NEP: Visionary in intent, but challenge lies in translating vision into daily reality of schools

She is the Co-founder and chief operating officer (COO) of ShikshaLokam, and Co-founder, Mantra4Change; both work in the field of education.

- RITWIK MUKHERJEE

She is the Co-founder and chief operating officer (COO) of ShikshaLokam, and Co-founder, Mantra4Change; both work in the field of education. While ShikshaLokam, founded in 2017, is an Education Leadership Catalyst under the aegis of Advaith Foundation, Mantra4Change is working towards Empowering Education: Transforming Public Schools in India for a brighter future.

ShikshaLokam is a manifestation of Social Platform thinking, a systematic method to resolve complex societal challenges with speed, at scale, and sustainably. As a catalyst for education leadership, ShikshaLokam co-creates different solutions with Government Functionaries, Civil Society Organizations and Academic Bodies to address the Education Leadership challenges.

Keeping the Societal Platform construct, ShikshaLokam works towards distributing the ability to solve the gaps that exist in education leadership development space and improving the agency of actors in the ecosystem to drive large-scale educational change programmes.

Mantra4Change, on its part, is working towards transforming school leadership for a child-centric future with a dedicated team of educators committed to addressing the gaps in leadership and organizational skills within schools. The mission is to develop innovative solutions, collaborate on improvement plans, and support sustainable change within school leadership and management.

And the ultimate goal with which this organization is run, is to ensure that schools remain focused on providing a child-centric learning environment.

Speaking to The Statesman, Khushboo Awasthi - Co-founder & COO, ShikshaLokam, and Co-founder, Mantra4Change, explains what is education equity, what does inclusion-ready education leaders mean, if India is spending in the right direction in education field, whether the gap lies in policy framing or implementation, so on and so forth.

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