mindmingle ed-talks: opportunity to listen extraordinary indian educators
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Mind Mingle Ed-Talks is a two day event meant to expose school
leaders to the ideas of pioneers in education, will deliveryears' worth ideas, insights and inspiration in just two days
and revolutionize the sense of possibilities of transforming
education in India.
And to inspire, motivate and empower participants with the
practical ideas of improving quality education with minimum
resources.
Ed-Talks(Transforming Education From The Ground Up)
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MindMingle Takls is unkile any evnet you hvae
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• Mix of cutting-edge doers and thinkers who are passionate about the future of
Education.
• Expect surprises at MindMingle Talks, Surprising people, Surprising ideas,
Surprising encounters, Surprising connections.
• “MindMingle Talks transformation”—an energizing new way of thinking in multiple
dimensions.
•MindMingle Talks is a high-level exercise in thought-provoking and personalstorytelling.
Meant for every person who is involved in transforming lives of
young children, as a school owner, principal or teacher.
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You have dedicated decades of your life to mastering
a specific discipline. It’s natural to wonder why you
should spend two days :• Listen to Extraordinary Educationists
• An opportunity to listen to the Pioneers in Education
• No sponsor Session
• Mind Mingle Ed-Talks will expand your mind, Transform your thinking &revolutionized the sense of possibilities
• It’s first time, the combination of these creative educationists at one stage
• Ed-Talks will transform your thinking: Impossibility to possibility
• It’s not about examination boards, It’s about Education
• Know what top Educational philosopher(Aurobindo, Gandhi Ji, Krishna Murthi)dreamed about education
• Ed-Talks which will inspire you
• Time to end the excuses and make changes
• Thinking beyond the comfort zone
• Thinking out of the box
• MindMingle Ed-Talks makes for an exciting, enriching experience that actuallymakes you better at your own specialty
• Get ready to make difference in Education
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My India is in the Imran
Khan from Alwar – Prime Minister
Narendra Modi at
Wembley
A Passionate teacher who
donated 52 educationalapps to MHRD
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Babar AliWorld’s Youngest
Headmaster
“Started teaching at the age
of 9 and announced as world’s youngest headmaster at the age of 16 by BBC.”
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“To succeed in life, one needs
skills not certificates”
Reva Dandage
Co-Founder- Swaraj University, Auniversity where students make their
own curriculum and decide their own
path.
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Our education is related to our Mother Earth & nobody should be forced to leave his village for bread, butter and
Education.
Sachin Desai
Founder- University of Life
School without Walls)
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“ Education should be a liberating process. It should help us get in touch with our self and find our life purpose so that we can contribute to
the larger good of all ” ANJU MUSAFIR
Co -Founder – Mahatma Gandhi
International School
One of the most innovative
schools in India.
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Sachin
Usha Vilas
Joshi
Founder- Espalier
Experimental School,
promises to make learning
interesting through music,
art and drama.
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“Education means
all-round development of
personality of an Individual”
ShreyaSahai
A homeschooled teen
and uthor of “Getting
the Maximum Education”
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“To Educate poor
is to reduce poverty”
G.K.
Swamy
Founder-
PYDS Learning
Academy- Provides first
class education to the
poorest children of
nearby villages of Purkal
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“To contribute in order to put a smile on the face of a child is true human achievement”
Pascal
Chazot Co -Founder
–
Mahatma
Gandhi International School
One of the most innovative
schools in India.
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‘The first principle of true teaching is that‘Nothing can be taught’
~Sri Aurobindo~
Ramesh
Bijlani
Director, Mirambika
School
A free progress school,
where nothing is taught but
students learn)
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A professor who begs everyday for his students, runs English medium schools in slums to give free education to
poor children
Sandeep DesaiFounder, Shloka
Missionaries- Vidya Daan
Shreshtha Daan
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A British-born anthropologist inspired by J. Krishnamurthy
established an innovative school in Kodaikanal(A centre for learningOrganic, Agriculture
and Appropriate Technology)
Brian
Jenkins
Founder,
Sholai School
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' आमनो मोकाय जगद िहताय च |'“Education is for the
salvation of the individual
and the happiness of the world.”
