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2 episodes with kiran bir sethi
2 episodes with kiran bir sethi
2 episodes with kiran bir sethi
With the recent release of her book 'Every Child Can: Riverside School's Design-Led Approach to Empower Children', the wonderful Kiran Bir Sethi is joining us again on the podcast this week. Kiran Bir Sethi is a designer who became a teacher, a principal who grew into an education reformer and subsequently morphed into a social entrepreneur. A trained graphic designer from the National Institute of Design, she comfortably uses the language of design – iteration, prototype, design specs – to develop not only curriculum innovation, but also community-based social programmes. Kiran founded the award winning Riverside School in Ahmedabad, India, in 2001. Riverside, is viewed as a laboratory to prototype design processes that uses a systems approach to build a culture of empowerment, graduating young citizen leaders with an ‘I CAN Mindset' – using their agency for the greater good. Riverside won the T4 Education 'World's Best School Prize' for innovation in 2023: https://t4.education/worlds-best-school-prizes/the-five-prizes/innovation/. In 2009, Kiran launched Design for Change which uses a simple 4 step design framework – FIDS (Feel, Imagine, Do, Share) to cultivate the I CAN mind-set in all children. Today, DFC is the world's largest movement of change - of and by children, and is in 60+ countries—impacting over 2.2 million children and 65,000 Teachers. Kiran is a judge for the prestigious YIDAN Prize and a Visiting Global Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. In 2019, she was awarded the Earth Prize in Luino, Italy, the Lexus Design Award for 2019, in Pune, India, and DFC has been recognised man times as one of the 100 most innovative educational programmes in the world by HundrED.org. Social Links Instagram: @kiranbirsethi - https://www.instagram.com/kiranbirsethi/ Twitter: @kiranbirsethi - https://twitter.com/kiranbirsethi LinkedIn: @kiranbirsethi - https://www.linkedin.com/in/kiranbirsethi/
Today on this episode of Discover Your SecondAct Podcast, we have a special guest for you - Kiran Bir Sethi. She is the founder of The Riverside School and Design for Change.She is a major advocate of free & rational thinking among children which has led to her designing a curriculum which prioritizes experiential learning and recognizes children as stakeholders of the institution.In the conversation, we discussed Kiran's unique upbringing, her Design for Change journey, breaking gender hierarchies, focusing on one's well-being and her #SecondAct.It was a privilege to have Kiran on our podcast. She radiated the kind of joy and empathy throughout this conversation, which made this episode one of the warmest ones so far. Tuck yourself in for a great podcast listening, in the 7th Episode of Discover Your SecondAct Podcast, Season 3. --Follow SecondActInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/iiact/LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/3Qz9LmSWebsite: https://thesecondact.in/--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/iiact/message
Kiran Bir Sethi is the founder of Riverside School and Design for Change. today she talked to Harry about the power of I Can in our students. To find out more check out dfcworld.org
Unhappy with the rigidity and unfriendly atmosphere she encountered in her young son's school, Kiran Bir Sethi took matters into her own hands and set up The Riverside School in Ahmedabad in 2001, which was designed to shake up attitudes towards early years education, by placing empathy and creativity at the heart of the curriculum. This alternative model focuses on “quality of learning,” “student well being,” and “empathy in education” - which may seem like no-brainer ideals, but it was in fact a game changing move in parts of India and now across the world. Kiran, who is a designer, teacher, education reformer, and social entrepreneur, joins us to share her story of setting up the school, the principles it was founded upon, and how believing in children and telling them they "can" do something, does wonders. Image credit: The Riverside School
Unhappy with the rigidity and unfriendly atmosphere she encountered in her young son's school, Kiran Bir Sethi took matters into her own hands and set up The Riverside School in Ahmedabad in 2001, which was designed to shake up attitudes towards early years education, by placing empathy and creativity at the heart of the curriculum. This alternative model focuses on “quality of learning,” “student well being,” and “empathy in education” - which may seem like no-brainer ideals, but it was in fact a game changing move in parts of India and now across the world. Kiran, who is a designer, teacher, education reformer, and social entrepreneur, joins us to share her story of setting up the school, the principles it was founded upon, and how believing in children and telling them they "can" do something, does wonders. Image credit: The Riverside School
