At Reach to Teach Foundation, we are currently focusing on the North Eastern States of India. Our endeavour is to try and bring about comprehensive transformation in school education, in the States we work in. Our current work is in the State of Arunachal Pradesh. We hope to be able to work in two more States by the coming year.

In order to monitor and evaluate our work, we have a programme embedded MEL framework. We use technology as an enabler and a multi modal approach by using existing tech infrastructure in the State to create outreach.

Key Interventions

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The School Readiness Programme (SRP) aims to help students settle into their school routine through six weeks of preparatory activities. It is designed to take place during the first six weeks of the academic year, helping students readjust to the routine of coming to school, interacting with peers, participating in classroom activities, and resuming their learning. Covering classes 1-5, the SRP activities are focused on social and emotional learning (SEL), English and Mathematics, and are culturally contextualised.
The Learning Recovery Programme (LRP) is aimed at bridging students’ learning gaps, enabling them to participate in learning at their appropriate grade-level. Spanning Classes 1 to 12, the LRP focuses on equipping students with the pre-requisite skills (aligned with critical learning outcomes) they must have to be able to meet the rigour of the class they are in. The aim is for students to acquire these pre-requisite skills rapidly to avoid chances of them lagging further in their academic achievement. To facilitate this process, the material developed has elements of experiential and activity-based learning and is contextualised to the local needs. Resources are developed for teachers and students, and a series of trainings for stakeholders across the education system are carried out as part of the programme.
The Learning Enhancement Programme (LEP) is intended to strengthen school and classroom processes to significantly improve learning achievement and prepare students to acquire advanced knowledge and skills. The LEP aims to enhance grade-level learning and help students attain expected learning outcomes.
Aimed at supporting students in appearing for and enhancing their performance in the Board examinations, this toolkit consists of academic resources and guidance for students and teachers. It creates opportunities for teachers to guide students in their revision and allows students to become self-learners through plenty of practice. The toolkit includes a significant socio-emotional component that guides teachers to help students cope with the Board examination pressure in an emotionally healthy manner.
To enhance the teaching and learning outcomes in Government schools, we have designed a Comprehensive School Transformation Programme that focuses on learning enhancement across Classes 1 to 12 across all Government schools. This is carried out by engaging with all stakeholders in the education ecosystem of the state. The interventions are in alignment with the recommendations of the National Education Policy (NEP 2020).

The key intervention areas of this programme include academic reforms (learning assessments, remediation, and learning enhancement programmes), capacity development of teachers, head teachers, and other system officials, community engagement (deepening involvement of parents, School Management Committees, and the larger community in school development process) and governance reforms to improve teaching and learning outcomes.

Enabling learning recovery so that students enter their age-appropriate grade in next academic year

2022

The School Improvement Programme (subsequently renamed the Education & Community Programme, ECP) was launched to support teachers develop their approach towards classroom management skills and enable stimulating learning environments, provide leadership training to Headteachers as well as reach out with community-based activities to improve attendance and engagement between schools, parents, and communities across three districts of Gujarat – Kutch, Bharuch and Morbi .

Have students attain grade level learning in 2023-24

2023

The School Improvement Programme (subsequently renamed the Education & Community Programme, ECP) was launched to support teachers develop their approach towards classroom management skills and enable stimulating learning environments, provide leadership training to Headteachers as well as reach out with community-based activities to improve attendance and engagement between schools, parents, and communities across three districts of Gujarat – Kutch, Bharuch and Morbi .

Achieve an overall increase in performance over 2017 NAS (pre-pandemic), in 2024-25

2024

School Readiness Programme (SRP)

The programme aimed to identify and bridge the learning gaps of the students in a playful manner, to improve their learning outcomes, while making them ready for their respective classes.

Exams and Beyond Toolkit for Class 10 and 11

An “Exams and Beyond Toolkit for Secondary Students and Teachers” was created in order to improve student performance and provide better results in the Board Examinations. Apart from academic content, the toolkit also includes means to support children emotionally as exams create high stress amongst students.

State Level Achievement Survey (SLAS) and Situational Analysis

We rolled out of SLAS 2022 in 9 districts based on NAS results to understand children’s learning levels. The assessment focused on learning gaps and the measures required to strengthen the quality of teaching and learning to address and help in reaching grade appropriate learning levels in government schools. A detailed situational analysis was also carried out from the school level going up to the Education Department to build an understanding of system’s capacity, good practices, and challenges in delivering quality education.

Training and workshops

We conduct visioning and content development workshops from time to time to finalise interventions and set the programme into motion.

Development of School Readiness and Learning Remediation material for teachers and students from Grades 1 to 12

A set of workbooks for students and handbooks for teachers are being developed, aligned with the NCERT curriculum. These books include experiential and activity-based exercises, contextualised to Arunachal Pradesh, to help bring joy into the process of teaching and learning, and to help students achieve grade-level learning.

We design responsibility matrices to define role of community at the time of disaster and create activity packs to keep children engaged and visible.