Post #53.1 : The Story: Building Resilience 2020

  

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 2^nd 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 5^th 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 9^th 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 10^th and 11^th 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 

  

 

 

 

 

Post #57 Episode 5 : (12th March 2021) - Riseup4sdgs International Collaborative Project

RiseUp4SDGs International Collaborative Project 

SDG5: Gender Equality

 

Date:12th March 2021 

Day : Friday 

Time: 6 pm IST

We were joined by 562 educators and students around the globe 🌎 today during the Episode 5 . 

Meet our Partners and the Panelists! 

Thanks to our Partners #SdgChoupal , UNODC South Asia  #NexSchools #Smart Sustain . 

Moderator - Mr. Selvam Ravindranath Ghiyasuddin International School Male, Republic of Maldives 

P1: Key Note Speaker - Dr. Meenakshi Narula Principal Shemford Futuristic K-12 School, Auraiya, UP, India 

P2: School  SDG 5 Story - Ms. Anju Mehta, Shining Star International School, UAE 

P3: Newsletter - Ms. Hardeep Kaur Atwal, Kamla Nehru Public School, Phagwara, India 

P4: School  SDG 5 Story - Ms. Ploy M Bunga Mayuree Onthong Ban Raman School, Thailand 

P5: Art Gallery - Ms.Kiran Zulfiqar, AR Secondary School of Science Depalpur, Punjab, Pakistan 

P6: School SDG 5 Story - Ms. Shalini Chauhan -Indirapuram Public School, Delhi, India 

P7: School  SDG 5 Story - Mr. Bibash Thapa, English Teacher & Trainer, Nepal 

#SDGs #genderequality #StrongerTogether

Video Url: https://youtu.be/J_7MRgT12Rk

Newsletter: https://cutt.ly/MciRFTM

Virtual Art Gallery: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VkG7K1WNSY

#Riseup4sdgs 
Paramjeet Kaur Dhillon 

Post #55 Episode 3 : (12th February 2021) - Riseup4sdgs International Collaborative Project

WE RiseUp4SDGs International Project

SDG 3: Good Health & Well-being Session 3 

Another satisfying session 12th Feb 2021 at 6pm IST 

385+ people across the globe 🌎 were part of today’s Well-being session via #MicrosoftTeams & #Facebooklive 

We are #StrongerTogether

                                                                    

Moderator

Dr. Lee Saw Im

Seri Bintang Utara High School, Kuala Lumpur,  Malaysia 🇲🇾

Key Note Speaker

Ms. Corina Sujdea : Secondary School Mihail Sadoveanu Huși, Romania 🇷🇴 

Panelist

P1- School Story :Ms. Penchan Kongpet Warinchamrap School, Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand 

P2-  Virtual Art Gallery:Tour by Dr. Ashish Mittal Headmaster, Indirapuram Public School, Delhi, India 

P3-  School Story : Ms. Nadezhda Ivanova, Secondary School#5 Krasnoyarsk, Russia

P4-  E- Newsletter : Mr. Balpreet Singh Kamla Nehru Public School, Phagwara, Punjab, India 

P5-  School Story Ms. Kavita Sanghvi, Principal, CNM School, Mumbai, India

P6- School Story:  Ms. Swati Bakshi Purkayastha Founder, Funlish Kolkata, India

Thanks Dear Partners for supporting us SDG's: The Rising Sdg Choupal EduChoupal ,Educators ,Leaders working on SDGs and engagement with Children Smart Sustain NexSchools UNODC South Asia Lyceum Main UN SDG Action Campaign UNODC - United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Samarth Pathak Paramjeet Kaur Dhillon Global Goals for Sustainable Development Bushra Anis Naqvi

Webinar Link: https://youtu.be/ZnBpcwIFNnY

Newsletter Link : https://urlzs.com/bs4Kf

Art Gallery Link : https://youtu.be/Ljg_PWf-lzE

#RiseUp4SDGs
Paramjeet Kaur Dhillon 

Post #56 Episode 4 : (26th February 2021) - Riseup4sdgs International Collaborative Project

RiseUp4SDGs International Collaborative Project

Episode 4 : Friday, 26.02.2021, 6:00 pm (IST) 

SDG 4 "Quality Education" Friday 26.02.2021 at 6:00 pm (IST)

456 Education Leaders across the Globe 🌎 joined us during the live virtual event via #MicrosoftTeams and Facebook live . 

We are thankful to our Partner’s SDG's: The Rising  SDG Choupal #SmartSustain #NexSchools #UNODC South Asia #EduChoupal  #Educators #Leaders working on #SDGs and engagement.

