Dream a Dream, in collaboration with the Telangana State Education Wing and Samagra Shiksha Abhigyan, is implementing a socio-emotional skills approach in government schools across Telangana. This initiative aims to empower teachers to create caring and compassionate classrooms for children.
The Chelimi programme, part of this initiative, focuses on nurturing students’ socio-emotional skills and providing them with a caring and compassionate classroom environment where they feel valued and cared for.
Through a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Telangana State Education Wing and Samagra Shiksha Abhigyan, Dream a Dream has developed the Social Emotional Wellbeing programme, Chelimi. The programme facilitates a shift in educators’ mindsets towards empathy, non-judgemental behaviour, and acceptance, creating classrooms where children’s emotions are acknowledged and respected.
In 2023, the Chelimi intervention positively impacted 7,676 children and 66 teachers across 33 schools in all districts of Telangana.
We established a partnership in 2019 to support implementation of the Anandam Pathyacharya – a holistic curriculum in government schools. We, along with other Civil Society Organisations, are creating a safe space model where students understand and express their emotions and feelings and learn to connect with themselves, family, society and nature.
We support capacity building and life skills advocacy among teachers and other stakeholders in the educational ecosystem.
Dream a Dream signed an MoU with the Department of Education (Samagra Shikshana Karnataka – SSK) in 2022 to incorporate Life Skills and recommendations of the National Education Policy (NEP) in the Nali Kali Curriculum which is used in government schools. By co-creating the life skills / val-ue-based curriculum for SSK, we will impact 48,000 schools.
We provided SEL inputs in government workshops for 76 school teachers and proposed the pilot of SEL approach and Happiness Curriculum for SSK. We have submitted a proposal for a Life Skills Curriculum in Kasturba Gand-hi Balika Vidyalayas (KGBVs) and Adarsha school
Since December 2021, Dream a Dream is a part of Project Sampoorna, which is a Social-Emo-tional Learning (SEL) initiative for school-going adolescents by the Government of Jharkhand in partnership with a consortium of organisations. Project Sampoorna aims to apply a Whole Child Development lens in public education in India, emphasising the importance of a rich set of factors that enable children’s success in life and school.
The consortium aims to improve Social-Emotion-al Learning (SEL) of 1 million adolescents by building systemic capability across all 24 districts in Jharkhand. As part of this consortium, we are working towards four long term outcomes in high-touch districts and schools of Jharkhand to ensure that 40,000 students:
• Overcome negative emotional experiences
• Solve complex problems effectively
• Strive for self-growth
• Have positive social interactions
Dream a Dream contextualised the Harsh Johar Curriculum of the Government of Jharkhand that aims to develop creativity and social emotional skills in learners with a strength-based approach integrating inquiry-based learning with skill building for students of Grades 1 to 5 and further helped develop the same for students of Grades 6 to 12.
We signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Directorate of Education to integrate life skills in the education system in Nagaland. We will be supporting by building capabilities of stakeholders across governance structures in the state, demonstrating school-level outcomes of integrated life skills towards holistic development of children and in assessment of the programme.
We intend to build the narrative around the well-being of teachers and students through government bodies, local media, religious, tribal and cultural organisations in Nagaland.
PARTNERSHIP WITH THE CENTRAL BOARD OF SECONDARY EDUCATION (CBSE)
We are bringing in the lens of adversity and intersectionality, along with our expertise in life skills, in our collaboration with central educational agencies. We have signed a letter of two year partnership with the CBSE in 2022 to work on competency based assessment, life skills and well-being manuals.
We co-created and revised the training manuals for capacity building of Teachers, Principals and Counsellors on Life Skills and Well-being in Schools to integrate life skills within classroom interactions, school setups and learning pedagogy across academic and non-academic disciplines.
Holistic Progress Card (HPC) for Competency Based Assessment
Holistic Progress Card (HPC) is a 360 degree, multidimensional progress report that reflects the uniqueness of each learner in cognitive, affective, socio-emotional and psychomotor domains, promoting competency-based learning. We, as a CBSE knowledge partner, supported its implementation for Grades 1, 2 and 3 in 74 pilot schools along with online capacity building for 74 principals and 222 teachers.