[Research] Karnataka meetings with Education Department

[Guru]

Further updates:

Rishikesh will be meeting Karnataka Commissioner on Monday and will hand
over the Guidelines (with updates as received from Ranjani) from the
NCEE. The idea is for the guidelines to be  Vol 1 and for the resource
materials to be Vol 2. Vol 2 will keep getting added as we keep
collating and making available on the repository

Commissioner has asked DSERT to get inputs from NCEE (and others?) on 
what instructions DSERT should give to schools on the curriculum post
opening.
DSERT called Niranjan and has asked us to meet them on Tuesday.  I
request all Bengaluru based folks to volunteer to participate (Mythili
and Brinda, request your participation).
Anyone not marked in this mail, we should invite to the meeting?
Look forward to your inputs -  we should make a small presentation with
highlights from the guidelines documents.

regards,
Guru
Copied Maharashtra, Jharkhand groups for info.
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On 27/09/21 7:52 pm, Guru wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Niranjan Aradhya and I had useful meetings today with Commissioner,
> Director (Primary), Director (Secondary), Director (SSK) and SPD, SSK
> today (Secretary was on leave). We gave them the *Research Brief*
> <https://educationemergency.net/2021/09/coalition-releases-research-brief/>
> in Kannada
> <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Fzhuqd3qRs_hdApq4n_TwpR2b82M7TvZ/view?usp=sharing>
> (Thanks to Brinda for translating and Sreemoyee for productionising)
> and a note on "*Revising instructional processes
> <https://educationemergency.net/2021/09/revising-instructional-processes-on-school-opening/>"*
> (thanks to Ranjani), this is the next version of the note that Ranjani
> had earlier shared for Rishi's meeting with MOE.
>
>  1. *Commissioner* listened keenly and he and all directors were fully
>     agreeable that LPS must open. So the issue seems to be fear (who
>     will be responsible if children fall ill/die) at the political
>     leadership. Of course, we clarified that attendance should be
>     voluntary and parents who want to send children should be able to.
>     Also children are not in sterile environments in most cases at
>     home/community and susceptibility to virus is low and harm from
>     closure is high.
>  2. He was keen to get more detailed academic guidelines and requested
>     us to share same with him to discuss with SCERT and Minister. We
>     said we would share and also that a wider consultative process
>     would be needed (I mentioned "wider consultation is happening in
>     TN" and "TN has made special budgetary allocation" at the
>     slightest opportunity :-)). He said he would convene such a process.
>  3. He also said instructions to resume MMS have already  been
>     given...but there are  some long wided processes to resume
>     (procurement of food grains and said resumption would  be from Oct
>     15, post the dasara holidays). He was very clear on this.
>  4. *SPD* said they do not have  any funding  issues when I mentioned
>     TN special provision. I mentioned schools will need untied grants
>     to take care of local repairs/infrastructure, health precautions,
>     additional learning materials etc. More follow up needed here as
>     she was quite placid. Special untied school grant must be insisted.
>  5. All *DPIs* agreed fully that LPS must open asap. They seemed to
>     suggest  that the decision was at the CM's level (a meeting is
>     scheduled this month end where they will decide to open LPS is the
>     feeling)
>
> Similar meetings could be planned in other states also - AP/Telangana,
> Maharashtra, Jharkhand... The research brief in English, Hindi and
> Kannada is available
> on*https://educationemergency.net/2021/09/coalition-releases-research-brief
> *and the revising instructional processes on
> *https://educationemergency.net/2021/09/revising-instructional-processes-on-school-opening/*
>
> *Immediate need from department is a more detailed academic guidelines
> ("What should teachers do when schools open - across grades and
> 'subjects'). This is something we should focus on as all state govts
> will be keen to have this. *
>
> regards,
> Guru

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