Flow of the session was: 

Moderator - Md Mohiuddin, Presidency International School Chattogram, Bangladesh 🇧🇩 

P1: Key Note Speaker - Mr. Mentor Kovaçi Qamil Metalia Krume Has, Albania 🇦🇱 

P2: SDG School Story - Ms. P.K.Dhillon Principal, Kamla Nehru Public School, Punjab, India 🇮🇳 

 

P3: Newsletter - Ms Priyanka Pandey Radiant International School Patna, India 🇮🇳 

P4: School Story - Ms. Rina Ran, Wezmann Elementary School, Beit Yehosua, Israel 🇮🇱 

P5: Art Gallery - Mr. Ubair Khan Bloomfield Hall Johar Town Lahore, Pakistan 🇵🇰 

P6: School Story - Ms. Ishita Ghoshal, Principal, Kothari International School, Pune, India 🇮🇳 

P7: School Story-  Mr. P.M Nagarajan Pillai S.P. Murugapan SK Sungai Tuang Melaka, Malaysia 🇲🇾 

#RiseUp4SDGs

#StrongerTogether #SDG #sustainabledevelopmentgoals #QualityEducation Pankaj Sardana Global Goals for Sustainable Development Samarth Pathak

Webinar Video Url : https://youtu.be/L5eQFsVOuZk

Newsletter : 

Virtual Art Gallery :  https://youtu.be/L5eQFsVOuZk

#Riseup4sdgs 

Paramjeet Kaur Dhillon 

Post #54 Episode 2 : (29th January 2021) - Riseup4sdgs International Collaborative Project

RiseUp4SDGsInternationalCollaborativeProject

 SDG No - 2 No Hunger

29.01.2021

Today we were joined in 455+ educators from around the globe 🌎 during 1 hour live session held today at 6:00 pm (IST). 

Flow of the session:

1 : Welcome & Introduction.

2 : Moderator:

Bushra Anis Naqvi Principal - Lyceum School  Lahore Pakistan 

3 : KeyNote Speaker: Ms Farah Rustom 🇱🇧 International Academician Keynote Speaker Lebanon  About the Goal Targets & Indicator of the Goal (5min) - Farah Rustom 

4 : Virtual Art Gallery : Mohit Kumar Singh, IT Integration Head,  Indirapuram Group of Institutions

5 : Jingle E. Balocos(8 minutes) : Project Development Officer II Quezon City, Dept of Education 

Philippines

6 : Newsletter : Mr Amandeep Singh PGT, ComptSc, Kamla Nehru Public School Phagwara,India

7: School Story: Ms Nirmaladevi Kandasamy SK St Patrick SABAH, MALAYSIA

8 : Jasmeet Kaur : Science Teacher at S.T.S World School, Rajgomal, India, MIEE

Thanks 🙏 to the associate Partners for supporting  #SDG'sThe Rising #Sd Choupal #EduChoupal #Educators #Leaders working on SDGs and engagement with Children #UNODC South Asia #SmartSustain #NexSchools #Lyceum Main @Samarth Pathak Global Goals for Sustainable Development UN SDG Action Campaign #SDGs #QualityEducation #sustainabledevelopmentgoals

Webinar Link: https://youtu.be/fzzaxktDIyc

Newsletter: https://urlzs.com/SwtTv

Virtual Art Gallery: https://urlzs.com/WHrCZ

#Riseup4sdgs 
Paramjeet Kaur Dhillon 

Post #53 Episode 1 : (15th January 2021) - RiseUp4SDGs- International Collaborative Project 2021

 RiseUp4SDGs- International Collaborative Project 2021

The first Panel Discussion of “RiseUp4SDGs: International Project” on Sustainable Development Goal Number 1, “NO POVERTY”

Friday, 15th January 2021 at 5:30 pm IST.