Vivek Ponkshe
Former Principal– Jnana
Prabodhini Prashala
A 50 years old newly
experimental School)
Known for its futurology projects
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A passionate young educator started an
innovative school for gifted children A school for children with learning
disabilities“Teach me the way I can Learn”
G SenthilKumar Founder, Helikx School-
Seriously Different
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Speakers’ Profile
• Babar Ali, World’s Youngest Headmaster: How often do you come across a nine-years old
who wants to open a school for underprivileged children? Babar Ali did not only had this idea, healso executed it at that age in 2002. The news report helped him get noticed. Nobel LaureateAmartya Sen invited him to speak at Shantiniketan, while Ramakrishna Mission started helping himwith books and Stationary.
In 2009, BBC did a story on Babar Ali which brought him a lot more attention. Later he was invited totalk on prestigious platforms like TED and INK and he was also featured on Satyamev Jayate-Hostedby Amir Khan.
The Karnataka government has included Babar Ali’s story in the prescribed English Textbook for first
year PU Course.
• Ramesh Bijlani: Director of Mirambika Free Progress School, a school where Children and theirdiyas (didi , bhaiya) are responsible for dusting, tidying and beautifying their spaces. A book that isloved by one child may be less interesting to another. Normally, books are used only from the age ofsix onward. At no point are standard text books used. Clothes express some thing of the personality:no uniformality, no school uniform. It is important that clothes should not obstruct the movements
of the children.in July 1981, Mirambika opened with fifty seven children and ten teachers…. within a few years itwent on to become a very significant experiment in ‘Free Progress’ education – an education for thefree and unhampered growth of the psychic being.
Dr. Ramesh Bijlani(attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology) is the Director of MirambikaFree Progress School run by Sri Aurobindo Society. He is the author of more than 200 scientificpapers, more than 40 popular articles, and 10 books, including a 1000-page textbook for medicalstudents. His Interest in alternative education and making the present system of education more
meaningful continues out of Mirambika as well.www.mindmingle.org
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Speakers’ Profile • Sachin Desai: founder of University of life: Imagine a school without walls. Sounds too
good to be true. The programme is in sync with an innovative methodology that links school
education with real life situations. The ‘school without walls’ programme has been initiated
by Syamantak, an organisation that believes in the natural learning process. Sachin set up the
programme in his native village of Dhamapur in an 80-year-old house. Sachin says, “ when I
was in school I got opportunity to stay with school dropouts and slow learners and realised
that India’s huge 70 per cent drop-out rate is because students don’t learn skills, division into
curriculum and co-curriculum detaches education from actual life. Since life and education
merge in University of Life every activity is curriculum for us. A journey together where man
and nature confront and converge. At a time when debates rage on what and how children
should learn, here is an attempt……a pointer – University of Life. University of Life was alsorecently featured in Amitabh Bachchan’s Show Aaj Ki Raat Hai Zindagi.
• Sandeep Desai: ”One man army”, most of the 40 lakh aam aadmis who take thesuburban railways everyday know him, several lakhs have chatted with him and, crucially,
thousands have trusted him enough to give him their money. A former member of the Forum
for Fairness in Education, Desai was chief mover of several public interest litigations against
politician-led educational institutes including for unfair fees and more. Education is the cause
he is closest to, he is quite clear about that. Desai said: “There is a thin line between begging
and collecting vidya-daan (educational alm) for educational reforms and one needs to
understand the difference- the beggars take money to fulfill their needs while I collect alms
for others.”
Currently he is running 5 schools- 4 in maharashtra & 1 in Rajasthan. Desai has received
various awards and his act has been widely appreciated in the media. But this hasn’t slowedhim down.
