15‐17
September 2025

27‐30
November 2025

Ed Leadership Roundtable

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CMS LDA Campus, Lucknow

Event Overview

The 15th Ed Leadership Roundtable, hosted at City Montessori School (CMS), Lucknow, from 15–17 September 2025, launches the PATH Movement for Transforming Education.

This national-level event brings together school heads, policymakers, and education innovators to experience and commit to the ALfA PATH model—a revolutionary, research-based framework for Purposeful, Active, Transformative, and Holistic learning.

Powering Transformation

Foundations To Flight

Spotlight on Research
Largest FLN & ECCE Fair

Join Us in Pioneering Change

With SDG4 deadlines looming, quality education remains out of reach without first solving Foundational Literacy & Numeracy (FLN) and Early Childhood Care & Education (ECCE). We need an inclusive, evidence-based pedagogy‐scalable, holistic, climate-conscious, and ready to integrate into 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.

Dr. 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

eminent guests

Transform Education with ALfA

Be a part of global learning lab

This Global Learning Lab is about action, not just ideas. Discover ALfA – Accelerating Learning for All, a game changing pedagogy backed by unmatched evidence and rapid adoption. Join the movement redefining quality education, where 21^st century skills come built-in. Leave ready to transform learning for every child, faster, better, for all.

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.

Start your 45 day FLN Research Implementation

ALfA enables children under 10 to master reading, writing, and arithmetic up to 10x faster. Governments are invited to begin a 45-day research implementation to transform foundational learning.

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.

program structure

	15 September Day 1	16 September Day 2	17 September Day 3
8:00AM - 9:00AM	Breakfast & Registration
9:00AM - 1:00PM	Lighting the lamp Panel l: Why PATH? Why Now Live classroom demonstration Panel 2: ALfA, A New PATH for Learning	ALfA 30 minute challenge Parent's Plenary: the ALfA difference Hands-on ALfA training Panel 4: International guests via video conference	Dance performance Panel 6: 4C 21st Century Skills through PATH Launch: Lumina Terra School Panel 7: Early Foundations, Lasting Gains
1:00PM -2:00PM	Lunch
2:00PM - 3:00PM	Breakout rooms (see overleaf)		Closing session: Awards & certificates Feedback & action points
3:00PM - 4:00PM	Panel 3: Literacy, The World's Best Investment	Panel 5: Five Pillars of ALfA
4:00PM - 6:00PM	Networking/ Exploring displays/ Rest		Departure
6:00PM - 8:00PM	Group Dance followed by dinner	Dinner & Karaoke by the pool	Departure

18 Septemberoptional

Classroom visits to different CMS campuses
Visit to Ayodhya OR Lucknow Sightseeing / Shopping

Catering Notes

Lunch will be held in the basement directly under the auditorium. Lunch is provided for all participants
Morning tea will be served in the hall at 11 am and afternoon tea at 4PM.
Breakfast and dinner will be served in the CISV guesthouse dining hall. Breakfast and dinner are only provided for guests staying on campus.
Please bring your own water bottle every day to avoid use of disposable cups

Participant Takeaways

By attending this roundtable, participants will:

Observe ALfA PATH live classrooms
Learn directly from teachers and principals implementing the model
Understand the ALfA PATH Implementation Framework in full
Network with national and international education leaders
Access PATH resources including rubrics, posters, and visual materials
Receive implementation support through GETI
Get eligibility to sign an MoU and begin implementation at their schools

MoU & Implementation Pathway

Participating schools can sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with GETI to begin their ALfA PATH journey.

This allows early training for teachers, customized mentoring, and inclusion in the PATH Educator Network. Schools may also brand their participation on websites and brochures.

Each school may bring 2-3 key staff members to the conference for immersion and onboarding.

Explore Lucknow: Cultural & Heritage Highlights

Extend your learning experience by exploring the cultural richness of Lucknow, home of Nawabi elegance, world-famous cuisine, and Indo-Islamic heritage. Suggested places include:

Bara Imambara & Bhul Bhulaiyaa

Rumi Darwaza

British Residency

Hazratganj Market

Janeshwar Mishra Park

Ambedkar Memorial Park

MUST-TRY EATS : Tunday Kababi, Royal Café (basket chaat), Idris ki Biryani, Prakash Kulfi, and traditional sweets from Ram Asrey.

CULTURAL TOUCHES : Kathak dance & Urdu poetry events, Chikankari embroidery shopping, Mini heritage walks in Old Lucknow

SUGGESTED EXPERIENCES : Morning: Bara Imambara + Rumi Darwaza + Residency, Afternoon: Food trail in Chowk and Hazratganj, Evening: Sunset at Ambedkar Park or Gomti Riverfront, Optional: Chikankari shopping or local shows

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Room	Theme
Room 10 2nd floor	Technology with purpose: impactful innovation Smart integration of edtech to truly enhance learning.
Room 11 3rd floor	Partnerships with Parents Making parents allies in the learning journey.
Shoji Shibha Hall basement	Assessments with a difference ALfA transforms tests to be fun and fruitful instead of stressful and competitive
Donal Dewar Hall Basement	5 Pillars of ALfA Preparation, Random Pairing, 4 step process of learning, Collective Feedback, GROW Circle
David Hutchins Hall Basement	Socio-emotional & mental wellbeing for students through ALfA PATH Joyful education that builds good citizens
Ataturk Hall Basement	4 Literacy Goals Oral Fluency, Reading with Fluency, Reading with Comprehension, Writing
Deming Hall Basement	5 Numeracy Goals Number Sense, Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division
Main auditorium	4C 21st century skills & traits through ALfA PATH Beyond academics: shaping values, resilience, and responsibility.

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

Rebuilding cover — 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.

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.”

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.”