Aspirations of school leaders – One micro-decision at a time
This Photo Essay captures the contours and effects of school leaders’ work of government schools. This photo essay visually share with us the range of work that school leaders perform on an everyday basis, and the transformational effect they can have in education
Alokit is a team of dedicated educators devoted to transforming K-12 educational leadership. It empowers school leaders to strengthen their potential, leading to schools ensuring better student learning outcomes. In this photo story, the Alokit team have captured moments of strong leadership that have benefitted teachers and students.
Culture comes first: Ms. Madhavi, Vice Principal, TSWR Boath, Adilabad, Telangana, passionately implores the teaching staff during a staff meeting to delve deep into the cultural elements that would define their dream school, and to develop a positive school culture.
Extracting learnings from everywhere: Ms. Devasena, Principal, TSWR School, Narayanpet,
Telangana, urges the residential school staff to watch the movie ‘Hichki’ for a meaningful
discussion on school culture and the Pygmalion effect.
Teacher professional development through coaching: Ms. Rupa, Principal, TSWR School, Addaguduru, Telangana, promotes active learning strategies among the teachers during the monthly staff meetings. Ms. Rupa believes that sharing strategies through hands-on experience helps teachers to observe and learn to implement.
Enhancing teaching-learning through feedback: Mr. Vasudevacharya, Principal, TSWR School, Gajwel, Telangana, is actively monitoring classroom teaching and learning to provide valuable feedback for the teacher. His action of sharing continuous feedback showcases his belief to improve teachers to enhance learning in the school.
In and out – ensuring child safety: Ms. Evangilene, the Principal, APRS Vomravalli, Srikakulam, Andhra Pradesh, along with the Child Safety Committee is conducting an awareness session on Good Touch and Bad Touch by showing the Komal video to students.
One of the many roles of a school leader: Ms. Vijayalakshmi, the Headteacher of MPPS Manthronipally, Narayanpet district in Telangana, in a single-teacher-primary school conducting a TaRL-inspired targeted instruction lesson.
Strengthening student-school leader relationship: Mr. Jampa Cheodar, the school leader of a primary school in Karnataka, creates a safe and barrier-free environment for students to feel free around him. Interacting with students informally and sharing teatime with them is one of his strategies to bridge the gap between him and the students.