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 class 5th to 8th 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
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 1st to 5th and further helped develop the same for students of Grades 6 to 12.