Group of Companies, The University of Pennsylvania and INTACH, before Katha. She believes in a world where every child can fulfil their potential and none is stunted by material, emotional or spiritual poverty. Her deep interest in how children and communities learn led to her starting Katha in 1988. She conceptualized and developed Katha’s unique Story Pedagogy and earth-friendly curriculum that is the bedrock for all the reading and education programmes of Katha. She believes that translation is a cohesive force in India and her work in literary translation has made Katha a pioneering publisher in the country with a strong pan-Indian community of writers, translators, academics, and editors. She has also served as honorary Chairperson of the National Bal Bhavan, Jawaharlal Nehru’s dream institution for children in India, across social and economic divides. She was honoured with the Padma Shri in 2012 for her contributions in the field of Literature and Education. #INSPIRE #WhySchoolsMatter?
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About Speaker: Dr. Prahalathan KK one of the co-founders of Bhumi, one of India's largest volunteer organisations. Bhumi mobilises citizens to work towards the sustainable development goals, and its 30,000+ volunteers educate over 25,000 under-privileged children and work for causes like environment, disability, and animal welfare. He strongly believes every child deserves a quality education and is passionate about making volunteering a habit among young people. By education, he is a doctor specialised in Ophthalmology. At Bhumi, he leads the corporate & youth volunteering programmes and also handles strategy & fundraising. #INSPIRE #WhySchoolsMatter?
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About Speaker: Adam Woodward is a Director of the Kalkeri Sangeet Vidyalaya. Who is originally from the UK, and has been settled in India for the last twenty years, is a passionate and committed Social Entrepreneur. He has been a key component in facilitating the growth and development at Kalkeri Sangeet Vidyalaya. Adam studied Horticulture and has a keen interest in Permaculture, Ecology, Natural House Building Methods, Landscape Design and Green Living. He is the committed Social Entrepreneur who shares the vision that a better world is possible; he oversees all the activities and development at the Kalkeri Sangeet Vidyalaya. #INSPIRE #WhySchoolsMatter?
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About Speaker: Ratnesh is essentially a learner, and over the past 22years intensely learning about learning and children. Most of my teachers have been children. Ratnesh worked with all ages of children - from two years to teenagers and with parents and teachers.Instead of teaching, he propagates democratic, learner-driven environments. His chief role is to agitate, to confuse, to challenge, to listen, to converse, to reflect and to expand the learner's horizon wider and deeper. Currently he is the co-founder of Aarohi which is an Open Learning Community for learners of all ages: Open to all kinds of interests, abilities, styles and content areas. Learning by doing what one wants, how one wants, and self-reflection. Community to co-live, co-learn and co-support each other. Aarohi's Campus is in a village near Hosur in Tamil Nadu (near Bangalore) #INSPIRE #WhySchoolsMatter?
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About Speaker: Acharya Prashant is an emerging champion of socio-spiritual awakening in the world today. An alumnus of IIT-Delhi and IIM-Ahmedabad, and a former Civil Services officer, Acharya Prashant is an acclaimed Speaker, Vedanta Teacher and author of over 60 books. Apart from that he wears various hats: a veganism promoter, an environmental activist, a science activist, a campaigner against superstition, and a champion of essential human freedom. #INSPIRE #WhySchoolsMatter?
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About Speaker: Radha Goenka founded Pehlay Akshar Foundation in 2008. Looking at the disparity in the quality of education between private and Government schools, Radha felt the need to develop a program that is designed for 1st generation learners, focuses on tapping a child’s natural curiosity and builds critical thinking and communication skills. Her experience in the social sector has helped shape, expand and enrich the programs and organisations she leads, making them a powerful element in her overarching mission to drive employment and transform lives in India. #INSPIRE #WhySchoolsMatter?
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As an Armed Forces child- born, raised and transferred across the diverse platter called India, Namrata has acquired a taste for novelty. A CBSE bred student, her growth has been multidimensional with high school education from the sciences. Having gotten a taste of the diversity she chose to pursue her graduation in Humanities with B. A. (Program) from Lady Shri Ram College for Women (University of Delhi). Here, she studied psychology and economics as her core subjects and additional courses in Language and Culture, and Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding. Her professional journey got a major boost when she was accepted by Tata Institute of Social Sciences to pursue her post graduation in Applied Clinical Psychology, where the egalitarian training on the campus was sharpened by supervised field placements. She also progressed to become an International Affiliate of American Psychological Association. Along with these, she also secured a Masters Diploma in Corporate Training and Development (IATD, Chennai) to assimilate her learnings to the bigger level. She also served as a Psychotherapist in Cooper Hospital, and as a Guidance Counsellor and curriculum planner in Muktangan before she found her calling at BRAINWONDERS which fuelled her vision of assessment and counselling to all irrespective of their background. Here she has been deeply engaged in the Research & Development of various guidance resources, psychometric assessments and survey tools and course curriculums. It is here that she pushed herself further into research regarding lifespan development and significance of assessments towards human development. Her plethora of knowledge backed by core theoretical foundations has been sought after by parents and educators alike and has often showcased in her counselling sessions. Her development and experience has been very egalitarian and thus her therapeutic and training approaches are always consisting of a suitable mix of Cognitive-Behavioral Approaches, Narrative Therapy, Expressive Therapy, Mindfulness/ Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Systems Approach. Though she possesses a myriad of exposure- her keen interest lies in neurotic spectrum disorders, personal management and relationship counselling. Her sessions are always sharpened by constant research as she never misses an opportunity to learn- always ensuring that she puts her best forward!
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Rohith (Linkedin: http://bit.ly/INOV8) is an inventor & innovator with over 20 years of experience. Having worked in creating cutting edge technologies across telecom and internet, with Infosys-Bell labs, and later as director of Innovation in OnMobile global limited, a global leader in telecom services, he anticipated a rapid change in the world the tech would usher in. As a concerned father of two, with a stint as CEO of ThinkVidya, then a leading portal connecting students & teachers, he started http://futureReadykids.com, to enable kids to tackle the ever- changing future. Here using “Behavioural Engineering”, kids are habituated into “doing by self- learning” using principles of constructivism, bricolage, collaboration, & transfer of learning. Students through SmartProjects self-learn day to day activities connected to syllabus. Similarly, high school students get bite sized hands on experiences of current and future careers all connected to syllabus (video: http://futureReadykids.com/video) . Participants of these programs have also taken on real- life problems, invented solutions, used design thinking to create products, patented then and are selling them on Amazon.in (here) . He also runs Peer-Mentor (http://peer-mentor.com), a program for professionals, where he incubates start-ups based on the same principles used by kids. These start-ups span across sustainable agriculture, medical devices, Automotive, and transportation. Asides, in higher education, RV collage of Engineering has signed up as one of the first collages. Students know that the same principles are used in real world i.e., in peer-mentor. They also see other kids solving real life problems. This, along with the habituation of “doing by self-learning” empowers kids.
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Manish Giri is the Director of Operations, India of Vertel – Australia’s Largest Privately Held Telco. He is responsible for the overall performance and leadership of all company operations and execution of company strategy in India. Manish has vast experience in various dynamic business environments and building high growth Tech start-ups like Paytm. He is presently focussed on helping Educational Institutes by bringing Vertel’s globally proven Tech prowess and solutions to Schools in India. He is committed to the cause of education and volunteers for Pro-bono consulting with multiple schools. Manish has also been an Academic Scholar at the prestigious National University of Singapore with an engineering degree from Central Institute of Plastics Engineering & Technology (Govt. of India).
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Mr. Anirudh Gupta is a leading Edupreneur, an Eminent Writer and an enthusiastic Social Worker. He is an Environmental Engineer by qualification and has done his Masters in International Trade and Finance. Mr. Gupta is the CEO of the renowned D.C.M Group of Schools, which has off-shoots in various parts of North India and is a leading organization serving the cause of education since 1946. He has attended several National and International Conferences in the field of Education in U.K, Australia, Finland, UAE, USA, China, France, Japan and other countries and regularly speaks at various national/international forums on diverse topics like Industrial Revolution 4.0, School Education Sector, Safety & Security in Schools, Regulation & Autonomy – Maintaining Balance, Leadership & Teacher Development - Capacity building, Technology & Education etc. Mr. Gupta is also a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, USA. He heads the North Chair of FICCI ARISE which is a collegium of leading stakeholders who represent different facets of School Education in India.He also heads the Education Committee of PHD Chamber of Commerce (Chandigarh Region) and is an Advisor (Quality) to National Independent Schools Alliance (NISA) which represents over 65000 budget schools in 22 States of India. At an early age, Mr. Gupta scaled glorious heights of success and is endowed with lots of rare qualities of head and heart. He has recently earned the honour of being rated and featured amongst the top 21 Indian Leaders Transforming the Indian Education landscape. Mr. Gupta has been awarded as Edupreneur of the Year 2019 by World Education Summit followed by Edupreneur of the Year 2019 Award by World Didactic Association during the Asian Summit on Education & Skills 2019 held in Bengaluru.His previous roll of honours include numerous prestigious awards like Educational Entrepreneur of the Year -2016 by Indian Education Congress, National Education Excellence Award by Global Leaders Foundation, National Award for Excellence in Education by Indian Economic Research and Development Council, Indian Award of Excellence in Education, Young Entrepreneur Award,Most Distinguished Leader of the Year 2018 by Digital Learning and Exceptional Educator by American Leadership Board. Besides this, he has been bestowed with appreciation awards by the Chief Ministers of Punjab, Delhi and Gujarat for various philanthropic works.Mr. Gupta was featured amongst the “33 Top Edupreneurs of India” in the “Education World” magazine and has also been featured in several other leading magazines like Digital Learning, Brainfeed, Mentor etc. as a force to reckon within the ‘K-12’segment in the country. Mr. Gupta is also an Eminent Writer, an eloquent speaker and a trainer. He has already written hundreds of photo features and articles for various newspapers and Magazines including Press Trust of India and The Tribune and regularly speaks at various national and international forums.
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Listed by the Forbes India among the top 100 People Manager, Dr Pandey holds post-graduation in physics, consultancy management, and education. He is the Director of the Ahlcon Group of Schools in Delhi. He served as the Chairperson, National Progressive Schools’ Conference (NPSC). Author of several articles, projects and research papers, his educational travelogue- The Pedagogical Life- Essays in Educating India, was published in 2017. His edited volume: A design framework for future schools- a collection of essays, was published in 2018. His third book Launch your Inspiring Principal Leadership was published in Dec. 2019. Recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award by Ferguson Humanitarian Foundation International, Inc.,(USA), Advaith Foundation Leadership Award, and President’s Award’ for his contribution in education, Ashok has a keen interest in quality education, teachers’ professional development, and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). He is actively engaged in inter-faith dialogue and peacebuilding. He is an active partner for the UN’s #Act4SDGs. Widely travelled to over 20 countries, he participated in the Global Peace Convention, held in Seoul,2019, UN festival for Action on SDGs held in Bonn, 2018 and Indo-Australia dialogue, Melbourne, 2017. Ashok sits on the Governing Body of the National Council of Teacher Education (NCTE). A thought leader, Mr Pandey, takes speaking assignments on global citizenship education and teacher development from across the world.
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Reekrit Serai is an Educator, Publisher, Author and Investor. He is the Managing Director of Satluj Group of Schools (Satluj Public Schools, Satluj World Schools and Little Satluj Pre-Schools), one of North India’s largest and oldest and largest private, independent K-12 group of schools, founded in 1976, with its headquarters near Chandigarh. Under his leadership, Satluj has been catapulted into the Top 5 CBSE & Day/Day-Boarding Schools of India, No. 1 in Haryana and No. 1 in Panchkula; Future50 Schools of India (Fortune Magazine); awarded for 'Innovation in Pedagogical Practices' at the World Education Summit; honoured as a 'Great Place to Study' in the world at the House of Commons, London, UK, amongst other national/international felicitations. Serai has been honoured as an ‘Education Stalwart’ at the India School Merit Awards, ‘WOW Edupreneur of the Year’ at the Global Teacher Awards and recognised for ‘School Leadership’ at the ‘World Education Summit’. He is considered one of India’s top influencers and achievers in education, as he has been included in the prestigious BW BusinessWorld ‘40 Under 40 Club of Achievers in Education’. He has been honoured amongst ‘50 Leaders who can Revive Indian Education’ by EducationWorld, and ‘Top 50 Visionary Icons in Education’ by EducationToday. Serai is the Co-Founder and Director of Rumour Books India, one of India's largest and reputed English-language trade publishing houses, and the official publisher of the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi's, Mann Ki Baat. Serai has spoken at top education forums and events, including the World Education Summits, BW BusinessWorld School Leaders’ Conclave, EdTechReview K-12 Conference, the ProgressiveTeacher Education Conclave and Teaching Excellence Awards, CII Global Exhibition on Services, CII School Summit, etc and conclaves hosted by top universities, industry bodies, media houses, corporations and governments on innovation, eduction, entrepreneurship and EdTech. Serai specialises in investing in and advising startups and top global education organisations and also serves on the boards of successful EdTech (Educational Technology or EduTech), Education (and Educational), PubTech (Publishing Technology), Publishing, Small-Cap and Mid-Cap companies as an Advisory Board Member. He is also a Trustee, Board Member and Director of reputed Not-for-Profit organisations.
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About Speaker:Seasoned professional with multidimensional experience in strategic planning and business development. Sahil has been instrumental in setting up businesses for Edtech giants like Tata Classedge and Ebix Smartclass. In last decade he has been a part revolution in Edtech space and has worked on creating world class educational products and teams with Edtech giants. Currently Sahil is setting up the business for Dinolab. Dinolab is a subsidiary company of UCHI.RU, the biggest EdTech company for school education in Russia. It is also present in the USA, Brazil, South Africa, China, Indonesia and Vietnam. The total number of active students comes to 10 million.
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About Speaker:Aanand Srinivas was the content head at Byju's and first content head at Khan Academy, India. He is one of the most popular and trusted teachers in India with his videos being watched over 20Million times. At Khan Academy, he worked with the CBSE board and principals from govt and private schools to help implement mastery based learning in their classrooms. After almost a decade, to make mastery based learning and 21st century skills available to millions of students, Aanand founded StayQrious - an online school with the mission to create happy independent learners for Life.
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Has a rich 26+ Years of experience in Education, and has been associated with various names like; VIBGYOR Group, G.D. Goenka Public School, the Heritage School, Excelsior American School and GEMS Education. Her unconventional vision and wisdom find roots in her attempt to break stereotypes that education is pinned down with. The outcome, she believes is not knowledge but a stack of degrees that provide employment. And this is the domain where she has worked intensively to bring about a change, moving ahead with the belief that education, when imparted in its true spirit has the power to change the world. Her comprehensive knowledge of running a school has helped in building quality institutes like Heritage School, Gurgaon, Excelsior American School and GEMS International School, which last for an eternity. Her last assignment was with VIBGYOR Group as Sr VP, Head Academics. She has recently founded her own company S.N. Educational Consultants in Dec 2019. Her philosophy can be summed up in the following lines, ‘Often times, in our search for the perfect moment of absolute learning, we fail to see the beauty of the stumbling blocks, the little steps that falter and fall backwards and the unsure moments of ‘I can’t do it’. Education has sadly become a race towards perfection and the highest possible grades. It is as much about the moral grain of the being, the accountability and responsibility towards oneself and towards the society, about being the liberal citizen of the world and moving with the times as it is about grades. I would like to see all my students as achievers and if they imbibe knowledge rather than acquire it, spare a thought for the have nots in their journey towards success, think that peace, harmony, giving back to society and care for the Mother Earth are not duties delegated to some specialists but to them, I will feel that I have been successful in playing my part in educating them in the real sense of the term’. She aims to provide high end trainings in Leadership Development and Behaviour Skill Abilities for the organization, Educational Institutions and Individuals. She recently conducted successful trainings at Dubai, Srilanka and Mauritius. She has been a speaker at several National and International conferences. Most recent being at London and Dubai.
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About Speaker:Anu the star of the mega blockbuster Aashiqui has defied all odds, resilient, is a self made to self- healed woman a major role model to emulate, A gold medalist graduate holds a masters in Social Work the training she uses currently to empower the many through AAF, her foundation. Anu has been a monk, supermodel, an award winning actor, an activist, runs a non profit for the upliftlent of children, woman empowerment and mental health. Anu is the author of her memoir Anusual that sells well internationally, after six years of it being launched. Born in Delhi, Anu lives in Mumbai and has lived in Paris, New York, London, ran a meditation Center in Gujarat, Himalayas and is widely traveled over Australia, Africa, Italy, Norwegian giulf, America to name a few. Anu is single and believes marriage should on;lay be for true love. She is.a karma yogi, continues to serve and bring inspiration now to even the millennials., Anu is grateful for being awarded this incredible life. From acting, elocution, smiley ambassador Anu is now Awarded the Asian Black Swan 2019, Singapore and her foundation AAF the Best CSR Award, Global Visionary Award byVision Worls Academy 2020, Award for social service by Indian Achievers Bureau 202, among many others.
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With over 25 years of transformative work in education, Dr Amrita Vohra is a passionate learner and educator currently serving in a dual role as Director Education for GEMS Education, India and Executive Principal for GEMS International School, Gurgaon. A PhD in English Literature and a certified Program Leader for Cambridge Professional Development Qualifications for teachers and school leaders, she has been a faculty for under-graduate and post-graduate programs in Women’s Studies, Literature, Feminist Literary Criticism, Women and Child Psychology and Business Communication. She has contributed various articles and research papers to a wide variety of professional publications and her personal blog www.pindropsilence.in is widely appreciated by educators and mothers. She is also a Bharat Natyam Dancer and has always had a keen interest in Theatre, dramatic arts and TiE. Her key research interests are women and child psychology, pedagogy, assessment, inclusive education, teacher professional development, curriculum design, school improvement, quality assurance, early childhood and theatre in education. She has helped setup and led various schools as a Principal, school improvement advisor as Head of Academic Research and Training and later as the Head of Professional Development and Quality Assurance and also as an active member of the GEMS Global Education team working with institutions like Educomp Solutions, Global Classroom and GEMS Education. She has been the proud recipient of various awards and recognitions over the years including, Woman of Excellence Award by Indian Achiever’s Forum, Best Principal Award by the All India Swacchha Bharat Art Forum, Education and Human Resource Development Organisation, Inspire School Award for Best Skill-development School, Education World Grand Jury Award for Best Reading Culture at the school, Top Tech-savvy School in India by WhizJuniors. She has also been chosen among the 10 most Influential women in Education 2020 by Insignt, and among 25 Leaders re-inventing Education by Education World. She also led holistic school development planning as the Head of Education Quality Programme with Chicago-based global non-profit organization, Opportunity International, to support budget / affordable private schools. Her experience as an educator cuts across various aspects of K-12 and Higher Education from curriculum design to quality assurance, from very affordable to niche progressive schools, from green-field and at-risk to premium schools.
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About Speaker:Dr. Swati Popat Vats is the founder President of Early Childhood Association India and Association for Primary Education and Research. As President of Podar Education Network she leads over 490 preschools and Daycares in India and UAE. She heads the teacher-training wing at Podar. She has received many accolades and awards for her contribution to Early Childhood Education and has been conferred the Fellowship of Honor from the New Zealand Tertiary College. She was the founder consultant for the Euro Kids preschool project in India and helped set up TATASKY’s children’s television activity channel- ACTVE WHIZKIDS. Swati has coined the term ‘Kiducation’ for early childhood teachers and parents to help them understand that young children need education from the point of view of their development. She also an expert on the global think tank of Kidzania. In her career spanning over 34 years, Swati has authored many books for parents, teachers and children, her most recent is a book on Gijubhai Badheka India’s pioneer educationist published by Crossword and two books on coding for children published by Scholastic. She is a globally acknowledged early years leader. Swati tweets and blogs on education and parenting and can be followed on @swatipopat or www.kiducationswatipvats.blogspot.in
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About Speaker:Sambhav Jain, is the Co-Founder of FamPay - India's first neo-bank for teenagers. Hailing from the small-town of Chandrapur, Maharashtra, he completed his graduation from IIT Roorkee in 2019 to start his own venture with his batchmate, Kush Taneja - making them the youngest fin-tech founders in India. He has always been passionate about entrepreneurship and got fascinated about the idea of startups after interning at orgs like Hotstar and Rivigo during college. Last year, while they were still in college, Sambhav and his co-founder were accepted into the coveted Y Combinator's summer program. Within 3 months of graduating, the 21-year-old entrepreneurs raised $4.7 million dollars by Sequoia, Venture Highway, Kunal Shah and other esteemed investors in the industry. Apart from work, he enjoys dancing, travelling and playing the piano. #INFLUENCE #digitalsummit #NEP2020
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About Speaker:Dr. Shankar travels across the globe on invitations from national and international bodies for speaking and training assignments through his offices in India, Middle East, Nepal, Bangladesh & South Africa and is the recipient of a string of prestigious awards from India and abroad in Creative Thinking, Transformational Leadership, Capacity Building, Happiness and many more… He has facilitated more than 2,00,000 people & his clientele which include an ocean of school children from 200+ schools, universities from India and overseas, professionals, academicians, CEOs, judges, Bureaucrats, Business owners from more than 150 Corporations, PSUs, most of the Fortune 500 Companies…
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About Speaker:Worked with • Thomson Reuters South Asia, Oracle India, IBM India, Sify Technologies, HCL, and Niveshan Technologies India • Founding Partner, ib PLATFORM LLP, a Consulting and Advisory on Ecosystem building & management Currently working as Director, Business Development, Public Sector & Education, Microsoft Corporation Industry Recognitions • Copyright a new concept ‘WANG@: What Am Not Good @ • ‘IT Industry Leader’ named by eGov (CSDMS) in Jan’ 2010 • ‘Good Governance National Technology Leadership Award 2010’ – nominated • Entrusted with Titled ‘Rishi’ by Re:think India • Advisor Member, “Futureskillsforce”, Amity Online • Founding Advisory Board Member of GITS’s Academia-Industry Advisory Board • Advisor, SME Value Advisors
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About Speaker:Mr. Amol Arora – Award-Winning Edupreneur, Critically-Acclaimed Author and A Visionary. Mr. Amol Arora is a visionary person with a multi-dimensional personality. He has lead the SHEMROCK & SHEMFORD Group of Schools to become India’s leading Chain of Schools with 525+ Preschools, Primary Schools & Senior Schools located across India, Nepal & Bangladesh, with over 3,00,000 alumni. Mr. Amol has strengthened the SHEMROCK brand by outspreading its high-quality education & child-friendly environment in the entire country and further extending it to Nepal & Bangladesh, with 425+ branches. Additionally, with his far-seeing wisdom, he has also transferred the same stress-free & fun-filled learning environment to his Sr. School Chain – SHEMFORD Futuristic Schools. Today, there are 100+ SHEMFORD branches in 17 States & Union Territories of India, which makes it the fastest growing K-12 School Chain in the country.
