Mantra will soon be completing ten years, and our Mantra family has grown over the past decade; # JantaofMantra diaries aim to bring stories of our Mantra family. Here is Rafi’s account, reminiscing the last five years at Mantra. I recently completed five years with Mantra and thought I’d take this time to relish…
At 10:30 AM, students of grade 7 at the Government Higher Primary School, Old Chandapura, gathered in their activity room. Their energy was palpable as Ms Sindhu entered with materials of all kinds in her hands – ready to kickstart the two-hour workshop of the Entrepreneur Cell. “Settle down, kids,” she says. “Today, we’re going…
Are you a teacher/educator who’s always looking for fun and innovative teaching strategies? At Mantra4Change, we continuously engage with helping teachers develop best practices for their classrooms. Through our Teacher Professional Development Training, we introduce teachers to an array of resources. A few months ago, we had the opportunity to collaborate with the…
It’s been almost 2.5 years since we started living with the Corona Virus and the uncertainty that it brings. During this time, many perspectives, habits, ideologies, methodologies, and even lifestyles have seen evolution in most of our lives. A densely populated and constantly busy country like ours would have never imagined a day when everything…
Cluster Resource Centers are educational hubs that enable qualitative improvement in education. Leveraged as a space to conduct in-service teacher training; to provide academic support to teachers and schools on a regular basis, as well as to help in community mobilization; these resource centers were scarce across Tumkur and Madhugiri districts’ 200+ clusters. January…
As a generation we have been constantly exploring the purpose that fuels our thoughts, our beliefs and as a consequence – our actions. The Japanese often refer to this true purpose of living as “Ikigai”. There are hundreds of stories of ikigai that rule out the idea of retirement or a natural end of…
At the core of our work at Mantra4Change is the vision to ensure children across the country receive enriching learning experiences. This year pushed us to reimagine how we can support schools to provide such experiences. In our journey of reimagining support towards student engagement, we launched the Student Sabha initiative. To introduce project-based…
The effects of the pandemic and resultant school closure were felt by the parents, community and students across Punjab. With learning now taking place online, the teachers and school staff invested time in orienting the community and parents. ‘It was a change for all of us, but we aimed to make sure the students continued…
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in schools shutting down across the country. In the Karnataka Districts, Tumkur and Madhugiri over 3,000 schools had empty classrooms for over a year leading to a dramatic rise in e-learning, Community learning centers, self-learning at homes, etc. With this sudden shift away from the classroom, the District Institute for Education…
Mantra4Change engages with state education departments to develop the capacity of system leaders, where states have already identified cadre of mentors such as block mentors, district mentors, cluster resource center coordinators and master resource persons. And through our experiences in working with the states, one of the questions that kept coming back to us was…