Education Leader Series | Ananya Tiwari, Co-Founder- SwaTaleem Foundation
Ananya studied Chemistry, Neuroscience, and Liberal Arts before switching to Education. She has been a teacher in rural schools, opened a school in a village, designed and implemented, and evaluated at-scale interventions. She is driven by interdisciplinary educational approaches aimed to reduce social inequalities. She is the Co-founder of SwaTaleem Foundation.
SwaTaleem believes in the power of collaboration and bottom-up approach towards solving a social problem, where community drives its own learning trajectory on a certain set of areas it wants expertise on. It works with existing platforms, instead of creating parallel structures and move towards long term systemic integration. It works with Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya (KGBVs) which is a chain of schools across India and work with teachers, school wardens, local leaders, and government officials.
It integrates elements like Resilience, Growth Mindset, Problem Solving etc. by seeking insights from Educational Psychology as these have been proven to be effective in achieving cognitive, social and emotional change. The emphasis on stakeholders driving their own learning trajectory and it is playing the role of facilitators to bring sustainability to its program, rather than creating dependency in the long run. It aims to bring this at the system level eventually connecting all KGBVs across the country so that the best practices can be shared and expanded to other possible geographies.
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