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Dr. Arunabh Singh is a committed Director - Principal of Nehru World School, Ghaziabad. An Alumnus of Kings College London and Hindu College - Delhi University, he is passionate about innovation, technology, entrepreneurship and igniting young minds. A proponent of distributed leadership model he firmly believes “Technology may not replace teachers, but teachers who use technology effectively will replace those, who don’t.” Dr. Singh is the Chairman of FICCI ARISE for UP West, a member of the School Standards Setting Committee under National Education Policy, India 2020 and also a British Council School Ambassador. He frequently participates in TV debates and speaks on various national and international forums across the globe on topics primarily concerning education and progressive learning.
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About Speaker:Dheeraj Mehrotra, MS, MPhil, Ph.D. (Education Management) honoris causa., a white and a yellow belt in SIX SIGMA, a Certified NLP Business Diploma holder, is an Educational Innovator, Author, with expertise in Six Sigma In Education, Academic Audits, Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP), Total Quality Management In Education, an Experiential Educator, a CBSE Resource towards School Assessment (SQAA), CCE, JIT, Five S and KAIZEN. He has authored over 40 books on Computer Science for ICSE/ ISC/ CBSE Students, over 20 books of academic interest for the field of education excellence and Six Sigma. A former Principal at De Indian Public School, New Delhi, (INDIA) with an ample teaching experience of over Two Decades, he is a certified Trainer for Quality Circles/ TQM in Education and QCI Standards for School Accreditation/ Six Sigma in Education. He has also been honored with the President of India’s National Teacher Award in the year 2006 and the Best Science Teacher State Award (By the Ministry of Science and Technology, State of UP), Innovation in Education for his inception of Six Sigma In Education by Education Watch, New Delhi and Education World- Best Teacher Award, BOLT Learner Teacher Award by Air India, 'Innovation in Education Award 2016' by Higher Education Forum (HEF), Gujarat Chapter, among others. He has developed over 150 FREE EDUCATIONAL MOBILE Apps for the Google Play Store exclusively for Teachers, Students and Parents. This work has been recognized by the LIMCA BOOK OF RECORDS & INDIA BOOK OF RECORDS as the only Indian to draw that feast. Dr. Mehrotra is presently working as an Academic Evangelist in India. He has conducted over 1000 workshops globally on “Excellence In Education” integrated with Total Quality Management and Six Sigma, Technology Integration in Education (TIE), Developing towards being ROCKSTAR TEACHERS, including Cyberspace, Cyber Security, Classroom Management, School Leadership & Management and Innovative teaching within classrooms via Mind Maps, NLP and Experiential Learning in Academics. He is an active TEDx speaker and can be viewed at youtube tedX channel. As a Premium UDEMY Instructor he has published over 300 Online Courses catering to 7.5 Lakh Students Globally in 180 plus nations.
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About Speaker: In Aditi’s own words “My, wonderful, open minded parents brought the joy of books to me and my life continues to be shaped by what I read and where I travel. I wander, wonder, learn, love & serve.” Aditi’s imagination and diligence coupled with an intense desire to serve and contribute makes her listen deeply and express articulately, not only with her teammates but to schools, teachers and children equally. She holds a master’s degree in Organizational & Social Psychology from the London School of Economics. She is trained in curriculum development, research, counselling and coaching from Harvard University Reading and education are both her areas of passion. Since past decade, she has been designing and creating curricular frameworks and English Learning Programs for young children along with innovative learning and development experiences for teachers. She creates innovative ways for teachers to collaborate and share best practices with each other to deliver impactfully in an online as well as offline environment. At Stones2Milestones, as Director Academics, Aditi & team have created a comprehensive English Language Program that accelerates & ensures students achieve academic excellence through excelling in the use and understanding of the English Language for children of ages 3-12.
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Divya is a visionary and charismatic leader and Ted X Speaker with over 2 decades of experience . Divya has created a special niche for herself in the Indian Education industry. Passionate about providing access to quality education to all, she strives towards creating innovative solutions which drastically improve the teaching and learning outcomes. At Fliplearn, her role as Managing Director provides her the unique opportunity to bring all her skills on board to create a platform which can address the need for quality education in India. Divya feels strongly about bridging the digital divide that currently exists in the Indian Education system and is happy to work towards creating 21st century Future-ready education solutions. She looks at Education as an opportunity to not just contribute to but to shape the future of the country.
Awards and Accolades
• TED X Speaker
• Inspirational Leader Award 2020 by White Page International
• Visionary leader in education 2020 at education leadership conclave 2020 by ASMA
• Best woman director of the year award - International Inspirational women awards 2020
• Change maker in K-12 Education - by Global Gurus Awards 2019
• ‘Edtech Icon of the year’ by Scoonews Global Education awards 2019•
• ‘Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee’ Commendation for Education
• ‘Visionary Leader Award’ at World Education Congress Global Awards 2019
• Women Achiever Award 2019 under the category “Women Achiever Awards for Excellence Enabling Education through Technology”
• ET NOW Education Leadership Award 2018 for Excellence in Education
• Exemplary Contribution in K-12 Digital learning at 13th World Education Summit, Mumbai‘
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An entrepreneur and educator, who wants to revolutionise the way the students learn. My aspirations to impact the education system made me a keen learner and thereby worked with schools in various capacities. Post my graduation from NIT Warangal, He pursued his passion for education with Educational Initiatives Pvt Ltd as an Educational Specialist, where he worked as a content developer for math and science subjects. Later worked as Education Coach with XSEED Education Pvt Ltd and conducted workshops for teachers' professional development and coached schools to successfully implement XSEED curriculum.
Then worked as Associate Product Manager, with Next Education Pvt Ltd, developing product that can impact science education in India. My overall experience includes product development, content development, curriculum development, assessments and teacher training. So far, he worked with various organisations and made a difference in more than 500+ schools and 4500+ teachers.
Currently working as CEO and Co-Founder for ‘EdTech School’. As an official Google for Education partner, we are developing products and services that make schools independent and self-reliant using affordable technology integration. We are working with schools across the country and we have coached schools to cope up with pandemic ensuring continuous student learning. His vision is to create an efficient school infrastructure that can make students critical thinkers and independent individuals.
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Mayank Solanki is an Energetic Youth Prodigy & the Founder of Val-Ed Initiatives, India which provides 21st century Values, Life Skills & Character Education to Children, Parents & Adults across the Globe. A 2 time TEDx Speaker, He is the creator of the World's First Values Lab - A dedicated physical place in school to build stronger character in students & inspire values-based living. He is devoted to bringing character education to the forefront of conversation in the field of education and has been part of several initiatives across the globe that work on furthering the cause of Values-based Education, Social-Emotional Learning & Experiential Learning.
Val-Ed Initiatives design & build Saksham - The World's First Values Lab popularly known as "Temples of Self Reflection" in schools where 21st Century Values, Life Skills & Character Education is taught to Children, Parents & Adults through innovative, theme-based, inspiring architecture that inspire children towards values-based living. Val-Ed also designs & delivers both short & long, customised, curriculum-integrated programs that build stronger and healthier character in children in schools across India
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Hakeem Junaid is the Founder of Educatio Learning. Junaid has completed his degree in Business Management from Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab, Junaid started his career with a destination management company Nam Ho which is based in Delhi, but his love for technology and online learning all made him start his venture in the year 2020.
Junaid’s initiative is the first of its kind in the valley. Junaid plans to develop a platform to make education accessible to all. He plans to provide online courses for competitive exams like NEET, IIT- JEE, UPSC, various other state level and national level exams, and supplementary courses for the K12 level. He also plans to offer structured courses that run parallel to the school’s curriculum. This platform will promise to make learning interactive through interactive video lectures, assignments, video solutions, doubt clearing sessions, weekly tests, textbook solutions.
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A post graduate in Music Vocal and University topper, Mira wished to pursue a career in Music. As is said ‘Man proposes, God disposes’, circumstances propelled her into another direction. An opportunity to work in Delhi Public School under the mentorship of Dr. Shayama Chona carved a career path for her and made her fall in love with the profession she was launched into. A passionate educator with a zeal to make a difference to the education arena, Mira has an extensive experience of working in acclaimed educational institutes and EdTech companies of the country. Wearing many hats of that of a teacher, administrator, curriculum lead at PlayAblo, and now Content head at eVidyaloka, the rich experience gathered over years has been an enriching one.
4A firm believer that the right impact on our children can do wonders, she follows the dictum – ‘Children are like wet cement; whatever falls on them makes an impression.’ Working towards achieving best learning experiences for the eVidyaloka children, Mira is now working towards the goal – Teach me the way I can learn. She is on to the journey of revamp the eVidyaloka curriculum, content and assessment models to ensure a unique and impactful learning experience for the children in order to empower the disadvantaged children with an education par excellence. Working closely with the volunteers and community connectors, eVidyaloka is on the path to disrupt education through various vernacular mediums which still remains a grey area in our country. Children of today behold our destiny, and therefore eVidyaloka under her able guidance has taken up this coherent task of moulding the very instruments that will shape our visionaries of tomorrow.
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Mahesh Sangade is the founder of AmbiClass and a financial literacy expert. He completed his studies from premier institutes such as IIM Ahmedabad and IIT Guwahati. Mahesh worked with a leading foreign bank before getting into full time leading the team at AmbiClass. He has trained over 600 students in age group 8-14 yrs for financial literacy. He believes that financial literacy needs to be given utmost importance because every kid will have to deal with finances in future irrespective of career path!
About Company: AmbiClass started with 2 kids early last year and now has grown over a family of 1100+ students which are trained in various self-development-oriented sessions. Power Peace Practice (PPP) is our flagship program which is tailor made for age 8 to 14 yrs group to get ready for future! It’s a need of the hour to teach students the art of managing people (self and others) along with finances. This live workshop will transform the way kids approach these both essentials! There are three main modules: Building powerful habits, mastering social influence and Learning financial literacy in a fun and interactive live online session. Additionally, we host numerous hobby workshops and competitions as well under the banner: AmbiClass Events.
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After my Masters and Management degree, I started my journey with Repro India, and was soon one of the leaders for their CQ (Creative Quotient) division, that looked into content and design development.
Soon I found my calling into the education space, with passion to bring innovation to learning content I moved to leadership role at Quadrum Solutions, it gave my opportunity to ideated and developed over 1000+ books and learning material across spectrum and across countries.
Being a self-learner, my profile, passion and interaction with people give me an opportunity to research and bring innovation, and I was able to add a differentiator to every product developed. I enjoyed conceptualising, developing the blue print and then guiding the team to develop a WOW product.
I enjoy being an author (and at times a co-author too), but most of all I enjoy my sessions with children and educators. These interactions help understanding and empathy for both these sections of education society. Add to this the knowledge sharing with the Principals and visionary members of education sector encouraged me to come up with something that bridged the gap for; a holistic development of children; to support teachers to make classrooms welcoming for their children and overall partner schools to achieve their vision.
Thus came about Sensorian Edutech. It simply means, a technology aided approach to feeling, absorbing and retaining knowledge through your senses. SE is a reflection of the variety of experience that I have gained from a career spanning over 20+ years.
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After 7 years as an educator, curriculum developer and taking on different roles in schools, Vishakha has her dream gig—an entrepreneur/educator/mom who helps families everywhere, including hers, learn outside.
Vishakha has earned her Bachelors in elementary education degree from Delhi University. She went ahead to explore the forte more and did her MA in Education and Leadership from Tata Institute of Social Science, Mumbai. Prior to Bag of Tricks, Vishakha has worked as an Elementary, Middle school educator for different schools. She taught subjects like English, Theatre and Humanities.
When she is with her son, Vishakha is that unapologetic mom who plays along with him in mud, dances in the pouring rain, and builds a darn good pot with her bare hands. Therefore, when she was on her maternity leave, she realised that her passion solely lied in working together with kids in the best classroom possible- the nature! She puts together activities that help build core skills in the learners of today’s generation!
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Kanu Priya Sekhri, an alumna of IIM Bangalore, founded In-Fluent Learning 7 years ago to enable students and teachers to easily develop excellent Public Speaking and Interpersonal skills since these are a critical element of professional success. This year, under her leadership, In-Fluent has seen unprecedented success in developing and delivering fun-based classes for overall personality development and students from across the world have been part of these classes online.
With several years of business experience as a founding member of various start-ups, Kanu Priya has led teams in the areas of strategic growth, business development, marketing & communication, establishing partnerships, and designing leadership training. Apart from leading Team In-Fluent Learning, she conducts workshops for organizations in the space of Personal Excellence and Mastery. These are a combination of skill-building in the areas of Leading Self and Leading Others.
She started her career working with Tech Mahindra as part of the Strategic Initiatives team and was recognized with the Extra Miler Award. She has been a founding team member of the School of Inspired Leadership and has spoken as a panelist at forums organized by Business World, TIE, and CII and has contributed articles to Financial Times, Economic Times and Education Times. She has also been part of the founding team at ISDM (Indian School of Development Management).
As a student, she completed the highest grade in Effective Communication from Trinity College of London and was a national level debater. Her passion for communication saw her travel to Europe as a master of ceremonies at the age of 20. More recently, she has been part of Dramatech's award-winning productions Merchant of Venice and Towards Zero which had more than 40 shows in Delhi NCR.
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Dr Sangeeta Saksena is a gynaecologist, author, counsellor and activist; working in the field of life skills, sexuality and personal safety for over 25 years. Along with Dr Saldanha, she cofounded Enfold Proactive Health Trust in 2001 to work with children, adolescents and adults in this area. Along with Dr Saldanha, Dr Saksena developed a curriculum on understanding sexuality and personal safety that is age appropriate, culturally relevant, values and rights based and respectful and empowering of Self. She has lead the development of the “Suvidha Kit” by Enfold Trust to explore these topics with children with intellectual disability, autism, and sensory impairment.
Dr Saksena has co – authored “On Track” series on Life Skills and Personal Safety for school students from grade 3-9 (published by Macmillan India). She is the author of Life Skills for Self Development, written for Jyoti Nivas College (Autonomous) Bangalore and the author of Life Skills - workbooks for adults, and Facilitating Life Skills with adolescents (brought out by Enfold. Dr Saksena initiated and established a PG Diploma and a Certificate program in B Ed course at Christ University on life skills based personal safety and sexuality education. She has presented papers on personal safety and sexuality education for children with intellectual disabilities, and other subjects, at national and international conferences
Dr Saksena has advocated for and participated in developing policies with regards the safety of women and children like the Karnataka State Child Protection Policy, besides working with the Govt. of Karnataka, Delhi, Telangana and Madhya Pradesh on these issues. Since 2018 Dr Saksena has been acquiring training in Restorative Justice and Restorative Practices in the US and in India. Through a trained team at Enfold, she has been promoting training in this field in schools, Child Care Institutions and among Government and NGO staff.
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A dynamic person, erudite on purpose, an entrepreneur by passion, and proud alumni of EDI & JNV. Yogendra is fervent about cars and executing futuristic ideas. He started in his 20’s and now heads ventures into learning spaces, food processing, and clothing under UWC group of companies. He is also a trustee member in Shiv Om Sai Trust working in many philanthropic activities.
Having tried his hands into quite a few formal and informal enterprises, he always felt a calling in helping people and making a change. He believes in taking the decisions and then making them right. You come as a spark, he will act as a catalyst. He co-founded CIVOM in 2012 after he got inspired by the way the libraries were/are designed in Australia, with a vision to create responsive environments that enhance learning for our future leaders. Being a patriotic self, he has made it his mission to work tirelessly towards the much needed transformation in the education system in India and elsewhere.
He also co-owns enterprises in the food industry and is a connoisseur of Italian and Indian food. He always aspire to bring the Indian food industry to the global heights. Being a technogeek and an early-adopter, he does use ample amounts of technology to make his life easy. At Civom, besides being the big wheel, he’s gung ho about philosophy, literature, fashion and being a therapist for people around him.
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Anshu Sahi, M.Sc. Botany, M.Ed., B. Ed
As the first Born to my Gandhian father and a dynamic mother, she was always inspired by love for children which ultimately resulted in her becoming a teacher and a facilitator for children. She started her Teaching Carrier as a Lecturer in Department of Botany, in Regional College Of Education, Bhopal, and superannuated as Principal, Army Public School ,Dhaula Kuan New Delhi after completing a carrier of 32 years.
She is presently Trustee and Member of Managing Committee of Ayurgyan Nyas a Trust constituted for developing and implementing Curriculum on Universal Ethic based Education in Institutes of learning. She was trained for Development of Teachers Professional Guide “Call to Care” by Mind and Life Institute in Amherst University USA. She is also working as an educational consultant imparting In Service and pre service Training to Teachers and Principals all over India.
She is well known as an enthusiast who is endowed with exceptional capability in communicating ideas with good interpersonal skills, self-motivated and a good team contributor. She sincerely believes that the challenge for a Principal and teachers is to work as an integrated team to develop Ethics and Values in children so as they become productive and ethical members of society. She has often been commended for her services by Indian Army Personnel during her carrier.
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Kunal Sareen is the founder and National Training director at Zoommer. After his MBA and a brief stint at his family business he soon realized that his passion lies elsewhere. Sport was always close to his heart but the hidden spark was his love for child development. He has a way with children like no other and has always been the pied piper of the family.
It was while running his chain of soccer schools, a business he helped scale across the country that he realised that children needed a structured physical literacy program that focused on developing motor skills. And that’s how Zoommer was born. From the very beginning his vision was to bring global standards and best practices to India in the early years physical development space.
Zoommer is probably the only Indian organisation that has at its very core some of the best curriculum developers from world over. Zoommer PLAY is an Age specific program established to improve the quality and quantity of physical activity of children at HOME. It is a structured curriculum based Physical Education for young people that is delivered through the Zoommer PLAY KIT & Online Live sessions by expert educators. Zoommer is a movement that has been established to make every child physically literate.
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I am Nalini Anand, B.Tech, MBA and PhD in Child Psycology with 21 years of experience with specialized skills in Operations Management, People Managment and Project Management Serving Education industry as CEO of G.A Future Educore Pvt Ltd, since 8 years, It is a government affiliated organization, an approved NSDC SKILL INDIA PARTNER, having Global Presence. Working towards bridging the skill gap through Abacus and Vedic maths. Empowering kids and youth with required skills to become successful in life. Working closely with Govt in various projects working towards setting universal standards for SKILL EDUCATION as well.
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I Pankaj garg, started my teaching career 26 years ago in 1994 as a Maths teacher in a state board school.
After 8 years of teaching experience. I left my job and started a pre-primary school in Sri Ganganagar, Rajasthan.
Within 2 years, I converted pre-primary school into a primary school up till class 8. I never thought of starting 9th to 12th class, because I feel there are so many things which should be changed in our primary schooling pattern.
During this process, I found out some problems in handwriting pattern in schools and where handwriting of students deteriorates. Bad handwriting impacts students academic performance in board and university exams. After deep analysis and research we found out some concepts which helps the students to keep handwriting better forever.
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More than 16 years' of corporate experience in Strategic Planning, Sales & Marketing, Business Innovation, Operations and Team Management. Currently, associated with 3 Idea Technology, Mumbai since 2015 handling 3D printing business. Conducted more than 50+ Seminars, Workshops at Colleges / Institutions, Corporate Houses & Webinars for Students, Faculty Members, hobbyist & Working professionals. Prior to 3idea worked with companies like Tata Teleservices Ltd and Bharti Airtel Ltd. Education:
Post Graduate Diploma in International Business from IIFT, New Delhi.
B. Tech (Electronics & Communication Engineering) from NIT, Hamirpur.
PDDM (Professional Diploma in Digital Marketing) from DMI, Ireland.
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Vikram Shah is the Chief Business Officer at NoPaperForms. Vikram’s primary responsibility is to lead the “Uniapply Business” in the school segment and ensure that we serve the School administrators and Parents across India. School admissions especially in India is a massive untapped opportunity and NPF is poised to lead a revolution there. Uniapply is a common application platform for school, which simplifies the school search, application, and enrolment process.
Prior joining to NoPaperForms, Vikram was the Executive Director, South & Central Asia at The College Board. The College Board, a non-for-profit membership organization founded in New York in 1900, has been engaged in India for the last 50 years. Among other programs, The College Board is the owner of global entrance examinations such as the SAT, SAT Subject Tests and Advanced Placement (AP) tests.
Vikram was responsible to lead College Board’s new India office and on-the-groundwork related to the India Global Alliance, Outreach, Market Development and Relationship Management across South & Central Asia to drive strategic expansion of College Board programs in the region. Vikram spend nearly a decade at the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) where he was Director, Product Management. He played a pivotal role in establishing and growing GMAC’s work in India. He brings deep expertise on international education with a strong focus on India, but also a diverse set of experiences that range from relationship development to setting strategy to developing new products. Vikram was the youngest Director on the Board of GMAC’s subsidiary in India.
Vikram’s career spans over 18 years across many reputed organizations that includes GMAC, Citigroup and Fullerton Securities & Wealth Advisors Ltd (Temasek Holdings subsidiary in India) and he has managed various responsibilities across a spectrum of functions like Market Development, Sales, Product Development & Management, Customer Experience Management, Credit & Risk Management, Quality & Operational Excellence. Vikram has completed undergrad in accounting from St. Xaviers’ College, Kolkata and Master’s in Business Administration in Finance & Marketing from ICFAI Business School.
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Brindala Raju Manian is the founder and the CEO of AAIRA VENTURES, the company that owns YELLOWBUS PHOTOGRAPHY, India’s only company that specialises in School Photography. With a master’s degree in economics, she is also a qualified interior designer with training in entrepreneurship from Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. Her entrepreneurial journey has extended in founding and establishing companies in sectors of fine art, design, home interiors, furniture & furnishing, digital printing, and real estate.
She has a passion for anything creative, functional, aesthetic and believes a work of art is an inspiration forever. Having spent 14 years in the field of art consultancy she provided solutions in all aspects of fine art & interior design to homes, hospitality and corporate sectors pan India. This endeavour to decorate and redesign spaces took an upturn when her 3-year-old daughter could not identify herself in her class group photograph.
Her deep insight into creative arts helped carve a niche for her company YellowBus Photography that helps parents treasure the memories of their children at school with professionally clicked photographs. A multitasker, she is responsible for all the setting the context for creatives, client communication, sales and marketing. Gardening, music, reading, current affairs and meaningful parenting are the areas that occupy her time.
Her Session Topic is - A Fresh New Approach to School Photography – A presentation that explains why school photographs have a lasting impact on the child’s growing years.
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GIRISH NAIR is the Founder & CEO of Curiosity Gym. Curiosity Gym is an educational organization that provides curriculum and runs experiential learning Innovation Hubs is schools. Prior to founding Curiosity Gym, Mr. Nair was CEO at Netcore, India's leading email and mobile technology platform service provider and also a Partner at Tandem Capital a Silicon Valley based seed capital fund where he mentored entrepreneurs.
Mr. Nair has worked in Silicon Valley, USA for over fifteen years at technology companies like Siebel, Webvan and Intel in senior engineering management roles prior to his return to India 15 years ago. At both Intel and Webvan, he was one of the youngest Program Managers, tasked with automation of large integrated robotic systems for material handling within Intel’s factories and Webvan’s distribution centres.
Mr. Nair has a Bachelor’s in Engineering from IIT Bombay, a Masters in Industrial Engineering from Virginia Tech and also studied Engineering Management at Stanford. In his second innings, at Curiosity Gym he would like to create a platform for kids, youth and adults to have fun while learning.
