Brilliant Minds Come Together - Global Edfest

'Global Educators Fest 2023'! #GoodSchoolsAlliance. Imagine, 743 brilliant minds came together in Jaipur to celebrate education. Quite the intellectual fiesta, we must say! Good Schools Alliance - exclusive Community Partner #GoodSchoolsAlliance #SGEF2023 #GlobalEdFest Good Schools Alliance Schools and program partners are in alliance for Lifelong Learning and exploring new interests at My Good School.

Igniting the Spark in Learners

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Lina Ashar did her primary schooling in England before moving to Australia, where she acquired her Bachelor’s degree in Education from Melbourne’s Victoria College. In 1991, Lina came to India on a year-long sabbatical from college, while connecting with her roots, she landed up taking a school job in suburban Mumbai, an experience which changed her life. Back then, the education system in India was still grappling with a straitjacketed approach to education, leaving no scope for the overall development of the child, which was a complete contrast to the milieu of what she had studied. Lina chose to stay back in India to change the antiquated approach to education which existed then. Her conviction to offer an education which sets the child as its centre led her to start her first preschool in Bandra (Mumbai) in the year 1993 with 25 students.

The journey from one Kangaroo Kids Preschool to a network of Kangaroo Kids Preschools and Billabong High International Schools across 29 different cities in India as well as in Dubai, Maldives and Qatar has been a phenomenal one. Lina’s unique approach, injection of potent solutions and radical processes to ensure that the quality of education is improved was instantaneously well received and noted. Lina has been promoting and practising ‘topic-based learning’ since 2002, something that the Indian media lauded the Finland education system for, very recently. Lina has been extremely passionate about creating a purpose of learning and allowing children to be thinkers, innovators, problem solvers and to orchestrate experiences that will result in their overall development.

With an intention to spark human greatness in every student, Lina was the first in the Indian education industry to introduce a learner-centric methodology and introduce innovative ways of learning by providing an integrated activity and theme-based learning. The industry has recognised and awarded Lina several times over for her unique and meaningful contributions to the sector, notable among them being:

• A leading woman in education at the Women Leaders in India Awards 2015 by iiglobal
• Nationwide winner of the Best K12 innovative curriculum by Franchise India 2015
• Alumni Excellence winner by Australian High Commission 2015
• Voted by over 500,00 people to the MTC Global Top 10 Thinkers’ – 2015 among more than 35 nominees from different walks of life whose work has a significant impact in their sector, as determined by the independent Board of Jury at MTC Global HQ.
• Lifetime Education Leadership Award by EduWorld 2014
• Key Speaker at the symposium of Indian Career Education and Development Council (ICEDC) 2014 at the American School of Bombay
• Panellist at The Economic Times Future of Learning Summit 2014
• Awarded Leading Women Entrepreneur Recognition at several fora between 2010 and 2014, including Times of India and iGlobal.

Lina dreams of a society in which every child enjoys the right to a joyful childhood and quality education. 

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Of Science & Innovative Digital Pedagogies

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Anantha Duraiappah took the position as inaugural Director of the UNESCO Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP) based in New Delhi, India in 2014. A science-policy pacesetter, with over 33 years’ experience, he now plays a key role in positioning UNESCO MGIEP as a leading research institute on education for peace, sustainable development and global citizenship.

Anantha received his PhD in economics specialising in mathematical and computational modelling from the University of Texas in Austin, USA. He has authored numerous peer-reviewed books and journal articles and presently sits on the editorial boards of a number of international peer-reviewed journals. He is a Fellow of the World Academy of Arts and Sciences (WAAS), a Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) and a visiting Professor at the University Of Tokyo, Japan.

In his previous post at the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP), he initiated and played a pivotal role in the establishment of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). He was the Co-Chair of the Biodiversity Synthesis Group of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment and founding director of the Inclusive Wealth Report released at the Rio+20 Summit in 2012.

Dr Duraiappah is presently focusing on strengthening the science-policy guide in Education by researching and exploring how the neurosciences of learning can contribute to developing emotional & intellectual intelligence through innovative digital pedagogies.

