by Akshara Foundation | Aug 14, 2015 | Akshara Foundation, Akshara Ganitha, Education, koppal, kushtagi, libraries, math, mundargi, sarva shiksha abhiyan, stories, teaching-learning materials
Seeing the schools in Kushtagi and Mundargi was the favourite part of my time with Akshara. Our school visits were unannounced, like the house visits, so we were able to see a real school day in progress, and Akshara was able to check on the students’ progress....
by Akshara Foundation | Aug 14, 2015 | Akshara Foundation, community, Education, koppal, kushtagi, mundargi, parents, stories
No American visiting India for the first time really knows what to expect. The India that one visualises from the descriptions of travel websites, friends, and relatives is one of stark contrasts between clean and polluted, modernity and tradition, rich and poor. So,...
by Akshara Foundation | Jun 1, 2015 | activity based learning, Akshara Foundation, government school, library, stories
Last academic year was all about bringing Lakshmi up to speed with complex words, encouraging Mounika to fuel her desire to write stories, teaching Swati how to join letters and form words and pushing Faizan to read whole paragraphs. How did we manage this? Well, by...
