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The Foundation aims to contribute to large scale systemic change at macro level through deeper understanding of the micro level.

We believe that Teacher and Education Administrator are at the core of this systemic change and we must help them develop a vision for education, build their capability to deliver that vision and create a motivating environment in which they can deliver it.

As per our current understanding, the critical factors which impact the vision, capability and motivation of the teacher and education administrator are:

i) Curriculum

Curriculum, in this definition, includes what is worth learning; how it can be taught keeping in mind the psychology, the theory and practice of learning; and how does one know that learning is indeed taking place. If a typical teacher and education administrator believes that what is worth learning is memorizing whole lot of ‘facts’, then that is what gets taught and learnt. Therefore, we need to help teachers and education administrators to understand what is good education and impact their vision of good education.


ii) Public Examinations

Public examinations at various grades and professional examinations can by themselves give strong signals to the teachers and education administrators on what is worth learning. Currently typical public examinations are more focused to test merely rote learning – and therefore give wrong signals.


iii) Teacher Preparation and Support

Best of our young people do not opt for teaching, and those who join we do not prepare them well for their profession. Moreover, the quality of on-going academic support to teacher is also very poor. Therefore, capability of a typical teacher to deliver on the vision of good education is doubtful.


iv) Management of education system

Government managed education systems, typically, do not create a motivating environment for teachers and education administrators to perform at their best.

Similar to teachers, education administrators also need capability building to provide management leadership to the education system.


v) Technology as enhancer and enabler

Technology, especially ICT, can help create learning experiences which otherwise are not possible, facilitate reaching out to large numbers, and help enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of education system. Thus technology can help: teacher deliver better learning in the classroom, in reaching out to large number of teachers and education administrators for building their capability, and in management information and decision support system for the education system.

While all the above factors are necessary for sustained systemic change, they are not sufficient in isolation. There is a need to work on all the above areas together for systemic change.

Our approach therefore is to:

• Experiment to enhance our understanding of each of the five critical factors for systemic change.
• Design and implement large scale interventions (for example, whole district) to demonstrate how systemic change can be brought about.
• Advocate to enable change at the macro level
• Build partnerships with other organizations to accelerate the progress towards our vision.
• Continuously build capability of the Foundation and its members.

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