<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear friends</div><div><br></div><div>Greetings on Independence Day!</div><div><br></div><div>We will be having our meeting of the Education Support Group on Tuesday, August 17th, from 5.00 - 6.30 PM.</div><div>The following is the proposed agenda:</div><ol><li>Any comments from the group / inputs (and summary of the previous meeting)</li><li>Compilation of select interventions from the ground (based on documents shared)<br></li><li>Sharing of experiences of technology enabled learning interventions - AID India</li><li>Sharing of experiences from TNSF and an action plan for the group to work on - presentation and discussion - Prof R Ramanujam</li></ol><div>Thank you to all those of you who have shared the details of your interventions. Request others to do so as soon as possible. I am sharing below the thread which summarizes the last meeting on August 3, 2021. The template for documenting is attached as well. <br></div><div><br></div><div>The meeting link is <a href="https://b3.teacher-network.in/b/gur-g94-hyn" target="_blank">https://b3.teacher-network.in/b/gur-g94-hyn</a>.</div><div><p><span></span></p>
<p>Looking forward to meeting all of you.<br></p><p>Best regards<span></span></p>
<p>Mythili and Ranjani</p></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Sriranjani Ranganathan</b> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:sriranjani.ranganathan@gmail.com">sriranjani.ranganathan@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Fri, Aug 6, 2021 at 5:08 PM<br>Subject: Education Emergency Coalition - Minutes of meeting (Aug 3) and next steps of working group for education support<br>To: <<a href="mailto:educationsupport@educationemergency.net">educationsupport@educationemergency.net</a>>, Sriranjani Ranganathan <<a href="mailto:sriranjani.ranganathan@gmail.com">sriranjani.ranganathan@gmail.com</a>><br></div><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p>Dear friends <span></span></p>
<p>Thank you for your participation in the working group
meeting on August 3, 2021. It was a wonderful experience to listen to the many
interventions, ideas and insights.</p><p><span></span></p>
<p>Based on the various inputs shared in the two meetings,
we have compiled below a set of action items/ next steps that this group can
work on. Request all of you to review
and share your comments / suggestions as well as indicate which of the areas
each one of you would be able to take up/ work on.</p><p><span></span></p>
<p>The starting point would be to document as many
interventions as possible - request all of you to send the documentation by
this weekend (the template is attached with this email - this is a suggested template
and please feel free to modify it as appropriate). Thank you to those who have already shared
their interventions.</p><p><span></span></p>
<p><b> Next steps/ way
forward:</b><br></p><p><span></span></p>
<p></p><ol><li>Continue the documentation of initiatives undertaken
by different organizations which can then be collated into a broad 'model' or
'guidelines' document (request the filled templates to be sent by end of this
week) - a template is attached.</li><li>Deconstruct the challenges of the current scenario and
the impact it has on children of different ages and examine it along the dimensions of
curriculum, pedagogies, teacher preparation and community involvement. Creating a policy brief from the insights of
this analysis would become an use useful input for the education system.</li><li>Curating a resource for parents and caregivers for
supporting them in engaging with children and support their learning</li><li>Develop/ curate resources that can help teachers in
developing flexible teaching - learning strategies. The emphasis should be on integrating
children's experiences into the teaching-learning process; identify what
children have learnt outside school and build on that rather than merely
focusing on the "syllabus".
Addressing the socio-emotional needs for children needs to be also
looked into. </li><li>Identifying and
showcasing a few models where locally relevant and responsive learning
environments have been created with support from the community, school
teachers, civil society organizations, citizen networks, and come up with a set
of alternatives for the education system to consider when reopening schools (could
be in the form of a toolkit)</li><li>Reach out to teacher education institutions and
creating a network of student teachers who would be able to work with children
in their communities in a structured manner</li><li>Form a network
of govt. and private school teachers, local authorities and teacher education
institutes to reach out better to the community</li><li>Create advocacy forums for parent/teacher communities;
share 'position statements' on the different dimensions and challenges; also
serve as a platform for putting out scientifically accurate information.</li></ol><p></p><p><span></span></p>
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<p>Request you all to share your thoughts and comments. The next meeting will be on August 10,
Tuesday at 5 pm - meeting link is <a href="https://b3.teacher-network.in/b/gur-g94-hyn" target="_blank">https://b3.teacher-network.in/b/gur-g94-hyn</a></p><p><span></span></p>
<p>Looking forward to hearing from all of you.<br></p><p><span></span></p>
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<p>Best regards<span></span></p>
<p>Mythili and Ranjani<span></span></p>
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