Why should you care to help me build this community for Innovative School Leaders?

The idea, the operations and the movement

Anupam Kaushik

Feb 14, 2025

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Feature Story - Mrs Taruna Kapoor and the international student exchange
Main Story - Our workshop in collaboration with PKR Jain Vatika Sr Sec School, Ambala
Opportunity - Host our workshop

Imagine this . .

An engineering graduate turned marketeer after selling industrial engineering products for almost 14 years in national and international markets, decided to leave the space to create an impact in school education.

Everything goes good but then the pandemic hit and he moves to the startup space, works there for almost 4 years and then an epiphany happens and here he is back to work in school education space

This is my story

Around 3 and a half months ago, a close entrepreneur friend, who just finished her MBA, questioned, “Why did you close EdMonks?’

I rep[lied, “Well most schools want to get numbers, but are not willing to change their education delivery. With my communication skills, they were able to impact their admission numbers, but I could not see the same impact on education delivery, So I moved on”

And my friend after listening to all my stories, one by one, suggested, “NO, I think, it is about your cost, they were not able to afford you, If you could serve them with an economic solution, they will still love to work with you”

I instantly said, “But we cannot make it economic”

“Yes you can, just think, how” she replied.

and a series of conversations made me realise, probably she is right, probably it is worth trying to create an impact in a large number of schools, If I can create an economic alternative to my services.

and to test this, I designed a very economic (almost Free) but very effective workshop for school leaders.

and requested my friend Mrs Uma Sharma, Principal PKR Jain Vatika Sr Sec School, Ambala, to help me on this.

And the management of the school was benevolent enough to become the venue partner for School Innovation Pentagon Framework. and as a true friend, Mrs Uma Sharma, who is passionate about school innovation, left no stones unturned to inform all the possible school leaders who might leverage this workshop.

Around 30 participants joined in and guess what, they just loved it.

I am tempted to share all the testimonials here, but that might break the flow.

So, please take a look at this one (by Mrs Ruchika Bhutani, Principal - S.A. JAIN VIJAY VALLABH PUBLIC SCHOOL) that may share the mood of the audience with you. I will share the rest of the testimonials in the upcoming edition of this newsletter.

So after such testimonials by the attendees, I knew that this economic workshop is a good mechanism to introduce practical innovation to schools and carve a larger impact on school education.

And now like PKR Jain Vatika did, I am looking for more Institutions (Universities, colleges, and Schools) to become a venue partner for our upcoming workshops with larger audience.

To become a venue partner, an institution should have an auditorium (minimum 150 seats), and you should be willing to arrange the food for the audience who would be School Owners, Principals, Headmaster/headmistress , coordinators and other similar leadership positions.

So, If you are an institution, an entrepreneur, or a School Leader, please do write to us to participate in our movement to improve school education.

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

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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.
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Story of the week

Where there is a will there is a way

The first thing that I teach in my workshops is that Innovation is not about Ideas, it is all about Execution and we can learn that from Mrs Taruna Kapoor

So, In 2017, while she was working with Allen House Public School, Ghaziabad, she decided to host an international student exchange.

Without any prior experience in it, not many would have dared

But Taruna is different, she is a go getter.

So she started with an internet search and then she gradually started talking to several school leaders in various countries using internet technologies.

Initially she did internet based culture dialogue exchange things and gradually she decided to do her first global exchange program with a school in Kandy, Sri Lanka, a beautiful scenic place.

The project was not a cake walk, there were many challenges and apprehensions but she win them all over one by one.

Be it parents concern or Visa approvals, she recall how unavailability of simple consent letter from parents and the students created a ruckus at the airport. but it was her who solved everything and an amazing experience for students was created.

Where her students visited Sri Lanka and the students from Vidyartha College, Kandy visited their school.

Cultural events were hosted, trips for important places were organised, local communities were involved.

All in all, the students got an unforgettable experience for life

At EdMonks, we celebrate such brave heart school leaders, do comment on this post, if you would be willing to listen to her about this experience. She is a very open minded person and I am sure we can invite her for a google meet with our subscribers.

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