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Video grab of award-winning teachers with Buckingham University’s David Longfield
             dation, Delhi; Prof. Geeta Gandhi Kingdon, professor,   partner initiatives. Thus
             University College, London; and Vikas Pota, founder, T4   we discover and felicitate
             Education, UK, announced TPO 2020 winners in 16 sub-  outstanding  teachers  in
             jects.                                            India  and  abroad,  and
                Moreover Summiya Yasmeen, co-founder and man-  through  them,  celebrate
             aging editor of EducationWorld, announced the Top 10   the profession. Moreover,
             schools/organisations with the largest number of winners.   schools  with  the  largest
             Centa TPO 2020, which in effect awarded and celebrated   number  of  teachers  in
             the country’s best teachers, was supported by the Reliance   the Top 1,000 are also ac-
             Foundation,  EducationWorld,  Oxford  University  Press,   knowledged and awarded
             University of Buckingham, Tech Mahindra, Central Square   for their teacher recruit-
             Foundation, T4 Education and Lenovo.              ment,  training  and  de-
                “Centa  was  promoted  seven  years  ago  to  transform   velopment  capabilities,”
             teaching  into  an  aspirational  profession  by  testing  and   explains Ramya Venka-
             certifying teachers’ competencies to support their profes-  traman, founder-CEO of
             sional development and career progression. Simultaneous-  Centa, the country’s sole,  Ramya Venkatraman
             ly, Centa enables schools and organisations to distinguish   independent teacher test-
             themselves based on the quality of their teachers. One of   ing and certification company which has acquired an inter-
             our flagship initiatives is the annual Centa TPO — launched   national reputation for rigorous teacher evaluation and de-
             in 2015 — which rigorously tests teachers competencies in   velopment within a mere seven years since it was promoted.
             a competitive international Olympiad, available in 16 sub-  A highly qualified alumna of IIT-Delhi and IIM-Calcutta
             jects. . Teachers who score beyond the minimum threshold   and formerly with the blue-chip transnational consultancy
             — approximately 2,000 this year — are awarded badges   firm McKinsey & Co for 15 years including five as education
             and become Centa certified teachers. The Top 1,000 are   practice leader, Venkatraman resigned from McKinsey in
             awarded ranks and certificates with the Top 200 also re-  2014 to launch Centa to improve the quality of teachers by
             ceiving cash prizes ranging from Rs.5,000-100,000 under   “inspiring and incentivising this community to learn con-
             the  Reliance  Foundation  Teacher  Awards  among  other   tinuously”.

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