Adhyayan

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OUR PROGRAMS

Our Services
  • Capacity building and institutional reviews of schools and school chains for better governance.
  • Multi-year school improvement programmes for large school networks across 28 States, in 11 languages, by training 400+ school leaders on self-review and external validation
  • Whole-school, evidence-based collaborative school reviews using the Adhyayan Quality Standard, a school quality framework, in three modes - face-to-face, assisted, and completely online- leading to a continuous improvement plan.
  • Bespoke consultancy for schools on whole school reforms and transformation, curriculum, and writing policy.leadership capacity building for school governors and leaders, teaching leaders, teachers, and student leaders.
  • The Assessor Certification Programme builds the knowledge, skills, and attitudes of internal and external assessors for self-review and validation.
  • Professional Growth Programmes for Teachers and Leaders to drive their own competency improvement on a framework by developing portfolios of practice.

We Offer

Adhyayan’s tech platform AdhyayanWay is used by 400+ partner schools for school self-review and for tracking and monitoring leaders and teachers. It is also used by the Antarang Foundation for assessing the effectiveness of its career-aware program.

AQS Reviews

Adhyayan’s Collaborative Review builds the capacity of school leaders to lead multi-stakeholder social audits as an assessment for learning how to improve their schools. The assessment is scientifically triangulated, using 4 methods of evidence collection framed against 6 core standards or Key Performance Areas.

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ASIST

Adhyayan’s School Improvement Support and Training (ASIST) provides teachers, leaders, managements and students with the skills and knowledge required to transform their schools. The capacity building is provided face-to-face, online, and through blended models and can be long term, short term and in the form of affordable opt-in public programmes.

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The Collaborative Learning Studio

The Collaborative Learning Studio is the working space for educators and agencies who believe in quality education. We collaborate on each others’ projects, undertake research and showcase effective educational practices to teachers and leaders across the country and abroad.

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AQS REVIEWS

Adhyayan’s Collaborative Review builds the capacity of school leaders to lead multi-stakeholder social audits as an assessment for learning how to improve their schools. The assessment is scientifically triangulated, using 4 methods of evidence collection framed against 6 core standards or Key Performance Areas. When stakeholders use evidence to check the extent to which the provision of resources is impacting on the students and collectively agreeing on the priorities for improvement, it accelerates their school’s journey to becoming a good school for every child.

Six Key Performance Areas

The Adhyayan Quality Standard has 54 standards measured by a diagnostic of 162 data points in the form of impact statements. School stakeholders using the diagnostic are able to identify where the school is currently performing and what it would look like if the performance was to improve. This enables them to create a data-driven school improvement plan.
School leaders and school chain owners use the process of school self-review and evaluation on the Adhyayan Quality Standards framework as the route to coherence in a multi-stakeholder organisation. It provides them with a common language, across stakeholders and across schools in a chain, cluster or network.
The first review forms the baseline from which school leaders assess their improvement on the 54 standards. Subsequent periodic reviews are able to make the continuous improvement journey of a school visible and measurable.
6 KPAs

Our Platform

AdhyayanWay is a software developed by Adhyayan with the support of Tatras Data. It records evidence of performance…and generates reports to track a school’s, school network’s, teachers’ and students’ improvement journey from a baseline.

ASSIST

Adhyayan’s School Improvement Support and Training (ASIST) provides teachers, leaders, managements and students with the skills and knowledge required to transform their schools. The capacity building is provided face-to-face, online, and through blended models and can be long term, short term and in the form of affordable opt-in public programmes.
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Our Process

Adhyayan’s School Improvement Support and Training (ASIST) provides teachers, leaders, managements and students with the skills and knowledge required to transform their schools. The capacity building is provided face-to-face, online, and through blended models and can be long term, short term and in the form of affordable opt-in public programmes.
Schools that have completed their review on the Adhyayan Quality Standards are able to use ASIST to provide targeted needs-based capacity building for their middle leaders and teachers that enables the maximum change at a minimum cost.
We work closely with schools on leadership and teaching using a hybrid mode. We also have training programmes on specific themes requested by schools, leaders and teachers. Each of the themes are based on the wish list of educators and the tenets of the National Education Policy 2020.

