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sanjana samraj

@SamrajSanjana

2 years

I am honestly mind blown by this school I found out about today located in Jaisalmer!

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sanjana samraj

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2 years

Hustle culture is making people in their 20s feel like they are running out of time.

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sanjana samraj

@SamrajSanjana

11 months

Do you ever wonder why India's education system lacks innovation and creativity? Here is India’s LARGEST prototyping centre called T-works trying to solve that exact problem! 🧵

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sanjana samraj

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2 months

Does English medium mean BETTER quality education? Let’s explore an alternative Kannada medium school in Mysuru that challenges this idea! 💡 Fun fact: there is absolutely NO homework given in this school!

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sanjana samraj

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2 years

The school is called “Rajkumari Ratnavati Girls’ school” also called “Gyaan Centre”! It’s not only a school giving girls an opportunity for quality education but it is also an architectural marvel!

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sanjana samraj

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3 months

A new-age Gurukul that is not bound by the past is now in Bangalore! Welcome to Vidyakshetra! 🧵

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sanjana samraj

@SamrajSanjana

5 months

JSW invested 210 crores to create a children’s museum in Mumbai which opened just last week! What’s so special about this place?🧵👇🏾

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sanjana samraj

@SamrajSanjana

2 years

Diana Kellogg, designed the entire school paying tribute to the local colours, art and environment. Due to the climate, the building considers the local typology of jalis, natural light, ventilation and thermal protection in simple but effective ways!

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sanjana samraj

@SamrajSanjana

2 years

“India is a country built on chaos, in constant motion and evolution. If an architect can step into this energy instead of fighting it, their work will flourish. It's a kind of a spiralling energy, which is quite different from the linear Western way of working.”

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sanjana samraj

@SamrajSanjana

1 year

Usually I write threads about schools but thought for a change I’d write about an alternative college in Bangalore! There are approximately 700 colleges in Bangalore but this one is super unique!

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sanjana samraj

@SamrajSanjana

2 years

Because this tweet blew up out of proportion, I’m getting to do a podcast with the architect Diana Kellogg herself! This might not mean a lot to some but honestly means the world to me 💛 Thank you to everyone who made this happen!

sanjana samraj

@SamrajSanjana

2 years

I am honestly mind blown by this school I found out about today located in Jaisalmer!

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sanjana samraj

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2 years

Fun fact: Sabyasachi even designed the uniforms!

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sanjana samraj

@SamrajSanjana

10 months

1st day in a Teach For India classroom 💛

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sanjana samraj

@SamrajSanjana

2 years

There’s something beautiful and extremely touching that the architect says about her work in context of India👇🏽🇮🇳

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sanjana samraj

@SamrajSanjana

2 months

An Indian school built on a farm where children learn by walking around in nature and hiking mountains? Can it be possible? Yes, it is very much possible! This is the story of Marudam Farm School, a multicultural educational setup! 👇🏾🧵

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sanjana samraj

@SamrajSanjana

6 months

Happy Deepavali to all those celebrating! 🪔🪔

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sanjana samraj

@SamrajSanjana

5 months

Is ALTERNATIVE education only for the rich? Contrary to popular belief, on the outskirts of Bengaluru is an alternative school that truly empowers children who come from underprivileged and abusive households!🧵👇🏾

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sanjana samraj

@SamrajSanjana

3 months

Changed the classroom design a tad bit today. Just benches to be specific and it had a huge impact in how children automatically began to listen to each other + increased peer learning.

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sanjana samraj

@SamrajSanjana

11 months

Did you know that Indonesia’s current education minister was the founder of a startup called Gojek?

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sanjana samraj

@SamrajSanjana

1 year

You might be thinking Gurukula Systems belong to the past but there is a Gurukula in Bangalore that is challenging our Indian education system! 🧵👇🏽 @vidyakshetra

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sanjana samraj

@SamrajSanjana

2 years

Naval Ravikant once said “If you can’t code, write books and blogs, record videos and podcast”. Why does my life look like I’m living by this quote?