Mr. Nair’s hobbies are biking, basketball and playing frisbee with his sons and dog Leo.
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Rohith (Linkedin: http://bit.ly/INOV8) is an inventor & innovator with over 20 years of experience. Having worked in creating cutting edge technologies across telecom and internet, with Infosys-Bell labs, and later as director of Innovation in OnMobile global limited, a global leader in telecom services, he anticipated a rapid change in the world the tech would usher in.
As a concerned father of two, with a stint as CEO of ThinkVidya, then a leading portal connecting students & teachers, he started http://futureReadykids.com, to enable kids to tackle the ever-changing future. Here using “Behavioural Engineering”, kids are habituated into “doing by self-learning” using principles of constructivism, bricolage, collaboration, & transfer of learning. Students through SmartProjects self-learn day to day activities connected to syllabus. Similarly, high school students get bite sized hands on experiences of current and future careers all connected to syllabus (video: http://futureReadykids.com/video) . Participants of these programs have also taken on real-life problems, invented solutions, used design thinking to create products, patented then and are selling them on Amazon.in (here) .
He also runs Peer-Mentor (http://peer-mentor.com), a program for professionals, where he incubates start-ups based on the same principles used by kids. These start-ups span across sustainable agriculture, medical devices, Automotive, and transportation. Asides, in higher education, RV collage of Engineering has signed up as one of the first collages. Students know that the same principles are used in real world i.e., in peer-mentor. They also see other kids solving real life problems. This, along with the habituation of “doing by self-learning” empowers kids.
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After completing Computer Science Engineering, Ranjan worked with tech giants like IBM and GE for nearly 9+ years. An entrepreneur at heart, he decided to co-founded Learnyst with Shankar in 2014. Since then, Ranjan has been instrumental in helping teachers & coaching institutes in India, launch their academies online. Besides helping teachers cross the technology barriers, he guides them towards building their own profitable online teaching business through his live webinars.
He is an avid listener and loves knowing about people. Back in 2014, Shankar Mahesh (CEO) & Shivaranjan Kumar (CFO) with a cumulative experience of almost 25 years, kick-started their entrepreneurial journey through a small market survey – enquiring teachers who owned coaching institutes about what kind of solution would help them go digital.
Having started its journey in 2014, Learnyst today is one of the fastest-growing LMS companies, catering to 1000+ institutes with more than 3 million students online. The company provides a technology platform for online education - a proposition wherein any educator developing good content can start & grow their online academy without worrying about the technology.
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Akshal Agarwal is a young and dynamic leader who is settling into his new role at NatureNurture. He is the Director, Operations and is heading the efforts to find progressive school in the country that can work with NatureNurture. His entrepreneurial ambition started at a very young age,whilst pursuing law from the National Law University, Mumbai, a leading law university of the country. Here he secured an All India Rank 13.
His interest in education developed after he was exposed to global pedagogic practices when he attended the London School of Economics and Political Science in the United Kingdom. He also attended the Berlin School of Economics and Law in Germany. He has also researched at University of Oxford about shaping Indian entrepreneurship in the years forward. Furthermore, he has earned a post graduate certification in branding, communication, and digital marketing from MICA.
He has spoken at several international forums and his vision for the company and country involves crossing social boundaries to ensure that the Right to Quality Education, enshrined in Article 21A of the Constitution, becomes a reality for all.
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Saumil Majmudar is the Co-founder, CEO & Managing Director of Sportz Village. India's leading youth sports organisation that aims to get 100 million children to play.
Saumil represented EduSports on India's leading Social Activism Platform on Television - Aamir Khan's Satyamev Jayate Spor ts episode – where EduSports was chosen as the sustainable & scalable model of getting children to play. He has also received the CII Emerging Entrepreneur Award and has been recognized as one of the “Top 50 Leaders influencing Education” by Education World. school boards, parent forums, federations, brands, ministries and regulatory bodies In his student days, Saumil was selected for the Maharashtra Badminton team and represented IIT Bombay & IIM Bangalore in Football. Saumil is a core committee member of the CII National Committee on Sports and regularly builds the case for a more inclusive and funbased approach to Sports at forums involving school boards, parent forums, federations, brands, ministries and regulatory bodies. In his student days, Saumil was selected for the Maharashtra Badminton team and represented IIT Bombay & IIM Bangalore in Football.
Prior to starting Sportz Village, Saumil was the Founder-CEO of QSupport (one of India's first remote tech support businesses) and worked with Wipro (Global R&D) in the International marketing team. Saumil holds a B-Tech degree & is a Distinguished Service Alumnus from IIT-Bombay, a PGDM from IIM-Bangalore, a Basic Mountaineering Degree from Nehru Institute of Mountaineering (Uttarkashi) & a Black belt in Karate. He continues to follow his passion for sports & outdoors through regular karate, Himalayan treks, badminton, football, and cricket.
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Er Dushyant Kumar is a distinguished Educationist. A self made man, Mr, Kumar face a lot of difficulties in his intial days and struggled to make his way to IIT Roorkee and compeleted his mechanical engeering, which has remained a dream for many.
Unlike others he was not fascinated with the attractive paying scale of the multinational companies, and rejecting all the offers he stepped into teaching students who aimed to become doctors and engineers and making their dreams come true.
Er Dushyant kumar has an experience of over 15 years in teaching chemistry. He started with a batch of 10 and until now he has taught lacs of students onlince and offline. He has authored many books and is keen on innoviating educational transaction. He was the first in India to introduce the idea of digital books for higher education. His unflinching dedication and remarkable contribution as a teacher is commendable.
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Mr. Manish Naidu founded Brainwonders in March 2011. BRAINWONDERS is the largest career counselling organization in the field of Biometric and Psychometric Tests for identifying inborn potential. Mr. Manish Naidu, works with a vision to recognise and channelise one’s abilities to perfection and aim to facilitate growth in the areas of Academic Excellence, Talent Maximisation and Professional Development. Brainwonders provides well-rounded services for quantitative and qualitative enhancement of the individual. Under his leadership, Mr. Manish Naidu has revolutionized the concept of Education and Career Counseling through: Interest-Aptitude Test, U.S. Patented DMIT Test, Personality Test, Intelligence Quotient (I.Q.) Test, School-Connect Programmes, Corporate Assessment and Trainings, and Child-Parent Workshops.
Mr. Manish Naidu has built Brainwonders on years of involvement and expertise in the industry. This body is endorsed by experienced professionals and leaders. Today, Mr. Manish Naidu has 108+ centres and continues to grow to cater to the career counselling demand in India. In a global scenario, the world has come closer, which has accentuated the magnitude of his team to reach every customer at the earliest possible hour. This has led to the Brainwonders’ story often being a cover feature of various channels like Deccan Chronicle, Business Standard, United News India, Silicon India (Cover Feature), Economic Times and Zee News. For the noted services since 2011, Mr. Manish Naidu and his team of Brainwonders has been a recipient of several recognitions.
Mr. Manish Naidu and his team of BRAINWONDERS has been associated with several educational organisations including AHAISI, MISA and ECA. The long-term career guidance services of Brainwonders has also laid down its path to partnerships with corporate institutions like Aditya Birla Capital, NSDL e-Governance, Grauer & Weils, HDFC Bank, Vidyasaarathi Scholarship Portal, DBS Bank, Deutsche Bank, Poly Medicure Ltd., Aakash Educational Services and Viraj Profiles Ltd. and many more.
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Aneesh Bangia is an alumnus of IIT Madras. After working in Ashok Leyland for a year, he discovered his love for teaching. He started teaching children and then turned into an entrepreneur to solve the more fundamental issues with the school system. He is the co-founder of a revolutionary start-up called Open Door.
Aneesh started Open Door in 2014 along with his college mate Abhishek Kariwal with the vision of making students better self-learners. In the first year of inception, they started teaching children in small batches in their learning centres in Pune and Bangalore. They used to teach by mainly asking questions and allowing children to understand difficult concepts by themselves.
Aneesh strongly believes that the teachers in classrooms should speak less, ask more questions and once they have asked a question, they should allow children the time to think. The purpose of teaching should mainly be to develop thinking habits among children, with learning of the topic being a by-product.
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An IT marketing professional, passion & love for sports drove Jay to enter the field of sports in 2002, eventually leading to the founding of TSG, one of India’s first private grass root sports firms. Jay, also a certified Yoga teacher which also forms the basis of the coaches training program of TSG, believes that “sports in the country does not suffer due to lack of places or funds only but essentially lack of ideas and initiatives from people''. In the last 18 years he has been working to promote sports & promote sporting communities and infrastructure at the local level. His creative ways of creating sports spaces led him to create India's 1st full size tennis court on a terrace of a building which was the result of his beliefs of creating unique ideas for sports to work. The work was published in Hindustan times for the unique creation.
Under his leadership, TSG‘s sports idea was selected amongst the Top 40 (among 16,000+) business ideas across India at the Economic Times Power of Idea Contest in 2010. This led to him being selected for a training program at IIM Ahmedabad and The Sports Gurukul also received a grant from the Dept. Of Science & Technology, Govt of India, probably one of the only companies during that time certifying the sports gurukul ideas as one of the ideas which would shape the future of India. He was recently inducted in the Karmaveer Global Fellowship Hall of Fame with a Karam Veer Chakra bronze medal in recognition of his many years of service in the field of sports. Mr. Jay Shah is dedicated to the cause of promoting sports and fitness in every child of India and continues working with the only aim to see every child as a fit and active child for life.
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Dr. Komala Krishna having 33 years of diversified experience in establishing and administrating schools, associated with universal scouts and guides as commissioner for Andhra and Telangana and got appreciation from president of India and Drona Award.
She has been conferred with a national award, south Indian women achiever’s award, gurubrahma award. RADHA Krishna saman award, APJ Abdul Kalam Excellence award and excellency in education award from UAE and China serving through education to nation is her passion.
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Anil Pradhan (a.k.a. Ideas Man of India) is an Indian engineer, innovator, and revolutionary educationist. He is the founder of Navonmesh Prasar Foundation and School for Rural Innovation (IPSFRI), which was founded in 2015 to educate the less-privileged students of Odisha through an interdisciplinary curriculum. He is also known for designing innovative labs, teaching tools, indigenous rockets and projects which solves real-life problems.
After completing his engineering from UCE (University College of Engineering, Burla), Anil has quit three cushy jobs to follow his dreams. His mission is to create a thirst for innovation among students so that every student, regardless of background, becomes an achiever and, in the process, our country progresses. Engineering students go for jobs. However, Anil is exceptional. He founded a school in a rural pocket of Cuttack to boost the zest for creativity among students.
Prior to incorporating Navonmesh Prasar Foundation, Anil worked on projects with L&T, TATA and other during his undergraduate course in Engineering. He also the Chief Designer of V.S.L.V., Asia’s first Multipurpose Student Rocketry Mission and developed a satellite to monitor Hirakud Dam.
As an innovator, he felt engineering and innovation should not be restricted to a specific branch of engineering. He has designed various sustainable solutions such as a technology to maximise daylight in buildings, thereby reducing electricity consumption. This technological innovation led to him being listed among the top seven innovators in India by Larsen and Toubro (L&T). He was the lead design engineer for the VSSUT Student Satellite Team, which is India’s first multipurpose students’ rocket mission to monitor Hirakud dam. He was also the structural designer of the robot presented by the VSSUT Robotics team at the Asia Pacific ABU Robocon. Being an outstanding civil engineer, he was appointed an Affiliate Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers.
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SWAMI RAM CHANDRA: He was born in Purkot, Gulmi District Lumbini zone in 3/11/1963. When he was just 12 years he left for India. Being many months in the streets he joined Indian army but did not like the service and left the Army to start learning Sanskrit. Later he became Vaishnava. He was inspired by the philosophy of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother after reading a book by Sri Aurobindo. And feeling the nectar of his life in Pondicherry he went to Pondicherry in 1983 and settled there for 12 years. After almost 2 decades came back to Nepal and got the inspiration to start the Ashram, Named Sri Aurobindo Yoga Mandir to Materialize the Ideology of Sri Aurobindo and Mother in 24th April 1993. Since then he has been working arduously for this work along with guiding many people spiritually and suggesting the way of life. It’s been small 18 years and this ashram under his single-handed effort has reached a present position as today. Apart from the Ashram in Kathmandu, he has also opened another branch in Kolhuwa, Nawalparasi aiming to spread the task of Divine work everywhere possible. He does not believe in fleeing from the world to have divine experience for oneself, he wants the whole of fellow brothers to have the experience and show them the true way of life. Which will result a quantum leap in evolution of mankind. He is a real Karmayogi and is a a divine worker who lives a life of struggle for the purpose of Divine Work. Believe it, this task can be a cornerstone for the change. The only condition is that there should not be the deficit of people aspiring for progress.
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Tekin Baransel was born in Germany in 1975. He lived there until he was 10. He graduated from Boğaziçi University as a Math teacher and started working as a math teacher in a private school and taught math to middle and high school students. In his 3rd year he became the head of math department and dean of students in a new establishing private dormitory school. In his fifth year he became the school principal in a k-8 school and afterwards continued his administrative roles in different private high schools applying the IB programmes. During his career he took several IB trainings such as IB Coordination (cat1&2), Administration (cat1&2), joined several IB symposiums, also attended and graduated succesfully from the PTC(Principals’ Training Center) programmes. The 4 subjects he took during his PTC trainings are Leadership and Group Dynamics, Curriculum Leadership, The Effective Prinicpal, Instructional Supervision and Evaluation. He had the opportunity to experience k-12 school leadership as a teacher, mid-level and high level administrator. And also, had the opportunity to start up two IB World schools. He also had the experience as a boarding school administrator. He is still the head of a foundation school in İstanbul which is on the way to be accredited both by IGCSE and IB and also shares his experiences with different school administrators, teachers in different occasions. He is married and has a daughter and a son.
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Dr. Sakena Yacoobi is the CEO of the Afghan Institute of Learning (AIL), which she founded in 1995 in response to the lack of education and health care that the Afghan people were facing after decades of war and strife. Since its founding, AIL has either directly or indirectly impacted the lives of millions of Afghans. Under her leadership, AIL continues as an innovative organization working at the grassroots level helping communities and individuals. She is also co- founder and Vice President of Creating Hope International (CHI). In addition, Sakena has established private facilities in Afghanistan: 4 schools, a hospital and a radio station. Dr. Yacoobi has 6 honorary doctorates from institutions, including Princeton University. Dr. Yacoobi was honored in 2017 with the Sunhak Peace Prize and in 2016 as the Harold W. McGraw Prize in Education awardee, the 2015 WISE Prize for Education Laureate and the 2013 recipient of the Opus Prize. She is both a Kravis Prize and Gruber Prize awardee. Sakena is a Skoll Social Entrepreneur, Schwab Social Entrepreneur, Ashoka fellow and was nominated as one of 1,000 women for the Nobel Peace Prize.
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José Francisco de Almeida Pacheco (born 1951) is a Portuguese educator who pioneered a school called Escola da Ponte (Bridge School), in Vila das Aves, Portugal. He is also a published writer, with some books and a wide range of articles. Specialist in Music and Literacy, he holds a master's degree in Science of Education by the School of Psychology and Education of the University of Porto (Universidade do Porto). Pacheco was the principal of Escola da Ponte since 1976, which was founded by him. The school has international prestige for its innovation and good inclusive practices. Pacheco is the author of several books and articles on Educational practice. He has been living in Brazil for the last ten years, attracted by the bigger innovative movement in the area of education and schooling. 2004: In May was awarded by the President of Portugal Jorge Sampaio with the Ordem da Instrução Pública, which is one of the honorific orders of Portugal. This is the attribution of decoration to individuals personal bravery, achievement, or service to Portugal
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Glaucia Rosas is an education technology leader and innovation catalyst who works in digital learning projects and in the school management field. She is a qualified teacher and holds a Business Management and Finance degree. She received her Masters degree from Johns Hopkins School of Education on Digital Age Learning and Educational Technology. During her career, she has specialised in School Management, School Leadership and Financial Management. Glaucia is a Microsoft Educator, an Apple Teacher and is in the process of being certified as an ISTE Educator (International Society of Technology in Education). As the former Head of Digital Learning at St. Paul’s School, the prestigious British international school in Sao Paulo, Brazil, she designed and implemented the school’s Digital Learning strategy, for which it received the Microsoft Showcase School and Apple Distinguished School awards for their innovative and creative use of technology in education. Aware of the challenges that the rest of the education sector was facing with technology, in 2020, Glaucia got together with James Wilkinson to found The EduTec Alliance. James was the school board member who had sponsored all her projects, for that he had spent 35 years travelling the world designing and implementing advanced technology solutions for major corporations. Their primary objective was to allow wider access to the winning strategies that they have applied at St. Paul’s, and to provide the knowledgeable and affordable advice that has been lacking until now for schools. The EduTec Alliance’s mission is to help schools across the world to overcome their digital transformation challenges and shape their technology structure and strategy to offer the best possible learning experience to pupils and efficient day to day operation for the whole school community. As a membership-based organisation, it allows collaboration among members, which is invaluable to keep them ahead in the education technology space.
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Head of College - Dulwich College Seoul Originally from Iceland, Gudmundur went on to be educated at University College London (UCL) and the University of Sheffield where he studied archaeological science. He has directed numerous research excavations for UCL, the National Museum of Iceland and the University of Cambridge, focusing mostly on Viking age and Medieval settlements. Gudmundur has always had a love of music and studied at the Reykjavik Academy of Singing and Vocal Arts and the Royal Academy of Music, London as a bass vocalist. He has performed various operatic roles and given numerous lieder and oratorio recitals. As an educator Gudmundur has worked for international schools in Serbia, Italy, China and the United Arab Emirates. Prior to joining Dulwich College Seoul, Gudmundur was the Rektor of the United World College Red Cross Nordic on the west coast of Norway. He is passionate about community voice, appreciative inquiry and the role that critical thinking plays in furthering democracy and citizenship. With close to 20 years of experience, Gudmundur has taught Theory of Knowledge, Geography, Music and Critical Thinking, and has worked mostly within the International Baccalaureate framework. He has an MA in Education from the Westminster Institute of Education/Oxford Brookes University.
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Mike Gilmour is an educational leader, author and speaker who is originally from South Africa but is currently based in Singapore. As a passionate believer in human potential, Mike has led organisations and teams, both within education and corporate sectors, to achieve high levels of success. He has a Masters Degree in Educational Leadership and speaks regularly at conferences throughout ASEAN on topics relating to education, leadership and human connections. Mike's first book, The Power Of Rapport , is a reflection of his passion for human connections, and the role they play in organisational and personal success. His book is currently sold in over 20 countries and has helped many people evaluate the role rapport plays in their daily life.
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Hecht (married and father of 4 is an internationally distinguished leader and visionary in innovative education. He is also a sought after speaker and consultant, and plays an essential role in the movement for changing education in Israel and around the world. In 1 987 Yaacov Hecht fulfilled the promise he gave himself as a dyslectic problematic schoolchild and founded the Democratic School in Hadera, Israel the first school in the world to be called a democratic school In 1993 he initiated IDEC International Democratic Education Conference which convenes every year in a different continent. IDEC has facilitated the establishment of hundreds of innovative democratic schools around the globe, 30 of them in Israel. In 19 96, after the assassination of Israel s prime minister, following the request for in-depth educational programs that deal with democracy Yaacov Hecht founded IDE the Institute for Democratic Education that worked on integrating democratic and innovative processes in Israeli public schools. Within IDE, Hecht created a groundbreaking academic faculty for teachers training in the Kibuzim college, the biggest academic institute for teachers in Israel. In addition, Yaacov built in cooperation between IDE and Tel Aviv University, a graduate program for school principals. He also created with the ministry of education the Pioneer" program for promoting educational leadership amongst young educators. His book "Democratic Education A Beginning of a Story", which has been translated into English, Portuguese, Bulgarian and Korean, is a worldwide source of inspiration for groundbreaking educators and entrepreneurs. In 2 010 he found ed Education Cities the Art of Collaborations that weaves and maintain s municipal collaborations that aim to turn the city into one big school It also promotes collaborations and networking in the classroom, in the school, in the city, in the state, and in the world. WIRED magazine has chosen Education Cities' MOOC learning model (How2MOOC) to one of the leading trends in 2015. In January 2017 Education Cities was chosen to one of the 10 leading innovations in the world, by HundrED the Finish initiative for globally promoting educational innovation. Yaacov has served as an advisor to 6 Ministers of Education in Israel , in the past and at present, as an expert in creating connections and interfacing between the state and alternative education. He regards the preparing and directing of the educational system towards the future as his main mission today.
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Michael Gebauer is a professor in didactics of primary school education at the Martin-Luther-University in Halle/Germany. He worked as a teacher for science and English language in secondary schools for more than 12 years and was the co-founder of a democratic school. He was also co-founder of the European Democratic Education Community (EUDEC) and organized the first EUDEC Conference in Leipzig. His major fields of research are environmental education and human rights based democratic and inclusive education. He has been working as an author of schoolbooks, teaching materials and articles for more than 30 years.
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Kate O’Connell is a passionate educator and learner with 22 years of classroom experience and 17 years of teacher leadership experience. She is pursuing a Certificate of School Management and Leadership through Harvard Business School and Harvard Graduate School of Education. Kate is originally from the United States and has taught both at home and abroad in China, Tanzania, Thailand, and Cambodia. She received her bachelor’s degree from Michigan State University in Elementary Education in 1995 and her Master of Arts in Curriculum and Instruction in 2001 also from Michigan State University. Kate is an International Baccalaureate Primary Years Program Workshop Leader and also leads other workshops including Compass Education. Kate regularly leads workshops for teachers throughout the Asia-Pacific Region. Online she has coached courses through Harvard Graduate School of Education’s WIDE World.
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Co-founder and Executive President of the Alternative Educational Organization based in Puerto Rico, Nuestra Escuela (Our School). This entity was founded in 2000 by Ana Yris and her husband, also an educator, Justo Méndez Arámburu. In addition to their local centers, they promoted the model development in Shule Yetu, the headquarters of Nuestra Escuela in Africa, and created in 2012 the initiative Encuentro Nuestra America (Encounter of Our America), the most important alternative education meeting in Latin America. As a specialist in academic and biopsychosocial approach, Guzmán Torres has vast experience working on educational projects with children and young people who, for various reasons, have moved away from the traditional school. Her work has been recognized by the Hispanics in Philanthropy organization, the School of Social Workers of Puerto Rico, and the Puerto Rico Senate. Ana Yris has been part of the Aflatoun Network since 2010 and is certified as a Regional Trainer of Aflatoun in the Americas, creating collaborative links with Child and Youth Finance International (CYFI) and leading in Puerto Rico the annual Global Money Week celebration. As a keynote speaker, she has shared experiences at the World Forum for Early Childhood in Puerto Rico, where she presented Aflatot at IDEC 2015 “International Democratic Education Conference” in New Zealand and the National Conference of Alternatives for a New Education (CONANE) in Brazil. Also presented IDEC 2016 as a keynote speaker in Finland and has been recognized with the INDEX Award for Dominican excellence, for her work as a Dominican woman in Puerto Rico. She was also selected to participate in the Global Ambassadors women leader program 2019, initiative of Vital Voices and Bank of America. Her effort is guided by the firm commitment to impact socially and economically disadvantaged humans, contributing to create an equitable society.
