<div dir="ltr"><div role="listitem" style="clear:both;padding-bottom:0px;max-width:100000px;outline:none"><div style="margin-bottom:0px;border-width:0px;border-top-style:solid;border-right-style:initial;border-bottom-style:initial;border-left-style:initial;border-top-color:rgb(239,239,239);border-right-color:initial;border-left-color:initial;border-bottom-color:initial;border-radius:0px;width:754.286px;float:none"><div style="padding-top:0px;background-color:transparent;border-right:0px;border-bottom:0px rgba(100,121,143,0.12);border-left:0px;border-top:none;border-radius:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px"><div id="m_3210884324251644760gmail-:11n"><div style="border-left:none;padding:0px;display:flex"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 20px;width:682.286px"><div id="m_3210884324251644760gmail-:128" style="font-size:0.875rem;direction:ltr;margin:8px 0px 0px;padding:0px"><div id="m_3210884324251644760gmail-:14b" style="overflow:hidden;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:small;line-height:1.5"><div dir="ltr"><div><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">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><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1voXqLINbyjJw713abiPTfZ21w8bK0LnXhlhiL_KrU08/edit">https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1voXqLINbyjJw713abiPTfZ21w8bK0LnXhlhiL_KrU08/edit</a><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent">Looking forward to hearing from you.</span><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Best regards</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Mythili, Ramanujam and Ranjani</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p></div><div></div><div><br></div><div><br><br></div></div><div></div></div></div><div style="border-bottom-left-radius:1px;border-bottom-right-radius:1px;padding:0px;width:auto;background:rgb(242,242,242);margin:0px"></div></div><div style="clear:both"><br></div></div><div style="font-size:0.875rem;padding:0px;width:auto;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;border-top:none;margin:0px;background:transparent"><div style="border-top:0px;padding:0px"><div style="clear:both;margin:0px 5px 0px 0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px"></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div role="listitem" style="clear:both;padding-bottom:0px;max-width:100000px;outline:none"><div style="margin-bottom:0px;border-width:0px;border-top-style:solid;border-right-style:initial;border-bottom-style:initial;border-left-style:initial;border-top-color:rgb(239,239,239);border-right-color:initial;border-left-color:initial;border-bottom-color:initial;border-radius:0px;width:754.286px;float:none"><div style="padding-top:0px;background-color:transparent;border-width:1px 0px 0px;border-right-style:initial;border-bottom-style:initial;border-left-style:initial;border-right-color:initial;border-bottom-color:rgba(100,121,143,0.12);border-left-color:initial;border-top-style:solid;border-top-color:rgba(100,121,143,0.12);border-radius:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px"><div><div id="m_3210884324251644760gmail-:144"><div style="border-left:none;padding:0px;display:flex"><div style="float:none;padding:0px 16px;display:flex;height:80px;min-width:40px;font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:medium"><div><img id="m_3210884324251644760gmail-:yb_27-e" name="m_3210884324251644760_:yb" src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/ui/v1/icons/mail/profile_mask_2x.png" aria-hidden="true" style="display:block;width:40px;height:40px;border-radius:50%;background-color:rgb(164,194,244)"></div></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 20px;width:682.286px;font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:medium"><div style="padding:20px 0px 0px;font-size:0.875rem"><table cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse:collapse;margin-top:0px;width:auto;font-size:0.875rem;letter-spacing:0.2px;display:block"><tbody style="display:block"><tr style="height:auto;display:flex"><td style="white-space:nowrap;padding:0px;vertical-align:top;width:351.098px;line-height:20px;display:block;max-height:20px"><table cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse:collapse;table-layout:fixed;width:350.857px"><tbody><tr><td style="display:flex"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>