Design
Solutions, Assets and Open Digital Technology to enable Micro-Improvements
Orchestrate
Collective Action to co-create Education Programs and Prototypes with Governments and CSOs
We enable education leaders to adopt the micro-improvement approach which helps them to break down a big idea into clear, actionable tasks in a way that suits their needs. The frequent wins experienced through micro-level changes in school eventually feed into a continuous improvement cycle across the education system.
Micro-improvement stories of education leaders from different parts of the world, as they navigate challenges everyday to provide enriching learning experiences to our students.
As an orchestrator, we catalyse collective action and co-create improvement and leadership development programs with state governments, national education institutions, CSOs and markets to impact schools across the country, facilitating adoption of solutions at scale.
In today's world, when the pace of the growth of a problem exceeds the pace of solutioning, coming together, collaboration and co-creation is more relevant than ever. Through collective action by the holy trinity of change - Samaaj, Sarkaar and Bazaar - we drive impact at scale.
Key Programs
Vidya Amrit Mahotsav
National Mission for Mentoring
SQAA with CBSE
Along with the Central Board of Secondary Education, we have designed the School Improvement Program, using the School Quality Assessment and Assurance (SQAA) Framework to be rolled out in 5000+ schools across the country.
Punjab Education Collective (PEC)
PEC brings together the Samaaj, Sarkaar and Bazaar players to recast the Punjab state into a land of hope, courage and possibilities through systemic education transformation, employing a multidisciplinary, co-creation approach of designing, orchestrating, and evangelising change. PEC is a recipient of The Collective Social Innovation Award 2023 by The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, a sister organisation of World Economic Forum.
Co-building DIKSHA
We develop and enhance the functional capabilities of DIKSHA to power the learning and administration interactions as detailed in NDEAR. DIKSHA is the National Infrastructure for Education by the Ministry of Education, Govt. of India, and is available to teachers, teacher educators and school leaders on their mobile phone.
ELEVATE
ELEVATE (Energising Leadership with Enhanced Visibility and Administrative Transformation towards Excellence) is an open source infrastructure which offers a repository of micro services designed for scale and to support learning and improvement solutions for the Leaders in Education Space.
Edumentumx
Research on the Idea of Micro-Improvement
A study to explore the idea through the lens of the users of the approach- the school leaders & teachers. The objectives were to explore micro-improvement idea in-depth and understand the dynamics around change-adoption in the ecosystem. After 16 group interviews spread across 7 states, we have a plethora of insights and learnings that will further shape the idea for easy adoption and concrete results.
SolvED
SolvED is India’s first marketplace for social innovation in education leadership and a community of challenge posers, innovators and incentivisors to energise the entire education ecosystem through diverse perspectives and collaborative problem solving for education leadership.
District Empowerment Program (DEP)
DEP enables districts to design and implement education initiatives as per their region’s requirements. The districts will be able to rope in local NGO partners for help in multiple aspects of program management like content development, program designing, program implementation and pushing for adoption by end users on DIKSHA.
India Education Collaborative (IEC)
We are co-orchestrating IEC which aims to bring together social change innovators to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 4 and related goals by 2030 by catalysing collaboration, co-creation and collective action towards achieving three key objectives
- ‘design’ knowledge assets to democratise access to evidence-informed practices
- ‘evangelise’ the mission of education equity and the approach of collective action, and
- ‘orchestrate’ prototypes and programs to demonstrate the power of collective action.
Stay tuned for opportunities to join IEC!
Our Previous Programs
School Leadership Development Program, Uttar Pradesh
School Development Index
School Leadership Development Program, Puducherry
Systemic School Improvement Program, Goa
District Education Transformation Program, Tumkur
Continuous Development Program, Odisha
Continuous Learning Enhancement Program, Andhra Pradesh
School Leadership Development Program, Andhra Pradesh
Our Impact
Education Leaders
Micro-Improvements
States & UTs
Partners
testimonials
Jayasudha Roselet
Mantra4Change has been among the early adopters of ShikshaLokam platform. ShikshaLokam helps to build the capability of the team to create, curate and seamlessly disseminate the content. It also ensure sustainability of change efforts by helping us empower the stakeholders.