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Victor Ekwueme is a visually impaired Information technology (IT) professional. He holds a Computer Science Bachelor's degree from the University of Lagos and two Masters degrees. One from the University of Nottingham, UK and the other from The University of Dundee, UK where he studied MSc IT and MSc Intelligent Computational Systems respectively. On returning to Nigeria from the UK, his eyesight deteriorated severely due to a rare disease called Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP). Victor had to learn new skills to cope with everyday life especially in his career as an IT Consultant. He learnt some braille and also other skills using his mind such as memorisation techniques and mental calculations. Victor has spoken in several conferences about overcoming his struggles and appeared on several online platforms i.e newspapers and digital magazines. He further started an academy (called MetaProgramming Academy) to teach people how to learn metacognition skills through computer programming. He teaches the Python programming language and uses metacognitive skills to teach such skills. His vision is to disseminate this knowledge to eager people willing to learn not just computer programming but mental tools and techniques that will guide them in learning the language. These techniques could be adapted to other subjects if the student is creative. Victor works with Super Digital Highways (Nig.) Ltd. as a Technical Consultant with the Odoo Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software. He has over 15 years working experience in IT ranging from Software Development, Networking, and more recently, Data Science. He does not let his vision weigh him down but rather, uses it to galvanise and inspire people to want to better themselves.
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From a very young age, deeply interested in education, I have been guided by life and by the call of my heart in this adventure that is life. Father of two daughters, together with my partner Marién, we are involved in the creation in 1999 of “ojo de agua”, an radical initiative of educational innovación based on sustainability, selfdirected learning, respect for others (human or not-human) and democracy. After more than 20 years at the forefront of the education transformation movement at the end of the 20th century, we see clearly that the next natural step is to transform the way we insert ourselves as adults in society. With “Ojo de Sol” (an Alternative Program for a Conscious Leadership), we intend to contribute to a new culture of caring for the earth and all the beings that compound it, compatible with a sacred economy and with the achievement of the personal fulfillment of the “bionautas”. In addition, I have a degree in Pedagogy and Educational Sciences, studies in Psychopedagogy, Expert in Business Management and Human Resources. Certificate in Design in Permaculture and Transition Towns. Our fundamental thesis is that "emotional health is a key element in the development of awareness of our interdependence with the ecosystem and, therefore, a key factor to eliminate the ecocide that humans are currently perpetrating."
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Kru Daiju has been involved in education for over 18 years. He holds Bachelor and master’s degree in Business Administration. Kru Daiju has taught Social Studies Business and Management, Economics and Theory of Knowledge. In the last eighteen years, he has been fortunate enough to have worked at some of the leading schools in China, India, Japan, and the Philippines. He is also a member of the IB Educator Network as a workshop leader and examiner for Business and Management and Extended Essays. He has been involved with and chaired several committees throughout his career. He has served in various coordinator roles, including IB Coordination, technology initiatives, school improvement programs, and has played a critical role in many aspects of educational professional development.
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Fiona McKenzie is a teacher who quickly realised that a conventional school environment was not going to allow her to achieve her vision of generating positive change in the world. It was partly the ‘what’ of the curriculum, but mostly the ‘how’ of the schools she worked in. Sensing that the ‘how’ could not be changed without a new approach to school structure and program design, Fiona established a primary school based on a model that addressed these systemic problems, for 6-12 year old children in a rural area, 150km south of Melbourne, Australia - Koonwarra Village School opened in 2012 with 26 students. Following requests from parents in another community nearby, a second primary school opened on Phillip Island four years later, and in 2020, the opening of a high school (Village High School) became a natural progression as students and parents wanted to maintain their engagement with self-directed learning into the senior years of schooling. Fiona is currently the Principal of the two youngest schools and remains on the Board of the third.
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Nathan Swenson has been an educational leader for over 20 years and has had experiences in 4 different countries before moving to Vietnam. Nathan attended Carleton College, Gustavus Adolphus College, and Saint Mary's University to earn a BS in Education, a Master's in Curriculum and Instruction, and a certificate in Educational Leadership. He has been a principal in the USA, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, and Brazil and he is extremely excited to be the Head of School at ISHCMC-American Academy for the 2020-2021 school year. Nathan is passionate about helping children learn and grow as they prepare for the rest of their lives. At ISHCMC-AA he is focused on a positive, caring, and engaging environment and Nathan embraces this moto in all that he does. He spends time getting to know each student and helps meet their individual needs. He has high expectations for the school and students and encourages everyone to reach their fullest potential. Nathan enjoys meeting with families and encourages parents to be involved in their child's development. He will be speaking about how to use the design process and research to make sure that you are meeting the needs of your student population and the school community.
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Architect / President of Tezuka Architects / Professor of Tokyo City University
1964 Born in Tokyo, Japan
1987 B. Arch., Musashi Institute of Technology
1990 M. Arch., University of Pennsylvania
1990-1994 Richard Rogers Partnership Ltd.
1994 Founded Tezuka Architects with Yui Tezuka
1996-2008 Associate Professor, Musahi Institute of Technology
2009- Professor, Tokyo City University
Awards
The Best of All, OECD/CELE 4th Compendium of Exemplary Educational Facilities (2011, Fuji Kindergarten)
Prize of Architectural Institute of Japan for Design (2008, Fuji Kindergarten)
Japan Institute of Architects Award (2008, Fuji Kindergarten) (2015, Sora no Mori Clinic)
AR Award 2004, the Architectural Review (Echigo-matsunoyama Museum of Natural Science)
Good Design Gold Prize (1997, Soejima Hospital) (2013, Asahi Kindergarten)
Global Award for Sustainable Architecture 2017, UNESCO
Moriyama RAIC International Prize 2017 (Fuji Kindergarten), Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC)
BCS Prize (2018, Sora no Mori Clinic), Japan Federation of Construction Contractors
World Architecture Festival 2018, School Completed Buildings Winner (Muku Nursery School)
Exhibitions
2004 Venice Biennale of Architecture
2013 Carnegie International
2018 Venice Biennale of Architecture “Freespace”
Publications
Takaharu + Yui Tezuka Architecture Catalogue 1-3. TOTO Publishing
Takaharu + Yui Tezuka NOSTALGIC FUTURE ERINNERTE ZUKUNFT, Jovis, 2009.
Tezuka Architects: The Yellow Book, Edited by Thomas Sherman & Greg Logan, Jovis, 2016
TED.com “The best kindergarten you've ever seen” by Takaharu Tezuka
https://www.ted.com/talks/takaharu_tezuka_the_best_kindergarten_you_ve_ever_seen
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Kapono Ciotti is passionate about the science of teaching and learning and has put this practice to work as Director / Head of School at The American International School in Egypt. Kapono is an international trainer and professional development coach, teacher, and a culture and place-based curriculum writer, focusing on culturally appropriate pedagogy. With the Pacific American foundation, he has written for the Kai E’e, Malama Kaho’olawe and Aloha ‘Aina curriculums and facilitated numerous trainings for Department of Education, Charter, Independent and International Schools. He has over 12 years of classroom teaching before moving into senior administration in non-profit, high school and elementary school. He now leads one of the region’s most influential K-12 institutions, AISE. Kapono spent 15 years as a facilitator for the National Association of Independent Schools specializing in issues of diversity in education, and a contributor to national movements in project-based, and 21st century learning.
Kapono Ciotti earned a PhD in International education in 2018 from Northcentral University, holds a Masters degree in Social Change and Development from the University of Newcastle, Australia and a Bachelors in Language and Cultural Studies from The Evergreen State College, Washington.
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Jerry Mintz has been a leading voice in the alternative school movement for over 30 years. In addition to his seventeen years as a public and independent alternative school principal and teacher, he has also helped found more than one hundred public and private alternative schools and organizations. He has lectured and consulted in more than twenty-five countries around the world.
In 1989, he founded the Alternative Education Resource Organization and since then has served as it’s Director. Jerry was the first executive director of the National Coalition of Alternative Community Schools (NCACS), and was a founding member of the International Democratic Education Conference (IDEC).
In addition to several appearances on national radio and TV shows, Jerry’s essays, commentaries, and reviews have appeared in numerous newspapers, journals, and magazines including The New York Times, Newsday, Paths of Learning, Green Money Journal, Communities, Saturday Review, Holistic Education Review as well as the anthology Creating Learning Communities (Foundation for Educational Renewal, 2000).
Jerry was Editor-in-Chief for the Handbook of Alternative Education (Macmillan, 1994), and the Almanac of Education Choices (Macmillan/Simon & Schuster, 1995). He is the author of School’s Over: How to Have Freedom and Democracy in Education (AERO, 2017) and is editor of Turning Points: 35 Visionaries in Education Tell Their Own Story (AERO, 2010).
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A dedicated and passionate advocator of Early Childhood Education (ECE), play pedagogy focusing on emotional development who started her journey in the education industry upon returning from her 7 years of studies in the United Kingdom, in 2012. She first designed and produced an interactive courseware for children during her degree years in Universiti Teknologi Petronas (UTP). This led her to pursue MA Development in Global Societies in Leeds Beckett University and continued her doctorate journey in Cognitive Science, Sussex University.
Seeing too much focused on academic learning as young as 4, she decided to resign as a lecturer, left the academia to venture into the industry to understand the issues in ECE. Challenged by her husband after series of talks, to prove what was said on the importance of ECE, she designed her own Play Based Learning Kindergarten Model called KinderKaizen in 2014. A model that fits the culture, and evidence based research, she was called to run one, to walk the talk. Advocating through KinderKaizen, she managed to convince around 40 interested followers to run the centres in 40 different locations within 3 years. This was indeed a success.
The journey continues with the needs of a school. Her children are growing and again, she struggles with fitting in the existing education system. She tried alternative schoolings and homeschooled for a while, but she was consistently thinking and trying to find a solution. Sri Aria, a Self-Directed Education school came to mind as the most acceptable system that may fit into the objective of why she thinks the country needs one. Started one in 2018, Sri Aria has 4 campuses today, with a total of 140 students and growing. Adding to this, she too created a childcare centre, KinderBebe to champion the campaign of ‘Start Right’ for 0-4s. This is following the needs of supporting parents to make it right from the start.
A job creator she is from the very beginning, to date, she has created PlayLeaders, PlayCarers, PlayWorkers, Mediators, Play Companions and Learning Facilitators. She designed a Play Conference to educate the nation. She initiated the StoryMaker Apprentices, to train undergraduates and inspire them by being her apprentices. She designed books, train apprentices to produce children’s books and publish them. She appears on televisions, radios, newspapers and magazines to advocate and now slowly shifting towards becoming a Child-Parent Mediator to support emotional development.
She definitely has so much on her plate, and she has now her own blueprint of a whole school system, a revolution in education. Understanding the busy schedule, she is now creating champions to lead her work.
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In a career of forty years, Andy Homden has worked in some of the most prominent international schools in the world both as a teacher and leader. Having graduated with a degree in Modern History from Oxford, where he also trained as a teacher, he taught in the UK before starting his international career at Island School in Hong Kong. Leadership appointments followed at the British School in Jakarta where he was Head of Secondary and then as Director of Schools at the Alice Smith School in Kuala Lumpur. Headships followed at Enka Schools in Istanbul, Bangkok Patana School and then in Dubai with Taaleem LLC, as Principal of Dubai British School and founding Principal of Jumeira Baccalaureate School. He is the founder and CEO of Consilium Education, a specialist group of consultants advising emerging international school. Andy is currently the international education consultant to the DPS-STS school in Dhaka, Bangladesh, assisting the Board and Senior Leadership Team with the development of the Cambridge International and Early Years Foundation Stage curricula, teacher and leadership training, online learning, policy development and strategic planning. Andy took his Master’s degree in Education at the University of Western Australia, specialising in curriculum design and the leadership of change. In 2016, he was awarded the Professional Diploma in Digital Marketing by the Digital Marketing Institute. Recent assignments with Consilium Education have included studies for new projects in Japan, Russia, Latvia and China.
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Virginia Kung is an experienced school leader, an Adjunct Lecturer for the University of Auckland and the Deputy Principal at Newmarket Primary School in Auckland, New Zealand. Newmarket Primary School is an inner city school established in 1887. Auckland City has built up around the school. Currently, the school has a diverse migrant roll, which includes 10% of students from India. She has been a member of the senior leadership team for 11 years. She has expertise in using Structured Observed Learning Outcomes Taxonomy (SOLO) to enhance learning outcomes and raise student achievement. In addition, she regularly mentors teachers in the use of SOLO for teaching and learning.
Over the past two years, Virginia has focused her teacher inquiry around the "Plan to Pedagogy Project". http://www.iletc.com.au/
The Innovative Learning Environments and Teacher Change (ILETC) project is an Australian Research Council Linkage Project funded led by The University of Melbourne. The project investigates how teachers can use the untapped potential of Innovative Learning Environments (ILEs) to improve learning outcomes for students. The collaborative research will identify whether there is a link between quality teaching and effective use of ILEs and develop practical tools to assist teachers to adapt their teaching practices to maximise deeper learning. Currently she is also champion of the Flexible Grouping Initiative where she mentors two Across School Leaders and eleven In School Leaders in the Auckland Central Community of Schools Kāhui Ako.
Virginia is passionate about building and establishing strong relationships with all stakeholders. Her school leadership work with The Springboard Trust involved working on the “Schools@Heart Project”. The outcome guided Newmarket Primary Schools Strategic Plan. She believes that the key to educational success is to make meaningful and respectful connections with students, teachers, parents and the community.
In 2014, she was invited to travel to China as part of the New Zealand Principal’s delegation. In 2015, she attended the World Educational Leadership Summit in Singapore and had the opportunity to personally meet and listen to Professor Sugata Mitra.
In 2018 she was certified as a Seesaw Ambassador and also as a Hapara Certified Educator. She completed her Digital Passport with Mindlab. In 2020, she certified as a Book Creator Author and attained Level 1 using Microsoft FlipGrid.
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Je’anna Clements (BA Psychology Hons) is co-founder and facilitator at Riverstone Village, a Democratic, Self-Directed Education community in South Africa. Following her degree in Philosophy, Political Science and Psychology, Je’anna trained as an Aware Parenting Instructor, counsellor and educational play facilitator. She is passionate about child participation and co-facilitated child participation discussions for Save The Children Sweden. During this process she became aware of how many young people found their education to be oppressive and limiting rather than empowering. After becoming a mother in 2005 she had to consider which education approach would be most compatible with her family's best interests. She convened a reading group on alternative education, but found that the more she explored alternative approaches such as Waldorf and Montessori, the more she felt dissatisfied with the level of empowerment of the young people concerned.
She registered for her Masters in Philosophy of Education in order to design a progressive school model that empowered young people to optimise their own education. She soon discovered that formal tertiary education suffered from the same disempowering and limiting structures and protocols that she was aiming to remedy for education in the K-12 range. What is becoming known as the 'Gated Institutional Narrative' (GIN) meant that she was simply not 'allowed' to study what it was that she knew she needed to study. Deciding to transcend the limits of formal course requirements, she embarked on a decade-long journey of informal study through reading, discussion, and practical experimentation, co-founding and collaborating with numerous alternative education startups on the way. She eventually settled on Self-Directed Education as the one approach which both optimised childhood experience and the fulfilment of young people's human rights, and was likely to best prepare them for the uncertain future humanity faces.
Both of the young people who call her mother have self-directed their education since birth. Je'anna is also a writer and her articles have been published by various South African and international publications including Save The Children (Sweden), the Children , Youth and Environments journal (Univ. Colorado, USA), and Tipping Points magazine (by the Alliance for Self-Directed Education). She is the author of Help! My Kid Hates School , as well as What If School Creates Dyslexia, and the Helping The Butterfly Hatch series of books for facilitators of Self-Directed Education, on How SDE Works and Why as well as on How To Support Young People In Self-Directed Education . To date some of her writings have been translated into Chinese, French, and Dutch.
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Chelsea Thomas Profile :
Chelsea Thomas lives on the West Coast of Canada and is an unschooling mom of 4. She is completing her PhD (ABD) in Education at the University of Victoria and she regularly involves herself in advocacy projects within the university and community. Her most recent community based learning and healing projects include a community-school-university partnership project focused on integrating Indigenous ways of knowing and being into the BC K-12 science curriculum www.livinglabproject.ca and advocating for educational choice for families with www.welearnnaturally.com , an organization committed to advancing children's rights and youth allyship. Her doctoral research will focus on how Canadian families from a poverty-class heritage who have been historically excluded from equitable educational opportunities including home learning, perceive and describe their uncommon experience of unschooling in terms of both nurturing a sense of belonging and as a decolonizing approach to learning, education and life.
Erin Fleming Profile :
Erin Fleming is an unschooling mom of 3 near Toronto Canada. She has worked as a teacher in provincial public schools, developed self directed education programs in the private sector, and dedicates her time to projects related to helping families see the possibilities within education. She currently works as an unschooling and parenting coach. For Future School Leaders Chelsea and Erin will be sharing how intrinsically motivated learning is heavily dependent on the environment in which a learner finds themselves. If they are in an environment that is supportive and meets needs for safety, belonging, and freedom, the learner can experience an embodied, deeply meaningful experience. If they are in an environment that is not meeting some of their needs for safety, belonging, freedom, and choice, the learning will feel “outside” of them and the learning possibly less likely to be retained. As teachers, educators, and administrators, you play an important role in creating an environment for learners to flourish and experience the joy of embodied learning - the type of learning that leaves the individual feeling excited and passionate and eager for more. In this session Erin and Chelsea will walk you through the process of intrinsically motivated learning and how you can create an environment that is aligned with your values to support learners in their personal journey of learning and connection
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Marko Koskinen, 47yo, from Finland is the founder of Phoenix Online School, a K9 elementary homeschooling alternative for students in Finland. During years 2017-2019 Marko was a member of the Council of the European Democratic Education Community (EUDEC) and has been an active member of the Democratic Education community for over two decades.
Marko began his revolutionary education career as a student at the Helsinki University by initiating a student movement at the Helsinki University Education department demanding change in the teaching practices. The end result was a formation of a new kind of teacher education line, where the teacher students decide themselves about their curriculum. There are no tests and the evaluation is mostly based on peer evaluation and mentoring.
Marko has worked as a teacher in pre-primary, primary, secondary and adult education for 15 years. His experience has led him to affirm the many critiques towards the education system he already had when he moved from ITC to education field in his early twenties. The main critiques include age segregation, hierarchical governing system, evaluation systems based on rewards and punishments, pre-designed curriculum and the focus on academics instead of well-being.
In 2001 Marko participated in an internship program at a private K12 democratic alternative school, Sudbury Valley School, in MA, USA. This experience helped him start his own school in Finland in 2005. The Phoenix School was operational for three years. After the school closed down, during years 2009-2010 Marko travelled for four months in India and studied some Indian philosophers like Sri Aurobindo and Krishnamurti.
In 2010 Marko started working on the online school. As an ICT professional he was able to combine Information Technology with education and in 2011 the Phoenix Online School was officially released.
The aim of the online school was to allow easy access to homeschooling. During his years as a teacher in public education sector, Marko had seen in practice the many problems of the education system. Even though the Finnish education system is considered to be one of the best in the world, it still has most of the same structures as other education systems and suffers the same problems stated above. With the online school Marko wanted to create a system that would put the student in the center of his/her own studies and give the student and the family as much freedom as possible while still fulfilling the mandatory national curriculum. The solution was to abolish all study content and give the student only questions and tasks. The student was free to decide how to study, when to study, with whom to study and due to the flexibility of the system, also in a great degree, what to study.
The Phoenix Online School has been now running for ten years and at the moment has about 90 students, which is about 20% of the homeschoolers in Finland. The online platform has also been successfully tested in regular classroom settings inside Finnish and Spanish public schools.
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My name is Margo Bruins, I am Born in the Netherlands and I see myself as a world citizen.
I created a democratic school together with other people in 2003.
I work as a staff member at democratic school DeRuimte Soest.
I discovered years ago that I am free and capable to change the world. And my domain is to do it through educating youngsters.
In the Netherlands almost all of the democratic schools work with the consent methode.
That is a way of democratic decision making without stride, without discussion, or trying to convince other people.
It is a method of using each other's mindsets, to get better, richer proposals and decisions that everybody wants.
I would like to inspire people to be bold and believe in the change we all can make. Little or big:)
I also want to explain in the video conference how decision making by consent-method works in our school and what it does in creating world peace.
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Jean Lomino holds a Ph.D. in Leadership with an emphasis in Environmental Education. She was a classroom teacher for 20 years, and since 2000 she has been an adjunct professor for a Master’s Degree program in Outdoor Teacher Education. Jean served as Executive Director of Reflection Riding Arboretum and Nature Center in Chattanooga TN from 2005-2013. In 2015 she co-founded Wauhatchie School, the first forest kindergarten in the state of Tennessee which in the past five years has grown to include four forest school sites in the Chattanooga area with an enrollment of 160 students. Jean is also founder and lead trainer of the Forest School Teacher Institute and has trained over 200 forest school teachers from the US, Canada, China, Korea and South Africa, including two months working with teachers at No Boundaries Forest Kindergarten in Guangzhou, China. In 2018 she collaborated with Dr. Jiyoun Shin, Vice-Chair of the Korean Forest Kindergarten Association, to conduct research concerning Character Development in Forest Kindergarten. Jean presented at the International Symposium of Forest Kindergartens in Seoul, South Korea in 2019 and continues to be a speaker/advocate for forest school throughout the US.
Over the past 40 years as a classroom teacher, outdoor educator, college professor, nature center director, teacher trainer, and a forest school founder and director, Jean has gained a unique perspective about how children develop a connection with nature. By observing thousands of children in their nature explorations, she has come to believe that a friendship with nature is developed through several distinct behaviors. She recently wrote an article explaining this process and how the pandemic has created an opportunity for nature-based education to become a worldwide movement. She believes that today’s children have been the most nature-deprived generation in human history, spending much of their lives confined within walls, eyes locked on screens in temperature-controlled, cushioned, artificial environments, insulated from the natural world. Their well-being has been compromised with staggering results, including serious physical, emotional, social and cognitive disorders. Time spent in nature helps children understand the world as large and complex, but also abundant with interconnections. Learning and playing in nature leads to a kinship with the natural world which then grows into love for the earth and an instinctive desire to care for it. Jean believes that these experiences in nature represent the greatest hope for the future health of planet Earth, because today’s children will become its stewards through the rest of the 21st century.
Jean’s current projects include working with public schools to implement nature-immersion experiences for all grade levels, developing a network of neighbourhood forest schools, and writing a guidebook to help teachers, parents and other caregivers provide experiences that will help children develop deep friendships with the earth.
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Kevin Fullbrook is 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 throughout Australia, China, and the Middle East. 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 is passionate about fostering innovation and creativity in education. He is the country lead innovation ambassador in Kuwait for the HundrED project out of Finland, a not for profit organization that seeks out and shares outstanding educational innovation around the globe. He is also a member of the LearnLife network alliance. He has a Bachelor of Applied Science, Bachelor of Education, and an MBA, and is a fully qualified Justice of the Peace.
