In this article, we hear from Sonali Khan (Managing Director, Sesame Workshop India) on key experiences and learnings from their work. She talks about their ‘Chalo! Sesame Street’ application, aimed at improving FLN for young children and shares insights into their journey, opportunities and challenges in the EdTech domain, with a special focus on partnerships for scaling impact.
Founded in 2020, Top Parent (TP) aims to address educational gaps among young children by providing essential resources for learning. Collaborating with Dr. Ryan Baker from the University of Pennsylvania, the application uses data analytics to refine content and track student progress, enhancing learning outcomes. This article presents interesting insights from Dr. Baker’s analysis of TP’s student performance data.
In today's rapidly evolving educational landscape, the role of effective Teaching and Learning Materials (TLM) has become more crucial than ever. Materials, such as beads or number cards, are not…
Districts serve as crucial drivers of NIPUN Mission reforms, spearheading change within the education system at the grassroots level. This article highlights how District Project Management Units (DPMUs) are fostering successful implementation of the NIPUN Bharat Mission, with examples from Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh and Telangana.
Ghaziabad has been working in mission mode under NIPUN to ensure that all children from Balvatikas to Grade 3 in the district build critical literacy and numeracy skills. Our team met Basic Shiksha Adhikari - Ghaziabad, Shri Om Prakash Yadav ji to understand his views on the Mission, the role he sees himself playing in it and his priorities for this new academic year.
Odisha’s commitment to improving foundational learning outcomes across the state have effectively stuck out through their work in the past few years. This article places a spotlight on governance mechanisms and key initiatives to drive FLN implementation and calls out key enablers, including monitoring, training and salience building, to drive FLN adoption at different levels in the state.
The Department of School Education, Government of Telangana, launched a comprehensive FLN mission on 15 August 2022, with the aim of ensuring that all primary school children (Grade 1-5) in government schools across the state achieve foundational literacy and numeracy skills. The launch of the FLN programme is significant as this was based on the "felt need" of the state. This article explores Telangana's FLN reform journey so far through CSF’s role as a catalytic partner and the insights gained through this collaborative effort.
India has nearly 80 million children in the age group of 3-6 years. Decades of multi-disciplinary research have firmly established the long-term positive effects of investing in high-quality ECE programmes…
In an interview with CSF, Richie Pandey (District Magistrate, Jehanabad, Bihar) shares key highlights of the FLN mission in the state, with a special emphasis on its implementation at the…
Central Square Foundation and Centre for Social and Behaviour Change at Ashoka University collaborated to develop and empirically test behavior change interventions to increase parental engagement on FLN in two…