Anurag Kundu
ShikshaLokam has been a crucial partner of Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights (DCPCR), Government of Delhi in its mission to enable schools’ improvement through our project SDI.
Design, implementation and robust monitoring of large scale interventions require strong and scalable technology systems. ShikshaLokam bridges this much-needed gap.
Sangeeta Mamgain
ShikshaLokam provides a unique platform for leadership capacity development, with its very supportive team for implementation with stakeholders. We encourage other organisations to leverage the platform to provide learning opportunities to their stakeholders, at scale and in a short time.
Sidharth Chopra
ShikshaLokam has helped us in looking at the lens of scaling wrt every Intervention that we design. The bigger idea behind ShikshaLokam putting every resource created on the platform in the public domain is revolutionary for the development sector and is going to be very helpful for various organisations in the coming days.
Saumya Aggrawal
ShikshaLokam is an enabling force to leverage technology in addressing Indian education service issues at scale. The handholding support provided at every stage, right from thinking through design to strategy and execution, makes it a true collaboration a joyful and productive work experience for both.
Aayush Dwivedi
Onboarding more than 1000 first-mile users to the Platform has been a checkpoint in the partnership between Kaivalya Education Foundation and ShikshaLokam. Introducing the concept of a societal platform as a resource for educational leadership to the stakeholders was an intense process and the responses that we received gives us the anchor to take it forward with more users ahead.
Regila Marinus
Vidhya Vidhai’s partnership with ShikshaLokam has been a great collaboration. The organisation’s tools, mentorship and thought partnership has helped us be one step further in design and implementation of our solutions in schools. Our thought process changed from one school to solving a system problem with the resources and tools we develop. The platform capabilities have enhanced our thinking process.
Megha Kumar
ShikshaLokam is playing a significant role at Vidya Amrit Mahotsav in ensuring that objectives are met in the education ecosystem and it gets impacted positively as well. It has led the Mahotsav to success by being deeply involved in designing tech solutions, implementing the program nationally, conducting focussed outreach, capacity building of the key stakeholders, supporting the stakeholders.
ShikshaLokam is the recipient of The Collective Social Innovation Award 2023 by The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, a sister organisation of World Economic Forum, for its work as part of the Punjab Education Collective.
Our Partner Ecosystem
Visual Credits: iTeach SAV, Pune and Shaheed Gurdas Ram Memorial Govt Girls Sr Sec School, Zira, Ferozepur.
Evangelise page
Evangelise
The Mission of Education Leadership
We have created the only ecosystem in the country with 140+ partners. We engage in continuous dialogues with key actors and influencers at spaces such as ‘Cerebration’ and ‘InvokED’ around the importance of leadership in the education system and themes like micro improvements, collective action and societal thinking.
Our Work
InvokED
For InvokED queries and participation, write to priyanka@shikshalokam.org
Unbundle
Unbundle is a co-creation experience series to unfold and explore complex education policies and ideas with the education ecosystem.
In 2020, we unbundled the then recently released National Education Policy 2020, with a vibrant group of experts and NGOs. At the series of expert talks, design thinking sessions and creation of solutions, the group created solutions to take back to their programs. The 2021 edition was about designing education leadership programs which can go viral. We dug into the principles of virality and the participants went through a framework to prototype their programs and sustain the virality through network effects.
In 2022, we finally came together in-person with 12+ organisations to host Unbundle 3.0 – an immersion journey of unbundling the concept of Micro Improvement to strengthen and enable education leadership!
Cerebration
A co-learning series aimed to bring together partners towards applying societal platform thinking for education leadership
In its first edition, 45 participants from various development, education and education leadership organisations joined the four expert sessions to deep dive into conversations around
- Restoring agency for stakeholders with Rohini Nilekani
- Societal Platform Values with Sanjay Purohit
- Public Goods with Gautam John
- Catalysing Interactions in the ecosystem with SD Shibulal
The edition led to improved understanding and onboarding of partners to the idea of solving through societal thinking.