NISA Successfully Completes its
2-Day Workshop
with a Clear Identity and Next Steps
for Expansion
Association members now prepare
for state representation to expand and tackle the
challenges
posed by the RTE to bring affordable
and quality education to the poor.
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New Delhi, 19 June 2012 — Members of the
National Independent Schools Alliance (NISA) successfully
brought their two-day workshop hosted by Centre for Civil
Society, in partnership with the Friedrich Naumann
Foundation to a close this past Thursday at the YMCA in
Connaught Place, New Delhi.
The two-day workshop was designed to
provide all 45 association delegates representing over 11
states—Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan, Bihar,
Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Delhi, Manipur
and Himachal Pradesh—and over 5,000 budget private school
and low-fee schools, insight on the needs of first
generation learners and variables for delivering effective
lesson plans to increase student performance.
The workshop was
a grand success as NISA members came together and
identified themselves collectively as an alliance of budget
private school and low-fee school associations across India,
working to secure affordable and quality education for
marginalised and economically weaker families.
Pritha Ghosh
introduced creative classroom management and teaching
techniques to boost quality education while Parth J Shah
provided guidance on effective and efficient organisation.
With these new ideas, NISA members have agreed upon
state-organised outreach and advocacy approaches to address
issues of feasibility and compliance relating to the
recognition norms and 25% reservation under the Right to
Education Act (RTE).
In the next six months, with support
from Centre for Civil Society, NISA will create its by-laws,
consolidate its formal structure at the national, state and
district levels, and introduce membership norms and
associated fees for participation. Registration and a
proper structure should ease efforts for the National
Leadership Committee to finalise state-led workshops in
four to five states this year. The objective is to promote
NISA’s mandate to grow the coalition of budget private
school associations and share best practices to enhance
teacher-student engagement and improve student
performance.
With NISA
becoming a growing representation of budget private school
and low-fee school associations, current NISA National
Coordinator, R.C. Jain, feels confident that the National
Leadership Committee and elected state representatives will
be able to tackle critical challenges brought forward by the
RTE and remove misconceptions and negativity that surround
fee-charging schools in India. |
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