Vikramshila

Context

Vikramshila Education Resource Society has been working as a technical support agency for State governments: Maharastra ECE, UP ECE and Numeracy, Assam ECE, West Bengal ECE and Madrasah intervention, Bihar Texbook development, J&K – ECE and Jharkhand ‘Schools on Wheel’ a covid response programme (ECE and Primary)

Our direct interventions - 1. Shiksha Deep, 2. Teachers Empowerment Programme, 3. Nabadisha, 4. Shiksha Satra (own school)

Our main focus is on teachers’ empowerment and ensuring classroom process to be more participatory, child-centric and activity-based.

Socio-Economic Profile

Mixed communities: Urban, rural, Tribal, Dalit and religious and linguistic minority communities

Strategies

• Continuous dialogue with government officials, organization and local administration to ensure inter departmental convergence
• Capacity building of different stakeholders like teachers, SHG, community leaders, PRI members, government officials etc.
• Developing and creating content for alternative pedagogical process. In the area of ECE we have developed home learning package and parenting package for 4 states. We have also worked on Numeracy, Literacy and STEM education.

Numbers Impacted

In direct intervention, 200 villages in WB.

In collaboration with states, 4 districts in UP, two districts in Maharashtra and 5 districts in Assam.

Children – Directly 10,000 and indirectly 1.5 crores.

Teachers and AWW – direct and indirectly 9 lakhs