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Nuwan Dissanayaka is a renowned educationist in the field of innovative education. By profession he is a teacher as well as school administrator. His teaching and learning concept "Feel and Learn" got recognized as the best educational research at The World Conference on Education 2017. He is the one who introduced the concept of "Most Innovative Teacher" Award for Sri Lanka, which was then replicated by many schools around the country as well as around the world. Moreover, He is the founder of "A Sri Lankan Dreams" an independent education movement which organizes workshops around the country catering both students and teachers with international standards. For these initiatives he was awarded with Gold award for Service of Excellence in Sri Lanka for year 2019.
Mr. Dissanayaka is also the founder of "VOICE" concept which is an international event where students around the world are given an opportunity to raise their voice directly to education policy makers in order to create a Democratic environment in the field of education. Moreover, He is the founder of the Sri Lankan Democratic Education movement. For these initiatives he was awarded with "Global Teacher Award" in 2019. When it comes to the field of educational administration he works as a lecturer of Education at a Governmental Institute as well as he provides educational consultancy services for many leading school networks around the country as well as around the world. Furthermore, In 2020 he introduced "CHEMPLAY" product series which will cater activity based learning within the classroom and it was recognized at GESS education awards for best initiative for inclusion and wellbeing. Moreover, He is the author of "Educate The Child To Make Tomorrow Brighter Than Today"
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Shri Jyotinivas Kumar Sinha was born on 16th of July, 1945. He did his schooling from St. Xavier’s School, Patna. Thereafter, he joined St. Stephen’s College, Delhi, in 1961 and graduated with History (Honours) in 1964. He did Masters in History from the Delhi University in 1966 and joined the Indian Police Service in 1967. He was allotted the Bihar Cadre but served in his home state for a very short period and went on deputation to the Cabinet Secretariat, Government of India in 1971. During his service with the Cabinet Secretariat he served in India and abroad with great distinction. He was awarded the ‘Indian Police Medal’ for meritorious service in 1987 and the ‘Sarvottam Seva Suraksha Patra’ for distinguished service in 2000. He retired as Special Secretary in 2005.
On retirement he decided to return to his home state and settled in Patna with the sole objective of working for the welfare of the ‘Musahar’ community of Bihar, perhaps, the most downtrodden and poverty stricken community in India. He established ‘Shoshit Seva Sangh’ which runs a fully free English medium residential school in Patna to provide high quality education to the children of the musahar community. The school run by Shoshit Seva Sangh provides not only free education, boarding & lodging but also clothes including uniforms, text-books and stationery, medical-care, toiletries, bedding and bed linen, personal utensils and all other necessities. Musahar children as young as 6-7 years drawn from remote villages of various districts of Bihar are admitted in the Pre-School class and fully supported till they complete higher secondary. Shri Sinha began this with supporting the education of 4-5 musahar children in 2006. In less than a decade he was able to acquire land and build a residential school which can accommodate upto 1000 musahar children. The school building has been constructed as per the guidelines mandated by the Central Board of Secondary Education. It has a highly experienced and qualified teaching faculty. It also has sporting facilities which a school can be proud of. Shoshit Seva Sangh looks after musahar children and provide quality education literally from cradle to adulthood. This indeed is an unique achievement. The school is affiliated to the CBSE upto higher secondary level.
Presently there are over 506 musahar children and the school has started admitting 100 children in the Pre-School class every year. The school built in over 2 acres of land as stipulated by CBSE has all the facilities mandated by it. This institution was built by Shri Sinha with funds raised from individuals and corporates under their CSR programme with single minded devotion. The facilities in the school would compare with quality schools in India. Shri Sinha was given ‘India Positive Award’ sponsored by CNN-IBN in 2012 and figured in the ‘Amazing Indians’ serial telecast by Times Now Channel. He was adjudged as one of the ‘Best Educators’ of India by the jury constituted by Times Now in 2015. He was honoured for his valuable contribution in the field of education and literacy as a ‘Literacy Hero’ in 2013 by Rotary International at the South Asia Literacy Summit. Shri Sinha was awarded the ‘Padma Shri’ by the President of India on the occasion of the Republic Day, 2019, for this outstanding social service.
Some photographs of the life and activities at the school are attached. Shoshit Seva Sangh has a very elaborate website and the address is www.sssfoundation.org.
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Founder : Abheek ; Centre for Experiential Learning
From humble beginnings, to exploration with a desire to excel!!
I am Indraa Raju, from Bengaluru, South India. A journey of a young girl to becoming an entrepreneur in the field of education, is my path of learning. An avid follower of Swami Vivekananda , my philosophies to life grounded me to connect with nature , Indian traditions and learnings.
My journey with my elder daughter (Trupthi) showed me great disparity in the education system which helped me to explore opportunities for my experiences to float newer learning and unlearning past systems. In my search towards holistic education, I experienced various avenues, met great educators and personalities who guided me to become an entrepreneur. The early part of my journey as a trainer and facilitator took me to the challenge of protecting and nurturing the goodness and innocence in children, making headway to the growing demands of the contemporary world.
My dream found its ground when I began my start up a of play school named “Nurture”, for my son (second child ) ,creating a place for joy and learning . My son became the inspiration in bringing about a change to the outlook towards the education system and I grew as a mature human , understanding the philosophies and building deeper connect to the human kind . My deep explorations and engagements with alternative forms of schooling have now manifested as Abheek - an ever-evolving space that invites students, educators and parents to participate in the act of living, learning and sharing. Abheek enters tenth year of a joyful space of learning this year.
My love for learning, theatrical presentations, accepting and developing changes, engagement with individuals , all brought out to create a community with a deep concern for growth. My enthusiasm never stops to identify varied discoveries, accepting newer theories and meeting prolific leaders in this venture. My dream is to build this space , expand to all areas and create a role model ,bringing more children to learn joyfully. Being the enthusiastic Captain of Abheek , I wish to create a space not just for students, but parents and educators and find a strong ground to build a space of human kind to explore and live in harmony.
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Having completed my training in Waldorf education at Emerson College, Forest Road, East Sussex, U.K in 1986, I returned to India and worked in a mainstream school for three years. As a Waldorf educator I found a need to make changes in the method and delivery of education. I wished to implement an alternative way of education based on the teachings of the philosopher Rudolf Steiner and the philosophy of Waldorf education.
Keshar Academy of Learning was born in 1992. It began with a playgroup which grew organically into a kindergarten and then into class 1 and subsequently all the way up to class 12, adding a class every year. In 2005 we became a Cambridge accredited school enabling us to offer the IGCSE, and the AS/A Levels Cambridge examinations.
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Achyuta Samanta, after obtaining Master’s Degree in Chemistry in 1987 from Utkal University, started his career at 22 years of age. He has 30 years of teaching experience to his credit so far. Prof. Samanta went on to serve KIIT as its first Chancellor and has had the distinction of being the youngest Chancellor of any Indian University. He served University Grants Commission (UGC) as Member for two consecutive terms (2008-11 & 2011-2014) and was a Member of the Executive Committee of All Indian Council for Technical Education (AICTE). He was also a member of several other Government of India bodies like, NCTE, ISTE, ISCA, COIR BOARD, CAPART and many more. He has been a Member of the Academic Council of Central University, Silchar, Assam and the Central University, Odisha. He was the first Indian to be Member of both UGC and AICTE simultaneously and the first Odia to become Member of UGC and many other statutory bodies. Currently he is the President of World Congress of Poets 2019. He has delivered nearly 100 motivational speeches, including convocation addresses and foundation day lectures, in different institutions and organizations across the country and the globe. Prof. Samanta has been conferred with 33 Honoris Causa Doctorate awards from different Universities across the globe. He has also been decorated with prestigious Civilian Awards from many countries including, Gusi Peace Prize International, the highest Civilian Award from Bahrain besides over 50 national and international and over 200 State honors and accolades. He is the Founder of Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT ) and Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS), Bhubaneswar – the fully free and fully residential tribal institute. Starting modestly with an initial seed capital of Rs 5000/-, KIIT has grown into one of the most promising Universities imparting professional education in the Country with global acclaim having 27,000 students from across the country and abroad. KIIT also runs a 2000 bedded multispeciality hospital and an attached Medical College. KISS has become the largest Residential Tribal Institute in the World and is home for 50,000 tribal children (30,000 pursuing education and 20,000 passed out). Both KIIT and KISS found a place in the Limca Book of Records as well as Guinness World Records in many counts. Prof. Achyuta Samanta, who had lost his father at the age of four, before he could know the significance of the world, was pushed into the mire of abject poverty. Today, he is a legend, an iconic educationist, an emblem of service to humanity, a beacon of light for social transformation, and a redeemer of the fallen, the oppressed and the marginalized. With huge contributions in the field of education, health, art, culture, literature, rural development, social service and spiritualism his journey in life is not only awe-inspiring but soul-awakening for millions of poverty-stricken youths all over the globe. He has converted the remote village ‘Kalarabank’, Cuttack into a Smart Village and the entire Manpur Panchayat into a model Panchayat (cluster of villages). He has already started working to establish 12 branches of KISS in different districts, besides establishing KISS-Delhi for the underprivileged sections of the society. Besides providing around 10,000 direct employment in KIIT and KISS, he has created over 1,00,000 indirect employment and more than 100 successful entrepreneurs across the country. His hobby is to give happiness and a smiling face to the millions of poor. Prof. Samanta has been working relentlessly for Zero Poverty, Zero Hunger and Zero Illiteracy.
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Mr. Prabhakaran has been in the education sector for 34 years. His rich experience in National (CBSE and ICSE) and International Curriculum (IB and IGCSE) has impacted not just the students but teachers too. With his diverse knowledge in various academics feats, he has served as the Assistant Headmaster and Dean of Academics of Doon School, Dehradun. He actively enjoys curriculum development, pastoral care and counselling for students. Apart from teaching and school administration, Mr. Prabhakaran has been deeply involved in social and community services, including Round Square programmes, for helping underprivileged students. He has led the students and teachers of the in setting up and re-building damaged schools in the earthquake and flash-flood affected areas of Uttarkashi, Chamoli, Rudra Prayag, areas of Himalayas (Uttarkahnd) and Wayaad, Gudalur and other parts of Western ghats (Kerala and Tamilnadu ). Mr. Prabhakaran is a post graduate in Geography with a degree in education. He was the university rank holder during graduation and a recipient of the National Merit Scholarship for post-graduation. He started his career as a Lecturer, and later worked as the resource person for Kerala State Institute of Education. He believes in motivating and assisting students to reach their full academic potentials. For Mr. Prabhakaran, values such as humility, self-discipline, spirit of service are important in shaping the character of the individual and the nation. Mr. Prabhakaran is an avid trekker and has organized student expeditions through the length and breadth of the Himalayas. Mr. Prabhakaran is the 20th Headmaster of The Lawrence School, Lovedale and is now impacting and changing students to be global leaders.
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Craig has family connections with Asia which stretch back over five generations. His great grandmother was involved with the famous Chefoo School in northern China.
Craig earned his BA degree in Intercultural Studies at Biola University, California, in 1984. He completed his M.Div. in Theology from the same university in 1986. He has a Ph.D. in Sociology from Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines. His doctoral dissertation focused on the introduction of women’s basketball to the Philippines by American educators, entitled The Social Construction of Bodies through Basketball during the American Occupation: 1906-1922, and was awarded the John F. Doherty, S.J. Award for Social Justice. Craig’s research interests lie at the intersection of sociology of the body, gender, and sport. He currently serves as President of the International Sociological Association’s Research Committee on Sociology of the Body. He started his teaching career as a High School Teacher in La Habra, California.
From 1988-1992 he worked in community development in a Muslim majority area of the southern Philippines, where he learned both Tagalog and the local language, Maguindanao.
From 1992 until 2004 he worked at Faith Academy, Manila, Philippines, first teaching Humanities in the High School, then as High School Principal and, for five years, as Superintendent of the entire school, guiding a team of 130 faculty staff and 700 students in K-12, one third of whom were boarding students.
From 2004 until 2012 he was Chair of the Social Sciences and Humanities Departments at Crown College, St. Bonifacius, Minnesota. He returned to Asia 2012-2016 to work as Deputy Dean and High School Principal at UPH University and High School, a flagship Christian institution in Jakarta, Indonesia with some 15,000 students at High School and University.
From 2016-June 2019, Dr Cook was Dean of the School of Education at Simpson University, Redding, California, where he successfully led the school through complex accreditation procedures.
Dr Cook is married to Jamie Williams, J.D. They met in Indonesia, where she was teaching International Law in the Faculty of Law at Universitas Pelita Harapan. She earned her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Literature and Letters from the University of Oklahoma and her Juris Doctorate from Vermont Law School. A licensed attorney in the states of New York and Texas, she has practiced family, criminal, and commercial law. Prior to joining Woodstock, Jamie was a professor in the History and Political Science Department at Simpson University in Redding, California, where she taught Political Science and Criminology. She was also an adjunct professor teaching Restorative Justice and International Law at Le Tourneau University in Longview, Texas. In addition, she served as Program Coordinator for Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA), a nonprofit organization that advocates for the best interests of abused and neglected children in the foster care system.
In Craig’s own words: “I have been an athlete and participant in vigorous physical exercise for the whole of my adult life, being a regular basketball and tennis player and a tennis coach for many years. We live at present in a mountainous area of Northern California, where we enjoy hiking on the many beautiful trails… The heart of Christian leadership is being a servant to others, as evidenced by Jesus’ washing the disciples’ feet and commanding us to do the same.”
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Mr Peter Bird originates from a small rural village in South Cambridgeshire, UK. His humble beginnings started in Corporation housing and his father was known locally as the Professor because he was the only one they knew that had attended Technical College in Cambridge. Until the age of 16 he attended school within his village and had never traveled outside of the UK. Mr Bird left school with minimum qualification and was in a real sense a school failure. Why did a modern day successful school Superintendent fail school? Well in Mr Bird’s opinion he did not fail school, the education system failed him. The memory game of traditional education kills children's creativity and passion to learn which is why he hated school. Mr Bird then started on a long road to prove his intelligence despite his school results resulting in a varied career in many fields which he will share with you.
The connecting factor in all his career successes has been his sheer determination to not accept the current system or the situation he has encountered. Instead he has forged on to achieve and now pioneers to bring about change in education which he remains passionate about. During his career in educational leadership, Mr Bird has been the founding Principal in several countries including England, Qatar and currently The International Village School,Channi, India. IVS opened its doors in August 2018 and by JUne 2020 achieved IB World School statues in under two years, and during a global pandemic. Mr Bird’s message is simple, education IS the gateway to personal growth and career success, BUT only if the education system fits the pupils and not forces the pupils to fit the education system.
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Originally from Denmark, Allan has over four decades of experience as an educator; and over three decades of experience in senior administrative positions in Denmark. He is armed with an M.A. in Danish language, literature and history as well as a Master’s in Public Administration. He has taught Danish language and literature as well as communication and IT.
Allan is a visionary leader in the field of education and believes that Preparing students to succeed in a rapidly changing 21st-century environment begins in schools. He is the Founder and Principal of the globally recognised Orestad Gymnasium School in Copenhagen, Denmark, which is recognised amongst the 15 most innovative schools globally. The school was the first globally to go 100% digital and has been visited by eminent personalities like Prince Harry. The school is renowned for its’ innovative learning environment with open spaces instead of traditional classrooms, its strong emphasis on media skills, fully digitalised teaching material and innovative teaching practices.
According to him non- traditional teaching environments form the backbone of the teaching-learning process. The digital environment also encourages a more personalised style of teaching. He has been an active participant in public debate in Denmark on topics related to education and challenges faced by youth. He has also presented at international seminars and conferences on 21st-century learning spaces and learning, technology in teaching and the “why of education” in the 21st century. He is one of the founders of the Global Schools Alliance, which is a select gathering of innovative schools. Allan is also a member of the Academy of the Finnish organization HundrEd, which collects, shares and rewards innovative school projects from all over the world.
Allan is one of the founding members of the Chaman Bhartiya School . The school will prepare students for living and leading in India in the 21st century. To realise this vision Allan is one of the key contributors towards the development of the unique “We Lead” curriculum which incorporates development of academic competencies along with 21st century competencies as well as leadership skills. The school will also incorporate best practices on open learning spaces, innovative teaching practices as well as incorporate technology to personalise learning.
“What’s important is for the teacher to talk less and let the students work more. The teacher has to organise processes that encourage that to happen. The architecture of the school forces the teacher to do just that.” says Allan.
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Qualification: M. Sc., B. Ed. (special education), Diploma in counselling Work experience: 1. Head teacher, at Marudam farm school since June, 2009 2. Science, Maths and language teacher at primary, middle and secondary levels at Olcott memorial High school from 1996 – 2009 3. Worked with street children in Dharavi, Mumbai, 1993 -1996 Languages: Tamizh, English, Hindi, Malayalam (only speaking) Interests: Dance, Music, Theatre, Crafts, all traditional art and craft forms, Environment
I was part of an Action research programmed conducted by the British council, called the – Teaching English to the disadvantaged [TED]. This was a very useful and educative programme for all of us. Employment generation Working in close contact with Hemant from Centre of scientific research in Auroville, we created a model of employment generation with a group of my ex- students, replacing kerosene lamps with solar lanterns in the shops on the Elliot’s beach. This was a very simple but impactful move as it had great beneficial health impact for the shop keepers. With kerosene lamps they were inhaling a lot of sooty smoke. It was of course very beneficial for the environment. Hemant went on to win a Green Oscar based on this work. Child safety I began to work towards child safety, preventing child sexual abuse, working in close connection with Lois Engelbrect an International expert on the issue. We have been in close contact for nearly two decades and work in close collaboration. I regularly hold child safety workshops for teachers and students of various schools. Marudam farm school - from 2009 As a family, we moved to Thiruvannamalai, in 2009. My partner and I along with a British, Israeli couple and a few friends formed a new trust, called “The forest way”. The forest way is involved in afforesting the sacred Arunachala hill, running an Organic farm and the Marudam farm school. More about the forest way is available on – www.theforestway.org As a founder member and Head teacher of the Marudam farm school, which started, in 2009, with 20 children and has around 120 children now, I have been involved in all aspects of running the school, from curriculum development, teacher training, teaching at all levels, creation of education resources, time tabling, administration, Education department interfaces etc. I regularly conduct workshops for various schools and work closely with Azim Premji foundation in Pondicherry. I have been conducting the annual craft week in Marudam farm school for 8 years now, in which traditional crafts people and artisans from all over come and teach children from various schools these skills. It is one of the most popular activities in Marudam. More about Marudam farm school at – www.marudamfarmschool.org
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"A social entrepreneur from heart, Shibani is the Co founder of ‘Parvarish - The Museum School’, an innovative education Project of OASiS.
As a Founding Member of OASiS - A Social Innovations Lab, Shibani has been at the core of all education innovations in the organisation. After completing her Masters in English Literature, and Bachelor in Education, she thought of doing something different, to educate masses, not classes. She started a Museum based School to teach underprivileged children through Museum Exhibits in the year 2005. She collaborated with 5 museums of her city and began the journey. Her journey began with 40 children 15 years back, and today there are approx 100 children from 10 slums of Bhopal attending her school regularly. More than 4500 children have benefitted from this initiative of her. Some of them are now pursuing Engineering, Science, Commerce, Arts, Pharmacy and Fashion Designing undergraduate courses, some are pursuing Performing Arts, some have started their own Businesses, and some have joined back as Teachers.
She has received many awards, out of which the project ‘The Museum School’ won the UNESCO Asia-Pacific EDUCATION INNOVATION AWARD 2016 in Beijing, and has been listed under '100 inspiring Global Innovations in Education’ by HundrEd Finland.
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Vaibhav Chhabra is a mechanical engineer by education but a carpenter by passion. A graduate from Boston University, Vaibhav spent the first 2 years of his career at EyeNetra, a startup from MIT Media Labs, building portable Virtual Reality based eye diagnostic devices. While working with the rural community in India for his eye diagnostic prototype, Vaibhav founded ‘Makers Asylum.’ Maker’s Asylum is a community space focussed on fostering innovation through hands-on learning. It also provides access to an ecosystem of stakeholders which includes Governments, Businesses, Incubators/Accelerators, Investors and subject matter experts. The space houses various labs that are co-located in order to facilitate prototyping of ideas that are interdisciplinary in nature. Vaibhav essentially coupled his degree with his passion to create the first community Makerspace in India. The key focus of this space is to foster education in areas of sustainability and disability. The flagship program of Maker’s Asylum, STEAM school, running for the last 2 years in collaboration with the French embassy in India, brings together 150 global participants that solve and prototype for the UN Sustainable Development Goals. He also runs a similar program for the differently abled community. Both programs together have resulted in 29 high impact global projects that are in various phases of prototyping. The space has trained over 3000 people in the area of digital fabrication globally. The French President and the government has accredited him as a Young leader in this regard. In his leisure time Vaibhav enjoys making furniture, photography and winning at ping pong. He is also the Chair for innovation and entrepreneurship at Young Indians – Confederation of Indian Industries and a Global Shaper at the World Economic Forum.
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Dr Urvashi Sahni is a social entrepreneur, women rights activist and educationist. Through her various organizations, she has been working for the rights of children and women for over three decades. She is a leading expert in school governance, curriculum reform and teacher training with a special focus on girls’ education and the use of technology in education. Dr Sahni is a non-resident fellow at the Center for Universal Education - Brookings Institution. She has been recognized by the Obama Foundation Global Girls Alliance and the Clinton Foundation as a Change Maker. In 2017, she was declared the Social Entrepreneur of the Year India by the Schwab-Jubilant Bhartiya Foundation, and joined the international fellowship of Schwab social entrepreneurs. Dr Sahni was awarded the Ashoka Fellowship in the year 2011. She received Berkeley’s Haas International Award for her efforts to reform education in India and bolster education for girls in the year 1994. Dr Sahni was also invited to be an honorary member of the Clinton Global Initiative. She was also a member of the sub-committee on school education of the Chief Minister's Advisory Council in Rajasthan (2013 - 18). She founded Suraksha, a women rights organisation, in 1983 in Uttar Pradesh, India. She is the founding president and CEO of the Study Hall Educational Foundation (SHEF), under which she has established three K-12 schools including Prerna Girls School, providing affordable high quality rights-based education to over 1000 girls from urban slums. SHEF directly provides education to over 4000 students including middle class urban children, disadvantaged girls and boys from poor areas, out-of-school children, and rural children. She is the co-founder and director of the Digital Study Hall, which extends the pedagogical practices developed by the foundation to rural and urban schools in Uttar Pradesh and reaches out to over 1,00,000 students and teachers. A prolific social entrepreneur, Dr Sahni also founded DiDi’s, a social enterprise generating sustainable livelihoods for women, where she employs 65 Prerna graduates and their mothers. She has a Masters and a PhD in Education from the Graduate School of Education in UC Berkeley. She has presented academic papers at many national and international forums and universities, including Columbia, NYU, Chicago, and Berkeley, and has given Keynote addresses at international drama and education conferences in Edinburgh, Jamaica, Plymouth, Toronto, Northern Ireland and New York. She has published extensively on Critical Pedagogy, Theatre in Education, Feminist Pedagogy, Child Cultures, and Girls’ Education and Empowerment. Her current research focuses on developing and scaling her Girls’ Empowerment Program in India with the help of curricular reform, teacher training, and affordable technology. Her latest book – Reaching for the Sky: Empowering Girls through Education – draws on her 14 years of work with Prerna Girls School, and argues that education can be truly transformative if it addresses the everyday reality of girls’ lives and responds to their special needs and challenges with respect and care
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Radhakanta is the School Leader of Chirag School. He is a Stronge ducation professional with a Master's degree focused in Education from Azim Premji University, Bangalore. He is a experienced School Leader with a demonstrated history of working in the education management industry. He has been an educator for the last 10 years in various capacities and in various national and international schools. He is a lifelong learner and leader who believes in the value of building trust in children through a fear-free and joyful learning environment and is passionate about teaching in the educational setup as a means to create a learning organizational culture across the organisation.