Kiran Bir Sethi is a designer who became a teacher, a principal who grew into an education reformer and subsequently morphed into a social entrepreneur. A trained graphic designer from the National Institute of Design, she comfortably uses the language of design – iteration, prototype, design specs – to develop not only curriculum innovation, but also community-based social programmes. Kiran founded the award winning Riverside School in Ahmedabad, India, in 2001. Riverside, is viewed as a laboratory to prototype design processes that uses a systems approach to build a culture of empowerment, graduating young citizen leaders with an ‘I CAN Mindset' – using their agency for the greater good. Riverside Learning Centre (RLC) started in 2016, has codified the practices and processes of The Riverside School and designed training programmes around the 6 Pillars of Curriculum, Parent Partnership, Personal & Professional Development, Community, Administration and Leadership that empower more schools to become user centered. Kiran is also the founder of aProCh—an initiative to make our cities more child friendly, for which she was awarded the Ashoka Fellow in 2008. In 2009, Kiran launched Design for Change which uses a simple 4 step design framework – FIDS (Feel, Imagine, Do, Share) to cultivate the I CAN mind-set in all children. Today, DFC is the world's largest movement of change - of and by children, and is in 60+ countries—impacting over 2.2 million children and 65,000 Teachers. Kiran is a judge for the prestigious YIDAN Prize and a Visiting Global Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. In 2019, she was awarded the Earth Prize in Luino, Italy, the Lexus Design Award for 2019, in Pune, India, and DFC has been recognised as one of the 100 most innovative educational programmes in the world by HundrED.org in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020. Social Links Twitter: @kiranbirsethi LinkedIn: @kiranbirsethi
Kiran Bir Sethi is the Founder-Director of the Riverside School in Ahmedabad, India and the Design for Change organization. She has a design background, having received her diploma in visual communication from the National Institute of Design (NID). She is also the Founder of “aProCh” – which stands for “A Protagonist in Every Child” – an initiative that is attempting to make Ahmedabad more child-friendly, for which she was made an Ashoka Fellow in 2008. Kiran ma'am developed a Design for Change curriculum for middle school students, which is being piloted in 64 schools in India and 5 schools in Spain, Peru, the USA and Taiwan. The related Design for Change (DFC) School Challenge was initiated in 2009 and has since spread to over 72 countries, challenging children to design and implement solutions to problems they see around them. DFC has a collection of over 50,000 stories of change by children across the globe and involving 2 million young students through their programs. Links: Follow Kiran ma'am on Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn Kiran ma'am TED Talk --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/manthanshah/message
VV Woman Leader Kiran Bir Sethi joined the new episode of the Vital Voices Podcast series: Power to Empower with host Alyse Nelson to talk about the turning point for her leadership journey: becoming a mother. In this episode, Kiran shares how - through role as a mother - she learned the importance of empathy, ethics, excellence, elevation and evolution in shaping schools’ educational curriculum to build humanity in children, rather than just preparing them for tests.Tune in to hear how Kiran’s background as a designer prepared her to rethink the educational system in India, and how her system for educating children as changemakers is spreading around the world. Plus, find out her thoughts on ways to build connection with your kids in COVID.To learn more about Vital Voices, visit www.vitalvoices.org. This series is inspired by our book,Vital Voices: 100 Women using their Power to Empower,edited by Alyse Nelson with art by Gayle Kabaker, published by Assouline. Host: Alyse Nelson. Executive Producer: Lizzie Kubo Kirschenbaum. Producer and Editor: Sofi IbrahimMusic: Deliberate Thought by Kevin MacLeod. Deliberate Thought by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/?keywords=deliberate+thought.Artist: http://incompetech.com/
We’re joined by Kiran Bir Sethi, the founder of Design For Change which is the world’s largest movement for change of and by children, operating in 44 countries and impacting millions of students and teachers. She is also the Director of the celebrated Riverside School in Ahmedabad, India. Kiran is a designer who became a teacher, a principal who grew into an education reformer and subsequently morphed into a social entrepreneur. In this episode, together with host of the show and CEO of WISE, Stavros Yiannouka, Kiran discusses reflecting on the role of loss in education, preparing students for change, ethics, and practising empathy online. -------------------------------------------------- Relevant links: Follow Kiran: https://twitter.com/kiranbirsethi https://www.dfcworld.com/SITE -------------------------------------------------- Check out more from WISE and send us your thoughts! Website: www.wise-qatar.org Twitter: twitter.com/WISE_Tweets Instagram: wiseqatar Facebook: www.facebook.com/wiseqatar/ Linkedin: bit.ly/2JKThYf
As part of my Woman on a Mission, Vital Voices Series, I interviewed Kiran Bir Sethi, the founder and director of Riverside school and the Riverside Education Foundation. Kiran is an award-winning leader and designer who decided to create an entirely new curriculum for her son when she noticed that the education he was getting at school was not at the level that she wanted for him. She opened her own school and turned the curriculum into an internationally available template which is now being used by over 2.2 million children and 65,000 teachers.
