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Ed-Talks (Transforming Education From The Ground Up)

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Mind Mingle Ed-Talks is a two day event meant to expose school leaders to the ideas of pioneers in education, will deliver

years' worth ideas, insights and inspiration in just two days and revolutionize the sense of possibilities of transforming

education in India.

And to inspire, motivate and empower participants with the practical ideas of improving quality education with minimum

resources.

Ed-Talks (Transforming Education From The Ground Up)

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• Mix of cutting-edge doers and thinkers who are passionate about the future of Education.

• Expect surprises at MindMingle Talks, Surprising people, Surprising ideas, Surprising encounters, Surprising connections.

• “MindMingle Talks transformation”—an energizing new way of thinking in multiple dimensions.

• MindMingle Talks is a high-level exercise in thought-provoking and personal storytelling.

Meant for every person who is involved in transforming lives of

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You have dedicated decades of your life to mastering a specific discipline. It’s natural to wonder why you

should spend two days : • Listen to Extraordinary Educationists • An opportunity to listen to the Pioneers in Education • No sponsor Session • Mind Mingle Ed-Talks will expand your mind, Transform your thinking &

revolutionized the sense of possibilities • It’s first time, the combination of these creative educationists at one stage • Ed-Talks will transform your thinking: Impossibility to possibility • It’s not about examination boards, It’s about Education • Know what top Educational philosopher(Aurobindo, Gandhi Ji, Krishna Murthi)

dreamed about education • Ed-Talks which will inspire you • Time to end the excuses and make changes • Thinking beyond the comfort zone • Thinking out of the box • MindMingle Ed-Talks makes for an exciting, enriching experience that actually

makes you better at your own specialty • Get ready to make difference in Education

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My India is in the Imran Khan from Alwar – Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Wembley

A Passionate teacher who donated 52 educational apps to MHRD

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Babar Ali World’s Youngest Headmaster

“Started teaching at the age of 9 and announced as world’s youngest headmaster at the age of 16 by BBC.”

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“To succeed in life, one needs skills not certificates”

Reva Dandage Co-Founder- Swaraj University, A university where students make their own curriculum and decide their own path.

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Our education is related to our Mother Earth & nobody should be forced to leave his village for bread, butter and Education.

Sachin Desai Founder- University of Life (School without Walls) A Centre for Experiential Learning

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“Education should be a liberating process. It should help us get in touch with our self and find our life purpose so that we can contribute to the larger good of all” ANJU MUSAFIR

Co -Founder – Mahatma Gandhi International School One of the most innovative schools in India.

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Sachin Usha Vilas Joshi Founder- Espalier Experimental School, promises to make learning interesting through music, art and drama.

“Education means all-round development of personality of an Individual”

Shreya Sahai A homeschooled teen and Author of “Getting the Maximum Education” www.mindmingle.org

“To Educate poor is to reduce poverty”

G.K. Swamy Founder- PYDS Learning Academy- Provides first class education to the poorest children of nearby villages of Purkal

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“To contribute in order to put a smile on the face of a child is true human achievement”

Pascal Chazot Co -Founder – Mahatma Gandhi International School One of the most innovative schools in India.

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‘The first principle of true teaching is that ‘Nothing can be taught’

~Sri Aurobindo~ Ramesh Bijlani Director, Mirambika School (A free progress school, where nothing is taught but students learn) www.mindmingle.org

A professor who begs everyday for his students, runs English medium schools in slums to give free education to poor children

Sandeep Desai Founder, Shloka Missionaries- Vidya Daan Shreshtha Daan

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A British-born anthropologist inspired by J. Krishnamurthy established an innovative school in Kodaikanal (A centre for learning Organic, Agriculture and Appropriate Technology)

Brian Jenkins Founder, Sholai School

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'आत्मनो मोक्षाय जगद हिताय च |' “Education is for the salvation of the individual and the happiness of the world.”

Vivek Ponkshe

Former Principal– Jnana Prabodhini Prashala (A 50 years old newly experimental School) Known for its futurology projects

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A passionate young educator started an innovative school for gifted children A school for children with learning disabilities “Teach me the way I can Learn”

G Senthil Kumar Founder, Helikx School- Seriously Different

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Speakers’ Profile • Babar Ali, World’s Youngest Headmaster: How often do you come across a nine-years old

who wants to open a school for underprivileged children? Babar Ali did not only had this idea, he also executed it at that age in 2002. The news report helped him get noticed. Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen invited him to speak at Shantiniketan, while Ramakrishna Mission started helping him with books and Stationary.

In 2009, BBC did a story on Babar Ali which brought him a lot more attention. Later he was invited to talk on prestigious platforms like TED and INK and he was also featured on Satyamev Jayate-Hosted by Amir Khan.

The Karnataka government has included Babar Ali’s story in the prescribed English Textbook for first year PU Course.

