EducationWorld Grand Jury Awards 2017

The EducationWorld India School Rankings league tables assess schools across 14 parameters of education excellence. Respondents fatigue and constraints of printing space compel us to restrict the league tables to 14 parameters. However, there are several other parameters and best practices in which some schools excel. To recognise and celebrate schools which excel in these additional parameters, last year we introduced the EducationWorld Grand Jury Awards and a specially constituted jury of knowledgeable educationists to recommend conferment of awards upon newly-emergent or low-profile schools implementing globally accepted best practices.  Likewise this year, to shortlist and select low-profile and/or newly-emergent progressive schools countrywide for the EW Grand Jury Awards 2017-18, we invited nominations from educationists, individuals and schools themselves supported by evidence of best practices in 11 categories such as Green Schools, STEAM Education Excellence, New Technologies Usage, Campus Architecture and Design and Communications Excellence, among others. Evidence-supported nominations were received from 750 schools countrywide. To assess the evidence and rank nominated schools in each category, a Grand Jury comprising eminent educationists including Dr. Shayama Chona (Tamana, School of Hope, Delhi), Jerry Almeida (founder, iCONGO and social entrepreneur), Fatema Agarkar (co-founder of KA EduAssociates), Pritam Benjamin (well-known education consultant) and Sumer Singh (former principal of Daly College, Indore) was constituted. The Grand Jury duly assessed the nominations and ranked the Top 10 schools in each category. Of them, the Top 5 were conferred awards at the EW India School Rankings Awards 2017-18 function on September 22. The complete Top 10 EW Grand Jury Rankings 2017-18 are published in the pages following. Green schools Schools were judged on environment-friendly campuses and environmentally responsible and resource-efficient processes and sustainability practices. 1. The Shriram Millennium School, Noida 2. Sanskriti The Gurukul, Guwahati 3. N.H. Goel World School, Raipur 4. The Chintels School, Kalyanpur, Kanpur 5. St. Xavier’s English High School & Jr. College, Thane 6. Canadian International School, Bangalore 7. Maharishi International Residential, Kanchipuram 8. KiiT International School, Bhubaneswar 9. B.K. Birla Centre for Education, Pune 10. City Pride School, Pune STEAM education excellence These awards are for schools delivering innovative science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics education through experiential pedagogies. 1. Lotus Valley International School, Noida 2. Venkateshwar International School, Sector 10, Dwarka 3. Wisdom High School, Nasik 4. Redbridge International Academy, Bangalore 5. Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Vidyalaya, Borivali (W), Mumbai 6. Alpha School (CBSE), Porur, Chennai 7. Delhi Public School, Gwalior 8. Samashti International School, Hyderabad 9. Bal Bharati Public School, Ghaziabad 10. Billabong High International, Santacruz, Mumbai Community outreach Schools were assessed for encouraging student-led community service projects, either in school-sponsored, regional or international community projects. 1. Sunbeam Lahartara, Varanasi 2. Anand Niketan, Shilaj, Ahmedabad 3. L K Singhania Centre for Education, Gotan, Rajasthan 4. G D Goenka School, Kanpur 5. Kaligi Ranganathan Montford Matriculation Hr. Sec. School, Perambur, Chennai 6. Pawar Public School, Bhandup, Mumbai 7. Legacy School, Bangalore 8. Kothari International School, Noida 9. DCM Presidency School, Ludhiana 10. Johnson Grammar School, Hyderabad Multi-sports culture The Top 10 schools…