Thursday, September 18, 2014

And the shopping begins!!

The first item was bought out of the donation amount: A rocking, abundant black board!

Thanks to all the donors, till now. And the Giant's Group of Kalyan Metro for helping route the finances.

Expense details, receipts to be uploaded to the website on the weekend.


Monday, September 8, 2014

Time to focus on the next step

Was down with a very bad viral the entire week. Called up Sulbha madam for some quick action items:

- Share wesbite details with Chavhan sir - Vijayraj. done
- Initiate purchase for 2 blackboards - Sulbha Madam.
- Put in order for bench repairs. Finalize timelines - Sulbha Madam.
- Implement the homework tracking process by Sep 9 - Sulbha Madam

With the funding process starting to reach the 'expense' point, its time to start consciously focusing on phase 2: operational improvements. Going beyond the homework tracking process.

Will be discussing with Vinod and Anis and a few other Deloitte folks for next steps, activities we can do with the kids. I think we need to start a serious discussion soon on:
- Teaching methodologies with low resources
- Teacher training programs
- Attendance/engagement improvement
- Effective progressive evaluation minus the pressure
- Leveraging the good student/teacher ratio optimally

Have gotten in touch with Nirali Vashisht, an amazingly inspiring teacher from the TFI organisation. Turns out she is ex-Deloitte! Hopefully she responds and we have a fruitful conversation.