Open Arms Welcome to Educators from around the world 🌎! Join Us in the journey to explore #SDGs . 

Let’s all collaborate to Create Awareness, Take Action and Shoulder Accountability for #SDGs. 

Let’s Collaborate to Accelerate United Nations’ Global Goals Agenda 2030.

Supported by Sdg Choupal UNODC South Asia NexSchools EduChoupal ,Educators ,Leaders working on SDGs and engagement with Children Smart Sustain UNODC - United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.

The first Panel Discussion of “RiseUp4SDGs: International Project” on Sustainable Development Goal Number 1, NO POVERTY was held on Friday, 15th January 2021 at 5:30 pm IST.

The details of the RiseUp4SDGs-International Project is as under:

  • RiseUp4SDGs is an eight month long collaborative project open to Educators and Education Heroes from around the Globe. Let’s all collaborate to Create Awareness, Take Action and Shoulder Accountability for #SDGs. Let’s Collaborate to Accelerate United Nations’ Global Goals Agenda 2030.

Project Details:

 1.Duration of the RiseUp4SDGs Project is 8 months.  

 2. Two Microsoft Teams Meeting proposed per month, preferably on 2nd & 4th Friday at 6.00 pm (IST).

3.In every meet we discuss only one Sustainable Development Goal. 

4. Panel discussion / presentation to constitute of  7 members + 1 moderator 

 5. From amongst the participants  Educators need to volunteer and act as panelist, 7  for each session and one moderator for each session.

 6. Each member shall have a different role to play in the panel discussion: 

 * First Panelist: Keynote Speaker would introduce, share targets, challenges and how to achieve the SDG Goal of the day. 

 * Second Panelist: Would share Best practice / School Story of School where one is working, on the Goal of the day.

 * Third Panelist: . : To present: e-Newsletter. Participants and Educators from around the globe to share their students Poems, Songs, Comic strips, Best practices / School Story with photos for the e-Newsletter to be published. Link of Students Videos of duration 30 seconds to 1 minute may also be shared please. 

 * Fourth & fifth Panelists:  Would share Best practice / School Story of School where one is working, on the Goal of the day.

 * Sixth Panelist : To present "The Virtual Art Gallery".... A walkthrough. All participants and educators from around the globe are requested to share their students’ Art Work related to the Goal of the day to make the Goal visible. 

 * Seventh & Eighth Panelist : Would share Best practice / School Story of School where one is working, on the Goal of the day.

 * Moderator would begin panel discussion with the focus on Goal No. 17, Partnership for Goals to accelerate UN2030 Agenda. Moderator to be the link and Help in smooth conduct of the panel discussion 

 *Strategy Adopted for the Project RiseUp4SDGs : Research and Peer Learning.

•Tweet Meet every month on the two goals discussed 

Newsletter : https://bit.ly/3ryg0dy

Webinar Link : https://youtu.be/7tfZUFdupak

Art Gallery : https://bit.ly/3fw5mBF

Let's all RiseUp4SDGs

Paramjeet Kaur Dhillon

Principal

Kamla Nehru Public School

Post #52 : Accelerating UN2030 Agenda....Post COVID19

#RiseUp4SDGs International Collaborative Project

#RiseUp4SDGs is an eight months long International Collaborative Project initiated by

 Ms. Paramjeet Kaur Dhillon- Principal Kamla Nehru Public School Phagwara, Punjab, India. 

RiseUp4SDGs is Facilitated by Ms. Rita Singh, Director Indrapuram Group of Institute and Ms. Bushra Anis Naqvi -Principal Lyceum School  Pakistan. The project will see SDG promoters from schools getting together twice a month (each 2nd and 4th Friday)  at 6pm IST to discuss Global Goal one by one and to share best practices of its advocacy in schools.

 

Purpose of initiating something like this was to unite all educators children in schools and all global stakeholders to end poverty, fight inequality and protect our planet. We are sanguine that these fortnightly sessions delving deep into each SDG one by one, as well as release of individualized newsletters devoted to each SDG and a a walkthrough in the Virtual Art Gallery, an exhibition of Students’ Art Creations related to #SDGs will go a long way in awareness building

Let's all RiseUp4SDGs

Paramjeet Kaur Dhillon

Principal

Kamla Nehru Public School