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Foundations To Flight

Spotlight on Research | Largest FLN & ECCE Fair

23-25 SEPTEMBER 2024
26 SEPTEMBER SCHOOL VISIT

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Organised by

In collaboration with

Organised by

In collaboration with

Sunita Gandhi

Convenor
Former Economist, The World Bank, USA
PhD, Physics, Cambridge University, UK
Founder, DEVI Sansthan, India
Chief Academic Strategist,
CMS, World's Largest School

Join Us in Pioneering Change

The crises in education is the crises of pedagogy. It is already past half-time for SDG4. Yet, a quality education is implausible without first addressing the problem of Foundational Literacy and Numeracy (FLN) & Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE).

We need an evidence-supported transformative pedagogy that is capable of addressing FLN & ECCE at both speed and scale; a pedagogy that is both holistic and inclusive, and that addresses climate change, and that can be easily integrated in existing systems.

A Global Learning Lab

The launch of the Global Learning Lab is an opportunity to not only witness the new pedagogy in action, but to go back empowered to scale this up in your own contexts.

Universal Literacy

A systemwide implementation of this transformative pedagogy is the surest path to universal literacy and to ensuring that all children receive a quality education within the systems.

We invite your active participation and catalytic role.

  • Come Learn
  • Be Empowered
  • Lead Change
  • ALfA: Accelerating Learning for All
  • ECCE: Early Childhood Care and Education
  • FLN: Foundational Literacy and Numeracy
  • NIPUN: National Initiative for Proficiency in reading with Understanding and Numeracy

Reach NIPUN,
SDG 4.1 & 4.6 Before Time

eminent guests

Shri Rajnath Singh

Hon'ble Minister of Defence, India
Chief Guest
1
Day

Shri Brajesh Pathak

Hon'ble Deputy CM, Uttar Pradesh
Chief Guest
1
Day

Shri Manoj Kumar Singh

Hon'ble Chief Secretary, Uttar Pradesh
Chief Guest
1
Day

Shri Rohit Thakur

Hon'ble Minister of Education, Himachal Pradesh
Chief Guest
2
Day

Shri Sandeep Singh

Hon'ble Minister of State for Education, Uttar Pradesh
Chief Guest
3
Day
One Tara Launch

Smt. Anandiben Patel

Hon'ble Governor, Uttar Pradesh
Chief Guest
3
Day

Guest of Honor

Dr. MK Shanmuga Sundaram

Respected Principal Secretary,, Education
Uttar Pradesh

program structure

GLOBAL
LEARNING
LAB

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Transform Education with ALfA

Be a part of global learning lab

Away from the murmur of syllables and words, this Global Learning Lab is all about action. Come to discover the latest advancements in education: ALfA – Accelerating Learning for All. ALfA is transforming the educational landscape with unparalleled evidence, surpassing all other pedagogies. Its growth is exponential, and this conference is your opportunity to find out why. Return empowered to revolutionize education, where 21st-century skills are built-in, not add-ons. Ensure all children excel faster and better within a new definition of quality education.

Create Your Own Research Implementations

Share your transformation story and spread your impact.

Scale-Up ALfA

Expand ALfA in your contexts and witness its profound impact through system-wide implementation.

Become an ALfA Ambassador of Change / Trainer

Transform education in your context by leading and supporting change.

A GROUNDBREAKING PEDAGOGY

The crisis in education is the crisis of pedagogy—how we teach and how the children learn.

Old pedagogies, and rote methods of teaching and learning are holding back the enormous potential of the children.

THE LARGEST SCHOOL IN THE WORLD

Host to Ed leadership

City Montessori School (CMS) in Lucknow, India, is the world's largest school, renowned for its commitment to quality education, equity, and excellence.

Founded in 1959 by Drs. Jagdish and Bharti Gandhi with just five children and ten borrowed dollars, CMS now serves 61,000 students and holds a Guinness World Record since 1999.

CMS promotes peace and world unity, earning the UNESCO Prize for Peace Education in 2002. The school's greeting, "Jai Jagat!"—meaning "Let glory be for the entire world!"—reflects its global vision.

CMS also hosts the Conference of Chief Justices of the World, fostering international dialogue and justice through discussions on peace and law.

Late Dr Jagdish gandhi

Founder Manager

Dr Bharti Gandhi

Founder Director

Dr Sunita Gandhi

CEO, DEVI Sansthan, Chief Academic Advisor

Prof. Geeta Gandhi Kingdon

President & MD

Gifting of the Book “Disruptive Literacy” to the World Leaders in the presence of H.E. Mr. Prithvirajsing Roopun, the President of Mauritius at the 23rd Conference of Chief Justices of the World, CMS, November 2022

A Pedagogy of the Future, Today

Accelerating Learning for All

FAST

45 Days

HOLISTIC

21st Century Skills

INCLUSIVE

Connectedness

EVIDENCE-BASED

12 Countries & 15,000 Schools In India

takeaways

EMPOWERMENT

Gain insights into global FLN, ECCE, and education trends.