As part of my Woman on a Mission, Vital Voices Series, I interviewed Kiran Bir Sethi, the founder and director of Riverside school and the Riverside Education Foundation.Kiran is an award-winning leader and designer who decided to create an entirely new curriculum for her son when she noticed that the education he was getting at school was not at the level that she wanted for him.She opened her own school and turned the curriculum into an internationally available template which is now being used by over 2.2 million children and 65,000 teachers.
Join Vital Voices President & CEO Alyse Nelson as she sits down with Kiran Bir Sethi, founder of the Riverside School and one of our 2018 Global Leadership Award Honorees, on a recent trip to India for our VVLead program. Music Credit: On My Way Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
For Kiran Bir Sethi, one thing's clear: If there's one thing that children should learn at school, that's how to change the world. How? This Indian educator's proposal is Design for Change, a movement that fosters children's creativity and initiative to solve problems in their community, and that currently is present in over 60 countries. Sethi is also a founder of the Riverside schools, and there, she helps little students grow by saying ‘I can!” And of course, to the beat of a Bollywood tune.
How do the arts intersect with our world differently now than ever before? Join these founders of dynamic organizations that are changing the way we educate, empower, and inspire communities, by giving artists and the public a voice and hand in change. Speakers: Charles Best, Kiran Bir Sethi, Monica Yunus, Darren Walker
Join Design for Change founder Kiran Bir Sethi in a hands-on workshop where you yourself become a designer, and learn how to put your ideas for a better world into action! Engage in the type of creative challenge that has inspired and empowered over 25 million children across the globe – in 34 countries and over 300,000 schools – to design innovative pathways to change. Speakers: Kiran Bir Sethi
Today on Schools and Tech we’ve got more controversy over teacher evaluations, gender bias in favor of girls and the fate of the complete book in the hands of generation text. Our main topic is service-learning. SaTP23.mp3 Listen on Posterous News of the Week:1) Method to Grade Teachers Provokes Battle - NYT - CT the value-added modeling system calculates the value teachers add to their students’ achievement, based on changes in test scores from year to year and how the students perform compared with others in their grade. In value-added modeling, researchers use students’ scores on state tests administered at the end of third grade, for instance, to predict how they are likely to score on state tests at the end of fourth grade. A student whose third-grade scores were higher than 60 percent of peers statewide is predicted to score higher than 60 percent of fourth graders a year later. If, when actually taking the state tests at the end of fourth grade, the student scores higher than 70 percent of fourth graders, the leap in achievement represents the value the fourth-grade teacher added.2) Experts caution against heavily relying on student test scores to evaluate teachers TATStudent test scores are not reliable indicators of teacher effectiveness, even with the addition of value-added modeling (VAM), a new Economic Policy Institute report by leading testing experts finds. Though VAM methods have allowed for more sophisticated comparisons of teachers than were possible in the past, they are still inaccurate...3) Girls Think They Are Cleverer Than Boys From Age 4 & Teachers May Reinforce This Gender Gap - The Guardian - CT4) Will the Book Survive Generation Text? Chronicle of Higher Education - KBI am talking about the growing feeling among humanities professors—intuitive and anecdotal, shared over lunch like an embarrassing tale about a colleague—that for too many of today's undergraduates, reading a whole book, from A to Z, feels like a marathon unfairly imposed on a jogger.Everywhere they turn, but particularly in mainstream, sophisticated venues—where middle-aged fogies desperately seek to stay ahead of the tech curve—young people hear, through the apotheosis of tweets, blog posts, Facebook updates, and sound bites as the core of communication, that short is always smarter and better than long, even though most everyone knows it's usually dumber and worse.Reading a book, however, requires concentration, endurance, the ability to disconnect from other connections. You have to be there rather than not there. Hyperwired young people may be making it to age 17 without acquiring that ability, let alone losing it.Main Topic: Blurring the Line b/w School and Real Life - service-learning see blog post - Minding the Hyphen If you get a chance, watch this TED video before the podcast.Kiran Bir Sethi shows her groundbreaking Riverside School in India - the “I Can” ApproachAware - Enable - EmpowerMore info:National Service-Learning Clearinghouse (www.servicelearning.org)Endorsements: Cammy: The Paradox of Time Kevin: Teach Like a Champion by Doug Lemov Tim: ExpertLabs - open programming for civic good Permalink | Leave a comment »
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