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sanjana samraj

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2 years

Who is a YouTuber that you always learn something new from?

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sanjana samraj

@SamrajSanjana

11 days

Left the itinerary at home today. Just walked around without a particular place is mind. I think one of the best ways to explore a city is to walk aimlessly!

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sanjana samraj

@SamrajSanjana

2 years

Hello hello Twitter 👋🏾 I am looking for a few volunteers to record children’s books in their voices! Criteria: - voice modulation - storytelling skills - an ease with reading out loud If interested, send 👋🏾 in the comments! RT for Karma 💛🌎

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sanjana samraj

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2 years

In an alternative world, what career would you have chosen?

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sanjana samraj

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1 year

Bali is not just for honeymoons but it is home to the greenest and most sustainable school in the world! Can’t believe this is actually a school!

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sanjana samraj

@SamrajSanjana

2 years

Just got my first 100 subscribers on YouTube! 🫶🏽

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sanjana samraj

@SamrajSanjana

11 months

An Israeli couple transformed 70 acres of land in Tamil Nadu into a sustainable forest that explores not only alternatives approaches to education but also an alternative lifestyle! 🧵

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sanjana samraj

@SamrajSanjana

1 year

Found another beautiful school called Atelier in Bangalore! Apart from its exterior beauty, I’m more impressed by its educational philosophy!

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sanjana samraj

@SamrajSanjana

30 days

4 different alternative schools. What is one common thing that you notice?

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sanjana samraj

@SamrajSanjana

26 days

15 documentaries is the goal for this year. Here is the plan :) Last 2 options, still need to be decided. I’ve highlighted what’s already shot. Riverside will be done on Monday!

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sanjana samraj

@SamrajSanjana

1 year

Last Saturday I visited “The School” in Chennai, 1 of Krishnamurthi’s 6 alternative schools in India. It’s methodology is one of a kind! Here’s everything that makes it alternative👇🏽

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sanjana samraj

@SamrajSanjana

1 month

Book recommendation: There’s this super interesting book called “children solve problems” by Edward de Bono where the author gives children problems and they draw their solutions out. The book is a compilation of these drawings by children! Read this introduction👇🏾

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sanjana samraj

@SamrajSanjana

4 months

This man TRANSFORMED a road into a classroom! And converted walls into blackboards! 💥 This is how Deep Narayan Nayak began to be known as ‘Teacher of the streets’! 🧵

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sanjana samraj

@SamrajSanjana

10 months

Hello 👋🏾 6 weeks of Teach for India done✅ I’ll write a thread tomorrow on everything I’ve learnt + changes in my perspective towards education!

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sanjana samraj

@SamrajSanjana

2 months

Why Kannada medium? Based on research and common sense, they felt that children learn better in their mother tongue. They believe we have made it a norm to learn in an alien language that is in no way connected to the land and surrounding. So an instinct, they took this step.

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sanjana samraj

@SamrajSanjana

1 year

I’ve written a couples of threads on different alternative schools/ organisations in our country so I thought it’s time to make a MEGA thread to put all of them together so that it’s easily accessible! Here are 10 threads! 👇🏽

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sanjana samraj

@SamrajSanjana

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Recap of all the schools I visited this year: 1. Vidyakshetra, Bengaluru 2. Marudam Farm School, Thiruvanamalai 3. Arivu, Mysore 4. Isai Ambalam, Auroville 5. Riverside, Ahmedabad 6. Mahatma Gandhi International School, Ahmedabad For easy reference 🧵👇🏾

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sanjana samraj

@SamrajSanjana

5 months

I won a MICRO GRANT! 💥 The grant was given for an idea that I had around creating a makerspace that would push children to think critically, creatively and independently! Here is how the idea evolved! 🧵👇🏾

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sanjana samraj

@SamrajSanjana

2 months

New documentary will be out today at 6:30pm! Mysuru📍

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sanjana samraj

@SamrajSanjana

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Indian mothers 👑🥹

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sanjana samraj

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1 year

Meet up idea: come together and paint an under-resourced school!