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When Excellence & Passion meet

His Excellency Shri V. P. Singh Badnore (born 12 May 1948) is the Governor of Punjab, India and Administrator, Union Territory of Chandigarh. He was a member of Rajya Sabha, elected on 17 June 2010. He was earlier a member of the 14th Lok Sabha and 13th Lok Sabha of India. He represented the Bhilwara constituency of Rajasthan.

He was chosen as the Member of Parliament from Bhilwara (Lok Sabha constituency) from tenure 1999-2009

Positions Held

: 1977-1980, 1985-1990, 1993-1998, 1998-1999 Member of Rajasthan Legislative Assembly
: 1988-1999 Cabinet Minister Irrigation, Government of Rajasthan.
: 1999-2004 Member Thirteen Loksabha
: 2004-2009 Member Fourteenth Loksabha
: 2010-2016 Member Rajya Sabha
: 1999-2000 Member Committee on Energy and Defense and Convener of its Sub-Committee on Action Taken Report 2001
: Convener, Sub-Committee on Electricity Bill, 2001
: Convener, Sub-Committee on Nuclear Energy 2001-2002
: Member, Joint Parliamentary Committee on Stock Market Scam 2001-2003
: Member, Consultative Committee for the Ministry of External Affairs Member
: National Advisory Committee
: NCC Member, Library Committee Member, National Tourism Board
2004-2009 Committee on Energy Member,
: National Tiger Conservation Authority July 2010
: Member, Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Environments and Forests May 2012 – Sept. 2014
: Member Committee on Petitions Aug. 2010 – Aug. 2011 and Aug. 2012 – May 2014
: National Advisory Committee on Tourism, 2002-2003
: National Committee on NCC
: Wild Life Preservation Board, Rajasthan for the last 20 Years
: Steering Committee, “Project Tiger”
Board of Governors, Mayo College Ajmer since 1985
: Collaboration Committee of Mayo College General Council; Vice President,
Bhartiya Janta Party, Rajasthan, 1989-1990 and 2001- 2010
: Mayoor School, Abu Dhabi since 2013
Founder Member and Executive Member, Indo British Parliamentary Forum;
2003-2004; Co-Chair of the Indo US Parliamentary Forum;
Worked in London(UK) in New Caxton Encyclopedia in 1970;
Worked in Escorts Ltd. (India) in the Management Cadre 1970-1977 and 1980-1981
Founder Member / Vice President
: Mayoor Abi Dhabi School, 2012-2013
: Mayoor Chopasni, Jodhpur, 2012-2013 and
: Mayoor School, Raipur, 2012-2013, 2015
: Jan. 2015 – Participated UNFPA-IAPPD Conference at Bangkok
: Sept. 2015 – To attend Climate Change and Renewable Energy Conference of Parliamentarians at London, UK
: Oct 2015 – Leader of 5 Members MP’s Delegation to Japan for furthering bilateral relationship sponsored by Sasakawa Peace Foundation, Japan
: On August 22, 2016 – Took over as the Governor of Punjab and Administrator of UT Chandigarh

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The Power Of Edtech

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Director, Extramarks Education India Pvt. Ltd. and CEO, Extramarks Education Foundation, Ms. Poonam Singh Jamwal strongly believes that EdTech innovation can help imbibe pedagogical principals and good practices universally. Technology platforms help tap each learners’ unique potential, cater quality at scale, measure outcome and sustain the quality and individual uniqueness paradigm. A leader with a vision and drive, she has been pivotal in the success of Extramarks.

This energy packed strategist has taken Extramarks Education Digital Solutions-K-12 Curriculum based 2D, 3D, VR, AI-based modules, assessments, and platforms, to enhance and energise the learning space in the school and beyond school. The latest innovation which taking the education world by storm is a digital learning ecosystem – Total Learning, a One-App-One-Solution for all learning requirements. There is a seamless continuation of learning from School to Home connecting all stakeholders on a single platform.

