Dream a Dream’s state partnership with Delhi Government started in 2018 with the initiation of the idea to build a unique holistic skill development curriculum like the Happiness Curriculum. As an anchor and knowledge partner, Dream a Dream helped the Department of Education to conceptualise, design and roll out the Happiness Curriculum in schools.
Happiness Curriculum is a holistic educational program for enhancing the emotional and mental wellbeing of children. The Happiness Curriculum caters to the children of Delhi Government schools from Nursery to Grade 8, inculcating skills of critical thinking and inquiry, enabling learners to communicate effectively and helping learners to apply life skills to deal with stressful and conflicting situations around them.
The introduction of the curriculum in Delhi Government schools has been called a reformative step towards school education in India. Since the launch, we have supported the training and orientation of over 18000 teachers to help integrate the life-skills based approach and helped with the smooth implementation of the Happiness Curriculum.
Dream a Dream is a knowledge partner with the Telangana Social Welfare Residential Education-al Institutions Society (TSWREIS), Ministry of Scheduled Caste Development to introduce life skills approach in all TSWREIS schools and empower teachers with the life skills needed to build empathetic, creative and highly engaging classrooms for children coming from severe adversity and to equip them to integrate life skills in academic and non-academic sessions.
Dream a Dream signed an MoU with TSWREIS to develop a new life skills curriculum called ‘Parivartana’. We will impact 6000 students through our life skills programme from Grades 5 to 8 with a focus on building self-worth and emotional resilience as key competencies.
We established a partnership in 2019 to support implementation of the Anandam Pathyacharya – a holistic curriculum in government schools. We, along with other Civil Society Organisations, are creating a safe space model where students understand and express their emotions and feelings and learn to connect with themselves, family, society and nature.
We support capacity building and life skills advocacy among teachers and other stakeholders in the educational ecosystem.
Dream a Dream signed an MoU with the Department of Education (Samagra Shikshana Karnataka – SSK) in 2022 to incorporate Life Skills and recommendations of the National Education Policy (NEP) in the Nali Kali Curriculum which is used in government schools. By co-creating the life skills / val-ue-based curriculum for SSK, we will impact 48,000 schools.
We provided SEL inputs in government workshops for 76 school teachers and proposed the pilot of SEL approach and Happiness Curriculum for SSK. We have submitted a proposal for a Life Skills Curriculum in Kasturba Gand-hi Balika Vidyalayas (KGBVs) and Adarsha school
Since December 2021, Dream a Dream is a part of Project Sampoorna, which is a Social-Emo-tional Learning (SEL) initiative for school-going adolescents by the Government of Jharkhand in partnership with a consortium of organisations. Project Sampoorna aims to apply a Whole Child Development lens in public education in India, emphasising the importance of a rich set of factors that enable children’s success in life and school.
The consortium aims to improve Social-Emotion-al Learning (SEL) of 1 million adolescents by building systemic capability across all 24 districts in Jharkhand. As part of this consortium, we are working towards four long term outcomes in high-touch districts and schools of Jharkhand to ensure that 40,000 students:
• Overcome negative emotional experiences
• Solve complex problems effectively
• Strive for self-growth
• Have positive social interactions
Dream a Dream contextualised the Harsh Johar Curriculum of the Government of Jharkhand that aims to develop creativity and social emotional skills in learners with a strength-based approach integrating inquiry-based learning with skill building for students of Grades 1 to 5 and further helped develop the same for students of Grades 6 to 12.
We signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Directorate of Education to integrate life skills in the education system in Nagaland. We will be supporting by building capabilities of stakeholders across governance structures in the state, demonstrating school-level outcomes of integrated life skills towards holistic development of children and in assessment of the programme.
We intend to build the narrative around the well-being of teachers and students through government bodies, local media, religious, tribal and cultural organisations in Nagaland.
PARTNERSHIP WITH THE CENTRAL BOARD OF SECONDARY EDUCATION (CBSE)
We are bringing in the lens of adversity and intersectionality, along with our expertise in life skills, in our collaboration with central educational agencies. We have signed a letter of two year partnership with the CBSE in 2022 to work on competency based assessment, life skills and well-being manuals.
We co-created and revised the training manuals for capacity building of Teachers, Principals and Counsellors on Life Skills and Well-being in Schools to integrate life skills within classroom interactions, school setups and learning pedagogy across academic and non-academic disciplines.
Holistic Progress Card (HPC) for Competency Based Assessment
Holistic Progress Card (HPC) is a 360 degree, multidimensional progress report that reflects the uniqueness of each learner in cognitive, affective, socio-emotional and psychomotor domains, promoting competency-based learning. We, as a CBSE knowledge partner, supported its implementation for Grades 1, 2 and 3 in 74 pilot schools along with online capacity building for 74 principals and 222 teachers.