CAMPUS AROUND THE CORNER

community movement for children

AGENDA
THE QUESTIONS THE PROBLEM IN OUR EDUCATION SYSTEM THE SOLUTION WE, THE COMMUNITY THE STAKEHOLDERS THE MODEL THE ORIGIN THE WORKING THE PARTNERS EXISTING SEEKING PARTNERS FOR CHANGE!!! THE OUTCOME THE CALL

THE QUESTIONS

Do we really have a problem in the Indian Education System?

A resounding "yes!"

Who is to be blamed? People who are contributing are blamed and those who watch are the ones pointing the fingers. When governments , policy-makers & the academia, notwithstanding their earnest effort could hardly make any real impact can we do something about it?

A definitive "yes!"

THE PROBLEM IN OUR EDUCATION

SYSTEM
The problem lies in the serious disconnect between teaching, learning and assessment.

We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow. Oscar Wilde

THE STAKEHOLDERS

Before we try to arrive at a solution for the problem, we need to figure out who the stakeholders are: Traditionally accepted:
Administrators Government & Policy-makers Teachers Students

Other stakeholders, to be included:

Parents? Alumni? Other members of the community, such as:

Retired people / home-makers??

Policy-makers / Government

Mentors / Other community member

Administrator

Alumni

Stakeholders @ The Campus + Supported by Campus Around

Teacher

Parent

Student

THE SOLUTION WE, THE

COMMUNITY

Traditionally, THE RESPONSIBILITY AND

ACCOUNTABILITY HAS BEEN VESTED WITH TEACHERS AND THE ADMINISTRATION but with the transformation

of the world economy into a global village and the transition from industrial to the information age i.e. knowledge economy, THE PROACTIVE AND SYSTEMATIC INVOLVEMENT OF ALL THE STAKEHOLDERS IN THE SYSTEM IS THE ONLY SOLUTION to the problems in our education system. CAMPUS AROUND THE CORNER (hereafter referred to as Campus Around) will act as a catalyst by providing the Community Model, Technology Platform and other requisite resources for seamless integration of the otherwise disparate system.

THE MODEL
Type of involvement
01. 02. 03. 04. Parenting Communicating Volunteering Teaching at home

Benefactor
Parent Parent / Teacher Parent Parent

Beneficiary
Student Teacher / Parent Teacher / Student Student

05.
06. 07. 08.

Decision making
Collaborating with the community Knowledge/Expertise sharing Mentoring - Retired Professionals

Parent / Retired Members

Retired Members Parents

School
School / Student Teachers

Mentors / Parents

Students / Teachers

- Seniors @ School
09. Research-orientation/Innovations

Senior Students
Alumni

Students
Students / Teachers

Note: The CAMPUS AROUND MODEL is an adaptation of Epsteins conceptual framework for family-school-community involvement

Parenting Researchorientation/ Innovations

Communicating

Mentoring

CAMPUS AROUND
Model

Volunteering

Knowledge / Expertise sharing

Teaching at home

Collaborating with the community

Decision making

THE ORIGIN
CAMPUS AROUND THE CORNER is a start-up NGO, working towards a transformational community driven movement for improvement in the quality of education provided to children in India.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

CAMPUS AROUND was established in 2011, originally conceived to publish informational materials to bring about the intended change in the community. However, on our interaction with various stakeholders in the community, we realized that ACTION SPEAKS LOUDER THAN WORDS, hence we decided to get hands-on by becoming a grass-root level organization.

THE WORKING

Campus Around is developing a framework for the community involvement and will also deploy full-time and volunteering resources to enable SCHOOLS to adopt the model. Other than providing the literature for the model and the man-power, Campus Around will also, in collaboration with the technology industry, provide many Information and Communication Technology (ICT) solutions for use by all the stakeholders. Campus Around is an initiative to create a platform for the entire community including administrators, educators, parents, teachers and retired people, among others, to contribute to the holistic development of the child.