Spearheading the learner journey from foundation years to Career, she also leads Career Counselling Cell and the Competitive Exam Prep (IIT JEE/NEET) vertical through 40 offices pan India and online packages. Today over 9000+ schools, 1 lakh teachers and 9 million+ students benefit from Extramarks Solutions across all K-12 national and international curricula.

With her strong belief that quality education is the right of every child, she drives Extramarks Education Foundation to take Ed-Tech solutions to the unprivileged learner and making him future ready. With this gumption to bring equity in quality education and take the Ed-Tech solutions to the remotest corner, the recent CSR projects, have reached out to 45,000 + girl students, 1500+ teachers, 130+ schools, 11 states with 12 corporate partners.

She leverages her two decades of rich corporate experience to connect like-minded people and organizations towards creating quality education access for all.

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A Chevening Scholar and alumnus of University of Bradford, Poonam holds a Masters in Business Administration (MBA), Masters in Education (MA) and PG Journalism. Business Strategist, Youth Marketing Expert, Disrupter, Speaker, Writer, Trainer, Painter.
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Giving back to the society

Mr. Matthew Raggett is a British educator who is the incumbent Headmaster of The Doon School.

Mr. Raggett, who has had an extensive career in international education, was the Principal of the Secondary School of Leipzig International School in Germany prior to joining The Doon School. In Leipzig, Mr. Raggett administered the senior school and taught in the IB programme.

He grew up in the South West of England and studied Maths and Theoretical Physics at the University of Newcastle. As well as professional teaching qualifications, he has an MBA in Educational Leadership from Charles Sturt University in Australia. As he has a true sense of vocation, Mr. Raggett chose a career in teaching because he believed it was in education that he could make his greatest contribution to society and find the most rewarding work.

He taught Physics in the United Kingdom before moving to the Vienna International School as Head of Physics in 1998; he continued to teach Physics in subsequent positions. He has boarding experience in a number of the schools in which he taught, including Pearson United World College in Canada; United World College in Singapore; and King’s College, Madrid, where he was head of the boarding section.

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He has invaluable experience in strategic planning and educational policy-making and implementation in a variety of international settings.

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The Power Of Plan

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Where would you go out to play, if every park in the city would throw you, and your friends out – on the reason that playing in a playground, will ruin the grass. To the 16-year-old Chirag, that didn’t fit well, and somehow under the influence of the internet, he started a campaign on Facebook, reached out to his other friends, and started a community playground development project. By working with their hands and converting a wasteland in their residency – a bunch of kids ended up changing the rules of play – and got featured into a daily local – sharing the story, how Chirag started a Football academy for over 50 players in the city and running it for free.

The passion only grew, when he decided to drop out of the Chartered Accountancy program and shift to Bangalore to study Psychology. Only a few months in Bangalore, and having missed working with the kids, he joined a Youth Football Academy as a Coach and picked up bringing play to kids as young as 4-year-old. His next Eureka moment came. when he realised that the immersion while playing increased for kids when he started to address cones as trees. He kept his experiments running, and soon, when the other discourses in his University challenged his way of thinking, he did the next big thing. For a mere proof of concept, he cycled all the way from Bangalore to Jaipur, a journey of 2300kms in 11 days. This was followed by another epic, where he ended up cycling from Jaipur – West to East India – Bhutan – Myanmar – Thailand – Cambodia – Laos – Vietnam, around 13000kms in 8 months, alone, by crossing all land borders. The journey concluded as a researched understanding learning patterns across cultures and later translated into designing and facilitating noncompetitive sports and play sessions for a Kindergarten in Bangalore. Luckily, in 2017, he was back in Jaipur, and this time got summoned by Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, to head Rajasthan in a program called Mission 11 Million, in collaboration with FIFA, to host FIFA U17 WorldCup in India, and bring the joy of Football to 11 Million kids around the country.

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Currently, Chirag Singal runs a project called “Giraffe Uncle”, which gets kids to have more efficient time playing outdoors, in a non-competitive, inclusive, and emerging design. He has been invited to TEDx, IIM A, NITs, BITS, numerous schools, and colleges to share his story and insights for the work, and promotes his stand for the practices we bring to the playground for our toddlers.

