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tude and team-work was launched appointed Co-Chair of the South and Digital Literacy. These pro-
in government schools of Kangra Asian Special Interest Group (SIG) grammes have been integrated into
and Hamirpur districts of Himachal of the Pittsburgh (USA)-based the government school system to
Pradesh. The camp is the outcome Comparative & International make sustainable impact. Over the
of a five-year partnership agree- Education Society (CIES). past 15 years, our interventions have
ment signed by Piramal Foundation Direct talk. “Education is not only prompted discernible behavioural
with the Himachal government last about developing reading, writing, change among middle managers and
December (2024). Under terms of and numeracy skills. It should nur- teachers, and improved children’s
the agreement, PSL offers its SEE ture a passion for lifelong learning critical thinking, creativity, compas-
(social, emotional and ethical) Learn- and capability to grow and evolve. sion and life-long learning capabili-
ing program to develop children’s life Therefore, our goal is to transform ties,” says Jayaram
and leadership skills. public school systems by providing Future plans. To date, the PSL team
History. A postgrad in art his- 21st century education to children has engaged with over 100,000
tory from the Maharaja Sayajirao to prepare them to become future- government schools countrywide in
University, Vadodara, Jayaram’s ready; to empower teachers with Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh,
professional career trajectory began leadership skills and personal trans- Jharkhand, Odisha, Jammu & Kash-
in 2001 with a seven-year stint with formation programs to benefit chil- mir, Ladakh, and Rajasthan. “We
Pratham Gujarat, a non-profit where dren. Moreover, our Organisation plan to implement our programmes
she led a team engaged in teaching Development of Government Institu- in every state of India, through col-
civic management and developing tions program is designed to trans- laboration with state governments to
school curriculums. In 2009, she form institutional cultures. To this improve teaching-learning stan-
signed up with the Kaivalya Educa- end, we have developed seven high dards in government schools, which
tion Foundation as program manager potential programmes — the SEE are most in need of contemporary
where she served for two years before programme; Project-based Learning; pedagogies and holistic development
signing up with the Piramal Founda- Aesthetic Literacy; Physical Literacy; programmes,” says this committed
tion in 2011. School to Work; Compassionate education evangelist.
Last May (2024), Jayaram was Gender-transformative Education, Paromita Sengupta (Bengaluru)

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