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sanjana samraj

@SamrajSanjana

11 months

Their main aim is to create a culture of innovators and makers in India who can experiment without the fear of failing. Completely the opposite of our school system! I had the opportunity to speak to the people behind this building, here is what he said @ChintalaStudio :

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sanjana samraj

@SamrajSanjana

6 months

This is that same boy! From someone who didn’t want to read , today he read an entire story by himself for the entire class! 💛

sanjana samraj

@SamrajSanjana

8 months

Today a teacher call a child ( 9 y/o), a “rowdy” and that he will turn out to be one when he is older. She said it with so much conviction. He is just 9! It scared me that if adults like this repeated this with so much conviction systematically, he’d believe that himself one day

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sanjana samraj

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3 months

Montessori schools in India are mostly a SCAM! ❌ 🧵

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sanjana samraj

@SamrajSanjana

2 months

I visited this school in the beginning of March and made a documentary about it! Watch it here:

Arivu: Mysuru’s Hidden Education Revolution

Does English medium mean BETTER quality education? Let’s explore an alternative Kannada medium school in Mysuru that challenges this idea! Why did they start...

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sanjana samraj

@SamrajSanjana

1 year

I can’t take how beautiful this school in Bangalore is! Every aspect is so well thought out! 🧵

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sanjana samraj

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2 months

Made a cake today for a birthday! 🍊

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sanjana samraj

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1 year

This is a school that dreams are made of and I felt like there’s a LOT we can learn from this space! This school is called The Yellow Train School, in Coimbatore!👇🏽

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sanjana samraj

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8 days

Every month, there’s a new book I obsess over. This month, it’s this!

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sanjana samraj

@SamrajSanjana

9 months

1st day teaching in Bangalore! 💛 Karnataka state board textbooks are actually pretty impressive, I’ll write more about it after a week of teaching!

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sanjana samraj

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22 days

In Ahmedabad for the next 2 weeks! Give me your recommendations on places to eat & things to do!💛

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sanjana samraj

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Do higher fees in schools mean BETTER quality education? Let’s look at this alternative school in Auroville that shows us how this is ABSOLUTELY not true! 🧵 💡Note: if you want to volunteer in Auroville, read till the end.

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sanjana samraj

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1 month

New month, new documentary!

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sanjana samraj

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1 year

Done and dusted! Early childhood education diploma. The most important thing this course has given me apart from the beautiful network is “hope” Hope that there are a lot of people out there who care about children and education in India. Small win on this journey 💪🏾

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sanjana samraj

@SamrajSanjana

1 year

Bucket list checked: get a children’s book published ✅💛

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sanjana samraj

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24 days

In Riverside, Ahmedabad today :) Super inspired to do more and keep going 💛🫶🏾

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sanjana samraj

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1 month

To parents and educators, Finally making a community on WhatsApp where we can have more uninterrupted + deeper conversations around education and what it means in the context of India. RT for this to reach the right people or tag someone you think would benefit from this💛

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sanjana samraj

@SamrajSanjana

3 months

So this happened! Remember I made a documentary about Ananya Trust? After I posted that video, @malpani through @apnipathshala_ provided 10 PCs to the school to build their own pod! Now they have a room where children have access to great quality PCs! Have a look! 👇🏾

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sanjana samraj

@SamrajSanjana

9 months

Missed you so so much Pondy! 💛

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sanjana samraj

@SamrajSanjana

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Something they told us in school, that still makes sense to me till this day: A life without a goal is a life without joy. But the quality of your life depends on the quality of that goal.

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sanjana samraj

@SamrajSanjana

1 year

There is suddenly a new wave of leadership courses out there now! Too many to count! But I found 1 leadership course in Kerala that is SUPER UNIQUE and will make you re-evaluate your definition of inclusion! The organisation is called Kanthari!

