Webinar started with brief introduction of Teachers by Megha Gajjar (FAIR-E). Prof. Anil Gupta gave his introductory

comments by saying that “as we have hunger for food these teachers have created hunger for knowledge, curiosity and creativity between students”. He added that when school teachers are helping world with such curious, independent and empowered children then next generation will be very self-dependent and they will give us a very good and developed society. He requested Rakesh Navanadisar to share his journey as a Teacher and Progress of his

school which is known as “Masti Ki Pathshaala”. Rakesh Patel mentioned that when he has joined the school he was only one teacher in the school and has no idea how to handle everything single handedly. Another problem was of a attendance of students. He decided to make a school as such a place where student like to come and do not have fear of school. He started asking students that what kind of school you want and whatever suggestions came from student

they have discussed it and implemented in the school. They also have one “Student Assembly” which has 9 groups and students and teachers are in the group every group has di?erent responsibility of school work. And every 15 days they get to gather and discuss the work and ask questions to each other and discuss about the progress. Mr. Rakesh says that if we give freedom of decision making to student they contribute their best for the school and in any area of life. We should not think that if students are in 1st standard or 2nd standard and they cannot give good ideas or suggestions. In his school everyone is responsible for doing work and answerable to his work including Principal of the school. Even std. 1 student can ask him questions about his work. He further added that they have di?erent types of activities in the school like, festival celebration, learning from life skills, talking to senior citizens of the village, learning from nature, Idea store (where students can get waste things from home and make di?erent things from it.), games for children etc. They have school blog also through which they share school activities and photographs. Through this blog many people from India and world contacted the school and o?er the help in any kind. He added that we have di?erent type of classrooms and all things are decided by students not teacher. Where to seat? Where to put what all things are student decided and whole school is following that. He has shared some photographs of students activates. Reach to him through https://nvndsr.blogspot.com/ gitansh@gmail.com 9974598817. Ms. Vanita Rathod from School No. 93, Rajkot shared her experience as a principal and activities of the school. She said that when she was in school in 5th standard she wrote a poem and showed her principal and her poem was so good that it was on school noticeboard for 8 days. This inspired her a lot and she had started looking herself as poet and writer. For children of her school she did the same, 9 notice boards are there in the school where students

can showcase their creativity, writing skills, art etc. They also have science lab called “Mari Prayogshala” where student can do science experiments and get hand on experience of science activities. They have

activity called “Pustak Parab” reading campaign in which students are parent joins. In their library all books

are from donations, if its student’s birthday then they will donate one book and if it is teacher’s birthday then they will donate 10 books in the library. They have green school activity in which students do plantation in any waste thing and they do projects for knowing leaves of di?erent plants. She mentioned that they have made 12 short ?lms of students from which some are selected for NCERT competition and some are selected as best ?lm on state level. In this ?lms students only performs so that acting, speaking and narration skills can develop in students. Prof. Gupta asked Rakesh Patel to do this in his school also. We

can see short ?lms on her Youtube channel “Vanita Rathod” https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQSa- m1Ia3nNxVqIeP9Qygw/featured. Prof. Gupta appreciated her e?orts and work done and promised to visit

her school aher schools opens. He requested Nishith Acharya to share his activity of “Online Summer School” in which more than 1500 students and 350 teachers connected. He started with sharing di?erent kind of activities that school is doing like Shala Setu Program (awareness campaign for linkage between school and parents), School wall paintings with di?erent messages for parents and educational activities etc. He shared the incidence how they have started skating activity in school and students are participating in state level competitions. He then said about his summer school activity. He said that when school were open we used to do summer and winter camp of 15 days in school but now the situation is that schools are closed we thought that this year it would not be possible to organize the camp. Aher so much of discussion and demand from students we have decided to do it online. He took help of Pratik Prajapati a student of 8th

class who has his own YouTube channel named “Pratik Prajapati Team”, and he is very good at using technology. Mr. Nishith requested him to make a group of students on WhatsApp. On second day he made a group and they have started online summer camp activity. They are giving daily 1 activity to students to do

at home which includes activities like drawing, singing videos, audios, poem, essay writing, best from waste, art and crah, mehandi, rangoli, hairstyles, Sanskrit shloka speaking, storytelling etc. Today there are more than 1500 plus students from di?erent schools of Gujarat and other states and 350 plus teachers have participated in the summer camp and more than 120 days we have completed of summer camp. According

to him it might be world’s longest summer camp happened. He mentioned that aher uploading reports on

www.inshodh.org many schools have joined us. They have also included GCERT “Parivar no Malo” activities also in the camp. His summer camp activities and other school activities can be seen at ROPADA RPS School Facebook page and YouTube channel. Firdoz a creative student from Navanadisar School also interacted with Prof. Gupta and shared that he has made one Mic from Pencil graphite. Prof. Gupta concluded the

session with summary of teacher’s activity, he thanked all three teachers. He said that all three teachers has made opened many things in school so that they can use it freely, so this openness in nature always opens

our mind and get it spread in society. He asked teachers to conclude the session with one line: “From making good student to food school, good school to good society and from good society to good nation” – Rakesh Navanadisar, We have wings, we have to ?y, we have to ?nd our sky” – Vanita Rathod, Every person is good for something and that good thing is to be ?nd out by teaching and management” – Nishith Acharya. Prof. Gupta in the last added that they have created Micro Venture fund for Technical Innovations in the past so for spreading and supporting educational innovations also we have to make one fund in which all can contribute in Foundation for augmenting innovation and Research in Education (FAIR-E). He said that Prof. Vijaya Sherry Chand has spent all his life in ?nding all these teachers and spreading of their innovations in other schools. Webinar ended with thanks Note.