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Thank you Anil and Sameet,<br>
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Sorry for a delayed response. I wanted to write back, sharing the <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/11sNGmQEGbk689q3__QGJv3Vnc8BUKwRv/view?usp=sharing">Guidelines</a>
for School Opening, developed by the National Coalition on the
Education Emergency, and giving a background of what we have been
trying in Karnataka.<br>
<br>
Our information is that in Orissa - schools have reopened for
grades 10<sup>th, </sup> & 12<sup>th</sup> (July ) , 9<sup>th </sup>(Aug)
11<sup>th</sup> & 8<sup>th </sup>(Oct). Primary schools (1-7)
have not yet opened. Is this correct? If yes, then we would like to
push for<b> urgent opening of LPS.</b> We should also push
department to provide <b>additional support to schools in terms of
learning materials, teacher assistants</b> etc since the students
will not be ready for grade level textbooks/teaching and will need
support for foundational learning.<br>
<br>
In Karnataka, <br>
<ol>
<li>We met with Commissioner and SCERT and begin a discussion with
them on school opening. We shared a <a
href="https://educationemergency.net/2021/09/coalition-releases-research-brief/">Research
Brief</a> ( available in <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kZ8cPoAmcWb469-uIO9Z3mbCqimunbJ1/view?usp=sharing">
Hindi</a>) to impress on them the <b>urgency of opening LPS.</b>
We also gave out <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WrpYTVf1ye6ZBtolEkje3OSNaeTNJoKy/view?usp=sharing">press
releases.</a> This may have played a small role in persuading
department to open LPS, which opened this week. MMS also is
being served in HPS/HS now and in LPS from Nov 1.<br>
</li>
<li>We shared the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/11sNGmQEGbk689q3__QGJv3Vnc8BUKwRv/view?usp=sharing">School
Opening Guidelines</a> prepared by the Coalition with the
department. This has helped us to inform SCERT to prepare school
opening guidelines that are sensitive to students not going to
school for 1.5 years and need for socio-emotional learning. Do
you think this will be useful to do in Orissa as well?</li>
<li>Curricular resources sourced by the National Coalition are
available through the NCEE <a
href="https://teacher-network.in/OER/index.php/Educational_resource_repository">resource
repository</a>, these are intended to provide teacher options
other than text book in their teaching, as most students are not
ready for the grade level textbooks. <br>
</li>
<li>We are also working on the <a
href="https://educationemergency.net/policy-tracker/">policy
tracker</a> to provide a quick view of the status from
different states on school closure. Let us know if the Orissa
status is as indicated above? </li>
</ol>
Can you plan something similar in Orissa - plan to meet the
Department with the guidelines on school opening + research brief to
try and persuade them on urgently opening LPS and looking at child
friendly curriculum for HS/HPS? <br>
<br>
Look forward to your thoughts.<br>
<br>
thanks and regards,<br>
Guru<br>
National Coalition on the Education Emergency<br>
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<br>
regards<br>
Guru<br>
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On 23/10/21 11:14 am, Anil Pradhan wrote:<br>
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<div dir="auto">Thank you Niranjan ji and Sameet for introducing
me to the National Coalition on the Education Emergency. I would
love to join in this. We are working on to pressurise the
Government of Odisha to open schools through various ways.
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dir="ltr"> Greetings!</div>
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style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"
dir="ltr"> This is the crucial time for all of us to
work together to address this education emergency at
the national level. Let us work together to uphold the
right of children to education,
psycho-social-emotional well-being and nutrition of
all children sines schools are reopening in all states
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<div>Dear Guru ji, <br>
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<div>Thanks for the mail. I am sharing this with Anil bhai
who is the convener of RTE Forum Odisha for taking this
discussion further. <br>
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<div>Warm regards<br>
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<div>‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐<br>
On Tuesday, October 19th, 2021 at 3:12 PM, Guru <a
class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="mailto:Guru@ITforChange.net"><Guru@ITforChange.net></a>
wrote:<br>
<blockquote type="cite">Dear Sameetji<br>
<br>
A group of individuals/groups came together in July to
set up the National Coalition on the Education
Emergency. We are very concerned about schools being
closed as these affect most the children belonging to
the vulnerable sections of society. We are also
concerned that teachers will push through syllabus
completion when schools open which will lead to non
comprehension and drop out<br>
<br>
We have 3 working groups (WG)<br>
<ol>
<li>WG on Research - which collates and publishes
research on covid and education (and also conducts
quick surveys)</li>
<li>WG on Education Support - which collates
education models and curricular resources for
teachers (to use once schools open, to complement
text books)</li>
<li>WG on social mobilization - to work and bring
people together to raise awareness/demand for RTE</li>
</ol>
<br>
RTE forum is very much concerned with all 3, spl the
3rd. So we request RTE forum to join the National
Coalition (it is informal group - no formal
organizations structure etc) to share
ideas/resources. We are already working with Niranjan
Aradhya (Karnataka/PAFRE), Hemangi Joshi (RTE
Maharashtra). Aim is simply to try and help one
another as much as possible.<br>
<br>
we have a telegram group to share quick info/updates
which you should join (<b>Install telegram on computer
or phone an join - <a
href="https://t.me/joinchat/Hjf-sH-2HA1mNTBl"
rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener noreferrer"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">
https://t.me/joinchat/Hjf-sH-2HA1mNTBl</a></b> -
invite link)<br>
we have a website <b><a
href="https://educationemergency.net"
rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener noreferrer"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://educationemergency.net</a></b>
to collate researches, media articles, curricular
resources etc. This also has a <a
href="https://educationemergency.net/policy-tracker/"
rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener noreferrer"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"> policy
tracker</a><br>
<br>
Do see <br>
<a
href="https://educationemergency.net/what-is-educationemergency/"
rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener noreferrer"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://educationemergency.net/what-is-educationemergency/</a><br>
<a
href="https://educationemergency.net/2021/08/resume-and-renew-education-for-26-crore-children-hi/"
rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener noreferrer"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://educationemergency.net/2021/08/resume-and-renew-education-for-26-crore-children-hi/</a>
(Hindi)<br>
<a
href="https://educationemergency.net/2021/09/coalition-releases-research-brief/"
rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener noreferrer"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://educationemergency.net/2021/09/coalition-releases-research-brief/</a>
(also in Hindi)<br>
<a
href="https://educationemergency.net/policy-tracker/"
rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener noreferrer"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://educationemergency.net/policy-tracker/</a><br>
<a
href="https://educationemergency.net/category/media-articles/"
rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener noreferrer"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://educationemergency.net/category/media-articles/</a><br>
<a
href="https://educationemergency.net/advocacy-campaigns/"
rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener noreferrer"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://educationemergency.net/advocacy-campaigns/</a><br>
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Look forward to your response<br>
<br>
regards<br>
Guru<br>
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