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Speakers’ Profile
• Senthil kumar: Founder Director, Helikx: In India, around 13 to 14 per cent of all school childrensuffer from learning disorders. Unfortunately, most schools fail to lend a sympathetic ear to theirproblems. As a result, these children are branded as failure. Helikx is a school that differentiated thepurpose of teaching. The School was started to address the needs of Children who were alienatedfrom main stream education, due to learning disabilities, which affected their growth and generalbehaviour
Senthil himself is a dyslexic who grown up to become an educator, decided to help children likehimself (who face learning difficulties) set up an innovative school for gifted children.
He is a Special Resource Group Committee member for Specific Learning Difficulties of SSA of TamilNadu Government.
In the year 2012-2013 has won the GOLDEN EDUCATION AWARD from International Institute of
Education and Management for outstanding Achievement in Educational field of activities.
• Brian Jenkins: When the entire neighbourhood plunges into darkness-thanks to the StateElectricity Board’s crippling power cuts--the students and their teachers at Sholai School, are notpower-starved for a moment. Their school was never connected to the grid. It uses renewableenergy to meet all its requirements. The man who made this mechanism possible is their principal,Mr. Brian Jenkins, a British-born social anthropologist. Painstakingly, he has built a creative greencampus with the greater social good in mind. This disciple of J. Krishnamurthy is living his utopian
dream in the verdant hills of Palani. In Sussex, he met J Krishnamurthi. After obtaining his BA, hestarted teaching in Krishanamurthi School in brockwood park,UK. Later he came to India and startedbuilding Sholai School in 1989. Sholai School is affiliated with the Cambridge University, UK,. Schooldoes not believe in examinations, though teachers give tests to students at times, to check theirlevel of learning. Groups of children run their own farm plots within the 30-acre organic farm at theschool. Students have skills, these include Farming, Woodwork and a class called Machine Shed.Electrical, plumbing, and construction work is also taken up. Heating requires a lot of energy andthe proven alternative technology for the school is the Solar Water Heater. Sholai has two big (4 M³
and 25 M³) biogas plants that provide gas for the kitchen, Food Processing and Science labs.www.mindmingle.org
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Speakers’ Profile
• Vivek Ponkshe: Mr. Vivek Ponkshe has been the Principal of Jnana Prabodhini Prashala a high
school for highly gifted students for more than a decade. Jnana Prabodhini Prashala - MotivatingIntelligence for Social Change. Founded in 1964 affiliated to CBSE. School introduced various
programs and activities to Prepare child for Life like- Leadership quality development camp, Agrani
Yojna, Upasana, Use of multiple text books, Rural camps, Skills enhancement program, Expression
skills training, project methodology etc. It was one of the pioneers to introduce project-based
learning in India. The school is perhaps the only one in India to encourage futurology projects in
class 10, Its Library consisting of about 40 thousand books. Jnana Prabodhini is a non-political
organization which aims at the development of physical, mental, intellectual and spiritual qualitiesof people in general and of the youth in particular.
• Imran Khan: A passionate teacher who politely declined the job of Government project officer inthe Department of Science and Technology offered by Rajasthan Technical & Higher Education
Minister Kalicharan Saraf by saying that “no other post is greater than the current profile of being a
teacher.” He is a mathematics teacher in the Sanskrit Education Department and a self-taught
computer programmer. Imran developed his first app – The NCERT Learn science- for the class 9students in 2012. He has developed over fifty-two educational mobile applications and more than a
hundred websites till now, and donated all his applications to the Ministry of Human Resource
Development (MHRD) as a patriotic contribution to Digital India. He gained prominence after being
mentioned by the Prime Minister of India, Shri Narendra Modi, in a speech at Wembley Stadium,
London, in November 2015. Modi said, "My India is in Imran Khan of Alwar.
