Our Services
Teacher Education, Curriculum Design, School Systems, Student Workshops, Impact Assessment, Education Consulting
Teacher Education / Professional Development
We work with in-service and pre-service teachers to provide professional learning experiences that enhance their classroom practices and pedagogical content knowledge.
Example
Our Client
JVM schools
Our client is a group of seven schools with the motto ‘Excel Through Education.’ The schools serve students in semi-urban and rural neighbourhoods around their own factories.
Engagement Summary
- Design and deliver 18 month teacher PD program for K-10th standard teachers in all subjects.
- PD topics include: Unit and lesson planning, maximizing student engagement, Principles of Learning, assessments, working collaboratively, using scaffolds in the classroom, etc.
- Facilitate the development of individual teacher portfolios, as well as rubrics to assess them
Impact
Schools
Coordinators
Teachers
School Transformation and Evolution Program (STEP)
We develop long term partnerships with schools to improve school processes, set up efficient support systems, transform teaching and learning practices in the classroom and develop a distributed leadership model.
Example
Our Client
Attalim Schools
The Attalim Schools are a group of 40+ schools under the patronage of His Holiness Dr Syedna Aali Qadr Mufaddal Saifuddin TUS with a vision to nurture and bring forth from within the highest potential of each child, leading to prosperity and accomplishment in this world and the hereafter.
Engagement Summary
- Work with 29 Attaliim schools over 3+ years to set up new systems and improve existing systems of school leadership , instruction and governance.
- Develop professional standards for teachers, instructional leaders and school principals for annual review and goal setting
- Design and deliver a ‘Teaching and Learning Certification Program’ and an ‘Educational Leadership Certification Program’ across subjects and grade levels. This includes: conducting workshops, designing and evaluating assignments, coaching leaders, developing templates for planning, assessments, feedback, etc.
- Introduce, support and sustain school-wide innovative practices such as Student-Led Conferences, Project-Based Learning, Social- Emotional Learning, Feedback-Observation and participating in Professional Learning Communities.
Impact
Schools
Instructional Leaders and Principals
Teachers
Impact Evaluation
We conduct third-party impact assessments for existing education programs.
Content Development
We work with schools to move towards standards-based instruction and assessment through curricular revisions; design lesson plans and activities for CSR programs, magazines, online courses, etc.; develop new curriculum for STEM-related programs.
Example
Our Client
Engage Learning Magazine
Our client is a revolutionary, new science magazine created especially with the children of India in mind. It is nonfiction storytelling at its best, exposing students to world-class, authentic genres that provide excellent models for their own writing. The magazine teaches STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics), environmental and social studies, while improving English vocabulary and comprehension. The stories are written by or with experts, introducing children to what scientists are doing in real science today.
Engagement Summary
- Reniscience Education is the long-term pedagogy partner for the magazine.
- We develop“Teaching Guides” that provide teachers with a framework to teach the magazine and link it to the school curriculum. The guides provide learning outcomes, background readings for teachers, lesson plans and post-reading activities. They also include worksheets, answer keys and links to video resources for each story. Teachers can use these teaching guides for whole-class, small -group and individual instruction. Activities in the guide develop students’ ELA skills and teach STEM concepts.
- We conduct professional development workshops for schools that subscribe to the magazine. These workshops include: modeling lessons detailed in the teaching guides, sharing best practices in teaching and learning, developing a deeper understanding of STEM among Indian teachers, promoting and teaching nonfiction reading among students, etc.
Program Design, Management And Support
We offer end-to-end solutions for education programs, including setting long and short-term goals, training and support, monitoring and evaluation, team management, tracking progress and evaluating impact.
Example
Our Client
EdIndia Foundation
Our client, a path-breaking innovative company working in the ed-tech space since 2012, believes in ideas that leverage technology to increase the scale of Impact. Reniscience Education’s five year partnership with them (2013-2018) involved the design, delivery and impact assessment of an English Reading program using existing virtual classroom infrastructure in a large metropolitan city in India to enhance student learning outcomes in English across government schools.
Engagement Summary
- Create a virtual English Reading program curriculum -including goals, lesson plans, PowerPoint slides and assessments – for government schools.
- Build a team of expert teachers to deliver more than 5,000 virtual lessons to enhance English reading and comprehension of 3rd -10th standard students.
- Design and deliver training for government school teachers to facilitate virtual classroom sessions.
- Develop beginning/end of year assessments and analyze data collected by the client’s monitoring and evaluation team.
- Support the client in building relationships with the government, write year-end reports, present to key officials.
Impact
Program delivered to
across 400 government schools in 4 languages- English, Hindi, Marathi and Urdu.
Training completed for
government school teachers on how to facilitate virtual lessons.
Creation of a comprehensive English Reading Program curriculum uploaded on DIKSHA.
Significant improvement in reading accuracy and fluency levels of students enrolled in the program.
“Most Innovative CSR Project Award” at the World CSR Congress, 2016
Student Workshops
We conduct a variety of STEM-related programs for 3rd-11th standard students.