• Ramesh Bijlani: Director of Mirambika Free Progress School, a school where Children and their diyas (didi , bhaiya) are responsible for dusting, tidying and beautifying their spaces. A book that is loved by one child may be less interesting to another. Normally, books are used only from the age of six onward. At no point are standard text books used. Clothes express some thing of the personality: no uniformality, no school uniform. It is important that clothes should not obstruct the movements of the children.

in July 1981, Mirambika opened with fifty seven children and ten teachers…. within a few years it went on to become a very significant experiment in ‘Free Progress’ education – an education for the free and unhampered growth of the psychic being.

Dr. Ramesh Bijlani(attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology) is the Director of Mirambika Free Progress School run by Sri Aurobindo Society. He is the author of more than 200 scientific papers, more than 40 popular articles, and 10 books, including a 1000-page textbook for medical students. His Interest in alternative education and making the present system of education more meaningful continues out of Mirambika as well.

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Speakers’ Profile • Sachin Desai: founder of University of life: Imagine a school without walls. Sounds too

good to be true. The programme is in sync with an innovative methodology that links school education with real life situations. The ‘school without walls’ programme has been initiated by Syamantak, an organisation that believes in the natural learning process. Sachin set up the programme in his native village of Dhamapur in an 80-year-old house. Sachin says, “ when I was in school I got opportunity to stay with school dropouts and slow learners and realised that India’s huge 70 per cent drop-out rate is because students don’t learn skills, division into curriculum and co-curriculum detaches education from actual life. Since life and education merge in University of Life every activity is curriculum for us. A journey together where man and nature confront and converge. At a time when debates rage on what and how children should learn, here is an attempt……a pointer – University of Life. University of Life was also recently featured in Amitabh Bachchan’s Show Aaj Ki Raat Hai Zindagi.

• Sandeep Desai: ”One man army”, most of the 40 lakh aam aadmis who take the

suburban railways everyday know him, several lakhs have chatted with him and, crucially, thousands have trusted him enough to give him their money. A former member of the Forum for Fairness in Education, Desai was chief mover of several public interest litigations against politician-led educational institutes including for unfair fees and more. Education is the cause he is closest to, he is quite clear about that. Desai said: “There is a thin line between begging and collecting vidya-daan (educational alm) for educational reforms and one needs to understand the difference- the beggars take money to fulfill their needs while I collect alms for others.”

Currently he is running 5 schools- 4 in maharashtra & 1 in Rajasthan. Desai has received various awards and his act has been widely appreciated in the media. But this hasn’t slowed him down.

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Speakers’ Profile • Senthil kumar: Founder Director, Helikx: In India, around 13 to 14 per cent of all school children

suffer from learning disorders. Unfortunately, most schools fail to lend a sympathetic ear to their problems. As a result, these children are branded as failure. Helikx is a school that differentiated the purpose of teaching. The School was started to address the needs of Children who were alienated from main stream education, due to learning disabilities, which affected their growth and general behaviour

Senthil himself is a dyslexic who grown up to become an educator, decided to help children like himself (who face learning difficulties) set up an innovative school for gifted children.

He is a Special Resource Group Committee member for Specific Learning Difficulties of SSA of Tamil Nadu Government.

In the year 2012-2013 has won the GOLDEN EDUCATION AWARD from International Institute of Education and Management for outstanding Achievement in Educational field of activities.

• Brian Jenkins: When the entire neighbourhood plunges into darkness-thanks to the State Electricity Board’s crippling power cuts--the students and their teachers at Sholai School, are not power-starved for a moment. Their school was never connected to the grid. It uses renewable energy to meet all its requirements. The man who made this mechanism possible is their principal, Mr. Brian Jenkins, a British-born social anthropologist. Painstakingly, he has built a creative green campus with the greater social good in mind. This disciple of J. Krishnamurthy is living his utopian dream in the verdant hills of Palani. In Sussex, he met J Krishnamurthi. After obtaining his BA, he started teaching in Krishanamurthi School in brockwood park,UK. Later he came to India and started building Sholai School in 1989. Sholai School is affiliated with the Cambridge University, UK,. School does not believe in examinations, though teachers give tests to students at times, to check their level of learning. Groups of children run their own farm plots within the 30-acre organic farm at the school. Students have skills, these include Farming, Woodwork and a class called Machine Shed. Electrical, plumbing, and construction work is also taken up. Heating requires a lot of energy and the proven alternative technology for the school is the Solar Water Heater. Sholai has two big (4 M³ and 25 M³) biogas plants that provide gas for the kitchen, Food Processing and Science labs.

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Speakers’ Profile

• Vivek Ponkshe: Mr. Vivek Ponkshe has been the Principal of Jnana Prabodhini Prashala a high

school for highly gifted students for more than a decade. Jnana Prabodhini Prashala - Motivating Intelligence for Social Change. Founded in 1964 affiliated to CBSE. School introduced various programs and activities to Prepare child for Life like- Leadership quality development camp, Agrani Yojna, Upasana, Use of multiple text books, Rural camps, Skills enhancement program, Expression skills training, project methodology etc. It was one of the pioneers to introduce project-based learning in India. The school is perhaps the only one in India to encourage futurology projects in class 10, Its Library consisting of about 40 thousand books. Jnana Prabodhini is a non-political organization which aims at the development of physical, mental, intellectual and spiritual qualities of people in general and of the youth in particular.

