INFUSING THE SPIRIT OF LEARNING IN SCHOOLS Report An approach that helps make schools a joyful learning space by enabling students and teachers to think and express freely. Anandshala enhances the language abilities and ownership towards schooling by building stronger relationships between students, teachers and parents. It uses data as an important tool to create a more responsive education system and drive advocacy. Stay. Engage. Learn Infusing the Spirit of Learning in Schools Infusing the Spirit of Learning in Schools was an We raised online campaign we ran last August, to raise funds for transforming schools in the Samastipur District of ` Bihar so that children can learn through self-expression, 476,645 thereby reducing the rate of dropout and absenteeism. The key idea was to provide a safe space for children and worked with where they feel free to express themselves and explore new creative ideas. The focus of Anandshala is to offer 100 schools opportunities for students to increase their self-esteem and interest in school. Designed activities Improved aendance making learning and performance fun and engaging levels of students Enabled teachers Made parents and headmasters active participants to understand in the children’s students proactively learning process Stay. Engage. Learn Our Achievements Indian Cricketer Irfan Pathan congratulating the ‘Superhero’ Preethi Kiran Bir Sethi, Founder of Design for Change congratulates and Mr. Dharmendra at the I CAN Awards. the students and teachers of RMS Mohanpur for being the change. DESIGN FOR CHANGE AWARD Students from 16 schools of Samastipur submitted their stories of change in the Design for Change contest. Out of 2500 stories submitted from all over the country, “Kanth ki Pyas” a story from RMS Mohanpur was selected as one of the top 100 stories winner. SANSAD ADARSH GRAM YOJANA Anandshala was selected as one of the best practices in Education category under the Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana by Ministry of Rural Development. Stay. Engage. Learn RANI The Rani is a student of class 6 from Middle School Birauli. She loves painting, art and craft, and playing games, but in school she spent most of her time in the daily textbook routine. With little scope to do the things she was interested in, she was bored at school which people negatively affected her course performance, increased her absenteeism and finally led to her quitting school. As a part of Focus Child Identification, her teacher Anju visited Rani’s home to talk to her parents who believed that she is not interested in you’ve studying since she prefers to contribute to household chores. But Rani explained that she does not enjoy herself in school because she is bored with the textbook routine. Since then Anju started engaging students through games and had art and craft sessions helped more often, which made the students, including Rani, take interest in school activities and come to school regularly. “We can’t learn anything if we don't enjoy it.” -Rani Stay. Engage. Learn MOHAMMAD SITARA The Mohammad Sitara is a teacher in Upper Middle School Sherpur Bandh, in the Vidyapati Block of Samastipur. He is an Anandshala Resource Person and has trained and supported other teachers in implementing the Anandshala program, equipping them with new people techniques and strategies to identify disengaged students, track them regularly and connect disconnected students back with the school. As a result, the school witnessed an increase in student attendance, rise in parents' engagement with the school and you’ve teachers too demonstrated positive attitude towards children. His efforts have made the Vidyapati block one of the better helped performing blocks in the entire district. “The Anandshala program has re-energized the children and the school.” - Mohammad Sitara Stay. Engage. Learn BALDEV PRASAD VERMA The Baldev Prasad Verma is the Headmaster of Upper Middle School Dekari Chak in the Khanpur block of Samastipur. He took charge of the school in April 2015 and initiated a change by getting teachers to come to school on time and leave on time. He also people converted a room which was being used as a storage space into a library called “Anandshala Children’s Library” that contained books, newspapers, games and playing materials for the children, and was open from 3pm to 4pm everyday with one teacher being you’ve there for support. For children to treat this as their own space, he got them to decorate the library, draw on the walls, and set it helped up anyway they like. “Its only when we will change, that the school will change.” -Baldev Prasad Verma Stay. Engage. Learn