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Thanks Ranjani, Mythili and Jam,<br>
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The mail is quite detailed and identifies critical aspects that
education, whether in school or in the community, must concern
itself with. <br>
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The group can count on support from IT for Change team, mainly
Anusha, Veda and myself - in terms of online spaces for hosting the
resources and models, planning and making 'video interview'
resources of practitioners, as desirable/required, expanding the
group to include teachers, teacher educators, groups/institutions
from other geographies/states etc. Also prepare a simple compilation
of the experiences/initiatives of community learning centres that
we have received so far.<br>
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thanks and regards,<br>
Guru<br>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in
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style="font-family:"Liberation
Serif",serif">Dear friends,</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in
8pt;line-height:15.5467px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span
style="font-family:"Liberation
Serif",serif">Thank you to all
those of you who have taken the time and
effort to contribute to this group!</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in
8pt;line-height:15.5467px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span
style="font-family:"Liberation
Serif",serif">Over the last few
weeks, we have had the benefit of
listening to several of these
interventions – ranging from
alternative, community-based schools
which functioned as learning centres,
community learning activities,
schoolteachers combining forces to
deliver online lessons (especially in
rural and remote areas), small groups of
children supported in their learning
through tab/mobile based lessons,
resources enlisting parents and so on.
The unifying theme from several of these
“alternative” interventions seems to be
an underlying desire to connect with the
children. Many methods have been tried
– evolving mostly organically, in
response to the needs of the contexts
they were working and very crucially,
based on the resources and capabilities
available within the intervention.
While the formal school system has been
disrupted across these interventions, a
common thread that emerges is of
community stepping in to fill that
learning need. Children’s lived
experiences, embedded within the
community, have both become the learning
and the means for the learning. </span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in
8pt;line-height:15.5467px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span
style="font-family:"Liberation
Serif",serif">These experiences
possibly could provide the impetus for a
transformatory shift in the way school
education is designed and delivered. It
is also clear that for this shift to
happen, it is important to advocate this
with the education system – influencing,
demonstrating, and persuading at
multiple levels. </span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in
8pt;line-height:15.5467px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span
style="font-family:"Liberation
Serif",serif">We have therefore
proposed in our last meeting to focus on
the following key areas for focusing our
resources and efforts in the following
directions – creating a resource
repository, institutionalizing the
interventions and advocacy amongst
practitioners, with government and the
larger public. The detailed activities
below under two broad areas and advocacy
to be originated within each of these
areas of work.</span></p>
<h2 style="margin:2pt 0in
0in;line-height:18.5467px;break-after:avoid;font-size:13pt;font-family:"Calibri
Light",sans-serif;color:rgb(47,84,150);font-weight:normal">Curating
a resource repository and dissemination </h2>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0in
0.5in;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">1.<span
style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times
New Roman""> </span>Documenting
the different interventions on the ground
– as they have happened, with strategies
and learnings (as reported)</p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0in
0.5in;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">2.<span
style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times
New Roman""> </span>Curating
the resources – by age, by learning area,
and adding notes for facilitators and
structuring this in the form of
mixed-level learning packages</p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0in
0.5in;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">3.<span
style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times
New Roman""> </span>Identifying
resources for caregivers,parents and
facilitators for children at the
pre-primary age group </p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0in
0.5in;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">4.<span
style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times
New Roman""> </span>Developing
meaningful assessment modules – that are
flexible and amenable for
contextualization </p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0in
0.5in;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">5.<span
style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times
New Roman""> </span>Translating
resources into multiple languages</p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0in
0.5in;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">6.<span
style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times
New Roman""> </span><span
style="background-color:transparent">Supporting
the teachers through mentored/ online
training programs and introducing them
to the resource packages developed, to
be used as supportive materials; and
disseminated through formal and informal
teacher networking spaces</span><span
style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times
New Roman""> </span><span
style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent">Adding
meta data and publishing these on a
resource portal (this is envisaged as a
mediawiki platform)</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0in
0.5in;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">7.<span
style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times
New Roman""> </span>Dissemination
of resources regularly – productionizing
the communication and sharing regularly</p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 8pt
0.5in;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">8.<span
style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times
New Roman""> </span>Advocating
and reaching out about the different
models of education – both in formal
educational spaces as well with the
general public; attempted at shifting the
discourse towards an inclusive and
empathetic school system</p>
<h2 style="margin:2pt 0in
0in;line-height:18.5467px;break-after:avoid;font-size:13pt;font-family:"Calibri
Light",sans-serif;color:rgb(47,84,150);font-weight:normal">Institutionalizing
the models with the education system </h2>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0in
38.55pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">1.<span
style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times
New Roman""> </span>Working
with select DIET(s) to introduce the
curated models within the formal education
system. </p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0in
38.55pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">2.<span
style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times
New Roman""> </span>Creating
and/or strengthening a network of
community-based learning centres and
linking with the formal education system,
as after-school support centres (This will
be driven through volunteer driven
networks and in collaboration with
community-based organizations)</p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0in
38.55pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">3.<span
style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times
New Roman""> </span><span
style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent">Working
with student teachers and students from
teacher education institutions to help
form, foster and strengthen
decentralized learning communities</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0in
38.55pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent">4. Critiquing the
various models of online and e-learning,
for an informed adoption within the
education system</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0in
38.55pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">5.<span
style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times
New Roman""> </span>Creating
policy briefs and toolkits for the
functionaries and participants at
different levels of the education system</p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 8pt
38.55pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">6.<span
style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times
New Roman""> </span>Advocating
for changes in the school processes –
addressing dimensions of curriculum,
assessments, use of digital resources and
debunking myths – for the public at large</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in
8pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">We
hope you would join one/ both of these
groups and pick up specific action items
to take this forward. We would like to
have an initial compilation published on a
resource portal by September 20, 2021.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in
8pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Please
do indicate which of these groups you
would like to join through the attached
Google Form.</p>
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8pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a
href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1voXqLINbyjJw713abiPTfZ21w8bK0LnXhlhiL_KrU08/edit"
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style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent">Looking forward to
hearing from you.</span><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in
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regards</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in
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Ramanujam and Ranjani <br>
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