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Dear all<br>
<br>
The Working Group on "<a
href="https://educationemergency.net/pipermail/socialmobilization_educationemergency.net/">Social
Mobilization"</a> <b>will have its </b><b>first meeting of this
working group on Saturday, August 7.</b> This group will organize
meetings with interested individuals and groups in different states
to build a larger discourse on the education emergency, and create a
<b>wider social pressure across the country for careful/phased
school opening.</b> The meeting on Saturday will discuss and plan
the activities for this group.<b> <br>
</b><br>
Request all those who are interested to participate and contribute
to this working group, do join is on 7th August at 6 pm on <b><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://b3.teacher-network.in/b/gur-g94-hyn">https://b3.teacher-network.in/b/gur-g94-hyn</a>
</b>(BigBlueButton, a free and open source webinar platform - you
can join using Firefox or Chrome browser on your computer or your
phone<br>
<br>
If you have any question or suggestion or comment, let me know.<br>
<br>
regards,<br>
Guru <br>
<br>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 04/08/21 5:53 pm, Guru wrote:<br>
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Dear all,<br>
<br>
After I shared the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://educationemergency.net/2021/08/highlights-of-the-meeting-of-the-education-emergency-coalition-on-16th-july/">highlights</a>
of our <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://educationemergency.net/2021/07/meeting-of-the-education-emergency-coalition-on-16th-july/">meeting</a>
on 16th July, we have had a few activities of the National
Coalition on the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://educationemergency.net/what-is-educationemergency/">Education
Emergency</a>, as below:<br>
<ol>
<li>A Working group on “<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://educationemergency.net/pipermail/educationsupport_educationemergency.net/">Education
support to communities</a>” has been setup and has had two
meetings so far. This group is working on producing a
compilation of NGO interventions providing meaningful learning
opportunities to students during COVID. The group plans to
create a a policy brief laying out principles for education
support, develop/curate simple resources with ideas and
activities for teachers and for parents (to aid caregivers in
engaging with children and support their learning) etc. This
group meetings are scheduled on <i>Tuesday evenings.</i><br>
</li>
<li>Two meetings of the Working Group on <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://educationemergency.net/pipermail/research_educationemergency.net/">Research</a>
have been held - the group is working on compilation/
compendium of research studies; prepare a policy tracker tool
comparing states/ districts on their actions/decisions
relating to school education. The group is also planning a
rapid survey to collect data from ground. This group meetings
are scheduled on <i>Thursday evenings.</i></li>
<li>The Working Group on "<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://educationemergency.net/pipermail/socialmobilization_educationemergency.net/">Social
Mobilization"</a> has not yet been setup. <b>We plan to
have the first meeting of this working group on Friday Aug 6
or Saturday, August 7.</b> This group will organize
meetings with interested individuals and groups in different
states to build a larger discourse on the education emergency,
and create a social pressure across the country for
careful/phased school opening. The meeting will discuss and
plan the activities for this group.<b> </b>If you have
preferences for Aug 6 or 7, let me know. </li>
<li>A <b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://educationemergency.net/2021/08/resume-and-renew-education-for-26-crore-children/">note
on education emergency</a> </b> for external audiences
has been prepared, which is also attached. We are aiming to
translate this note into other languages and also create small
/ simple video messages based on this note for a wider
audience.</li>
<li>The website has been updated with media articles relating to
school opening in different states of the country.You can
search by giving a <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://educationemergency.net/?s=Karnataka">state
name</a>, or an issue (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://educationemergency.net/?s=school+opening">school
opening</a> etc) on the site - these have been configured as
'tags' on the site.<br>
</li>
</ol>
<b>If you would like to join any of the Working Groups, please
send an email to <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:info@EducationEmergency.net"
moz-do-not-send="true">info@EducationEmergency.net</a></b><b>.
<br>
</b>To send a mail to all members of the coalition, mail <b><a
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:updates@educationemergency.net"
moz-do-not-send="true">updates@educationemergency.net</a><br>
<br>
</b><b>Mail lists of the working groups</b><br>
<ol>
<li><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://educationemergency.net/pipermail/educationsupport_educationemergency.net/">EducationSupport@educationemergency.net<span
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"> </span></a></li>
<li><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://educationemergency.net/pipermail/research_educationemergency.net/">Research@educationemergency.net<span
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"></span></a></li>
<li><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://educationemergency.net/pipermail/socialmobilization_educationemergency.net/">SocialMobilization@educationemergency.net
</a></li>
<li><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://educationemergency.net/pipermail/updates_educationemergency.net/">Updates@educationemergency.net</a>
</li>
</ol>
regards,<br>
Guru<br>
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