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Speakers’ Profile
• Pascal Chazot and Anju Musafir: Founded by Pascal Chazot and Anju Musafir in 1998, theMahatma Gandhi International School (MGIS) is a Public Private Partnership project in collaboration
with the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation. This school has made an international and qualityeducation accessible to the middle income group and offers full scholarship to 20% socio-
economically underprivileged families. The pioneering efforts of MGIS in terms of diversity,
accessibility, inclusive classrooms and qualitative feedback (without marks) led to the historic RTE
act in 2010. The school’s founding philosophy is based on class diversity as a learning tool. The
school’s experiential pedagogy is based on doing real projects. Through inter-disciplinary projects,
different subject specific cognitive competencies are developed in a holistic manner. As an action-
research centre, MGIS has created a framework of innovative class room pedagogy called
Generated Resources Learning (GRL) and teacher trainings through experiential methodology are
offered to government and private school teachers.
Prof. Musafir having 20 years of experience in teaching both adults and children is Doctorate in
Education, King’s College, London and awarded with ‘Rashtriya Gaurav Award’ 2014, ‘Glory of India
Gold Medal’ 2014, Best Citizen of India Award, 2015,
Dr. Chazot has also been an elected Member of Parliament in France for the French Overseas
representing the constituency covering Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, India, Sri
Lanka and Maldives, is a PhD in Psychology of Education and Doctorate of honour in Education from
University of Paris, he also holds various masters including Masters in Sanskrit.
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Speakers’ Profile
• Reva Dandage: Reva Dandage is the co-founder and director of Swaraj University, A Universitywhere students make their own curriculum and decide their own path. It is an alternative model
with a focus on self-design learning, including exploration of basic entrepreneurial skills within thecontext of environmental sustainability and social responsibility. It is India's first university
dedicated to strengthening local economies, local cultures and the rich diversity of local traditions.
Reva's passion is to create and host alternative spaces for learning, and through Swaraj University,
she facilitates young people in co-creating their learning programs towards their passions and
dreams.Reva has been passionately involved with democratic education since 2001. Her interest in
understanding the pedagogy of self-directed learning has taken her several alternative and freeschools around the world. She also experienced being a self-directed student during her graduate
studies at Goddard College.
• Sachin Usha Vilas Joshi: Founder of Espalier Experimental School, Nasik.
Espalier, The Experimental School is a concept based school. It ardently follows the Gandhi
Montessori philosophy that a child needs to touch and explore, learn and enjoy to understand theworld around him. The school is focused on experiential learning and most of the syllabus is
covered through innovative practices/projects.
‘Education on Wheels’ an initiative by Sachin V. Joshi, caters to the Education needs of slum
children and finds a mention in the ‘Limca Book of Records’
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• G.K. Swamy: Mr. Swamy is a very well known name not only in Dehradun but in the entirecountry. He is the founder of a unique school - Purkal Youth Development Society, this school was
started for the underprivileged people and it began under a cowshed when Mr. Swamy and his wife
Mrs. Chinni Swamy decided to do something for the poor people living in the village Purkul. Nowthey possess a fully furnished building and they have affiliation from the CBSE board to conduct
classes till 12th std. Mr. Swamy provides free education to all his students which also includes their
meals and stationary. Only the have-nots of the society are able to get admission in this school.
Apart from excellent English medium education, the students of this school also get opportunities
to participate in international youth exchange programs, where they get chance to visit and interact
with students and people from different countries.Mr. Swamy is the winner of National Gold
Karmaveer Chakra 2014 -15. He was also nominated by Institute of Nano Science and Technology,
Mohali for the INST Radhakrishnan Award for Education for his outstanding contributions in the
field of education.
• Shreya Sahai- Shreya Sahai, recently initiated into the ‘adult' club, is your everyday bibliophile,musicophile, and cinephile. Having grown up on books and learnt classical music for over a decade,
she has been liberally educated at home (‘homeschooled') since 2010, and registered herself as a
private candidate for the ICE certification with CIE and came out with flying colours - 5 A*s and 2 As
- in IGCSE. She now preparing to write her A Levels, still a private candidate.
A national scholar in Hindustani classical violin, she has also explored art, pistol shooting, film-
making, writing, fashion, photography and design in the years spent 'homeschooling', and has
already held exhibitions and performed in concerts in India and abroad. She recently finished
editing her first book, 'Getting The Maximum Education', which, coincidentally, is on educating
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