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huge unexpected honour. School-Hyderabad, Indus
I dedicate it to my team of Early Years) and promoter
teachers who despite be- of the K-12 CBSE and Cam-
ing very stressed — two bridge International (UK)-
of them succumbed to the affiliated Suchi t ra Acad -
Covid virus —responded e m y, H yde rab ad (SA,
magnificently to the chal- estb.2010), sited on a green
lenge of maintaining our 10-acre campus, is also “hon-
children’s learning conti- oured, humbled and delight-
nuity. Together with our ed” that well-informed EW
11-strong edtech and soft- sample respondents have
ware support team which promoted SA from a modest
devised an excellent LMS #27 in 2020-21 to #15 this
(learning management year nationally and #4 in
system) in record time, Telangana (pop.40 million).
they implemented a robust “The highly credible annual
digital literacy curriculum EWISR surveys are strong
for all our students. I be- motivation for institutional
lieve the quality of care and improvement and conduct-
attention our empathetic ing SWOT (strengths, weak-
teachers, fully supported nesses, opportunities and
by the parents’ commu- threat) analyses. They serve
nity, provided to students a very useful nation building
is the prime factor behind Dr. Meera Isaacs: rightful position purpose,” says Raju.
HXLS being awarded #1 Raju unequivocally attri-
rank this year,” says M an i t J ai n , an acclaimed writer Salman Rushdie, butes the great leap forward of SA in
alum of the Harvard School of Educa- also credits the school’s teachers for public esteem to the school manage-
tion and promoter-director of H X L S restoring CJCS to its “rightful posi- ment’s commitment to holistic “mind,
(estb.2003) which has 3,467 students tion” as Maharashtra’s most admired body and soul” education that it deliv-
mentored by 352 teachers. co-ed day school. ers to its 1,600 students, including 736
Quality of teachers apart, Jain attri- “The national lockdown of all girl children mentored by 150 inten-
butes the school’s excellent reputation schools countrywide was declared on sively trained teachers.
to “constant change and adaptation of March 13, 2020, a Thursday. Working “In SA, we firmly believe that de-
content and curriculum” in step with furiously with our IT support team of veloping these three intelligences of
changing times. “This, combined with six professionals advised by TataEdge children is equally important. In aca-
our institutional culture of continuous over the weekend, our teachers began demics, we accord great emphasis to
teacher training and development, is online classes on Monday. Since then, projects-based and ESL (emotional
the open secret of our success,” says we have become a fully wired school and social learning), and sports to
Jain. HXLS apart, the Heritage Group delivering contemporary hybrid edu- ensure our children’s physical fitness
comprises five schools in Delhi NCR — cation to our 1,917 students mentored and love of life,” adds Raju. Proof of
all respectably ranked in the annual by 186 teachers. The dedication of our his commitment to sports education is
EWISR — with an aggregate enrol- eager-to-upgrade teachers, our proac- the Suchitra Badminton Academy sit-
ment of 7,000 children mentored by tive students and supportive parents ed (SBA) on the SA campus equipped
780 teachers. are the prime factors behind the high with seven state-of-the-art courts,
Jain isn’t the only education leader scores that CJCS has received under on which 17 highly-qualified coaches
to give credit to teachers for keep- all parameters in your latest survey,” mentor 140 children. And it’s no small
ing their school’s flag flying during says Isaacs, an alumna of Mumbai achievement that India’s darling, two-
the unprecedented 60-week Covid and Pune universities who during her time Olympic medalist and world bad-
pandemic lockdown of all education four decades-plus career in CJCS was minton champion 2019, P.V. Sindhu
institutions countrywide — the lon- appointed principal of this highly re- trains at SBA.
gest of any country worldwide. Dr. puted school in 1996. Other schools in the Top 20 table
M e e ra I s aacs , director of the vin- Down south, former ICT (informa- which have risen in the public esteem
tage C at he dral & J o hn C o n n o n tion communication technologies) in the pandemic year are T he H e ri -
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Scho o l , M um b ai whose alumni in- entrepreneur rav e e n R aj u (co-pro- t ag e Scho o l , K o l k at a which retains
clude industry leader Ratan Tata and moter, Elansoft, Indus International its #12 national rank and #1 in West

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