Education LLP (RE) to teach reading skills in English in public schools
through the government’s path-breaking Virtual Classroom Program.
Sterlite Tech Foundation is the CSR arm of Sterlite Technologies, one of
the most integrated optical fiber companies in the world. Their mission is
to leverage the use of this Virtual Classroom infrastructure installed by
MCGM to provide online learning and development to students and
teachers, in order to enhance student-learning outcomes across all 480
schools. Sterlite Tech Foundation has also funded this project.
Reniscience Education LLP is an education consulting firm born out of a
desire to promote learning that is empowering, relevant and joyful to the
learner. Two of the authors of this paper are co-founders of the firm.
Reniscience Education is the pedagogy partner for this project.
Figure 2 describes each partner’s key responsibilities.
These three partners have come together to design and deliver a three
year long English Reading Program (ERP) for 480 Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and
English medium MCGM schools. A long-term partnership like this allows
us to go beyond just delivering lessons to students. Rather, we have the
•Provides the
infrastructure
•Provides access to
classrooms and students
for implementation
•Provides various
permissions needed for
monitoring & support,
teacher training and
assessments
•Provides MCGM teachers
to act as in class
facilitators during VC
sessions
STF
•Provides funding for the
project
•Conducts on-going
monitoring and support
activities on the ground
•Collects and organizes
data and feedback from
MCGM classrooms
•Liases with the
government- creates and
submits reports
•Conducts one on one
assessments
•Coordinates training
logistics
RE
•Develops the curriculum
and overall program
design
•Creates lesson plans and
assessments
•Analyzes assessment data
•Conducts MCGM teacher
training
• Trains a team of teachers
to deliver VC lessons,
observes them and
provides ongong feedback
& PD
Figure 2: Key Responsibilities of Virtual Classroom Project Partners
