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EI Dialogues with Dhir Jhingran, Language and Learning Foundation (S1E7)

In this episode of EI Dialogues, we interact with Dr. Dhir Jhingran. Watch Dhir highlight the learnings from his career, give some tips on multilanguage teaching, talk about how to take transformative ideas to scale, and describe his personal experiences in starting an organisation from scratch, after his stint in the government sector. About the guest Dhir Jhingran is the Founder Director of Language and Learning Foundation. He has worked in the primary education sector for over two decades, within and outside the government. As an officer of the Indian Administrative Service, he served as Principal Secretary, Education with the Government of Assam and as Director in the Ministry of Human Resource Development and Mission Director of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan as well as the District Primary Education Programme. In addition, he has handled several other profiles, such as Senior Advisor to UNICEF India, Asia Regional Director and Chief Program Officer with Room to Read and Country Director, TESS India. He has made significant contributions to the development and implementation of early grade reading programs in several countries in Asia and Africa and several states in India. About Language and Learning Foundation: LLF's vision is that all children will have strong foundational skills and abilities of language and literacy, thinking and reasoning. Based on this strong foundation, all children will learn and grow to their full potential. Language and Learning foundation conducts online / distance courses enable the teacher educators to develop instructional designs and other components of an early grade reading programme. Their flagship 9-month course includes 12 modules with essential and recommended readings, assignments to be completed after each module, fortnightly conference calls to discuss each module, and guidance to individual participants on email and phone. Each module is expected to be completed in around fifteen days. LLF is also building other courses on specialized topics in early literacy and multilingual education, and conducting research around the same. Currently, courses are being conducted with teachers in 5 states. Over the next three years, they are looking to scale their impact by providing intensive technical support to 3 states through a variety of strategies that focus on bringing change at the classroom level. Source: Central Square Foundation About the host: Pranav Kothari is the head of the Large Scale Education Programmes division at Educational Initiatives (EI). He leads EI's work in student assessments and implementation of their adaptive learning software (Mindspark) in vernacular languages in government and affordable private schools across India. He has spoken on various platforms advocating the need to leverage the twin levers of cutting-edge educational research and technology-based solutions to revolutionize how children in the K-12 space learn. About Educational Initiatives: Founded in 2001, Educational Initiatives (EI) is committed to improving learning outcomes and aspires for a world where all children learn with understanding. Large Scale Education Programs is the vertical of Educational Initiatives that exclusively works with low income government schools, specializing in diagnostic assessments for students and teachers, capacity building of teachers and governments, implementation of adaptive and intelligent e-learning systems for personalized learning, impact assessment studies and exploratory research studies that focus on bringing a systemic reform. This is done in collaboration with state governments, international grantmakers, corporate foundations, and NGOs. To know more, visit https://bit.ly/2OSIeNu For other episodes:    / eivideos   Other episodes: Rukmini Banerji, Pratham Akshay Saxena, Avanti Fellows Sourav Banerjee, Room to Read Parth Shah, Centre for Civil Society Vinod Karate, TheTeacherApp Kruti Bharucha, Peepul DISCLAIMER All content and opinions expressed in the conversation are that of the guests and are not necessarily the opinions of Pranav Kothari or Educational Initiatives Pvt Ltd. Views expressed in comments are the personal opinions of the author of the comment. They do not necessarily reflect the views of The Company or the host of the video series. Participants are responsible for the content of their comments and all comments that are posted are in the public domain. The Company reserves the right to monitor, edit, and/or publish any submitted comments. Any third-party comments published are third party information and The Company takes no responsibility and disclaims all liability. The Company reserves the right but is not obligated to monitor and delete any comments or postings at any time without notice.