Work Experience
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Working as school principal at Chirag School, Nainital (2019 onwards)
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Worked as a teacher at Mirambika, New Delhi (2009 to 2013)
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Worked as a teacher at Heritage School, Gurgaon (2013 to 2017)
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Worked as a consultant at Foundation for MSME cluster, New D
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Born in 1966, Bodhirupa Sinha spent her childhood and part of her college days at Visva Bharati, Santiniketan, the Ashram set up by Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore, which later became a Central University of repute, specialising in indepth research in Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, World Literature, different kinds of art forms and above all, in educational pedagogy. Later she moved to Kolkata in pursuit of higher education. The ambience of her childhood imbibed in Bodhirupa certain inclinations and values, which have paved the path for her future life.
Bodhirupa has been actively associated with the world of education initially as a teacher and later as an Academic Administrator since the past three decades. For the last fifteen years, Bodhirupa Sinha has been associated with Patha Bhavana, Visva Bharati at Santiniketan in the capacity of Principal . In her long career as an educationist and academic visionary, and also as someone deeply influenced by the Educational Philosophy of Tagore, Bodhirupa has delved into the world of education extensively, in particular Pre- Primary, Primary, Secondary and Higher secondary education. Bodhirupa Sinha has attended numerous seminars , conferences, workshops etc at home and abroad and has several publications to her credit
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Director of Engineering - Zoho Corporation.
After dropping out of IIT-Madras as an Engineer in Electronics and Electrical Communication, Rajendran was part of the founding team at Zoho Corporation, then called Vembu Systems. Later, he spent seven years at Xerago, Asia's largest New-Age Marketing Entity, as their Chief Algorithms Officer, managing projects and services for clients including Citibank and Sify. After rejoining Zoho Corporation in 2004, he has been serving a triple role at the company. He spearheads mobile development at Zoho, with a multi-talented team that builds mobile Apps for its 45 million+ customers.
He is the President at Zoho Schools of Learning, Zoho's own ongoing social experiment seen by many as a viable alternative to conventional college education. He is also a TEDx speaker and a technology evangelist who tries to share hard-earned advice and best practices from his two dozen years of professional experience. Beyond work, he is a contra-academician at heart. Feeling strongly that the education system in India needs a reboot, he also walked the talk, doing his own small bit by ‘free-schooling’ his 20-year-old son at home. His son graduated out of Zoho Schools of Learning, and is now his colleague, at Zoho Corp!
Short form:
Rajendran is the business solutions evangelist at Zoho Corporation. His vast expertise in conceiving and nurturing creative concepts into full-fledged software applications and his role as President at Zoho Schools of Learning, Zoho’s ongoing experiment in alternative education, make him a much sought-after speaker and panelist. A diehard Apple fan, he believes in aspiring to be ‘insanely great’ at anything he attempts.
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CEO, TEACH FOR INDIA
Shaheen grew up in 5 countries around the world, and returned to India when she was 18 to start Akanksha . F or 17 years, she worked with teachers and students, building Akanksha to provide children from low- income communities the kind of education that would maximize their greatest potential. Today, Akanksha serves 9300 children through their School Project and after-school centres in Mumbai and Pune. In 2008, Shaheen founded Teach For India , with an audacious vision of providing an excellent education to all children across India through building a pipeline of leaders committed to ending educational inequity in India. Today, Teach For India directly impacts approximately 32,000 children across seven regions in India. Shaheen has also created projects like the Maya Musical , the Kid's Education Revolution which explore student leadership, creating platforms for student voice and partnership, and TFIx , which is a year-long incubator program for passionate entrepreneurs who are willing to adapt Teach For India’s model to their context and region in rural areas. Shaheen serves on the boards of Akanksha Foundation, and Simple Education Foundation. Shaheen has been an Ashoka Fellow, a Global Leader for Tomorrow at the World Economic Forum, and an Asia Society 21 Leader . She is the author of the book, Redrawing India and the Miss Muglee Children’s Books. She has a Bachelor’s Degree from St. Xavier's College, Mumbai and a Master’s Degree from the University of Manchester
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Current involvements:
In the year 2003, Shukla started the Parkirma Humanity Foundation - A roof-top school in Rajendranagar in Bengaluru with 165 students from the slums. Today, with over four schools and one junior college, Parikrma Humanity Foundation continues to offer high quality education and support to 1500 children from four orphanages and over 80 slums in the city and was awarded the No.1 Social Impact School in India 2019-20.
A TED speaker, Shukla Bose has been contributing towards shaping and influencing education policies at the State and National level. Shukla is a member of the Karnataka Knowledge Commission (KKC) - headed by Dr. K Kasturirangan. She is the academy Member, HundrED Organization, Finland. She has published three papers in international journals and contributes opinion pieces for national dailies on education and policies.
She has been nominated as the chairperson to draft the Karnataka school education policy, and works with the Karnataka State Confederation of Indian Industries (CII), IQ Education Excellence Task Force, to check on quality in education. A member of the national CII Education Committee, Shukla helps in drafting the national policy for schools. She is on the board of a few private and public sector organizations for prevention of sexual harassment of women at workplace.
Past work experiences:
She was with Oberoi hospitality group for 13 years and was the CEO of RCI for 11 years. She volunteered with Mother Teresa for 7 years. Her experience with slum and street children greatly encouraged her to make the development of under-served children as her mission in life.
Awards and recognition:
Shukla was awarded the Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 1995, the Bharat Gaurav Award in 1996 and the Woman of the Year award in 2000.
A TED speaker, Shukla was awarded the Pride of Karnataka Roundtable International in 2015.
She was nominated as a Bangalore Hero in a Bangalore Mirror (a national daily) campaign in 2014.
Qimpro Platinum Standard Award in Education in 2017.
Woman Achievers Award 2018 from FICCI-FLO. Times Power Women award 2019. She was recognized for her contribution to the education of the poor by the Save Government Schools initiative 2019. She was awarded the international Excellence Award for Education Development from the Global Achievers Foundation and the Parivathan Inspire Awards for women and child development in 2019.
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Founder at Flurn, Co-founder at Sahaj Natural Learning Centre, and Defender of children's right to Freedom, Respect and Play After having completed her chartered accountancy from Ahmedabad, Ishani started her career with Ernst & Young in Mumbai and the stint lasted for a year till getting married and shifting base to Udaipur. Ishani’s heart and passion have been elsewhere: she always had a strong urge to inculcate life skills in young adults and, with this intention, founded Flurn in 2011 in Udaipur; ever since its inception, Ishani has been conducting workshops for young children.
Her early childhood explorations began with her motherhood. When her daughter was 5 months old, Ishani read about the life-transforming tools on respectful parenting by Magda Gerber and her life started evolving. She found answers to the questions that had been haunting her throughout the growing up years. As she introspected about her own life journey and what she had been learning, a realisation dawned upon her that if we need to change the world, we need to re-imagine how we treat our infants and toddlers. She commenced facilitating process-art workshops and Kids Life Studio workshops for the youngest children before co-founding Sahaj in Udaipur.
Sahaj is her activism, it is her way of defending the child’s right to play, it is her way of advocating for a more equal world for children. It is her reform project to transform the world by gifting secure, loving, trustful, joyful formative years to children. When she observes children learn naturally and joyfully at Sahaj, it gives her an assurance that the young children of today will create a ripple effect in the world by upholding the democratic principles of Sahaj while leading a happy and content adult life ahead Her experience of being a conscious parent has inspired her to conduct parent cafes, listening circles in Udaipur, Calicut and Bangalore. At Sahaj, she continues to work with parents by empowering them with highly effective and useful tools to be respectful and conscious parents.
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Founder Director – The Teacher Foundation
MBA (Education Management) with distinction - University of Leicester, UK;
Diploma in Journalism with distinction - Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, New Delhi
B.Ed. - Delhi University;
B.Sc. (Botany Honours) - Delhi University
Maya has been in the field of education for over 3 decades. Her areas of professional experience include conceptualizing, designing and implementing a wide range of school and teacher-related projects and services – including the Wipro Applying Thought in Schools Teacher Empowerment Project initiated in 2001 and Safe & Sensitive Schools initiated in 2009 and most recently the development of the Indian Social and Emotional Learning Framework (ISELF) – an age-banded set of standards for Social & Emotional Learning for Indian schools. In 1988, she set up the Newspaper in Education Programme for The Times of India in Bangalore. Her interests include school effectiveness research and whole school improvement, teacher development, collaborative approaches to teaching and learning, interpersonal communication in the classroom, leadership and strategic management of schools.
She has been a full-time teacher trainer since 1996, conducting professional development programmes for heads and teachers of schools across India and abroad. She has trained several thousand teachers across the past 20 years. She has presented at leading education conferences both nationally and internationally. She is an Accredited Teacher Trainer for Jenny Mosley Consultancies (UK) for training teachers on Whole School Quality Circle Time across schools in India. Maya has written on issues concerning educational practice and management in leading publications like The Times of India, The Economic Times, Education World, Teacher Plus, Mentor etc. She has written a chapter on Addressing Teacher Quality and Training in a book titled Accelerating Access to Quality Education, a Brookings India 2015 publication. She has also been been a member of the British Council India's Policy Think Tank for Continuing Professional Development. She was also invited to be on the National Technical Committee set up by National University for Educational Planning and Administration(NUEPA) for developing Standards for School Leaders.
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Savitha Ravi has a degree in Bachelor of Commerce after which she did her Technical Communication from the University of California, Berkeley. She has completed the certified training in Inclusive Education, Early Intervention and pre-primary Montessori Education. She completed her certification from the Cambridge International Diploma in Teaching and Learning (CIDTL). After working in schools like Kensri Academy of Excellence, Head Start Montessori House of Children with children from varied backgrounds and age groups, she has now Co-founded Pramiti School which is an inclusive school that has learners from pre-school to Grade 12. She is also the Co-founder of Ekayana Learners Huddle Pvt. Ltd. that works towards using Science as a base of education right from pre-school years. She was awarded by the Brindavan Education Trust for her contributions and outstanding work in the field of inclusion. She has conducted several workshops and developed curriculum for various subjects across varied age groups. She has also conducted the Mock United Nations at Kensri Academy of Excellence and worked closely to develop the International Baccalaureate Curriculum. She participates in conferences, seminars and panel discussion that encourage interdisciplinary learning and inclusive education. She also trains passionate individuals in developing interdisciplinary teaching methods and curriculum. She believes in the joy of learning and will continue her work with children and adults to spread education as means of learning to live together and work together in harmony. She believes in inclusion of people, methods, ideas, thoughts and processes that have the common goal of helping every child to learn effectively and joyfully. She encourages learners to question, wonder, explore and find answers while strengthening their skills of observation, self-assessment, thus enabling them to be proactive learners.
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Dr.(Mrs.) Shayama Chona
“Awarded Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan by the President of India, former Principal, Delhi Public School, RK Puram
Dr.Shayama Chona, Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan Awardee, is former Principal of Delhi Public School RK Puram, New Delhi - a world class institution. Her efforts to break the barriers of schools to include the poor and the handicapped are unprecedented. She has launched major initiatives to strengthen school teaching of STEM subjects: Science, Technology ,Engineering and Mathematics which now also includes Arts and has moved from STEM to STEAM. She is a strong advocate of critical thinking and believes that it should be promoted since childhood by parents and teachers alike.
Dr. Chona has been serving as a member of over 99 Advisory Boards, Committees , Educational Institutions and is a member of UNESCO. She has been associated with the Special Olympics, Concerned Action Now’ and the Society for Human Development .She has been named in the Limca Book of Records 2007 as the woman who has received the highest number of awards. She firmly believes and lives by the principle that “We also live in a wider world, a world in which we bear enormous responsibility”.
Dr. Chona has given concrete shape and direction to her transcendent principles, by setting up 3 centres for the mentally challenged: ‘Tamana Special Centre’, Tamana‘Nai Disha: Skill Development Centre’ and the Tamana ‘Autism Centre’. As their Founder-member, she has been working for the upliftment of the multiple-handicapped children since 1970, and celebrates humanity with the dictum, “Numberless are the world’s wonders, but none more wonderful than man”. Not only has her contribution been recognized and felicitated time and again, her investment in the field of education and social welfare has given concrete shape directly to the nation’s education policies and welfare programmes.
She is the proud recipient of over 65 awards, the most prestigious being the Padma Shri in 1998, Padma Bhushan in 2008,two National Awards in 1997 and 1994 and two State Awards in 1993 for her investment in the field of education and social welfare. For over 5 decades, Dr. Chona has served the community and the society at large, with distinction and timeless dedication. Her mission to educate and empower both the well-to-do and the needy, the abled alongwith the disabled, and the ‘haves’ with the ‘have-nots’, has never known any boundaries, and has led to the full realization of the human potential. Overall, Dr. Chona’s work may be best described as a confluence of deep and abiding compassion for everyone and humility in the exercise of vast responsibility. She indeed stands among the very best.
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Ph.D. in Agriculture from Indian Agricultural Research Institute
BSc (Ag) and MSc (Ag) from Andhra Pradesh Agricultural University
Current work:
Executive Director, Centre for Sustainable Agriculture
Expert Director, Sahaja Aharam Producer Company
Earlier selections and work experience
1995: Indian Revenue Service (IRS)
1996: Agricultural Research Service (ARS) till 2004
Contacts: ramoo@csa-india.org, http://www.ramoo.in
Focus of work
• Working on public policy issues impacting on food systems and farmers livelihoods and a framework to ensure income security for farmers
• Working with farmers in AP, Telangana, Maharashtra in establishing ecologically and economically sustainable agriculture models
• Building a Community marketing System ‘Sahaja Aharam’ linking farmer cooperatives directly to consumers.
• Working on building rural entrepreneurship
• Working on Open Source Seed systems
• Working as a resource organisation supporting the programs of state and central governments. Currently working Government of Andhra Pradesh in promoting natural farming, with Society for Elimination of Poverty, Telangana, with Maharashtra State Livelihoods Mission in building the capacities of the staff and organisation involved in the program.
• Working with NABARD in supporting establishment and strengthening of over 120 farmer producer organisations in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.
• Initiated ‘Kisan Mitra’ to improve the last mile delivery of all support services and their governance. Currently working in three districts of Telangana and one district in Andhra Pradesh
• Started ‘Grameen Academy’ which runs regular courses on Agroecological approaches, farmer producer organisations and Rural business enterprises, public policy for agriculture
Awards
• 3rd Badshah Khan Memorial Award by ITM University, Gwalior -2019
• Rytunestham Lifetime Achievement Award-2019
• Won best rural innovation award in Maharashtra Rural Innovation Award in 2014 for ‘Community Managed Sustainable Agriculture’
• Won best rural innovation award in Bihar Rural Innovation Award in 2014 for ‘Non Pesticidal Management’
• Won World Bank Development Market Place Award in 2005
Others
• Author of several books and articles on sustainable agriculture and public policy
CSA work featured in 8th Episode of Satyamev Jayate ‘Toxic food’
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Supriya Joshi, Pioneer of homeschooling movement in India & Co-founder of Indian Association of Homeschoolers
Presenter & Panelist to National Conferences on Alternative Education
Presenter at TED for Pursuit of Happiness
Worked on remedial education of hundreds of youth in various categories like slow learners, dyslexic children, cancer patients, street children to name a few Work is recognised by leading newspaper, AIR & television channels
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Sachin Desai, age 45, born and brought up in Mumbai. Started career from hospitality industry. Later started a firm in computer-aided learning. Initiated this unique concept from the remotest tribal village schools of Madhya Pradesh in 1998. Left Mumbai forever and expanded this concept in Madhya Pradesh. After marriage both of us felt need to migrate from Bhopal to rural village to groom our daughter in “Gramin Sankriti”close to nature. Our grandfather who is also our spiritual guru inspired us to migrate to our 90 years old ancestral house in Konkan region of Maharashtra. The house was well constructed with Laterite stone and lime by our great grandfather who had eventually migrated to Kolhapur to work as Professor of Mathematics. The house was not in use for a decade. We migrated to Dhamapur village in 2007 with our 3 years old daughter Mrunalini. A learning centre called “School Without Walls” was started accommodating 4 students. Two from a local orphanage who had passed their class X and 2 dropout students from middle class families in Madhya Pradesh. Later with better understanding towards rural economy and lifestyle the centre evolved into a sustainable living centre & was renamed as “University of Life”
Euro news made a documentary on “University of Life” which was broadcasted in Europe and North America in 12 languages.
BBC productions made a documentary which was broadcasted on star plus on a program hosted by Mr Amitabh Bacchan.
The People’s magazine from USA, Money Life magazine of Sucheta Dalal, Times of India have published articles on University of Life.
Now we are 7 residents of University of Life residing at Dhamapur. Our first student from local orphanage Mohammad Shaikh is now managing trustee of Syamantak. Omkar who is from a hotelier family from Malvan has now become an environmental lawyer . He is also managing trustee of Syamantak. Youth from various countries, cities and villages of India visits our commune for sustainable living at Dhamapur as Interns to gain the new perspective of sustainable life through rural economy and harmony – Simple living and honest thinking
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A passionate educator, dreamer, believer and a crusader for the cause of children. Santhya Vikram is deeply moved by the need for renewal in the human spirit and in education. She believes that something must change in the world, as we know and live in, today. And that the children will be the bringers of this new dawn. She believes in an education that is forming, life giving and nourishing.
When she was 12, she read - Totto Chan - an endearing Japanese tale of how one man’s love could transform the destiny of the children in his fold during the darkest times of the second world war. She dreamt of finding a school where every child - with whatever ability, disability or background could belong, and grow to find their purpose in this world. Yellow Train is a manifestation of this dream. “I am enslaved in one vast love affair with the children that I teach…” These words from Sylvia Ashton Warner, comes closest to what I feel when I teach, she says.
Professional Background:
With a graduation in English Literature and a Master’s in Business Management she worked in the Corporate world for over 12 years both in India and Overseas in the area of leadership development and innovation before finding Yellow Train. Over the last ten years as a founder of Yellow Train she has worked in establishing the foundations of the school, building the school community and championing the cause of children and teachers.
Her Work:
Santhya’s work revolves around the theme of childhood, education, teachers and empowerment of women. Her work around ‘Right to Childhood’ has touched the hearts of many communities of parents and educators. She feels such angst with the mainstream education system that neither keeps the child at the centre nor has any reverence in it. Her work is focussed on reclaiming the sacred in education. She believes that teachers are society’s heroes and if anyone must be considered the backbone of our society, it must be them. Beyond the confines of curriculum and the classroom, her work in teacher development encompasses pedagogy, personal and biographical work, inner life and helps teachers find their authenticity and voice. At the heart of all this endeavour is the deepest conviction that we are supported in this task by the spiritual worlds. And her pursuit of serving the child is bathed in this spiritual light.
She also works with other schools and school leaders in helping them create an ecosystem that puts the child at the heart of it. Santhya Vikram is constantly invited to speak about reforming education in many forums such as The UNESCO conference, the National Conference of CBSE Schools, Top 10 innovative schools at IIM Ahmedabad, Centre for Civil Society, School Choice National Conference etc. She is the recipient of the Award ‘Woman Entrepreneur of the Year’ by the Entrepreneur’s Organization with over 13,000 Entrepreneurs in 57 countries. This award comes as a recognition for championing social change.
The School:
Set in a 30 acre organic farm, in an ecologically sustainable green building and a Railway carriage that serves as the library for the whole community, Yellow Train is a Waldorf Inspired School in Coimbatore, India – from Kindergarten to Upper School, with over 50 teachers and 600 children. The school holds in reverence the work of Rudolf Steiner and strives to bring to the children in Yellow Train an essence of wholesome and spiritual education. Yellow Train is consistently ranked in the Top 10 schools in the country by many bodies such as Education World, India Today, Better India, All India Education summit and many other platforms.
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Dr. Ramesh Bijlani is a medical doctor, writer, teacher, scientist, and above all a person committed to using his unique blend of talents for touching the hearts and lives of his fellow beings. Educated at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, where he did his MBBS and MD; and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge MA, USA, where he did a master’s course in nutrition, Dr Bijlani spent nearly 30 years on the faculty of AIIMS, teaching and conducting research on nutrition in relation to cardiovascular disease and diabetes. In 1992 he started going into the depths of yoga, specially the integral yoga of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. His personal and professional life converged in the year 2000 when he initiated at AIIMS a patient care facility for providing lifestyle modification courses based on yoga. In the year 2005, he took voluntary retirement from AIIMS to find more time for dissemination of yoga. Soon after that, he moved to Sri Aurobindo Ashram – Delhi Branch, where he continues to stay and work.
Prof. Bijlani is an educationist by temperament, training and experience. Although he taught in a medical college, he feels his inner calling was to teach in a school. He started going into the science and philosophy of education about 40 years ago. His stay in the Ashram has given him an opportunity to see school education from close quarters because of the links that the Ashram has with The Mother’s International School and Mirambika Free Progress School. He has interacted extensively with the teachers, students and parents of these schools.
Besides his research publications, he has written extensively on a variety of subjects for technical audiences, the general public and children. He has more than twenty-five published books to his credit, including one on ‘Integral Education’, the system of education based on the philosophy of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. He has published seven books for children, which can be used also as teaching material by school teachers. He feels lucky to be able to spend most of his time doing what he is made for: giving inspirational talks, conducting spiritual retreats, running yoga courses, and last but not least, writing.
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Sholai School was established in 1989 by the British-born, Brian Jenkins, who so named it because of a "certain beauty and naturalness" inherent in the name. A Social Anthropologist from the University of Sussex, Brian Jenkins ('BJ') taught for 14 years at the J. Krishnamurti Educational Centre at Brockwood Park, UK. Inspired by J Krishnamurti (JK), BJ, believes, "we need to explore a new culture of alertness which is sustainable, emphasises self-awareness, dialogue, and right relationships among all of us, human beings".
