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values-driven ‘swamiji school’ — the
Coimbatore-based C h i m a y a I n -
n
te rn a tio a l R e s ide n ti l S c h ool
n
a
retains its #2 rank for the third year
consecutively with the exceptional
p
A s s a m V a l l e y S c h ool , B a l i a ra
set within a 270-acre tea estate re-
taining its #3 rank of 2020-21 jointly
with L a w re n c e S c h ool , S a n a w a r
(#2 last year). The scenic P in e g rov e
S c h ool , D h a ra m p u r (Himachal
Pradesh) has retained its #4 ranking

followed by the S a h y a dri S c h ool ,
P u n e — another Krishnamurti Foun-
dation institution — at #5 (6) and e -
S
l a q u i I n te rn a tion a l , D e h ra du n
(estb.2000) promoted to the Top 5
table for the first time.
Selaqui’s Sharfuddin: dedication & innovation proof “I’m delighted that Selaqui Interna-
tional has been promoted to the Top
almost a century old. So we have never been a good health and safety man- 5 table. During the past few years, we
experienced the need to advertise to agement experience for our students have been investing heavily in teach-
solicit enrolments. Our reputation and has enhanced their idealism,” er training and development with 21
has grown over the years by word of says D r. A n a th a J y oth i, an English days of formal training per year man-
mouth through our parents’ commu- and linguistics alumna of IIT-Madras datory for all teachers. In addition,
nity and the continuous good work be- with several years of experience teach- online pedagogies were given impe-
ing done by the Chennai-based Krish- ing English to the English in the UK, tus during the past 16 months’ lock-
namurti Foundation which has kept who signed up as a teacher at RVS in down because of the Covid-19 pan-
Krishnamurti’s philosophy of educa- 1996 and was appointed principal of demic. As a result, I believe we have
tion alive. Although we were obliged India’s most venerated school in 2018. the best teachers in the country. I am
to shut down the school and teach on- The seating arrangement at top also pleased with our nearly top score
line from March-December 2020 be- table of the most respected co-ed under the parameter of ‘online edu-
cause of government-imposed Covid boarding schools remains the same cation effectiveness’. It’s proof of the
restrictions, we reopened on-campus as last year. Another indigenous dedication and innovation capabilities
classes for higher secondary class X- Pinegrove School promoter-principal A.J. Singh: top table regular
XII in January, and all students have
resumed full school since June while
maintaining strict Covid protocols.
“Meanwhile, we gainfully utilised
the lockdown period to document our
teaching-learning resources accumu-
lated over the decades for posterity,
while ensuring that our online lessons
remained well-connected with the real
world outside. To retain the maximum
human element in our online classes,
we received excellent support from
our parents’ community which will-
ingly collaborated with us to reduce
the load on our teachers. The other
upside of this testing period is that
we deepened our engagement with
our seven satellite schools and gov-
ernment rural health centres in the
neighbourhood. This pandemic has

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