The Collaborative Learning Studio

The Collaborative Learning Studio is the working space for educators and agencies who believe in quality education. We collaborate on each others’ projects, undertake research and showcase effective educational practices to teachers and leaders across the country and abroad. We know that a single entity can do only a little, and multiple agencies combining their strengths can make an enormous contribution to a good school for every child.
Our Process
  • The Collaborative Learning Studio is the working space for educators and agencies who believe in quality education.
  • We collaborate on each others’ projects, undertake research and showcase effective educational practices to teachers and leaders across the country and abroad.
  • We know that a single entity can do only a little, and multiple agencies combining their strengths can make an enormous contribution to a good school for every child.
Adhyayan’s ability to undertake training, assess curriculum and support research has led to some deeply interesting aspects of work under the Collaborative Research Studio, our space for partnering with other educational organisations and educators. Most importantly it enabled us to set up a consortium to bid for the World Bank funded NECTAR project in Nagaland. We also partnered with Barefoot on the AQS, developing their assessors to be able to do school reviews for low cost private schools.

Community of Practice

Led by practitioners themselves, this professional community of practice is an effort to bring thought leaders in Indian and International communities G school leaders together to discuss issues of current relevance to educators. The sessions revolve around the latest trends in education, new ideas, challenges, policies and about the ‘What’ G ‘How’ to engage the multiple stakeholders in the school eco-system — teachers, students G parents.

Khan Academy

The designated team of four Adhyayan facilitators passed the mandatory renewal test for continuing to be recognised as Khan Academy Certified trainers in April 2022 and March 2023. In fact we expanded our team with two new members, viz. Gomathi Srinivisan and Bishubha being certified too. Adhyayan facilitators did in-person and online training sessions for KGVB, JNV, UP, Maharashtra and Punjab Government school teachers and mentors and Kotak Education Foundation school leaders during April '22 to March '23. In all of these sessions the participants provided positive feedback and acclaimed the Adhyayan facilitators for their training delivery.

NECTAR

“Nagaland: Enhancing Classroom Teaching And Resources” (NECTAR) As a lead consortium member, Adhyayan Quality Education Services, with three other organisations, YouthNet, Samarthya and Adhyayan Quality Education Foundation, won the bid to partner with the Nagaland Government in the World Bank supported NECTAR Project. Our partnership includes working governance, leadership, structures for working with community and partnerships to be able to meet the vision of NECTAR and NEP 2020 for 2000 schools. The work that is to be done by 2025 will contribute to the creation of the State Education for Nagaland.

The Game of Bridge

The Game of Bridge is a program of Adhyayan’s Collaborative Learning Studio (TCLS). Adhyayan is an educators’ collective aimed at improving the quality of education. The Game of Bridge facilitator, Pritesh Chheda, is a passionate Bridge player who has developed this programme on the philosophy: "Learners must enjoy the journey, learning the sport will be a by-product." He has coached over 200 learners across India.

Barefoot Edu Foundation

Barefoot Edu Foundation partnered with Adhyayan Quality Education Services for two of their Direct Implementation Programmes. The "Rehnuma" project oversees school leaders that hail from lower income communities, have served as a principal for approximately 5-10 years and have essentially demonstrated exceptional leadership. They are effective implementers but struggle to plan in the long term or document their learnings. It is a relatively new programme that has completed two batches so far, and is currently beginning the third batch. Barefoot hired Adhyayan for the second batch and onwards.

SEE learning

SEE learning India chapter began in two locations Mumbai and Pune and the third one in Rajasthan. The main aim was to understand the SEEL in children in the primary years. In the Mumbai and Pune sites, training was provided to the teachers and school counsellors of Akanksha Schools. A baseline assessment was conducted along two researchers from Emory University, Atlanta and four support researchers from Adhyayan. Two case schools were identified and in depth studies were conducted. Class observations, interviews both with students and teachers and observations during the PLC meetings were recorded.

Kshamtalay Foundation

Under this research partnership, one of the research sites is schools with the Kshamtalay Foundation (Udaipur; Rajasthan). The research work at Kshamtalay, began in the month of July 2022 with a site visit to the schools. The schools at this research site are based in three blocks (Pindwara, Gogunda and Kotra) which are tribal locations away from Udaipur city. The site visit at the beginning of the research helped understand the site location, challenges faced by the Kshamtalay fellows working there and how to design the research for this particular site. Training, data collection, site visits, etc were carried out.