Inspiring tales of Covid crisis collated for future motivation
PRAYAGRAJ : Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (KVS) has invited stories revolving around teachers, students and parents who did extraordinary work during the Covid-19 outbreak. The aim is to highlight experiences wherein individuals gave a tough fight to the pandemic which could go a long way in inspiring future administrators, planners, teachers and schools of not just KVS but others across the country as well. The KVS runs a network of around 1240 schools in India and three abroad having over 13 lakh students and 48,314 employees.
The KVS through its additional commissioner (academic and administration), V Vijayalakshmi has sent a missive to deputy commissioners of all its 25 regional offices acknowledging the huge amount of work that has been done at school level with the efforts of principals, teachers, students and even parents during the corona crisis. “It is important that we document some human-interest stories from each region related to school education during the pandemic,” says the missive.
“KVS has invited stories of innovation, sacrifice, going beyond call of duty, challenges faced and creatively solved, humour, finding joy in difficulty etc as part of the initiative. All deputy commissioners (DCs) of the regions, including the Varanasi region that also governs nine KV schools in Prayagraj, have been requested to share one or two stories of human interest. The DC has sent the letter to the KV principals inviting inputs,” said Shalini Dikshit, principal, KV-Air Force Station, Manauri. Each story in English should not be more than 600650 words while striving to be neutral and objective, she added. Principal of KV IIIT-Allahabad, Jhalwa, Vijeyesh Pandey said the story must be related to experience of teaching, learning, outreach, inclusion, use of technology etc, basically anything related to school education.
Directions make plain that at the centre of the story there should be a person or persons in the context of school education and therefore the story could be about a teacher, a student, a parent, and school who did extraordinary work, out the routine, during this period. Best selected story will be forwarded to department of school education and literacy of union education ministry for final selection and will be placed on the ministry’s website to motivate school education community. The last date for the entries is February 20.
The letter also mentions some examples. One such story was about a teacher in Kutch who started teaching at a village through loudspeaker or of a teacher in Jharkhand, who started teaching on the walls of the houses using them as blackboard, it says.