SARD efforts are focused towards complementing relevant mandates of Government on education in their schools. This is ensured by bridging gaps in accessing quality education for young children – especially for girls and vulnerable groups – and to increase student enrolment, retention and completion. SARD demonstrate and practice child centered pedagogy in the classroom process and ensure a child friendly environment, which is conducive to holistic development, of children, by employing unique strategies and best practices like building skill capacities of teachers and motivating children through various learning resources, indigenously developed and evolved by SARD to complement school curriculum. Engaging children and communities in school management activities for issues like quality education, gender and healthcare, are strategized, to bring in user perspective and to address their needs. The major portion (70%) of SARD interventions revolves around education portfolio.

SARD developed various models to mantle this key portfolio, the important ones are

•   IMPROVE THE LEARNING LEVEL OUTCOMES of government school children through developing innovative pedagogical tools and assessment practices
•   SUPPORT STATE GOVERNMENTS in writing curriculum, supplementary textbooks and refining assessment practices
•   ENHANCE THE CAPACITIES of teachers, BRPs, mentors and front line staff on addressing hard- spots, weak skills, leadership and management skills
•   INTEGRATE TECHNOLOGY into the classrooms and promotion of digital literacy in collaboration with national agencies such as NCERT and CIET
•   DISSEMINATE OUR LEARNINGS in various national and international level forums and workshops
•   MAINSTREAM OUR MODEL, approach, best practices & learnings within the government system

Taking ahead hitherto work, SARD would like to converge its activities to complement the National Education Policy 2019. Schools shall thus promote activity-based learning and support teachers with educational technology through variety of intervention enabled by SARD. These include consolidation of successful practices, scaling up to unreached schools of the existing operational area and mainstreaming the best practices in other Municipal corporations.

Value additions, like e-content development in close collaboration with NCERT and few SCERTs aimed at addressing the misconceptions and common errors of primary grade teachers (Grade 1 to Grade 5) for Mathematics and Hindi subjects, shall be pursued. This e-content will be provided as a learning resource material to fill gaps in existing content. In addition, efforts towards evolving methods for mobile application-based e-Assessments to assess performance of students, at each school level, is envisaged to be introduced after getting it field tested and building teacher capacities to use it. This will also help them to reduce human errors, teacher burden relating to cumbersome paperwork, and analyse focusing on student performance in real-time. SARD would also work towards optimizing SMART classes by strengthening its video- based teaching sessions, with support enabled by SARD academic facilitators-AFs, to provide visual learning experiences in classes on the E-content developed and other resources through effective convergence.