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Tiny Steps for Big Changes

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Dr Swati Popat Vats is the founder President of Early Childhood Association India, an association that works for quality care and education of our youngest citizens (0 to 6 years). Dr Vats is President of Podar Education Network and she leads over 290 preschools and Daycares as founder Director of Podar Jumbo Kids. She is also the National representative for the World Forum Foundation.

She is Nursery Director of Little Wonders Nursery (UAE) that has branches in Jumeirah and Sharjah.  She has received many accolades and awards for her contribution to Early Childhood Education and has been conferred the Fellowship of Honor from the New Zealand Tertiary College. She was the founder consultant for the Euro Kids preschool project in India and helped set up TATASKY’s children’s television activity channel- ACTIVE WHIZKIDS. She is the founder expert on the world’s first video-based parenting website www.born-smart.com that helps parents understand and nurture brain development in the first 1000 days.

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Swati has authored many books for parents and children and is a strong advocate of nature-based learning in the early years and promotes brain research-based teaching and parenting in her workshops across the globe. Swati tweets and blogs on education and parenting and can be followed on @swatipopat or www.kiducationswatipvats.blogspot.in

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Educators for Excellence

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Dr Jagpreet Singh, Headmaster of The Punjab Public School, Nabha did his schooling and college from Ajmer. He is a Post Graduate in History and M.Ed. and Doctorate (Doctor of Literature). Dr Singh possesses 30 years of rich Administrative experience in the field of Education. He has been awarded the Best Teacher in the year 2001 by the Chief Justice of Rajasthan. He was also awarded the Best Teacher in September 2003 by the Lions Club, Ajmer and Eminent Educationist Award by International Institute of Education & Management, Delhi in 2011. In 2013, The International Institute of Education & Management, New Delhi has conferred the most coveted Rajiv Gandhi Education Excellence Award, for his achievements in the field of Education. Dr Singh has been awarded the Jury of the Derozio Award for Education and Human Enrichment by the Council of the Indian School Certificate Examination in January 2014.

He was awarded the “Best Principal Performance Award” awarded by Global Achievers Foundation in June 2014 and also Asia Pacific Achievers Award awarded by Indian Solidarity Council in June 2014 in an award ceremony held at Tashkent – Uzbekistan, Russia. He has been awarded International Gold Star Millennium Award by Global Achievers Foundation awarded by Mr Korn Dabbaransi, Former Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand at Bangkok in February 2015. He has also been awarded the Bharat Vibhushan Samman Puraskar awarded by Global Achievers Foundation for his outstanding individual achievement & distinguished services to the nation on the occasion of National Seminar held in 2015 at Dehradun (Uttarakhand). Recently he has been awarded the Best Personalities of India Award by Friendship Forum, New Delhi.

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Before joining this institution he was Vice Principal, Mayo College, Ajmer. His association with Mayo College, Ajmer has been since 1989 onwards till March 2011. He started his career as a teacher in 1986.
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Leadership for a world that deserves quality education

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Former Chairman, National Progressive Schools’ Conference (NPSC) | Advisor, Lung Care Foundation, Delhi | Chairman, Council for Global Citizenship

Mr Ashok Pandey is working in the School sector for the past three decades. He did Masters in Physics from Allahabad University and Consultancy Management from BITS, Pilani. He served as Chairman, National Progressive Schools’ Conference (NPSC) (2015-17). Author of several articles, projects and research papers, his educational travelogue- The Pedagogical Life-Essays in Educating India, was published in 2017.  He also edited: A design framework for future schools- a collection of essays by school teachers) in 2018. His next book Launch your Principal Leadership is under publication.

