1.
Promoting
Quality and
Sustainable
Schools
Presented by
Rahul Pachori
Deputy Secretary
Dept of School Education & Literacy
Ministry of Education
14th September 2021

2.
Is Education a
Good Thing?
• “… the volume of education has increased and
continues to increase, yet so do pollution,
exhaustion of resources, and the dangers of
ecological catastrophe. If still more education is
to save us, it would have to be education of a
different kind: an education that takes us into the
depth of things. “
(Schumacher, 1997)

3.
Quality in Schools
• Access to education has improved but Quality of education is lagging
• Primary Focus must shift to learning outcomes with a ‘Student’ not ‘textbook’ centric approach
• Learning loss due to pandemic is accompanied with some learning gain in skills
• Quality in education encompasses the curriculum design, learning resources, pedagogy, assessment
designs, teacher competency and technology.
• This vision of Quality and Sustainable Schools is an approach to strive a balance between society,
economy and environment.

4.
Sustainability & Sustainable School
• A Sustainable School prepares young people for a lifetime of sustainable living, through its teaching,
fabric and its day-to-day practices.
• It is guided by a commitment to care:
• for ourselves (our health and well-being)
• for others (across cultures, distances and generations)
• for the planet (both locally and globally)
• A Sustainable School puts a high value on the well-being of its pupils and the school environment.
• Sustainability is concerned with sound management of resources (environmental and others) that
requires a change in thinking and practice.

5.
NEP 2020: Focus on Quality &
Sustainable Schools
• Universal Access from pre-primary school to
Grade 12
• Early Childhood Care Education
• Multilingualism and the power of language
• National Professional Standards for Teachers
(NPST)
• Equitable and inclusive education
• Standard-setting and Accreditation for School
Education
• exposure to vocational education
• Reforms in assessment

6.
Sustaining Education Outside the Schools

7.
INITIATIVES TO
PROMOTE QUALITY
AND SUSTAINABLE
SCHOOLS

8.
Focus on the Quality
of Education under
Samagra Shiksha
Scheme 2.0 Focus on
Learning
outcomes
Learning and
Assessment
including NAS.
Composite
School Grant
Learning
Enhancement
Programme
(LEP)
ICT Initiatives
Student and
Teacher
Exchange
Programme
NISHTHA PGI NIPUN Bharat

9.
Exemplar Schools
• More than 15,000 schools will be qualitatively strengthened to include all components of the
National Education Policy.
• They shall emerge as exemplar schools in their regions, handholding and mentoring other
schools to achieve the ideals of the Policy (NEP, Para 116)
• The aim of these schools will not only be cognitive development, but also creating holistic and
well-rounded individuals equipped with key 21st century skills
• More than 15 lakh students are expected to be the direct beneficiaries of the scheme.
• KVS and NVS schools will also be included
• States/UTs can create cluster/complex around these exemplar schools to enable the benefit to
reach to more schools/students in the cluster.

10.
Externally Aided Projects
Strengthening Teaching-Learning and Results for States Program (STARS)
STARS program aided through World Bank funding focuses on:
(Participating States are MP, HP, Odisha, Kerala, Maharashtra, Rajasthan)
• improved learning and strengthening of school governance
• Strengthening early childhood education and foundational learning
• facilitating schools to work transition through vocational education
• improve learning assessment mechanisms
• support teacher development
• strengthening of service delivery
• ensure achievement of outcomes (Result based lending model is deployed)

11.
Whole School
Sustainability
Framework
Barr, S. K., Cross, J. E., & Dunbar, B. H. (2014). THE WHOLE-SCHOOL SUSTAINABILITY FRAMEWORK

12.
The Way
Forward
• Quality and Sustainable Schools means involving the whole
school and its mechanisms in an action research like process
• accepting that school development is not only a complex process
but also partially unforeseeable
• It needs to be a continuous quest embedded in a structure with
regular assessment and revision of quality criteria proposed and
concrete action plans
• Promoting Quality and Sustainable Schools is an ongoing
quest of developing schools, building school culture and
communities in directions that benefit all learners, now and in
the future and at the same time minimize our negative
environmental impact.

13.
The Yellow Train School
An alternative Model
Bogie Library — Yellow Train
Yellow Train: Coach in the playground

14.
“Education for
life, education
through life,
education
throughout life”
- Mahatma
Gandhi
“Education for life,
education through life,
education throughout
life”
Thank You