Discover the latest pedagogy's impact on dignity, equity, and inclusion.

Learn from school heads and teachers implementing change

NETWORKING & RECOGNITION

Collaborate with peers.

Share successes and get recognition

RESOURCES

Explore impact assessment methods.

Access new curriculum and teacher training strategies.

Form education advancement agreements.

EMPOWERMENT

Observe new educational practices.

Enhance professional development.

Witness cutting-edge pedagogy.

NETWORKING & RECOGNITION

Engage with government, heads, and teachers.

Build global educational networks.

RESOURCES

Enroll teachers in online training.

Launch a 45-day pilot project.

Access implementation resources.

Sign MOUs for collaborations.

EMPOWERMENT

Identify needs, data, and gaps in FLN and SDG4 education.

Discover solutions and their ROI.

NETWORKING & RECOGNITION

Network with CSR heads.

Discover global philanthropy trends.

Share successes and earn certificates.

RESOURCES

Sign MOUs for ready-made projects with governments and NGOs.

Create large-scale, visible impact and gain recognition.

EMPOWERMENT

Gain insights into global FLN, ECCE, and education trends.

Discover the latest pedagogy's impact on dignity, equity, and inclusion.

NETWORKING & RECOGNITION

Learn from school heads and teachers implementing change.

Collaborate with peers.

Share successes and gain recognition.

RESOURCES

Explore impact assessment methods.

Access new curriculum and teacher training strategies.

Form agreements to advance education.

EMPOWERMENT

Explore FLN & ECCE trends and challenges.

Review new pedagogy and its impact on diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Learn about scalable and sustainable innovations.

NETWORKING & RECOGNITION

Collaborate on FLN & ECCE research.

Share and get recognition for your research.

Connect with global researchers.

RESOURCES

Assess impact and progress.

Train teachers effectively.

Advance FLN & ECCE research globally.

Start your 45 day FLN Research Implementation

Achieving FLN with ALfA takes just 45 days. We invite governments to begin their 45-day FLN research implementation, enabling children under 10 to achieve foundational literacy and numeracy skills—reading, writing, and arithmetic—at 10 times the usual speed.

  • Select the geography or number of schools where you want to start implementation
  • Conduct a Benchmark Assessment / Pre-Test.
  • Train Teachers and FLN Managers, both offline and online.
  • Print the ALfA materials.
  • Implement the program for 45 working days.
  • Conduct a Benchmark Assessment / Post-Test.
  • Scale-up based on the results.
Join the global On demand basis

Massive Open Online Training

MOOT is a catalytic initiative by DEVI Sansthan to quickly empower teachers, trainers and policymakers all over the world with ALfA tools to scale up literacy and provide a quality education on a massive scale for free, leading to immediate implementation. MOOT overcomes the lag times, costs and constraints of physical training. It has been designed to combine the best aspects of a physical training – participation, engagement and discussion – into an online format – and make it more accessible to remote places and far corners of the world. It’s also low carbon!

Fellowships & Awards

Each year, Ed Leadership proudly awards over 100 well-deserved fellowships and awards, fully complimentary, determined by an esteemed international jury. This year, fellowships will be awarded to those individuals who wish to implement ALfA, and awards will be given to those schools that have demonstrated impact supported by data and evidence.

INTERNATIONAL JURY

An international jury will make the selections based on transparent criteria to award between 100 to 200 Fellowships this year depending upon the quality of the submissions.

FELLOWSHIPS

All GETI Fellows are expected to carry out their ideas for change post selection, and to gather evidence of their implementation on a regular basis in an e-portfolio. Evidence includes photos, videos, slide presentations, surveys, pre-and post-intervention data (quantitative, anecdotal and qualitative).

All GETI Fellows with evidence will automatically qualify for the Global Ed Innovator Awards.

REAL CHANGE
TRANSPARENT CRITERION
INTERNATIONAL JURY

HARVARD ON ALfA FLN

Harvard Graduate School of Education, USA

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Book By Prof. Fernando Reimers et al,
Harvard Graduate School of
Education

Policy Pathways for Improving Foundational Literacy and Numeracy in Uttar Pradesh, India

in “Rebuilding Resilient Education Systems After the COVID-19 Pandemic”, March 2023, Amazon

Chapter 8 of the book by Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), Cambridge, USA, published in March 2023 documents the ALfA program in Shamli, and recommends its widespread adoption in UP.

Chapters 8 also documents results from the ALfA program from a Randomized Control Trial (RCT) conducted in the Shamli district of Uttar Pradesh. The RCT demonstrates a significant effect size of 0.23 for Grade 3 and 0.89 for Grade 5.