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Recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award by Ferguson Humanitarian Foundation International, Inc.,(USA), Advaith Foundation Leadership Award, and President’s Award’ for his contribution in education, Mr Pandey has a keen interest in quality education premised on virtues of character and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). He is actively engaged in inter-faith dialogue and peacebuilding. He is an active partner to the UN’s #Act4SDGs campaign and #TeachSDGs Ambassador.  He has led educational leaders delegation to Malta, USA, UK and Australia.
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Believe in the power of technology

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Mr Arunabh Singh is a committed School Principal, Educationist, Innovator and promotor of Nehru World School, Ghaziabad. An Alumnus of Kings College London and Hindu College, Delhi University, He has been awarded “Innovation in Progress” Fellowships for two consecutive years at World Round Table Conference for Educational Leadership and “Global Teacher Accreditation” award from Cambridge Foundation for his Action Research on Continuing Professional Development of Teachers.

Mr Singh is  Co-chair of FICCI ARISE for UP and a British Council School Ambassador. Alongside he is associated with other International Organisations such as Goethe Institute, Tony Blair Faith Foundation and CBSE. He frequently participates in TV debates and speaks on various national and international forums across the globe on topics primarily concerning education and progressive learning.

Along with his passion in the field of PK-12 education space he also a visiting faculty at the CBI Academy where he has trained officers from Central Bureau of Investigation, National Investigation Agency, Narcotics Control Bureau and Police forces to name a few.

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Passionate about innovation, technology, entrepreneurship and igniting young minds, he is a proponent of distributed leadership model and firmly believes “Technology may not replace teachers, but teachers who use technology effectively will replace those, who don’t.”

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Craig Alan Johnson: Quest For Excellence

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Craig has spent 40% of his life in India. He attended a Boarding School in Panchgani (a small hill station south of Pune) for 12 years and since 2010 has been back in India serving as the Head of the American School of Bombay (ASB).

Prior to returning to India, Craig, his wife, and his three sons were in Brazil where Craig served as the Principal and then the Headmaster of two different International schools. In his capacity as the Head of the School, at ASB, Craig endeavours to stay engaged with his students and faculty by teaching classes, coaching sports’ teams, and leading professional learning communities.

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A regular presenter and workshop facilitator, around the world, on a variety of Leadership and Educational topics. Mr Johnson is a passionate advocate for Innovation and Relevancy Education and also the author of numerous articles on a variety of subjects, a screenplay set in Mumbai soon to be made into a movie, and has published a novel titled, Wave Watcher.
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The world is brighter when you're beaming!

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Amrita Burman

A passionate educator who believes that it is only through education that India’s destiny can change, Mrs Amrita Burman, Deputy Director, Sunbeam Group of Educational Institutions has been associated with Sunbeam for well over 22 years now. With a masters in Management degree and a passion for education, Mrs Burman has also undergone a course in education from Harvard Graduate School of Education.

She has been a pivot around whom the Sunbeam precept has been built and closely monitors the unpacking of the Precept across 24 Sunbeam Schools. She takes an active interest in training teachers on how to deliver the Sunbeam Precept and loves interacting with parents and kids alike to get feedback on how to improve the Sunbeam delivery system.

She has travelled widely both in India and abroad and is in complete sync with happenings in the field of education all around. She presented a paper in ‘India & Career skills in Turkey’. She was also part of an educational delegation to understand school delivery systems of Singapore, Italy, Finland and other countries. She has facilitated several conferences and seminars of repute in India and abroad including taking up sessions during the Sahodaya National Conference and during the Mentor Conclave just to name a few and has also edited a complete English series for Pearson Longman – the world’s largest publisher.

She is also a part of the AFS Think Tank besides being Head of Round Square of Sunbeam School. She was part of the FICCI delegation which visited London in February 2019 to attend Learnit and will be attending the Microsoft World Educators’ Conference E2 in Paris in the first week of April.

She has headed the Sunbeam Schools to varied achievements, being ranked by Education World as No 1. Schools in India on various parameters on various occasions and Sunbeam Schools being recognized as one of the Future Ready Schools of India for two consecutive years just to name a few.

She believes in holistic development in students and is herself an avid reader, a music lover, a keen badminton player and an excellent orator.

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She has been acknowledged and awarded by several organizations but Sunbeam students winning accolades all over is what gives her the most happiness.

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