While at Brockwood Park, BJ frequently interacted with JK exploring with him how to live a life of intelligence and sensitivity and how to educate young people, such that they grow up to be mature and free of their fears and hurts. It is fact that many of the students who come to Sholai have already been conditioned by their previous schooling and social pressures. It is BJ's endeavour to help the teachers and students, all of us, to learn together in understanding the movement of conditioning along with a serious response to be free of it. In 2006 the Krishnamurti Foundation of India brought out A Flame of Learning: in which "Mr. J", (BJ) raised questions with JK concerning these issues.
However, Mr. Jenkins, cautions against dependence on any ideology and insists there is no "guru worship" at Sholai School. "The cruciality of watching oneself in one's relationship with other human beings and nature, form an important aspect of our work, here", he says. Brian Jenkins's search for an ideal location took him to Sri Lanka and Nepal and 7000 kilometres across India before he converged on the present locale. "Initially there were just two huts. We constructed buildings from local stone and our own consolidated mud bricks, made on campus. At the same time we converted the land into an organic farm that grows coffee, pepper, bananas, seasonal fruits and vegetables. Today the children benefit from the excellent vegetarian food, organically grown at CLOAAT," says BJ.
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Born into a family of educationists, Dr. Chhalamayi Reddy has an innate passion for innovation in education. Exploring and enriching the practices of learning and actively engaging academicians, teachers and children in the process of self discovery are the two major areas along which her work revolves.
Education She was a student of Sri Aurobindo International Center of Education, Puducherry until 1977. She graduated from Central University of Hyderabad in English Literature (1982) followed by MA by Thesis degree from Ohio University, USA in 1984. She received her PhD (1991) from the Department of English, Pondicherry University, on Sri Aurobindo’s critique of poetry. She also qualified in MA Philosophy.
Profession Dr. Chhalamayi Reddy has been the Principal of Sri Aurobindo International School, Hyderabad since 1991 which runs under the aegis of Institute of Human Study of which she is one of the Trust members. With the vision of imparting Integral Education as envisaged by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, the school has evolved into one of the sought after institutions of learning since more than five decades. Apart from the focus on holistic development, the school’s methodology is child centric and provides for joyous learning. Another of her cherished interest is Indian Culture and she makes continuous efforts to educate students in it. She continues to contribute efficiently to the success story of the school with her inspirational leadership.
Projects
It is through her vision that the Institute has established a residential project, New Creation-a Free Progress School at Jangaon. As Director, she has proficiently developed a unique curriculum that ensures varied learning experiences leading to holistic development and self discovery. Along with it she administers Aditi Gurukul, a school sponsored by Matridarshan Trust, which provides free education to the less privileged since last twenty years. She continually advocates the vision and practice of Integral Education in all the three schools and is engaged in an ongoing process of orienting and training teachers in it. She has conducted workshops in the areas of Value Education, National Integration camps, Integral Education and Innovative Learning Practices in various places.
Her concern for environmental issues has made her the Convener for Environmental Committee of ICSE/ISC Schools,(GHMC). She has been efficiently organizing annual events since ten years which includes Green Rallies, Workshops on Recycling, Waste Management, Eco Hobbies, etc. Dr Chhalamayi Reddy has a keen interest in Inclusive Education and she has established small units called Ojas and Tejas in the Sri Aurobindo International school for children with learning challenges. The objective is to provide a platform for these children to become self sufficient in their daily activities. This special wing trains these children to appear for the NIOS exams.
As a Trustee of the Matridarshan Trust (Non-Governmental Organization), Dr Chhalamayi Reddy plans activities and programs for rural development which include Youth camps, Medical camps, Farmer Education and Women empowerment programs. Articles Published. Her editorials include a series of articles on Integral Education apart from her many paper presentations on educational platforms. Fondly addressed as Chhala Didi, she always believes in being a lifelong learner and encourages her team to be the same.
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Gitanjali is a social entrepreneur and educationist. After having founded several business and social ventures, she is setting up the Himalayan Institute of Alternatives, Ladakh, as its Founding CEO & Dean. HIAL is an alternative institute for mountain development that aims to revolutionize higher education in India through the pedagogy of contextual and experiential learning. Gitanjali is also the founder of the Tranformindia.com, a collective initiative in line with the forces of evolution to build new social, economic, cultural and political models in line with India's spirit, ethos and culture. Gitanjali is a spiritual seeker with a deep interest in Indian Spirituality. She is a lifelong student of Sri Aurobindo & The Mother, Sanskrit, Vedas & Upanishads and strives to apply her learnings gleaned from these sacred texts to indigenise existing educational frameworks.
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Topic: "Buiding a Movement for Freedom in Learning"
Manish Jain is deeply committed to regenerating our diverse local knowledge systems and cultural imaginations. He is one of the leading planetary voices for deschooling our lives. He has served for the past 22 years as Coordinator and Co-Founder of Shikshantar: The Peoples’ Institute for Rethinking Education and Development based in Udaipur, India and is co-founder of some of the most innovative educational experiments in the world - the Swaraj University, the Jail University, the Complexity University, the Creativity Adda, the Learning Societies Unconference, the Walkouts-Walkon network, Udaipur as a Learning City, and the Families Learning Together network. He launched the global Ecoversities Alliance with 120+ members in 40 countries. He has worked as a coach/facilitator/trainer with Social Labs, Art of Hosting and World Cafe. He has been invited to give inspiring public keynote speeches in many countries such as USA, England, Portugal, Brazil, Mexico, India. He has edited several books on Vimukt Shiksha (liberating learning) on themes such as hacking education, learning societies, unlearning, gift culture, community media, and tools for deep dialogue. Prior to this, Manish worked as one of the principal team members of the UNESCO Learning Without Frontiers global initiative in Paris Headquarters. He has also been a consultant to UNICEF, World Bank, USAID in Africa, South Asia and former Soviet Union. Manish worked as an investment banker with Morgan Stanley. He has been trying to unlearn his Master's degree in Education from Harvard University and a B.A. in Economics, International Development and Political Philosophy from Brown University. He and his wife Vidhi have been unschooling themselves with their 18 year old daughter, Kanku, in Udaipur, Rajasthan. Manish is passionate about masti yoga, urban organic farming, filmmaking, simulation gaming, bicycling, trekking, compassionate clowning, intercultural dialogue and slow food cooking.
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Topic: "Each child is a seed: nurturing for self-realisation"
Lalit Bhati, an Architect Planner from Auroville.
Coming from a conventional academic background, the encounter with Auroville initiated a transformative process of unlearning. His work as a planner helped him to develop insights about the dynamics of societal growth and the real-life challenges of collective organization. This experience also made him realize that planning, by definition and especially so in Auroville, embraces collectivization and necessitates a synthesis of diverse viewpoints. Inherently, planning is a field of intensive churning that requires a wide range of skill sets.
After completing his B. Arch from GCA, Lucknow, Lalit pursued his Masters degree in Urban and Regional Planning from CEPT, Ahmedabad and PG Diploma from IHS, Rotterdam.
He is a Founder of PATH(Planning and Architecture Towards Holistic development). He has successfully executed several projects in and around Auroville and in Puducherry. PATH is also involved in educational activities and conducts several workshops in Alternate Building Technologies.
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Topic: "Planting Seeds of Entrepreneurship in Schools"
Dhrumil Dhanesha is a 16 years old serial entrepreneur and a student studying in 10th grade from India. Dhrumil is the Founder & CEO of Dhrumil Dhanesha Technologies which specifically works on technology innovations and WEB/APP Based Products. Dhrumil is also the co-founder of The Halcyon Overseas which is basically an Import & Export Agency. Dhrumil is also a TEDx Speaker and has given talks in top universities of India.
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Topic: "Journey of an Experiential Learning School"
• As the co-founder of the number one leading school in India, Heritage Group of Schools (A group of K-12 progressive schools with over 7000 Children), Mr. Manit Jain has redefined quality in school education in India.
• Manit championed the cause of experiential learning, launching it successfully in the mainstream environment. He is driven by the cause of real and humane education and continues to advocate and address the need for re-imagining schools. He is a thought leader in education who has spoken and written extensively on the need for transforming education.
• He co-chairs the FICCI’s school education arm (FICCI ARISE) in India and has been instrumental in engaging with various government organisations from time to time to restructure and reimagine education.
• Manit has personally facilitated multiple workshops and webinars across the schools with school leaders, parents, and teachers.
• Widely acknowledged and regarded for his work in the experiential learning arena, Manit understands the dire need for reforms in teacher education in the country and the inadequacy of the system to prepare effective teachers. He continues to found new ventures like ‘I am a Teacher’, a Post-graduate diploma in learning and teaching that is changing the paradigm of Teaching in India, an initiative that is developing a model for practice-based teacher education in collaboration with Boston Teacher Residency. ‘I am a Teacher’ now runs its second centre at the American School of Bombay. He has committed himself to bring about this much needed change in teacher education that could fundamentally transform our classrooms and schools.
• Manit is an alumnus of Harvard University and holds a master’s degree in Education from the university.
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Topic: "Fall in Love With Math"
Manish Jain graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (1993) with a degree in Electrical Engineering. He also finished a few courses at Stanford. A chance meeting with Padmashree Arvind Gupta triggered him to dive into the space of popular science education full-time. Prior to that, he worked in the area of chip design for 19 years at Synopsys in Bangalore and Mountain View, California. Most recently he was a Director R&D leading the Low Power Simulation efforts.
He is Associate Professor of Teaching at IIT Gandhinagar and he heads the Center for Creative Learning at IIT Gandhinagar, which aims to provide an ideal space and environment to learn and understand concepts joyously; working hard to bring back the gleam in the eyes! Before CCL-IITGN, he worked at IUCAA Science Center in Pune.
Manish has always had a passion for science and in 2013 he decided to spend all his energies to make education engaging and experiential. He spends a lot of time these days designing toys and activities, conducting workshops and teacher training and is passionate about sharing the magic with people. He is very interested in making esoteric science/research pedantic so that it can reach general populace and can speak in their language.
Manish firmly believes this approach can revolutionize learning since toys speak the language that children understand
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Topic: "Importance of Life Skill Education in a time of crisis"
Swaroop Sampat is an Indian actress who has acted in several Hindi language films such as Naram Garam and Nakhuda and is known for her performance in television serials like Yeh Jo Hai Zindagi. She won the Miss India contest in 1979 and represented India at Miss Universe 1979
Swaroop obtained a PhD. in Education from the University of Worcester. She did her doctoral thesis on using drama to enhance life skills in children with learning disabilities.
She is a trainer, traveling across India to conduct workshops for teachers to impart this knowledge for the benefit of children.
She was selected by the then Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi to head an educational program for children.
She was selected as one of the top 10 Global finalists for the Global Teacher Prize conducted by Varkey Foundation, amongst 10,000 nominations from 179 countries worldwide
Swaroop is married to actor Paresh Rawal. She directs and acts in plays starring her husband. They have two sons, Aniruddh and Aditya.
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Topic: "Innovative Education"
She is the Co-Founder and Director of Door Step School. Since 1988 she heads the organization and has created a dedicated team of more than 200 volunteers. With her persistent guidance and continued support in field of educating young underprivileged children she has impacted more than 1,00,000 children annually.
Her educational models include Non Formal Education for out of school children, School on Wheels - Mobile Schools, Naming Streets are few other unique initiative which were spear headed by her.
She is an ASHOKA fellow Change maker of 2002
She has received the Street Skati Purushkar from the President of India in the year 2013 for her stellar grassroot work in the field of education.
Besides this , she has also received the Maharashtra State Ahilyabai Holkar Puraskaar for the year 2006-2007, the Mayor Award, All grassroots Women of the Decades award from ASSOCHAM any many more achievements through her journey as a change maker
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Topic: "Future of Work & Learn - Post Covid"
Amit Goyal is the India & S.E. Asia Head for edX - world's largest E-learning platform founded by MIT & Harvard University. Amit is credited for making India as the second largest B2C learner base world’s largest learner base for edX.
Prior to edX, Amit was the Head of Education Solutions business for Samsung Electronics. He was responsible for product development of various education mobility products being used by leading Ed-Tech & Test Prep companies of the world today such as Byjus Tab learning.
Amit was also known as the man behind launching world's cheapest PC Tablet Aakash - One Laptop Per Child initiative of the Indian Government.
Amit holds a bachelor’s degree in IT, Master's in Business from Oxford Brookes University-Oxford, and various IT & Business certifications from The World Bank, MIT, IIM, Microsoft etc.
Amit also chairs the IoT India Congress and advises Indian Government and Start-ups.
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Topic: "Role of Yoga in Modern Education"
Dr. Venugopal V BNYS, M.Sc Diabetes (UK), PhD Scholar
Dr. Venugopal is a Yoga & Naturopathy Doctor.
• He has completed his Masters in Diabetes from Edinburgh, UK and
• Masters in Yoga from Tamilnadu Physical Education and Sports University, Chennai
• PhD in Yoga from S-VYASA University, Bengaluru.
• He has over 16 years of experience in yoga.
• He had been serving in many prestigious institutions and played roles as Scientist, Research fellow and also as Assistant Director of a nationwide diabetes movement.
• He is currently working as Assistant Medical Officer & Lecturer at Govt. Yoga and Naturopathy Medical College, Chennai.
• He has worked with a couple of projects on School children education in Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Chennai- on improving their cognition, attention, memory and overall health education, between 2016-2019.
• As a researcher and scientist, he has over 25 scientific research publications
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Topic: "The Challenges of an Educator Today and Ways to Overcome Them"
Sandhya has been journeying the teacher education space for over three decades. She holds a Bachelor’s in Education and a Masters’ in Social Work, and true to her belief in lifelong learning, she pursues several courses to strengthen her understanding of education and life. She holds the IB Certificate in Planning, Teaching and Assessment. She is a Certified Programme Leader for the Cambridge International Diploma in Teaching and Learning and Educational Leadership (Cambridge, U.K).
She has designed and taught international teacher education programmes for several years. She holds a Globally Standardized Certificate in Master Training and Facilitation from a reputed training institute in India. She is a CAER certified trainer for Assessments, Differentiated Instruction and CBSE’s Continuous Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE). She holds the Master Trainer Certificate for the Intel Teach to the Future Programme. and the Coordinators’ Training Certificate from the Intel Computer Clubhouse Network, MIT, Boston, U.S.A.
Having started her career as a teacher of Social Sciences and English, at primary and high school, now for the past fifteen years, she has been actively involved in Teacher Education (International Courses), designing and facilitating modules in creative classroom practices, across India. Besides these, she has written articles for several magazines, including ACER (Australia) and Teacher Plus. She has also co-authored a book on Teaching English Speaking Skills, published by the Cambridge University Press. Trained in the Whole School Quality Circle Time Model (U.K.), she headed an experimental, research-based project that looked at transforming the transactional and didactic culture of interaction in Indian schools.
Earlier, as Coordinator of Programmes at an NGO, she designed educational projects incorporating emerging technology and the creative facets of art, music and theatre for school children and teachers. She is a resource person and content developer for Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press and Pearson. Currently, she heads of International Professional Development Qualifications at a reputed educational company in Bangalore. In partnership with IPE Global, she leads a large-scale project involving training of government school heads and teachers Meghalaya. Besides these, she is on the advisory boards of several schools in Bangalore. A deep reader and Zen practitioner, Sandhya lives unconventionally, loves challenging status quo, and designs all her training programmes with the aim of generating transformative interaction among participating educators. It is with this completely unconventional outlook and approach, that she founded the unique initiative ‘Teacher Ink’ with the sole purpose of empowering teachers to take charge of their own professional and personal growth, and to challenge them to think like reflective academicians and researchers.
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Topic: "Kick for Change"
Abhijeet Barse is responsible for the rapid scaling of Slum Soccer which has more than quadru-pled the organisation’s outreach in his tenure as CEO. He has established a pan India presence for the organisation by setting up offices and centres in the cities of Chennai, Mumbai, Nagpur and Delhi in addition to other centres in the states of Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh Haryana Gujrat and Chhattisgarh.
Dr. Barse has revitalised Slum Soccer’s football based curriculum through effective engagement with a focus on women's empowerment, hygiene, nutrition and social inclusion. His vision has also led to the development of a comprehensive participant development path-way in the organisation that has helped streamline and focus activities. His strengths lie in overcoming challenges of limited resources and financial constraints to design and deliver high-quality, cost-effective and comprehensive football for development programs.
Dr. Barse was elected to the network board of streetfootballworld (Strategic Alliance Partner of FIFA) where he served for two years with distinction. He plans to replicate his work and learn-ing from that time to develop a network of like-minded organisations in India to promote the interdependence and integration of all members. He also plans to increase global participation in Slum Soccer's initiatives and towards that end he has organised events which have seen the participation of football legends like Dwight Yorke and Steve McMahon.
He is an accomplished public speaker and has delivered TEDx talks at Nagpur and VIT Vellore in addition to heading an expert’s panel at ‘Goal 2015’ and ‘ Goal 2019’- an international Conven-tion on Football Business organised by FICCI.
Dr. Barse is an International Ambassador for the National Children’s Football Alliance He is an Acumen Fellow (Class of 2014) and is the 2015 winner of the Game Changer Award conferred by the HR Club of Mumbai. He also completed Executive program for Non Profit leader at Stan-ford Business School in August 2015. His work also led to the organization being awarded FIFA Diversity Award in September 2016.
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Topic: "Kalasamvaad- Creative Dialogues to Re-Imagine Learning"
Gitanjali is the founder of Snehadhara Foundation, an educationist, a social entrepreneur, an Arts Based Therapy Practitioner and an Arts Practices for Inclusion (API) Educator with over two decade’s experience in teaching a diverse population of children and adults. Snehadhara’s inception in 2012 was aimed at looking at innovatively using Arts Based Therapy (ABT) for learning. The motivation was to explore a significant train of thought from an action project to a long-term sustainable practice.
The pioneering attempt was to look at interventions with an integrated, holistic approach to address the various learning, therapeutic and social inclusion needs of children/adults across special needs groups. This has got her to pioneer the first ever Arts Practices for Inclusion programme in India. Over the past few years Snehadhara has worked with around 1000 children through direct and weekly interventions, with over 50000 children through indirect interventions in schools and other receptive environments and trained over 2000 professionals in about 400 organisations across the country. Over the past two years, Snehadhara’s international journey has carried its best practices to Canada, Argentina, Brazil, Qatar and Nepal.
She has many awards and accolades to her credit and her work has been recognised in various platforms internationally. To mention a few - Snehadhara Foundation is one among the 6 global progressive institutions as a LEAPS (Leading Educational Advancement through Progressive Schools) partner school along with Lumiar Foundation, South America and UK; Hub School 21, France; NuVu, US; Kingsland Pre-Prep, UK and Agora School, Netherlands. Gitanjali was invited as a key speaker at the Conferencia Internacional in Buenos Aires.
She is a recipient of the Millennium Alliance Grant 2017 as a social innovator of one of the top five Innovations in the country for Education for the project ‘Kala Samavesh -Inclusion and Education of Disabilities. Gitanjali has been awarded the 2nd Creative Art Therapy Award 2020 in recognition of her outstanding contribution to the field of Art Therapy by the Sancheti Healthcare Academy as a recognition to the silent heroes who have done exemplary and exceptional work in the field of Creative Art Therapies. She has been conferred the Super Achievers Award, 2017 to recognize her outstanding contribution in the field of Disability in and outside Karnataka.
She has also been an ACTIVATEE speaker at the 45th International Association for Experiential Education (AEE) Conference in Montreal and has also presented at the prestigious TEDx platform.
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Topic: "Exploratory Self Learning- A Scalable Grassroots Solution"
Shuvajit Payne, presently the Head of Education at Barefoot College, leads its education initiatives comprising of a 400 student strong rural school in Rajasthan, 50+ non-formal digital night schools in 11 states of India and outreach programmes that train more than 4,000 government school children annually. He is working on transforming the digital night school model into an exemplary quality digital education solution for remote rural underprivileged communities who are outside the ambit of electricity access or connectivity, with a unique curriculum around gender, environmental sustainability and rights and citizenship. The work is supported by Apple, Oracle, Microsoft and was recognized as one of the top solutions for teachers and educators globally in MIT Solve, 2019.
Previously, Shuvajit has had a diverse career graph ranging from process management in MNCs, to M&E, ICT, programme strategy in non-profits, filmography as well travel photography. He graduated from IIM-Lucknow and Presidency College with qualifications in Management, Economics and Statistics. He was worked with corporates like IBM, Shell UK, CSR wings of SBI, Reliance and with non-profits such as MS Swaminathan Research Foundation. Today, programmes that Shuvajit has undertaken with different NGOs and corporate foundations, such as the SBI Youth for India Fellowship, have achieved remarkable scale thereby authoring significant change at the grassroots. Shuvajit is recognized as one of the top 50 global educators as per The Varkey Foundation's 2020 list.
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Topic: "Unleashing the Maker Inside a Child"
Anil Pradhan(a.k.a. Ideas Man of India) is an Indian engineer, innovator and revolutionary educationist. He is the founder of Navonmesh Prasar Foundation and School for Rural Innovation(IPSFRI), which was founded in 2015 to educate the less-privileged students of Odisha through an interdisciplinary curriculum. He is also known for designing innovative labs, teaching tools, indigenous rockets and projects which solves real-life problems.
After completing his engineering from UCE (University College of Engineering, Burla), Anil has quit three cushy jobs to follow his dreams. His mission is to create a thirst for innovation among students so that every student, regardless of background, becomes an achiever and, in the process, our country progresses. Engineering students go for jobs. However, Anil is exceptional. He founded a school in a rural pocket of Cuttack to boost the zest for creativity among students.
Prior to incorporating Navonmesh Prasar Foundation, Anil worked on projects with L&T, TATA and other during his undergraduate course in Engineering. He also the Chief Designer of V.S.L.V., Asia’s first Multipurpose Student Rocketry Mission and developed a satellite to monitor Hirakud Dam.
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Topic: "Age doesn't matter"
Sixteen-year-old Janhavi Panwar is no short of a wonder. The fact that she was titled the ‘Wonder girl of India’ at the age of nine should testify that. Janhavi is already pursuing the final year of Bachelor’s degree in Arts from Delhi University when most kids of her age are in Class 8. To add to it, she has mastered nine foreign accents, in addition to basic French, basic Japanese, English, Hindi and Haryanavi languages.
Janhavi’s father Brijmohan Panwar recently in an interaction with The Better India shared how he could easily tell that Janhavi was a gifted child when she was merely a year-old. When she was only one, her vocabulary was equipped with 500-550 English words. When she turned three, she wasn’t admitted to Nursery but directly to Senior KG because she had picked most things at home. As years passed, when we spoke to the school management, they realised Janhavi’s potential by looking at her scores, and she was given special permission to clear two classes in the same year.”
While Janhavi’s mom is a housewife, her father is a school teacher and thus they have always had limited means. Despite that Brijmohan ensured that his daughter received all the facilities that she required to hone her skills right after he realised that she was exceptionally talented.
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Topic: "Understanding Developmental Delays in the Primary Classroom"
Madhavi Adimulam is the Founder of Ananya Child Development Centre. Ananya CDC is a Multi-disciplinary Paediatric Rehabilitation Centre for Children with Special Needs like Autism (Autism Spectrum Disorder) Global Developmental Delay, Learning Difficulties, ADHD (Attention Deficit and Hyperactive Disorder), APD (Auditory Processing Disorder) etc.