Chapter 10 of the same book is about the introduction of ALfA program at the nationwide level in the Republic of Maldives.

On this and next page are some extracts from the chapter on FLN in UP by HGSE.

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Publications & Media

A Groundbreaking Pedagogy

ACCELERATING LEARNING for ALL

“A much-needed manifesto for achieving large scale transformation of the global literacy crisis.”

ALfA: Accelerating Learning for All breaks the shackles of the industrial education system, revolutionizing the school experience through peer learning and hands-on activities. The ALfA program enables children and adults alike to learn foundational literacy and numeracy in months rather than years. Beyond reading, writing and arithmetic, ALfA builds the crucial life skills of collaboration, creativity, citizenship and character.

Both a classroom guide for teachers and an implementation roadmap for policymakers, this book explores a transformative approach to teaching and learning. Sprinkled with anecdotes from teachers, principals & students, Accelerating Learning for All inspires and equips us to build a better education system.”

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DISRUPTIVE LITERACY

A Roadmap for Urgent Global Action
"A must read for policymakers and all those associated with the campaign against illiteracy."

“Foundational literacy and numeracy are crucial to every person’s wellbeing. A nation’s literacy rate is a key predictor of its social and economic progress. Yet the world still has hundreds of millions of children in school but nor learning the basics, and adults deprived of these foundational skills. Why?

Drawing from remarkable examples of movements around the world, and sprinkled with stories from the authors’ grassroots educational work in the Global Dream Accelerating Learning for All (ALfA) program, Disruptive Literacy is an easy-to-read but hardto-ignore manifesto that will touch your heart and inspire you to action.”

Past Ed Leadership Conferences

Leading Up to The Global Learning Lab

2008

Hands-on Learning

2009

Creating conversations that lead to meaningful change

2010

Come let’s shape a new education

2011

Metamorphosis in education

2012

Creating high performance education systems

2013

When the best is not enough

2014

Come let’s shape a new education

2015

Imagine learning

2016

Creating a child-centric education

2017

Creating Spaces for Change

2018

Well-being & Happiness in Education

2019

A Stress Free Education

2021

The Power of Change inspiring the teacher within

List Of SpeakersAwardees List

Stories of Change from Countries Around the World

ALfA Partner Organisations

Global Advisory Committee

Aïcha Bah Diallo

Founding Member of FAWE, Guinea

Alesha Anderson

Senior Program Officer at Pro-Literacy Worldwide, USA

Alexandre Romanovsky

Advisor to Companies Dedicated to the United Nations, USA

Bill Graham

Vice Chair, NGO Committee for Education, Learning & Literacy at the United Nations in New York, USA

Yogesh Kumar

Operation & Programs Head, HCL Foundation, India

Chris Macrae

Head of Talent, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at GlaxoSmithKline, USA

Cindy Charles

Kupanda Sisters Inc. Founder & CEO, Guyana

David Bovill

Partnerships Manager, DEIP, UK

David J. Rosen

Director, Adult Literacy Resource Institute, University of Massachusetts, USA

Ernesto Schieffelin

Chilean Pedagogue, Professor, Economist & Politician, Chile

Fred Mednick

Founder, Teacher Without Borders, USA

Gail Davvis-Carter

UN ECOSOC Representative, UN Partner and Social Entrepreneur, USA

Girish Menon

CEO, STIR Education, UK

Inger-Mette Stenseth

Founder, World Climate School, Norway

Joanne Telser Frere

Director, Program Development, USA

Jon M Corippo

Author, Eduprotocols, USA

Kyle Zimmer

Author, Eduprotocols, USA

Mary McCool Berry

Founder, Read Keys, USA

Michael Matos

Education Technology Director, ScaleLIT, USA

Navneet Anand

Director, GreyMatters Communications & Consulting, India

Nicolas Gravel

Professor of Economics, Aix-Marseille University, France

Nixon Joseph

CEO, Children's LoveCastles Trust, India

PETER CAMPLING

Global Programmes Director, USA

PETER KWASI KODJIE

Secretary-General All Africa Student's Union, Ghana

Rana Dajani

President, We Love Reading, Jordan

Ravi Sreedharan

Founder & President, Indian School of Development Management, India

Rebecca Doreen

Founding Director, Vadiwa Trust Organization, Zimbabwe

Richard Allen

Director of Partnerships, VOYCE, USA

Robert Thorn

Director, Developing Real Learners & Academy of Learner Development, Turkey

Samuel Sasu Adonteng

Programmes Officer for Tertiary Education, AASU, Ghana

Sigamoney Naicker

Professor, University of the Western Cape, South Africa

Sigbjorn Dugal

Founder, Pickatale Norway

Stephen Peters

President, The Peters Group, USA

Sylvia Guimarães

Co-founder & President, Vaga Lume, Brazil

Vicky Colbert

Founder & Director, Fundación Escuela Nueva, Colombia