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sanjana samraj

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2 months

How do children learn differently here? And what makes this school unique? Here are 4 things that stand out: 1. No homework 2. No tuition 3. Thematic learning 4. Learning by doing Let’s dive deeper into each of these categories!👇🏾

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sanjana samraj

@SamrajSanjana

1 year

I’m 4 subscribers away from 500 on YouTube! 🎉 Here is visual representation of the time it took to grow with a comparison of my hair growth! Short hair is at 3 subscribers 💛

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sanjana samraj

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11 months

Who is this for? This is for anyone who wants to experiment with hardware and needs a space to help their ideas come to life! Most people have ideas but don’t have a space where it is easy to express those ideas! T-works is like the bridge between ideas and manifestation.

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sanjana samraj

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2 months

Why did they start this school? There was a lot of frustration around the British education system and the factory model that schools used. That’s when a group of friends came together in the early 2000s and wanted to change it for good.

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sanjana samraj

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11 months

T- works was inaugurated on March 2nd 2023. The main question is WHY was this established? Here is their mission!👇🏽 1. Lower barrier to entry for creativity 2. Create a network of creators 3. Active collaboration 4. Opportunity for upskilling

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sanjana samraj

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2 months

Today’s let’s talk about a school that was started by an inspirational woman! This Indian school also won the prize for the World’s MOST innovative school! Here is the story of how Riverside, Ahmedabad started 🧵 @kiranbirsethi

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sanjana samraj

@SamrajSanjana

2 months

How to choose a school? (Simple trick) Visit the school and observe the children. What do you notice? Are children asked to walk with their hands behind their backs and with their heads down or are they running around playfully? Their body language will be your answer!

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sanjana samraj

@SamrajSanjana

1 month

Good to be back home when the roads are empty!

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sanjana samraj

@SamrajSanjana

11 months

Reached 1k subscribers today! Took 10 months for this to happen so let’s continue the visual tradition of comparing hair growth it took from 0 subscribers to 500 to finally 1k! 💛 Finally going to cut my hair now 🙌🏽

sanjana samraj

@SamrajSanjana

1 year

I’m 4 subscribers away from 500 on YouTube! 🎉 Here is visual representation of the time it took to grow with a comparison of my hair growth! Short hair is at 3 subscribers 💛

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sanjana samraj

@SamrajSanjana

2 months

Random fact: I ran a cookie business with a friend during the first COVID wave as I was graduating that year and the whole timetable was topsy turvy. Ran it for around 10 months! It was called Circle: eat poetry. It came in a circular box, with art on the box+ a poem inside 🥹

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sanjana samraj

@SamrajSanjana

2 months

The latest theme was water. In this theme students learnt all aspects of water. The maths of it, science of it, songs were learnt about water ,a drama was presented, environmental aspect was discussed and so on.

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sanjana samraj

@SamrajSanjana

1 year

Hello from a Chandigarh government school! 👋🏾

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sanjana samraj

@SamrajSanjana

1 year

I used to believe that Finland or some other so called ideal system could show us how to approach education but I was wrong! I’m mind blown by the amount experiments around education and schooling that are taking place in our own country. Exciting time to be in this space.

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sanjana samraj

@SamrajSanjana

11 months

Example of what they offer! 👇🏽 1. Metalworking 2. Woodworking 3. Ceramics 4. Facilities that include 3D printing 5. Laser cutting 6. Electronics test and measurement

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sanjana samraj

@SamrajSanjana

2 months

They realised if they couldn’t change the entire system, they wanted to change at least one school! So the school started in 2008 as an attempt to fix all that they believed was wrong with the factory model!

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sanjana samraj

@SamrajSanjana

21 days

Top 5 books you need, to get started in education or understand this space more in depth + more holistically🧵

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sanjana samraj

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1 year

Being an aunt forces me take education and schooling for the next generation a lot more seriously 💛

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sanjana samraj

@SamrajSanjana

1 year

This place is called Bhoomi College and just like the name suggests, Bhoomi (earth) is inspired by our planet. For most of us, college life is about scrambling to finish assignments but here it’s about the ability to connect with our earth and to follow a sustainable lifestyle!

