CEQUE (www.ceque.org) works to transform classrooms by empowering teachers and school leaders to deliver quality education. Their Teacher Innovator Program (TIP) partners with government schools in rural districts of Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh, training teachers in innovative teaching methods to enhance student learning.
CEQUE also mentors school leaders through the Kendra Pramukh Academic Leadership Program (KPALP), focusing on data-based planning and classroom improvement. TIP has directly impacted over 2,500 teachers and 33,000 children, with the potential to affect around 264,000 children over teachers' careers. Additionally, 2,500+ Kendra Pramukhs have been trained, indirectly influencing over 125,000 teachers.
Creating a Modular, Scalable Program for Teacher Coaching through Digital Transformation
- Enabled scalability, adding 774 teachers across 451 new schools in 5 blocks, reaching an additional 17,806 students.
- Contributed to a 17% average improvement in teacher learning outcomes through enhanced coaching quality.
- Reduced planning time by 20%, allowing coaches to dedicate more time to field activities.
The Teacher Innovator Program (TIP), CEQUE’s flagship initiative, upskills teachers in government schools across rural districts in innovative teaching methods to enhance student learning. The program primarily focuses on improving Reading-Writing and Math skills for children in grades 1-5. To support teachers, CEQUE's team of coaches works closely with them in the field, guiding them on how to improve their teaching practices.
Previously, coaches captured all coaching-related data on paper, which was then duplicated by district managers into Excel sheets, leading to inefficiency. Additionally, district managers spent significant time planning coaching visits and following up with coaches.
Koita Foundation collaborated with CEQUE to redesign this process, introducing a customized app for coaches and district managers. This app streamlines visit planning and field data capture, resulting in increased efficiency for field workers and enhanced monitoring capabilities for district managers and CEQUE's senior management.
- District managers face challenges in coordinating coaching plans, tracking program activities, and ensuring data accuracy without a centralized system.
- The Seekhein Sikhaye App provides a web-based platform for district managers, enabling them to efficiently manage coaching visits, monitor program progress, update school details, and manage teacher data. This system integrates field operation data, improving overall communication and coordination with coaches.
- District managers benefit from enhanced oversight, improved data accuracy, and streamlined decision-making processes, aligning program activities with organizational goals and facilitating effective program evaluation.
- District Managers gain enhanced coordination and oversight capabilities, improved data accuracy, and streamlined communication with field teams. The app facilitates informed decision-making, supports program evaluation, and ensures alignment with organizational goals.
- Coaches often struggled with manual processes, data capture issues, and difficulties in scheduling and monitoring program activities in the field, especially in areas with limited connectivity.
- The Seekhein Sikhaye App addresses these challenges by enabling direct data entry via an intuitive Android mobile app. It supports offline data entry that syncs automatically once reconnected to the network. The app integrates coaching visits and teacher observations, ensuring cohesive data management and efficient program tracking.
- With improved real-time and offline data capture, coaches are better equipped to support teachers, driving both program success and teacher development.
- CEQUE's central team encountered challenges managing workshops, workbook distribution, and data collection for exhibitions due to disorganized systems.
- The Seekhein Sikhaye App streamlines workshop management, optimizes workbook distribution, and ensures accurate data collection for exhibitions.
- This centralization enhances operational efficiency and simplifies program coordination across these key areas.
CEQUE upskills teachers in government schools across rural districts in innovative teaching methods to improve student learning. To support teachers, our team of coaches go to the field, work with teachers closely and coach them on how to improve their teaching practice.
We needed a system that would help us collect data from the field, plan and monitor the progress against indicators such as attendance of teachers in workshops, the hours of coaching put in, the resources distributed, the assessments done etc.
Koita pushed us to think about the logic behind our existing planning and how we might use the system to improve it. Designscape understood our requirements well and worked collaboratively with the team. The app itself is easy to use and captures all the data points we need to plan and track the progress of the program.
I am truly excited with the launch of the app and believe this will help us to do data-based planning and ultimately deliver value to our beneficiaries.
Ms. Uma Kogekar
CEO of Centre for Equity and Quality in Universal Education