Building Resilience 2020
Building
Resilience is the #SDG story of Quality Education in Kamla Nehru Public School
which is situated in a nondescript village Chak Hakim, Phagwara in India.
The school caters to first generation learners belonging to 65 villages. The
families are into agriculture, and some of them have also moved abroad to
greener pastures to provide better living standards for their children.
Kamla
Nehru Public School is a Microsoft Showcase School. Our Remote Team
work led to Building Resilience and work for Quality Education-
SDG4.
During
Pandemic COVID_19 there was no lock down for learning in our
school. We used Microsoft Teams for our Remote Learning. “Well began is half
done”, they say. We planned in December 2019. Teacher's training was
conducted in January
2020. During parent's training of Kindergarten to
Grade 3 in February 2020, we helped them to
download Microsoft Teams app and explained the features
too. Grade 4 to Grade 8 were already using Microsoft Teams App in the
Classrooms. We went for training of students from Grade to 12, who were
not hands on Teams App.
We were all set to start.
Our
Remote Team work led to Building Resilience and in turn achieve Quality
Education SDG4. Tablets, Laptops, Desktops, Mobiles, we educators used all
devices. We then had mock sessions and started Remote Learning classes for K-12
students from 2nd April
2020.
Leave No One
behind for SDG 4 Quality Education is what we believed in.
The result of our community outreach was the participation of:
·
Students of 4
CBSE Hub Schools.
·
157 Education
leaders in the inaugural session.
· 23 Students from
around the country joined our Remote Learning Classes.
We
worked for #SDG target 4.c, when Remote Team work led to empowerment
of educators in 2020. Today in our Team we have:
·
85 Microsoft
Innovative Educator Experts
·
85 Adobe Creative
Educators
·
29 Microsoft
Certified Educators
·
25
SDG Ambassadors
·
30 Microsoft Office
Specialist
·
04 Adobe Certified
Associate
We
worked for #SDG target 4.7 when students of Grade 11
&12 were engaged to promote Sustainable Development in an Online
Panel Discussion on 5th May
2020 “Jobs at Risk during
Covid-19". We joined United Nations Office of Drugs &
Crime (UNODC) Lockdown learner Series.
Followed by Students
of Grade 9 &10 participating in online Paper
Presentation on 9th May
2020, on “Covid_19: Impact on Human Rights, Peace and Rule of Law”.
Self-compose Rap songs session “Rappers
Delight” was also a part of UNODC lock down learner
series.
Practiced SDG4 Quality Education when during Microsoft Global Connect on 10th and
11th November 2020 we visited 646 Global Classrooms in 47 countries, in
48 hours using Microsoft Teams. This was possible because of Building Resilience.
Remote
Team work was all about SDG4. It was all about Reinventing
Learning. It was all about office hours. A session
student had 1:1 with the teacher to clear doubts after the regular online
remote classes.
Building
Resilience was all about Flexible, Friendly, Extended Evaluation. Quizlet,
Flipgrid, Wavelet, Nearpod, Minecraft, Adobe Spark, Microsoft
Forms, Slido, PowerPoint, Sway and Padlet, we used all
tools for evaluation, an exercise for IT skills enhancement of
the students.
Principal’s
Remote meeting with K-12 students and their families was all about Building
Resilience and thus Building Team Remotely. Daily staff well-being call
was for Building Resilience amongst my beloved educators. What were the
challenges today in my classroom? How can we support each
other? Which IT solution for challenges during remote
learning? Which innovation did you use in the
classroom for student‘s engagement? How can I help
you? We discussed all.
Daily
remote Class Teacher-Students Well-Being Call:
Was
all about Team Building
Was
all about Building Resilience amongst the students
Was
all about Social and Emotional well-being of the students.
We
Practice, Preach and Promote SDGs in our School. We had a virtual Global
day celebration from 18th-26th September
2020. Good nine days Online SDG Celebrations! A new
event every day. Mentioning three of them:
·
Comic Attack- was
preparing a comic strip on what a specific goal
is about. We used PowToon app for this.
· Let's write Quatrain,
a four-line poem on the favorite Goal, Students of Grade 7
to 12 tweeted a lot, for juniors the teachers tweeted their
Quatrain.
· SDG Ramp walk for
K-12 students was a community outreach program for SDG advocacy. The parents
joined the ramp walk in their houses, students
wore the dresses of the color of the goal they
advocated and held the goal placard. Event was very popular.
Remote
Team work led to a feather in our cap, we are International
winners of Global Minecraft
Championship2020.
Students from 61 countries participated in the championship. 1266 students' entries were
there and the event was judged by 105 judges.
Some
more achievements of 2020:
·
Microsoft Showcase
2020-21
·
Wakelet School
2020-21
·
Adobe National Winner
in adoption of Creativity
All
thanks to my beloved team of educators at Kamla Nehru Public School for
these achievements.
Remote Team
work led to Building Resilience and the result was:
·
We were featured by
Microsoft. Our School Story: “Going Virtual in the village” went
viral : Video Link
· We were on Twitter. A
post by Microsoft India talking about “Remote Team work- A guide to Building
Resilience”. School featured in a short video in the tweet : Video Link
·
Another story
published by Microsoft India “Kamla Nehru Public School, moves to
virtual classroom seamlessly with Microsoft Teams” :
Video Link
A 3 minutes film featuring Kamla Nehru Public School on Building Resilience with Microsoft Teams was released on 12th March : Video link
Now
comes the action, with some volunteers we at Kamla Nehru Public School plan to
open the virtual school for children in Remote areas who have missed an
academic year during Covid times.
Paramjeet
Kaur Dhillon
Principal
Kamla
Nehru Public School
Chak
Hakim, Phagwara
India
