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Cheerful delegates with ELR 2024 participation certificates

schools, the Masterclasses have been designed to ensure
that delegates learn, upskill and return to their institutions
with valuable, practical strategies to develop their schools
into globally benchmarked K-12 institutions,” said Shah,
welcoming delegates to the inaugural ELR 2024, convened
on the scenic twin campuses of Pinegrove School in Him-
achal Pradesh.
“The Masterclasses were led by three principals with
outstanding leadership capabilities and the other two by
former government policy formulators with wide experi-
ence in India and abroad. This three-day retreat provides an
ideal forum for school leaders to learn from knowledgeable
practitioners and to network with peers to share experi-
ences and best practices,” said BSAI president Dr. Sumer
Singh, also former headmaster of the top-ranked The Daly Pinegrove School, Solan musical entertainment programme
College, Indore and Lawrence School, Sanawar, in his wel-
come address. World India School Rankings 2023-24, Pinegrove is ranked
Edunext Technologies Pvt. Ltd, Noida and BenQ India’s #1 co-ed boarding school. Following a conducted
India Pvt. Ltd, Gurgaon were corporate partners for the campus tour of Pinegrove School, Day 1 of the retreat con-
inaugural EW-BSAI leadership retreat. cluded with a Musical Evening staged by Pinegrove stu-
In the pages following, we present an abridged report dents and a banquet hosted by Dr. A.J. Singh, Executive
of ELR 2024. Director of Pinegrove School and Vice President, BSAI.
MAY 9. School leaders from 16 states flew into Chandigarh MAY 10. Following a Sunrise Yoga class conducted by certi-
and drove to the venue — the wholly residential co-ed Pine- fied yoga trainer Tarun Thakur, Dr. Sumer Singh delivered
grove School, Dharampur, sited on two campuses aggregat- a 20-minute keynote address titled ‘Student Leadership:
ing 50 acres in Solan, Himachal Pradesh. In the Education- Education for Life’.

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