Madhavi has a post graduate degree in English Language and Literature and Clinical Psychology. She studied Entrepreneurship from ISB (Indian School of Business), Hyderabad. She is a Certified Auditory Integration Therapist from iLs, USA. She worked/volunteered in some of the best special schools in UK and attended numerous training in educating children with special needs. She trained in Sensory Integration & Developmental Movement Therapy from Extralesson Institute, Australia.
She is a qualified Early Intervention Professional in Early Start Denver Model by UC Davis MIND Institute, USA. Madhavi is also certified in PEERS® bySemel Mind Institute, UCLA, USA – A Social Skills Intervention program for children who have difficulty in their peer interactions and in making friendships.Madhavi is also a TEDx Speaker. Madhavi has over 20 years of experience in working with children various special needs. She especially loves working with children who need help with Attention and Concentration, Auditory Processing, Pragmatics, Executive Functioning, Life Skills and Social Skills.
Madhavi consults with Schools in and around Hyderabad and she also consults with NCERT (The National Council of Educational Research and Training, Delhi) in developing Guidelines and Teach Training Manuals in 'Including Children with Special Needs in Primary Schools'. She is also an active member of the Core Committee working on RPWD Act (Rights for People with Disabilities Act) for the States of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, India.
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Topic: "Communicating with parents in Covid-19 times"
Veteran of 3 educational start-ups – is now a Founder of Agarkar Centre of Excellence, Fatema’s passion for teaching-learning and children defines the different roles she has crafted – as an edupreneur, educator and mentor.
Fatema who is a State and University topper as part of the prestigious Mumbai based Sydenham College of Commerce & Economics, holds a degree of Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from Birmingham (UK), apart from her B.ED and ECCE degrees amassed when she decided education was her calling.
Fatema has been awarded by Giants Group for her outstanding contribution to the field of education in 2012, the Young Achiever’s Award in the year 2017, Singapore based, Best of Asia’s, ‘Enterprising Educator in the year 2018 and as an entrepreneur ‘Best Edupreneur 2019 and Best Leadership’ by Progressive Academic Excellence India (Maharashtra 2019), one of the 10th finest inspirational educators in 2019 by TKR, India, Learning Leaders of Tomorrow by the 7th World Training Development Congress 2020 and the latest being recognised as One of The Top 50 Educators Who Can Revive Indian Education by the Education World 2020. Donning all the skills of an adroit speaker, addresses by her during conferences and summit are not just informative and concrete but also eye-opening. Being a social entrepreneur and educationist, she never turned blind to the quotient of altruism rather she has a dream of setting up foster care centers on a pan-India basis to enable the less fortunate with physical disabilities to receive assistance and will be executing this, in times to come.
Fatema is on the Advisory Board of several Trusts and organisations including EduTech India, School Wizard, Wockhardt Foundation, Ray Foundation, Teachers Help Teachers as well as a jury member, Education World Awards, a platform that recognises the efforts of educators pan India. Fatema is also the Vice President for Early Childhood Association (ECA) and the Mumbai Territory Head for Association for Primary Education & Research (APER) in India.
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Topic: "Waste recycling as a potential career option"
Graduated as a mechanical engineer, he attained his master’s degree in business management from Greenwich University, London. He was inspired by the responsible recycling mechanism present in UK and the dire need for such a system in our country for our sustainable growth. The idea got into the shape of Namo eWaste in 2014 and since then, with his enthusiasm at a young age of 28 years, he has take big steps to reach the goal of building one of the best e-waste recycling facilities in India.
Namo eWaste is the fastest growing e-waste management company in India working with many public and private sector companies. Akshay has various business interests in the scrap recycling field. He has achieved enormous recognition in the said field since 2015 and has reached an 8-figure income mark.
Previous Job - As a management trainee at Maruti Suzuki factory in Gurgaon.
Achievements- Building a successful model for collection and recycling of e-waste, countering the problems like competition from unorganized sector, reverse logistics cost and lack of awareness within the stakeholders for such type of recycling. He has a delivered a complete model for channelization of waste through our various online and offline initiatives.
His model includes both B2B and B2C collection of e-waste. Namo is present in about 28 states of India with its Franchisees, Collection Centres and Channel Partners. As an entrepreneur, Akshay is very flamboyant in putting up his views and is the youngest person to be invited at ‘Policy Making’ meets by various ministries. He has featured at many events as a speaker/panellist and featured by leading media houses as one of the top budding entrepreneurs in India.
Namo eWaste has been awarded as ‘Best Recycling Company of the Year’ at Green India Awards, New Delhi 2018 and 2nd Prize at ‘3R Excellence Award for E-Waste Recyclers In India’ at 8th Regional 3R Forum In Asia and the Pacific at Indore 2018.
Future Plans- Namo is setting up India’s ‘Largest Recycling Facility’ for recycling of electronic, non-ferrous and automobile waste in the vicinity of Ahmadabad in Gujarat. The new plant would operational from 2021 with an investment of over Rs. 100 cr.
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Topic: "Importance of plastic waste recycling"
PlasticWarrior, TEDx speaker, Writer and Entrepreneur – Medha had never
thought of working in waste management sector. “an accidental environmentalist” is how she describes her journey.
Her life has taken her to different countries, jobs and streams of education. She was never at peace working regularly in 9 to 5 job for someone else. This thirst for knowledge, fulfillment and passion for master of own destiny has led her to be the co-founder of her own ventures namely Rudra Environmental Solutions (India) Ltd, Mantraa Research & Consultants Pvt Ltd, and Phoenix General Insurance Brokers Pvt Ltd, where she serves a Director. She is also a founder trustee of Founder Trustee of “Keshav Sita Memorial Foundation Trust”.
Always yearning for more she started the first company in market research and Medha found herself working on waste plastic after witnessing the death of deer in wild life sanctuary. The passion and determination to find a solution on waste plastic resulted in Medha and her business partner Shirish Phadtare in to building a first pilot machine in 2010, which successfully converted waste plastic in to usable fuel.
Looking at bigger picture has led Medha a trustee of “Keshav Sita Memorial
Foundation Trust” to create awareness of waste plastic and segregation at source for better waste management. Today the Trust collects waste plastic from more than 25,000 households, hotels and offices in and around Pune. She has managed to connect and inculcate habit of source segregation amongst more than 1 lakh people.
The trust has also been collecting waste plastic from faraway places like Baramati, Baneshwar, Raigad Fort, Bhima Shankar, Thane and Dombiwali.
Her efforts have helped collection of more than 10,00,000 kg of waste plastic which was otherwise headed for landfill.
She has earned her MBA from Nottingham University, UK, LLB from Pune
University as well as PhD in Branding. She has studied for MSc in Psychology and has completed many diplomas in subjects ranging from IPR, Journalism, Marketing and Forensic Science.
Her passion for writing has been evident as She has been writing columns on self help and management for leading Marathi newspapers such as Loksatta, Maharashtra Times, and Sramana for more than 15 years. She has also penned two books namely “Domestic Violence – a reality” and “Impressive Manners”
Medha who has published many scholarly papers on management and marketing research, in several leading international journals; also conducts lectures and seminars on communication, branding and women empowerment in various colleges and institutes across Maharashtra.
She has been recipient of many awards, namely “Yadnyawalka Award”, Sukhakarta Award, Phoenix Leading Lady 17 and “V” 18 Award, Swachhodaya U.P Award 2019, iWomen Global award19, HNIMR Best Educator 19, VNWC Gold award 19, TIP 20 in Abu Dhabi and she was one of top 30 Women Transforming India of Niti Ayog.
She is a trained Bharatanatyam and Kathak dancer who devotes majority of her time in creating awareness on waste plastic.
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Topic: "How Schools Should Evolve in Future"
Parmita is a humanitarian and social activist with experience leading projects aimed at helping underprivileged children. She completed her master’s dissertation on the challenges of educating children in low-income communities at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences. When she was barely out of her teens, she was already organizing and managing educational programs for children in underprivileged communities, as well as working in disaster relief programs.
As the Principal of Akshar Forum, she has led the establishment of the school and continues to oversee the daily operations. She is responsible for the day to day operations of the school and organization.
The Assam educator and social entrepreneur Parmita Sarma won the prestigious Devi Awards during its 17th edition held in Kolkata recently.
The awards recognise and honour the accomplishments of women who have made a distinct mark in their respective fields. Sarma was recognised for running a unique institution called Akshar Forum, which accepts waste plastic bags as school fees, and also provides a source of livelihood for the teenagers in the school.
Sarma was one of the eight recipients of the prestigious awards this year. She was handed over the award by Union minister of textiles and women and child development, Smriti Z Irani.
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Topic: "Developing a Holistic approach in Education"
Ms. Shruti Jain is the Co-Founder of Disha-The footpath School, a NGO focusing on the education and the overall development of the underprivileged kids. Disha was started with an aim of equipping the kids with the knowledge to help them face the world. Presently She is also serving as an Assistant Professor at Auro University, Surat. She has earned her degree in Master in Business Administration, from SLIMS, Ahemdabad.
Ex banker and an ex- head at a startup she has always been into something which makes her soul happy and that’s how the biggest achievement came into her life the “idea of right to education and smile”, to one of the greatest gifts of God - kids
With Disha, she is now involved in the transformation of the lives of many underprivileged children, and with the message “Education is the greatest wealth” she believes each one of us should come up and contribute directly or indirectly in the same line.
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Topic: "Golf is Perfect Fit For Schools"
A former Air Force Officer who is deeply interested in Sports (including Adventure Sports) and thinks of utilizing sports for teaching kids life lessons/skills. I have been proficient mountaineers, Skier, Sky Diver, White Water Sportspractitioner. Also has been more than a competent sportsman with proficiency in Football, Hockey, and golf.
Former appointments include Para jumping Instructor, Vice Principal and Director Training at Nehru Institute of Mountaineering Uttarkashi
Member/Leader of Indian/International climbing expeditions, First Commander of 'Guards'(Special Forces of IAF)
Secretary Delhi Golf Club
Director General Indian Golf Union.
Represented India in Asia Pacific GolfFederation, Royal & Ancient Scotland and international Golf Federation.
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Topic: "Green Schooling- Future of Schooling"
Virendra Rawat is the originator of Global Green Schooling Concept, recognized by United Nations as Global Solution, which is listed on UN Global Innovation Exchange. His Green Schooling concept is creating a community of Nature Champions Worldwide.
He has authored responsible Curriculum for making responsible Nations and responsible World. He has transformed more than 150 conventional Schools and Universities into Global Green Schools and Global Green Universities in many countries.
He has addressed the Harvard University and United Nations on Sustainable Practices in Education. He is also a member of Harvard Extension Environmental Club of Harvard University. He was invited as OBSERVER from civil society for UN High-Level Meeting of the General Assembly to Commemorate International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons in 2017, 18, 19 and Forth Session of UN Environment Assembly Kenya in 2019.
Mr. Rawat is a Mentor of Climate Reality Leadership Corps, headed by Al Gore – former Vice President of United State of America. He is also member of Atal Tinkering Lab - a STEM initiative for Schools of NITI Aayog Government of India. He is the recipient of Advaith Foundation School Leadership Award headed by N. R. Narayana Murthy founder of INFOSYS. He is also recipient of UNGA Award - 2019 for his contribution towards promoting UN SDG No. 4.
He is Mentoring many Individuals, Schools, Universities and Enterprises on sustainable practices and Hosting Model United Nations Worldwide. Mr. Rawat has emerged as Trend Setter for Sustainable practices in Education, Governance, Film Making, Hospitality, Medical, Infrastructure, Transportation, Lifestyle & Manufacturing sector in worldwide.
He is the author of Post Graduate Diploma in Green Teaching offered by Indus University, Ahmedabad. He is the host of United Nations General Assembly - Climate Week NYC affiliated Annual Green School Conference, New York City since 2017. He is also member of Indo-American Dosti House, Mumbai. Mr. Rawat is a Founder - Director of Green Mentoring & Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
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Topic: "Education Past Covid Time"
About Dr. Kiran Bedi
Born in a Tennis playing family from Amritsar in 1949, to Prakash and Prem Lata Peshawaria, Dr Kiran Bedi is second of their 4 daughters.
While still in school she became a junior National Tennis Champion at the age of 16, and Asian Tennis Champion at age of 22 and was ranked India’s number one of her time.
Dr Kiran Bedi is the first woman in India to have joined the officer ranks of Indian Police Service in 1972. She served in it for 35 years.
For her policing stood for ‘Power to Correct’, ‘Power to Prevent’ and ‘Power to get things done’.
Dr Bedi served as Police Advisor to Secretary General in United Nations, in the Department of Peace Keeping Operations in New York.
She is recipient of The Ramon Magsaysay Award, also called Asia's Nobel Peace Award for bringing about a positive relationship between Police and the People.
Dr Bedi is a Law graduate, Masters, and a PhD Scholar with post doctoral Nehru Fellowship. She is an author of several books such as I Dare, It's Always Possible, Creating Leadership and more...
Dr Bedi has been voted as the most admired and trusted woman in India by Readers Digest, The Week Magazine, and others over the years.
She has a biopic on her life called, Yes Madam Sir, made by an Australian film maker and a recent documentary on her was featured in Nat Geo’s Mega Icons.
She is running two NGOs which reach out to marginalised sections of society in education, skills development, in urban slums and rural areas..including prisons. Currently, Dr. Kiran Bedi is serving as the Lt. Governor of Puducherry.
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Topic: "Bicycle Education"
Dawood Vaid is an educationist and trainer. Working with scientists as a Patent & Trademark Analyst, in Moscow and Switzerland, he observed and compared different education pedagogy and created 'fun-learn' approach to learning. A voracious reader and an avid horse fan, Dawood is most likely to be found conducting quizzes and interacting with students across the grades. He also works with academic institutions through School Leadership Workshops, conducts teacher training, and enjoys his sessions with teenagers.
The author of 'The Education Riddle' and 'T.A.L.K.: Speak with Ease & Confidence'. Both books are a result of decade long school visits and teachers' training workshops. Dawood is a Certified instructor for teaching 21st Century skills & Leadership and is developing a student-centric curriculum under Sky Education. ('Assessment and Teaching of 21st Century Skills' by University of Melbourne on Coursera).
He holds an Engineering degree in Electronics & Communication and has completed MA Education & MBA (PGDBA) from Symbiosis, India. He lives in Mumbai spending time telling stories to his daughters and creating content for Life Skills curriculum.
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Topic: " Future of the School"
Sachin Usha Vilas Joshi
Education Activist
In the Indian social system, we consider education as the foundation of the all-round development of the person. Our Ex-President Late Dr A.P.J Abdul Kalam said, “If we want to make India a Super Power we need to work harder on three people: Student, Teacher and Parent as these three will play a major role to create a future India of our dreams.
Inspired by these words Mr. Sachin Usha Vilas Joshi stepped into the field of education and started working towards his aim. Sachin Usha Vilas Joshi, a person who failed several unit tests in school now holds seven degrees in various subjects from Pune University in the field of Management.
In spite of getting attractive offers from renowned companies, he did not take up a job in multi-national companies but chose to start a “School for Failures.” After proving his mettle to change the perception of people towards failure he expanded his vision and dreamt of taking education out of classroom boundaries.
He made his mission to replace blackboard teaching with real-life experiences. To acknowledge his contribution in the field of education he was invited by the European Council for the World Forum of Democracy.
He is the First Indian to give a speech on Education in the European Parliament. He has also worked on many novel concepts and started India's first "Mobile School” for underprivileged children. He is the founder and Director of the unique concept of “Education on Wheels” for which he has been awarded by the Limca Book of World Records.
He felt miserable to see children deprived of education and then he took an initiative of bringing children who had never attended school into the mainstream of education through his campaign
“Every Child Counts”. Under this project, 6500 children were admitted in different Municipal and Government Schools.
He also educationally adopted 300 girl students from Sayyed community. What makes it furthermost special is the fact that this is the first generation of the Sayyed community to receive a formal education.
Mr.Sachin Joshi is the founder-director of Espalier - The Experimental School” which is a combination of Gandhi and Einstein Philosophy.
This Experimental school has been awarded as “The Most Innovative School” as well as The Best Experiential School in India.
A world Organization "Design For Change" has honoured the most prestigious "I can Award” to the Espalier school and bestowed "Edu Hero Award" to Sachin Joshi for his techniques of innovation in education.
Recently he has established Espalier-The Heritage School. A school-based on experiential learning to carry out innovative research in the field of education.
He has minutely studied the development of a child’s brain and its co-relation with education.His research has been included in the syllabus for D. Ed teachers course.He also has the privilege to be an active member of different Government Education Committees.His innovative thought of adding his mother's name before his Father's name has been widely appreciated by the society and he has been instrumental in giving a new definition to the middle name.
Taking note of his commendable achievements great personalities like Honorable ExPresident Mrs Pratibhatai Patil, International Thinker Mr Sandeep Waslekar, Senior Socialist Anna Hazare, Politician Shashi Tharoor, Social Activist Shaam Manav, Late poet Mangesh Padgaonkar, Sports psychologist Bhishmaraj Baam sir and many more have blessed and appreciated his body of work.
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Topic: "Enabling average teacher to deliver high quality curriculum transaction"
Pankaj comes from Uttar Pradesh. After completing his engineering degree at IIT Roorkee, he went to Ahmedabad to work at the Indian Space Research Organization, and then completed his PhD at IIM Ahmedabad. Here he spent time understanding the development sector. Upon graduation, although offered an attractive job at Tata Consultancy Services, he joined the advisory team of Dr. Kurien, who led the White Revolution. Dr. Kurien approached ministers and government officials to change policies to further Amul’s growth, and Pankaj prepared his briefs for meetings. These two and a half years were truly inspiring for Pankaj, who still considers Dr. Kurien his greatest mentor.
After seeing that rural development moved slowly due to a lack of trained professionals in the sector, Pankaj took what he learned from Dr. Kurien and started the Institute of Rural Management Ahmedabad (IRMA). He created the syllabi for and taught courses on strategic management for the rural areas at IRMA, adding specialized faculty members in rural education, rural health, and other sectors. Through his efforts, Pankaj trained a strong cadre of more than 500 students a year who would catalyze rural development. Born out of Pankaj’s insight on rural management and development, IRMA is at the forefront of professionalizing the development of India’s rural sector. Over the years it has provided management training, support, and research facilities to students committed to rural development. This effort has drawn co-operatives, COs, government development agencies, international development organizations, and funding agencies to IRMA.
Since IRMA focused on the cooperative model, Pankaj also introduced new topics, such as the role of COs in rural development. In 1994, he left IRMA to explore new areas and broaden his perspective. This led him to teach abroad in prestigious universities in the UK and US (MIT, NYU, and University of Leeds). Pankaj also consulted for Grameen Bank and the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee, advising them on their general management strategies. Later, he became a member of an evaluation committee sponsored by the government of Andhra Pradesh, and he participated in evaluating the education sector and identifying potential improvements.
Pankaj Jain is providing high-quality, low-cost education to children in slums and poor urban areas by re-engineering the role of the teacher. By dividing this role into three parts that require different skill levels, Pankaj has created new job opportunities and increased educational outcomes. Going forward, Pankaj’s plan is to enter government schools and influence policy through the Education Ministry to adopt the Gyan Shala model of education, because he believes it is a method for efficient expansion.
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Topic: "Hariyo Makha- Sikkim Against Pollution"
My name is Lomas Dhungel. I am basically a school teacher teaching Mathematics and Physics at Government Senior Secondary School, Makha which lies in the East district of Sikkim.
Before my works as a teacher, I was an employee at the prestigious State Bank of India. I belonged to the Last batch that had the privilege of “Pension” also, in addition to the scope of timely promotions.
Since childhood, I was deeply interested in science and always wanted to become a researcher. This zest for knowledge insisted me to change my job profile. After working for 4 years at the State Bank of India, I left my job to start my new career as a teacher of Maths and Physics in 2012.
Since 2013-14, I was experimenting on ideas of waste management. And by 2015 an idea of Plastic Up-cycling was successfully experimented.
This incident motivated me to start a new initiative by the name “HARIYO MAKHA – SIKKIM AGAINST POLLUTION”. It is a type of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan that works on the area of experimenting ideas on zero waste management, proper resource utilization and sustainable development.
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Topic: "Education: The Paradigm Shift"
Founder President Hridai, Society for HRD
- Advisor Human Resources, Labour & Employment
- Director – Globalx Biztrade Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
- Advisory Board Member Global Employment Institute GEI (UK), International Bar Association
- Hony. Dean International Relations The Libertas University, Croatia
- President – Croatia Business Forum & Bosnia & Herzegovina Business Forum
- Director – International Relations – Business Intelligence Society Japan
- Ex. Member of Minimum Wages Advisory Board, Govt. of India
Leadership & Management professional with specialization in Human Resources Development having 30 years of global experience in the dynamics of employment ranging from Defence Services, Manufacturing, International Trade, Hospitality, Aviation, Infrastructure, Media and Security across India, Hong Kong, Korea, China, Japan, Middle – East, Europe, UK & USA. Previous corporate role as Regional HR Director South Asia with G4S having business responsibility of 185,000 employees, 70 National Unions & 2 International Unions, one of the largest workforce representation in the Industry worldwide. Graduate in Commerce, Post Graduate Specialization in HRM Hong Kong, Post Graduate Diploma in Public Administration, Certified Lead Auditor SA 8000 from RINA Italy and Certified Trainer in Aviation Management by IATA Singapore and various Training & Development Courses in Leadership and Management. Core competencies include taking lead role on strategic alignment, collaborations, organizational agility through structured training and development processes. Focused skills and abilities to leverage likely internal and external relationships to resolve complex business issues related to global employment, management development, statutory & legal matters and overall productivity enhancement.
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Topic: "Educating Social Change Leaders"
Ms. Trina Talukdar is co-founder of Kranti, which transforms underage girls from red-light areas into leaders of social change. She is also a Venture Manager at Ashoka: Innovators for the Public where she explores models of work in social entrepreneurship, through Ashoka’s Fellow Selection and Support process. In 2014-2015, Trina took a year-long sabbatical from Ashoka to become an Atlas Corps Fellow working with American Express, Philanthropy, in Washington, D.C. and New York on the American Express Leadership Academy Alumni Network for nonprofit leaders. In 2012, she was featured by The Week magazine in London as one of the top 30 most inspirational leaders of the year for her work with Kranti. Talukdar holds a master’s degree in Medical and Psychiatric Social Work from Christ University in Bangalore, and a bachelor’s degree in English, Political Science and Sociology from St. Xavier’s College in Kolkata.
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Topic: "Unschooling and Parenting"
Abhijit has 15 years of experience in the field of Media and Entertainment. He has national and international experience in visual effects for local and Hollywood movies and Motion Capture Animation experience for Triple-A Computer Games. His work has taken him all over the world from places like Vancouver in the far west, to Bangkok in the far East, to Dubai in the middle. Since the birth of their first child they have left their life of endless work and focused solely on the upbringing of their children and creating shared learning spaces for homeschooling families wherever they go. As of now they have two children aged 10 and 3 who have been Homeschooled since birth. The children have never gone to any school or institute ever.
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