Seven Steps To Improve Learning Levels In Our Schools 1. Increase teaching-learning time (reduce demands on teachers’ time that help the higher ups but not the teacher or students). 2. Reduce and streamline NGO-CSR inputs into schools(remove cross-messaging, ensure consistency).
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3. Increase teacher autonomy and reduce the number of people telling (or trying to tell) teachers what to do. 4. Strengthen institutions – fill the large number of vacancies, equip, and capacitate them. 5. Strengthen the administration at all levels –
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while the number of schools has more than doubled in 30 years, the number of administrators remains almost the same, along with vacancies. (If you notice, administrators don’t visit schools any more - though ‘school inspection’ was common 30 years ago. And no, that function
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has still not been taken over fully by BRCs or CRCs.). 6. Start collecting and using performance data of all levels (including rating their performance) – students, teachers, HMs, supervisors, CRC-BRC, BEO, DIETs, DEO, SPO, SCERT, SIET, SIEMAT, State Education Departments and
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Secretaries, national institutions and MoE, including Secretary and Ministers. We might discover that problems are not exactly at the school level. 7. Create and institutionalise a protocol that
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prevents leaders and bureaucrats coming in from changing ongoing efforts without evidence and serious review.
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