Kavita Anand is committed to catalysing a learning community of educators across India to transform the learning of students. For more than three decades, she has worked towards ensuring ‘a good school for every child’. Her work as an educator, researcher, funder, school and system leader, and now as an edu-preneur has taken her to every state in India. Kavita’s work in the Aga Khan Education Service, India, and the Sir Ratan Tata Trust was a launching pad for two of her own ventures. She started a play school, Kidz@Play in Mumbai, and also set up and led the now renowned K12 School, Shishuvan, for a private management in Mumbai.
Kavita has provided support for The UK Open University’s (OU) programmes ‘Teacher Education through School-Based Support’ (TESS-India); ‘English in Action’ (EIA) in Bangladesh; and Foundational Literacy and Numeracy for 266 schools of Zimbabwe with her partner Spokey Wheeler. She was also part of the international delivery team that trained 7,000 government school leaders across five states of India for the School Leadership Development Programme (SLDP) curriculum with the National College of Teaching and Leadership (NCTL), Nottingham, and the National University for Education, Planning and Administration (NUEPA).
A Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA), UK, Kavita was awarded an Ashoka Fellowship in 2015 for her single-minded determination to improve the quality of education in India. She co-founded Adhyayan Quality Education Foundation, which works with five state governments on systemic school improvement.
