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The idea of our Tribe

• The WHY behind

• Who should join the Tribe?

• Mechanisms to Participate

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The ‘WHY’ behind

We have seen this time and time again in schools that Innovative School Leaders struggle the most in School System

Why, because

• they are trying to implement changes,

• they challenge the status quo,

• they allow new ideas to pour in

and that shakes the monotony of the system

but the conventional owners of the contemporary education system, do not want a change.

Even a large number of parents do not want that change to occur

No one wants to enable thinking in children because then they ask questions that might challenge the unnecessary authority of adults

and the system persists.

And if this continues, the innovation will gradually disappear from school education and our next generation will not forgive us for this.

We have seen this happening for decades and we decided

Enough is Enough

We believe that it is a large and complex problem and only a community can find answers to challenge the status quo.

Do you want to join us in this quest?

Do you have the mettle in you?

Who should join the Tribe?

This January, we started focusing on building this newsletter for innovative school leaders (School Owners, School Principals, Coordinators, etc)

Initially we started sharing our thoughts, our experience, our ideas, and then we also started inviting people to contribute their ideas and some education leaders came forward to share those.

But we do not need just the contributors, we wanted more than that,

we wanted people who believe in us, who are our supporters

we wanted our advocates, who would be willing to connect with right people

and we were lucky to get people like Mrs Rakhi Gibrani, Mrs Uma Sharma, Mrs Lata Jagdeesh respectively

these are the education leaders who are really running that extra mile for us,

who really understand what we are trying to do and are taking efforts to support us without any personal motives.

To build this community, we need more of such people.

I would especially like to thank Mrs Uma Sharma, for hosting our first School Innovation Pentagon Framework Workshop at her school and invited 30 school leaders from nearby schools so that we can share our ideas with all of them.

Think of it as these invitees could have also be seen by her as competitors and why should she help them, but she is an empowered school leader who dare to challenge the status quo.

and that is why, she is special for us and this is the feature we are trying to find out to be able to join the doers community.

Because our tribe members will not be threatened by their vicinity, they will rather lead them to innovate

For us she is the mascot of an ideal tribe member for EdMonks.

Mechanisms to participate

So there are 2 key ways to involve people in the community,

the first one is School Innovation Pentagon Framework Workshop and the second one is EdMonks Conversations

So, we already know about the workshop through our previous edition, now we should try understanding, what is EdMonks Conversation

So the analytics of the last 30 days suggests that the average open rate for our newsletter is a little above 25%

whereas 21% is the industry average for a newsletter open rate, that means we are performing above average

But we wanted to be among the toppers and they perform at 40 to 50% range.

So around 2 weeks ago we started finding a way to improve our content and once we got the idea, now we want to test this new content idea

We plan to implement this transition in our newsletter content by April

So what will change?

First and foremost, the type of content will change and if this new content is liked by audience, then we might also change the design, the outlook and even the name of this newsletter

So what is the change? What is this new content?

At EdMonks, we stand to improve and impact school education by collecting and sharing school innovation ideas.

Now, for every edition, we will first identify a topic and we would invite 5 panel members (educator, practitioner, and experts) to a panel discussion through an online video meet.

And based on this first discussion, we start writing a dedicated edition on that topic.

Then we will host the second meet, and share our findings and challenges with our panel members.

Here they may give us further feedback on this content, and then we finally release the content.

The names of all the participants, who were really able to give some worthy inputs, will be published in that newsletter edition.

With this process, we believe, we will be able to create much better content.

Do you also believe what we believe?

What are the topics

We are sharing a few topics here (and we want your help to make a list of 12 topics to start with, we look forward for your suggestions through email or in the comments)

• reinventing computer education at preparatory level (3rd, 4th & 5th standard)

• improving reading skills at preparatory level

• how schools can help children at middle school to improve their expression like public speaking, storytelling, writing etc

• how to build confidence at kindergarten level

• how to improve teachers who want to improve

• how schools can help their ace teachers

• what technology are we using in a classroom?

• how do innovative schools do what they do?

• magic of science education at kindergarten

• solving the challenge of slow learners in the school

The above topics are indicative and may change. If you know any experts on these topics, or can suggest some topics, plz do connect with us

By when this new change will be implemented

Tentatively, we will start releasing this new content by April but it really depends, if we are able to find worthy people a little early, we might try releasing this content within second half of March.

Let’s start hosting these 90 min video conversations that we call EdMonks Conversations.

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You may also help us in any one or more of the following ways

1. Share this newsletter with more school Innovation Enthusiasts (and ask them to subscribe)

2. Connect us with those institutions that may become the venue partner.

3. Help us join the communities/whatsapp groups of school leaders.

4. Connect us with innovative businesses that are serving school education. We plan to introduce genuine businesses with innovative school leaders.

5. Connect me with those school leaders, who can spare 60 to 90 minutes of their precious time to teach me about school innovation so that we can learn and share it in our upcoming workshops.

   Write to us at contact@edmonks.com

School Innovation Pentagon Framework

If you are willing to join our next School Innovation Pentagon Framework, a full day workshop, you may please share your contact details here. From wherever, we will receive more interested candidates, we will try hosting it there first.

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• We are looking for schools as hosting partners (in tier 2 or tier 3 cities anywhere in India) for our School Innovation Pentagon Framework, a 3 hour (half day) session for school leaders.

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