THE PROPOSED TECHNOLOGY

SOLUTIONS

The proposed technology platform may include

an online portal, b) objective driven social networking platform for the stakeholders interaction, c) platform to build a digital knowledge repository of learning resources, d) a not-for-profit online market place for institutional needs fulfillment
a)

CAMPUS AROUND AS A CCE ENABLER

Campus Around will help the teacher in honing the skills acquired through training from C.B.S.E. to assess the children as per the CCE* guidelines. Campus Around will provide the technology platform to assess the scholastic and co-scholastic areas as per the CCE Guidelines for the teachers to systematically and progressively, plan, execute and monitor to produce the intended result. Campus Around & the School concerned will jointly ensure that the parents are kept apprised of the progress of their children as a result of the systematic approach mandated in the CCE Guidelines. Campus Around will focus on attracting the parents support and voluntary participation for the holistic development of not only their children but the community as a whole.
* Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) refers to a system of school based assessment that covers all aspects of students development.

Mentor & Monitor CCE

Link the parents & the community to support CCE

Campus Around as a CCE enabler*

ENABLE THE SCHOOL to become an effective CCE compliant CAMPUS AROUND THE CORNER

Provide the technology platform & tools for CCE

* Note: Campus Around is a not-for-profit organization and is not affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE)

THE PARTNERS - EXISTING

Knowledge Foundation An expert group promoting Research and Development (R&D) in the fields of Social Sciences, Information and Communication Technology at the higher education level. Visit the official website at www.knowledge-foundation.org. Interfaith Foundation is an organization working for the welfare of the world at large and has gone far beyond the first step of just talking about religious tolerance. Its being increasingly recognized that world religions have much in common with each other. We are interrelated and interconnected with each other. We are not a group of islands but a Global Village. Visit the official website at www.interfaithfoundationindia.com.

SEEKING PARTNERS FOR CHANGE!!!

Campus Around being a community driven movement for change believes that the value that these partners bring in would eventually lead to achievement of the set goals. Other than the partners such as Schools, Community and those defined in the model, Campus Around is also seeking for partnerships in various geographies across the global who are having varied grass-root level expertise in the fields of:

Capacity Building Information and Communication Technology Organizations working for social transformation with special emphasis on education Organizations working in campaigning and implementation of `adult literacy programmes

THE COMMITMENT

Campus Around movement intends to bring about a sustainable CHANGE and positive IMPACT by 2020 for a minimum of ONE MILLION CHILDREN and about HUNDRED THOUSAND TEACHERS. Campus Around hopes to MENTOR AND MONITOR our PARTNER SCHOOLS to successfully implement the CCE Guidelines initiated by the MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT (MHRD), GOI, through the CENTRAL BOARD OF SECONDARY EDUCATION (C.B.S.E.). Once the CCE Model is proven in these Schools, we foresee all boards across the country adopting the same or similar model for change and hence the focus on C.B.S.E. for a start, but Campus Around will not limit its partnership to any particular board.

THE OUTCOME

Adoption of Campus Around model will eventually lead to the education system transition from teaching to learner centered approach, coupled with the proactive community participation for holistic development of children as mandated by CCE. Campus Around will assist the teaching community by providing functional models, systems and processes, and technology tools to perform selfassessment which will enable them to identify areas requiring personal/professional improvement inline with their career growth plans. To summarize, Campus Around believes in helping build an eco-system where not only children are given due emphasis, but also focus towards sustainable growth and development of the teaching community.

THE CALL
One of the needs of our society is a MECHANISM TO HELP OUR CHILDREN channelize the infinite resources available at their disposal, but the CHANGE will happen only when every member of the COMMUNITY comes forward to JOIN THE CAMPUS and proactively CONTRIBUTE towards achieving the desired OUTCOME rather than just blaming the system for its inefficiency.

IF YOU STRONGLY BELIEVE THAT THE PROBLEM STILL EXISTS AND THAT SOMEONE REALLY NEEDS TO ACT, IT IS YOU WHO HAS TO ACT.

BE THE CHANGE!!
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