Collaborative Schools Network

These are our current 6 priorities as an organisation: Scale up: We’re having a great impact in the lives of the children in our schools, and so we want to reach more schools and more children. We’re very ambitious, but too many organisations try to grow too quickly. We want to get our foundations in … Continue reading Our 6 priorities

For all the progress we’ve made, we still face a daily struggle to change the mindsets of a small handful of our teachers. Here’s an example: For the past six months we have been running early morning coaching classes for our Class 10 students to prepare them for their final national exams. These exams are … Continue reading What’s in it for me?

We teach 77 lessons each day, so it is very difficult to support teachers in each of those lessons. That’s why this term we have focused on improving teaching in our early years classes, and it’s paying off. I began to take (bad) photos of good teaching over the last two days, and there was … Continue reading Bad photos of good teaching

During the winter vacation, while all the other local schools were closed, the team at our newest school, Bhanodaya Primary, held a Winter Camp. The camp attracted over 60 local children, including lots from the local private schools, who spent a week doing games, music, art and sports. It’s the perfect way to promote a … Continue reading This is how to promote your school

Here are seven reasons why this photo of our Class 1 students makes us happy: There are lots of children in the class. When we first adopted Jana Uddhar, there were barely 10 students in Class 1. Now we have 30. We have two teachers in the classroom to help with the larger numbers. The … Continue reading 7 reasons why this photo makes us happy

Things go wrong in our schools… every day. That’s not a problem in itself. It’s normal in every school. It only becomes a problem if you don’t notice it, or you don’t act on it. One of the jobs of school leaders is the have very sensitive antenna (and good data) to spot the problems … Continue reading When things go wrong…