Who we've impacted Sr. No School No. of Students Impacted No. of Teachers Impacted 1 MS KALYANPUR 976 14 2 MS SINGHIA GHAT 961 21 3 MS KAPAN 467 9 4 UMS KARRAKH 302 9 5 MS PATAILIYA 970 10 6 MS SOHMA 877 15 7 MS BITHAN 1114 15 8 UMS KRANCHI 445 6 9 UKMS BITHAN 425 10 10 UMS PUSHO 432 10 11 UMS SULTANPUR GHATHO 609 9 12 UMS BALLOCHAK 314 10 13 MS DALSINGHSARAI 780 13 14 MS RAMPUR JALALPUR 321 9 15 KUSUMWATI KANYA MS 508 11 DALSINGSARAI 16 UMS KARSOLI 195 10 17 MS GAJPATTI 645 13 18 MS BADGAON 521 11 19 MS SHASAN 416 12 20 MS HASANPUR ROAD 931 22 21 MS JITWARIYA 911 9 22 UMS MANIKAULI 391 12 23 UMS RATWARA URDU 898 8 24 UMS BHAGIRATHPUR 338 10 25 UMS SHIVNANDANPUR 86 10 26 UMS DEKARI 320 11 27 MS REBRA GOTIYAHI 529 10 28 UMS MANANPUR 288 9 29 UMS HASANPUR 281 7 30 UMS VISHANPUR 347 9 31 UMS DHARNI PATTI 156 5 32 UMS MADHOPUR 364 9 33 UMS SARARI 439 9 34 RMS DASHAHARA 364 6 35 UMS BHOG RAJPUR 189 8 36 RMS KALYANPUR BASTI 975 13 37 UMS NAWADA, MOHIUDDIN 322 12 NAGAR Stay. Engage. Learn Sr. No School No. of Students Impacted No. of Teachers Impacted 38 UMS HEMANPUR 220 8 39 RMS KURSAHA 559 12 40 GMS MOHIUDDIN NAGAR 374 12 41 MS PURUSOTTAMPUR 628 10 42 UMS JITWARPUR 253 7 43 MS DHARMPUR DAKHILI 505 8 44 MS NAYAR 351 8 45 BS MARICHA 312 8 46 RMS SUPAUL 440 11 47 RMS ROOPAULI 234 12 48 RMS CHACKSALEM(KANYA) 270 12 49 UMS SHIVRAMA 263 10 50 RMS DARBA 368 9 51 MS BIRAULI 237 9 52 MS HARPUR 374 10 53 BS DIGHRA 394 7 54 MS MORSAND 388 9 55 UMS BAPUKANYA WAINI 182 5 56 UKMS_SONUPUR 210 9 57 UMS BHATOTTAR 311 12 58 UMS PITTHADOBHI 300 9 59 UMS LALPUR 268 9 60 UMS MAKTAB MOTIPUR 354 11 61 UMS NARAYANPUR DADHIYA 270 10 62 RMS SINGHIAKHURD 615 13 63 UMS TAJPUR RATANPUR 212 8 64 UMS KEWAS JAGIR 324 14 65 UMS POKHRAIRA 395 14 66 BS JITWARPUR KUMHIRA 382 10 67 MS KHALISPUR 414 9 68 MS TISWARA 310 10 69 UMS ARMAULI 444 12 70 UMS LATABSEPURA 571 14 71 MS BAGHOPUR 348 11 72 MS KARIYAN 631 14 73 MS BALLIPUR 578 18 74 UMS AKHATWARA 435 12 75 MS DAHIYAR 313 13 76 UMS VASTIPATTI 306 8 77 UMS DUMRA 130 7 78 MS WARI 581 7 79 MS SINGHIA 899 13 80 MS KUNDAL 345 10 81 MS TAJPUR 950 22 82 UMS RAMAPUR MAHESHPUR 254 11 83 UMS CHAKHAIDER 291 15 84 UMS KUBAULI BASO 212 11 Stay. Engage. Learn Sr. No School No. of Students Impacted No. of Teachers Impacted 85 UMS BANGRA 281 8 86 MS REWARI 482 7 87 UMS SUPAUL 346 7 88 BS MALTI BELARI 159 11 89 MS SHAHWAJPUR 167 8 90 MS PACHPAIKA 539 8 91 UMS MANIYARPUR 502 12 92 UMS GADHSISAE BALAN NADI 422 8 KE UTTAR 93 AMS MAU BAJIDPUR 456 11 94 UMS DIH DHEPURA 188 8 95 AMS KANCHA 1010 12 96 RKMS ROHUA 350 9 97 UMS LAKHANPATTI 253 10 98 MS CHHATNESHWAR 485 13 99 RUMS BEGAMPUR HINDI 361 13 100 MS KUSAIYA 393 12 Total 43806 1056 Stay. Engage. Learn Overall Program Stay. Engage. Learn SELECTION AND TRAINING OF RESOURCE PERSONS / What MASTER TRAINERS we did We worked intensively with Block Education Officers in all 20 Blocks of Samastipur district, to identify resource persons to become Anandshala Ambassadors and build the capacity of the program. A five day residential training on “Perspective Building on the Anandshala Model” was held in Rajgir, Bihar, where in we trained 27 43,806 students resource persons from 19 blocks including two representatives from Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, 1,056 teachers Samastipur, and a representative from DIET, Samastipur. were impacted as part of the Anandshala campaign The training revolved around: Understanding child centric education and the elements required to strengthen child centered SDPP ANANDSHALA education. TOOLKIT Understanding Early Warning System and its components, including Focus child Identification, Based on the feedback and suggestions Muhim, Pragati Patrak, PTA meetings etc. received from field, an Anandshala toolkit was Drafting or redesigning roles and designed, developed and distributed to all the responsibilities of various stakeholders. 996 schools that we work in. The toolkit contained- “Case studies have helped me realize that problems will arise, A trainer manual with facilitation strategies but they will not be a barrier in reaching my objectives and goal.” and training sessions to deliver training on –Imtiyaz, BRP Pusa our Anandshala model; “Punctuality, interest and enthusiasm has been revitalized A school manual detailing the Early Warning through this training”. System process and an implementation -Dev Prakash Roy, Teacher, Samastipur guide for teachers and headmasters; Process posters showcasing processes and training aids; A headmaster’s diary to help them manage their responsibilities better; Posters to be used as an aid to ensure greater engagement with parents at the parent-teacher meetings.