Profiles:
The Core Team |
The Governing Council
The
Core Team
The
Core Team, supported by the Unitech South City Educational
Charitable Trust, will be guided and governed by the Governing
Council of the school. The Core Team of Shikshantar consists
of the Chairperson, Minoti Bahri, the Team Director, Sanjay
Prakash, and the Education Director, Sunil Batra.
Minoti
Bahri, is a teacher, counselor, hotelier and
entrepreneur. She is a director on the board of Unitech and
the Managing Trustee of Unitech Southcity Educational
Charitable Trust. Ms. Bahri has taught for four years at
Mirambika Free Progress School where her areas of work covered
development of curriculum and evaluation systems, and
implementation of such systems. She has also worked as a
counselor at Sanjivini for equal number of years. A student of
Odissi dance, Minoti has performed on stage and has held dance
workshops at the Krishnamurti School in Rishikesh. She has
also been a member of a dance team with Anand and Tanushree
Shankar. Ms. Bahri is particularly committed to establishing
an alternative yet viable paradigm in education.
Sanjay
Prakash,
B. Arch., A.I.I.A., is
a practicing architect with a commitment to energy-conscious
architecture, eco-friendly design, peoples participation
in planning, music and production design. Mr. Prakashs
participative and community managed architecture work includes
rural schools in Rajasthan (Lok Jumbish), Andhra Pradesh,
Haryana and Orissa. His architectural work in the field of
education includes a research center cum school (Mirambika),
an ashram hostel (Tapasya), childrens home for juvenile
justice (Prayas), five engineering colleges and two higher
secondary schools, a hotel management college, a ghat (Indus
river), four hospitals, medical dispensaries, an integrated
sports complex, factories, resorts, residences, offices,
warehouses and office. Sanjay is currently also working on
distance education and rural connectivity for TARAhaat.com.
He is on the managing committee of Mirambika Free Progress
School and on the advisory board of Deepayan Vidya Niketan.
Sunil
Batra (M.Ed.),
is an educational psychologist and school development
consultant. He has been teaching, training and working in
leadership positions in school education in India and abroad.
He has worked as a teacher at the University of Chicago
Laboratory School, as Director of Christopher House in Chicago
and as Principal of Ryan International School, Delhi. Mr.
Batra is the founder Director of Deepayan Vidya Niketan,
Education Adviser at Ahlcon International School and
TARAhaat.com. His areas of work include school innovation,
institutional development and management, curriculum
development, teacher training and support, parent education
and support, school effectiveness and educational research.
Mr. Batra has been a resource person to private and government
schools, NGOs and presented papers at national and
international conferences. He also provides child and family
counseling support for school age students.
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