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sanjana samraj

@SamrajSanjana

2 years

Given that this tweet is blowing up, I would like to plug in my YouTube channel here for whoever wants to learn more about education :

Sanjana Samraj

I am an educator attempting to change the future of conversations around education so that the next generation does not have to go through what we did. Let's explore all the various approaches to...

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sanjana samraj

@SamrajSanjana

2 months

Starting a second makerspace in another school in Bengaluru! The aim for this year is to have a minimum of 5 functional maker spaces set up in schools🚀

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sanjana samraj

@SamrajSanjana

2 months

There are hundreds of tweets about what people wish they learnt in school. But the real need of the hour is building “student agency”. Building an environment where they want to start and complete projects independently rather than depending on an adult for instructions.

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sanjana samraj

@SamrajSanjana

1 year

My nani with my just recently published children’s book💛

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sanjana samraj

@SamrajSanjana

1 year

I feel like perspectives and history are key to understanding an issue holistically! So here are 10 books you SHOULD read if you would really like to understand the Indian Education System better! 👇🏽

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sanjana samraj

@SamrajSanjana

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Afternoon was spent at Sahaay, an organisation working with children living in the slum area in Ahmedabad. Great to see @zeal1992 working with these children who have so much to offer to the world! 🫶🏾 Teacher in me was brought back to life!

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sanjana samraj

@SamrajSanjana

2 months

2. No tuition They believe parents and the community play a huge role in the child’s growth. During the admission itself they make it clear that children don’t need to go for tuitions and instead need to play or interact with their parents.

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sanjana samraj

@SamrajSanjana

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Instead of restricting education to just school syllabus, they want an overall growth in children. Thus they encourage parents to take their children out for festivals, dramas, or even to the museum! Children need to learn from life rather than just books!

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sanjana samraj

@SamrajSanjana

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This place was built with the intention that children need a space that is dedicated for them to immerse themselves creatively and for them to become active members for change in the world rather than passive recipients of information! This is their thought process👇🏾

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sanjana samraj

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2 months

2nd makerspace is ready in Bangalore! As summer break is here, it will officially start in June! If you’d like to volunteer in any of these spaces, you can dm me:)

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sanjana samraj

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1. No homework Children spend a lot of time in school as it is, whatever work needs to be done can be done during school hours itself. They don’t want children to work on the school syllabus at home. If at all children need/ want to do something, only activities are given!

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sanjana samraj

@SamrajSanjana

9 months

I used to think a better curriculum or a colourful textbook would change how children learn but in a classroom, one of the key factors is how excited the teachers themselves are about the subject or lesson. The “joyful” factor then becomes contagious.

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sanjana samraj

@SamrajSanjana

2 months

Fees structure: Around 22k for higher secondary and around 17k for primary per year.

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sanjana samraj

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11 months

Something super exciting that this centre offers for people who want to create and build is a 1-year long paid Fellowship! Not only can you create with the facilities provided but you can also create a network and build products with other fellows as well!

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sanjana samraj

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Other activities that take place in the school:

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sanjana samraj

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1 year

We all know rote learning and mugging information are things of the past. But what’s the solution? Experiential learning might be the answer to how our future generations learn! I found 10 experiential learning spaces that BLEW MY MIND! 👇🏽 🧵

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Yesterday I found this class in Marudam Farm school SO SO interesting! The teacher made 3 groups: animals, plants and grains. She gave the kids 30 minutes to roam around the farm and observe their topic and come back with questions about what they observed. 👇🏾

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sanjana samraj

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1 year

My biggest resolution for 2023 is not to buy books… UNTIL I complete all the books that I have bought this year!

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With everything that is happening in Ladakh, here is an organisation in Ladakh that is making education culturally relevant with its alternative approach! 🧵

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3 months

This is something that Sri Aurobindo said years ago but I feel like it’s the most relevant advice for any educator! "The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught. The teacher is not an instructor or taskmaster, he is a helper and guide."

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