• Imran Khan: A passionate teacher who politely declined the job of Government project officer in

the Department of Science and Technology offered by Rajasthan Technical & Higher Education Minister Kalicharan Saraf by saying that “no other post is greater than the current profile of being a teacher.” He is a mathematics teacher in the Sanskrit Education Department and a self-taught computer programmer. Imran developed his first app – The NCERT Learn science- for the class 9 students in 2012. He has developed over fifty-two educational mobile applications and more than a hundred websites till now, and donated all his applications to the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) as a patriotic contribution to Digital India. He gained prominence after being mentioned by the Prime Minister of India, Shri Narendra Modi, in a speech at Wembley Stadium, London, in November 2015. Modi said, "My India is in Imran Khan of Alwar.

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• Pascal Chazot and Anju Musafir: Founded by Pascal Chazot and Anju Musafir in 1998, the

Mahatma Gandhi International School (MGIS) is a Public Private Partnership project in collaboration with the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation. This school has made an international and quality education accessible to the middle income group and offers full scholarship to 20% socio-economically underprivileged families. The pioneering efforts of MGIS in terms of diversity, accessibility, inclusive classrooms and qualitative feedback (without marks) led to the historic RTE act in 2010. The school’s founding philosophy is based on class diversity as a learning tool. The school’s experiential pedagogy is based on doing real projects. Through inter-disciplinary projects, different subject specific cognitive competencies are developed in a holistic manner. As an action-research centre, MGIS has created a framework of innovative class room pedagogy called Generated Resources Learning (GRL) and teacher trainings through experiential methodology are offered to government and private school teachers.

Prof. Musafir having 20 years of experience in teaching both adults and children is Doctorate in Education, King’s College, London and awarded with ‘Rashtriya Gaurav Award’ 2014, ‘Glory of India Gold Medal’ 2014, Best Citizen of India Award, 2015,

Dr. Chazot has also been an elected Member of Parliament in France for the French Overseas representing the constituency covering Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka and Maldives, is a PhD in Psychology of Education and Doctorate of honour in Education from University of Paris, he also holds various masters including Masters in Sanskrit.

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Speakers’ Profile

• Reva Dandage: Reva Dandage is the co-founder and director of Swaraj University, A University

where students make their own curriculum and decide their own path. It is an alternative model with a focus on self-design learning, including exploration of basic entrepreneurial skills within the context of environmental sustainability and social responsibility. It is India's first university dedicated to strengthening local economies, local cultures and the rich diversity of local traditions.

Reva's passion is to create and host alternative spaces for learning, and through Swaraj University, she facilitates young people in co-creating their learning programs towards their passions and dreams.Reva has been passionately involved with democratic education since 2001. Her interest in understanding the pedagogy of self-directed learning has taken her several alternative and free schools around the world. She also experienced being a self-directed student during her graduate studies at Goddard College.

• Sachin Usha Vilas Joshi: Founder of Espalier Experimental School, Nasik.

Espalier, The Experimental School is a concept based school. It ardently follows the Gandhi Montessori philosophy that a child needs to touch and explore, learn and enjoy to understand the world around him. The school is focused on experiential learning and most of the syllabus is covered through innovative practices/projects.

‘Education on Wheels’ an initiative by Sachin V. Joshi, caters to the Education needs of slum children and finds a mention in the ‘Limca Book of Records’

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• G.K. Swamy: Mr. Swamy is a very well known name not only in Dehradun but in the entire

country. He is the founder of a unique school - Purkal Youth Development Society, this school was started for the underprivileged people and it began under a cowshed when Mr. Swamy and his wife Mrs. Chinni Swamy decided to do something for the poor people living in the village Purkul. Now they possess a fully furnished building and they have affiliation from the CBSE board to conduct classes till 12th std. Mr. Swamy provides free education to all his students which also includes their meals and stationary. Only the have-nots of the society are able to get admission in this school. Apart from excellent English medium education, the students of this school also get opportunities to participate in international youth exchange programs, where they get chance to visit and interact with students and people from different countries.Mr. Swamy is the winner of National Gold Karmaveer Chakra 2014 -15. He was also nominated by Institute of Nano Science and Technology, Mohali for the INST Radhakrishnan Award for Education for his outstanding contributions in the field of education.

• Shreya Sahai- Shreya Sahai, recently initiated into the ‘adult' club, is your everyday bibliophile,

musicophile, and cinephile. Having grown up on books and learnt classical music for over a decade, she has been liberally educated at home (‘homeschooled') since 2010, and registered herself as a private candidate for the ICE certification with CIE and came out with flying colours - 5 A*s and 2 As - in IGCSE. She now preparing to write her A Levels, still a private candidate.

A national scholar in Hindustani classical violin, she has also explored art, pistol shooting, film-making, writing, fashion, photography and design in the years spent 'homeschooling', and has already held exhibitions and performed in concerts in India and abroad. She recently finished editing her first book, 'Getting The Maximum Education', which, coincidentally, is on educating children what education is truly all about.

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