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    Azim Premji Foundation

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    Group 1 consists of 7 members working on education and development issues in India. Their vision is to facilitate a just, equitable, humane and sustainable society through education and related areas. They are guided by the principles of the Indian constitution regarding justice, liberty, equality and fraternity. Their work focuses on teacher education, education leadership, examination reform, and technology in education. Key institutions include Azim Premji University for research and education programs, and the Institute of Assessment and Accreditation for standards and accreditation. Past outcomes showed improved attendance, learning levels, and systemic changes to examinations. Current challenges include talent procurement and successful scaling of programs.

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    Group 1 consists of 7 members working on education and development issues in India. Their vision is to facilitate a just, equitable, humane and sustainable society through education and related areas. They are guided by the principles of the Indian constitution regarding justice, liberty, equality and fraternity. Their work focuses on teacher education, education leadership, examination reform, and technology in education. Key institutions include Azim Premji University for research and education programs, and the Institute of Assessment and Accreditation for standards and accreditation. Past outcomes showed improved attendance, learning levels, and systemic changes to examinations. Current challenges include talent procurement and successful scaling of programs.

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    Group 1 consists of 7 members working on education and development issues in India. Their vision is to facilitate a just, equitable, humane and sustainable society through education and related areas. They are guided by the principles of the Indian constitution regarding justice, liberty, equality and fraternity. Their work focuses on teacher education, education leadership, examination reform, and technology in education. Key institutions include Azim Premji University for research and education programs, and the Institute of Assessment and Accreditation for standards and accreditation. Past outcomes showed improved attendance, learning levels, and systemic changes to examinations. Current challenges include talent procurement and successful scaling of programs.

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    Azim Premji Foundation

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    Pratik Jathar
    Group 1 consists of 7 members working on education and development issues in India. Their vision is to facilitate a just, equitable, humane and sustainable society through education and related areas. They are guided by the principles of the Indian constitution regarding justice, liberty, equality and fraternity. Their work focuses on teacher education, education leadership, examination reform, and technology in education. Key institutions include Azim Premji University for research and education programs, and the Institute of Assessment and Accreditation for standards and accreditation. Past outcomes showed improved attendance, learning levels, and systemic changes to examinations. Current challenges include talent procurement and successful scaling of programs.

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    Abhishek Banerjee (03) Pratik Jathar (22) Dipti Koli (24) Dhruv Samel (50) Sougata Mandal (53) Sourjo Mukherjee (54)

    Principles
    Vision Aspires to facilitate a just, equitable, humane and sustainable society Enablers Work in education and related development areas both for direct impact and for their large positive multiplier Strategy An operating organization for deep, at-scale and institutionalized impact on the quality of education in India, along with related development areas (e.g. health, ecology, governance and others)

    Indian Constitution
    Vision deeply rooted in the constitution which states all Indians are constitutionally guaranteed the following rights:  JUSTICE, social, economic and political.  LIBERTY of thought, expression, belief, faith and worship.  EQUALITY of status and of opportunity.  FRATERNITY assuring the dignity of the individual and the unity and integrity of the Nation.

    The Foundation focuses on the following key areas while working with the government  Teacher Education: Our teacher education programs have sought to build capacity in terms of subject matter knowledge, competencies and motivation levels.  Education Leadership and Management: Unique effort involving training of master development facilitators for extended periods of time through classroom training and field projects.  Examination Reforms : Current mode of examination tests rote learning to the neglect of basic competencies or conceptual understanding and application that are supposed to be the objectives of the curriculum. changed the way they conduct examinations for students up to 5th standard and the state of Karnataka has introduced external competency based evaluation.

     Technology in Education: Computer Aided Learning programme to make learning enjoyable and assessment fun, for all students. 2.5 million children in 20,000 schools have used these resources across 16 states. The Foundation created syllabus-based bi/trilingual multimedia content.

    Key Institutions
    Azim Premji university egree Programmes: Masters Programs in Education and Development, Master s in Teacher Education Programs Research: The University Research Centre will conduct research that can produce valuable qualitative and quantitative data about the education and development sectors in the country. Azim Premji Institute of learning and development: Programs conducted by these institutes include teacher education, education leadership development, assessment reforms, community mobilization and technology deployment.

    Institute of Assessment and accreditation (IAA) IAA s work entails developing holistic standards of excellence for various institutions involved in the educational system assessing/ accrediting institutions against these standards; and facilitating their ongoing improvement.

     Key Outcomes of their Work (2001 2010)

    Attendance & Retention: Sustained higher school completion rates as illustrated in over 90% children in Learning Guarantee Schools. Learning Levels: 33% improvement in language learning for 56,000 children in Accelerated Learning Program. 10 % overall improvement in 6,500 schools (0.7 M children) in 5 states over 2 years . Systemic Change: Karnataka wide school quality assessment organization instituted . Examination system for classes 1 to 8 changed across Uttarakhand. Development of children s workbooks for all 78,000 schools of Rajasthan and adapted by Haryana for their Government schools

    Current Challenges
     Identifying and procuring talent for implementing programs and conducting research has been one of the biggest challenges for the Foundation.  How to scale up successfully Because the Foundation works to adapt to local cultures in developing its programs instead of relying on a formula there are many variables that need to be considered when thinking about making large-scale changes.

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