Enthusiastic response of school promoters, trustees, principals and teachers to the 12th EWISRA conclave is proof that the educators’ community has accepted that progressive schools accord attention to several parameters of institutional excellence, not mere academic outcomes, writes Summiya Yasmeen
The EducationWorld India School Rankings 2022-23 Awards (EWISRA) conclave staged in Delhi NCR on October 11-12 was an unprecedented success. The sequel of the annual EducationWorld India School Rankings (estb.2007) — the world’s largest schools ratings and ranking survey which ranks over 4,000 schools in 392 cities countrywide — EWISRA attracted participation of over 1,500 education leaders including promoters, trustees, principals and senior teachers from every corner of the country. Staged over two days at the upscale the Leela Ambience Hotel, Gurugram, high-ranked primary-secondary schools in four main categories — day, boarding, international and vintage legacy — and several subcategories under each, were awarded certificates, display plaques and encomiums.
The enthusiastic response of school promoters, trustees, principals and teachers to the 12th EWISRA conclave is proof that the tectonic plates of the country’s moribund K-12 education system are shifting. It indicates that the educators’ community is increasingly accepting the basic premise of the EW rankings survey that progressive schools accord attention to several parameters of institutional excellence — not mere academic outcomes — to develop the multiple intelligences of children.
In the galaxy of principals and education leaders who were conferred honours and acclaim on the occasion were Lt. Gen. Surendra Kulkarni, Mayo College, Ajmer; Dr. Craig Cook, Woodstock School, Mussoorie; Dr. Mahesh Prasad, Step by Step School, Noida; Dr. Sonal Parmar, Cathedral & John Connon School, Mumbai; Himmat Dhillon, Lawrence School, Sanawar; Meeta Sharma, Mussoorie International School; Lt. Gen. (Retd.) Arjun Ray and Sarojini Rao of the Indus International School, Bengaluru; Dr. Gunmeet Bindra, principal, Daly College, Indore; Dr. Arunabh Singh, the Nehru World School, Ghaziabad and Zarene Munshi, Dhirubhai Ambani International School, Mumbai.
Moreover on the occasion, Shishir Jaipuria, chairman, Seth Anandram Jaipuria Educational Institutions; Kiran Patel, co-founder, Aspee Group of education institutions; Dr. Gita Karan, founder, Gitanjali Group of Schools, Hyderabad; and Dr. Bijaya K. Sahoo (posthumously), founder-chairman, SAI Group of Educational Institutions, were conferred the EW Lifetime Achievement in Education Leadership Awards 2022-23 with specially written citations.
The keynote address of EWISRA 2022-23 was delivered by Sanje Ratnavale, Los Angeles-based founder and president of the OESIS Network, a faculty focussed innovation network of 600 independent schools and thousands of teachers across the US. An alumnus of Harrow School and Oxford University, UK, Ratnavale delivered a brilliant lecture ‘Implementing your mission in the classroom’.
Also on the packed agenda of the two-day event was felicitation of unsung high-potential schools under the EW India Grand Jury Rankings 2022-23. They were ranked by a specially constituted Grand Jury of eminent educationists and conferred awards under differentiated parameters including campus architecture and design, design thinking leadership, career counseling, high happiness quotient, SDGs committed schools etc (see p.64).
EW’s partners for the event included Grayquest Education Finance Pvt. Ltd, Mumbai; Live Life Education Pvt. Ltd, Chennai; Mindler Education Pvt. Ltd, Delhi; Edunext Technologies Pvt. Ltd, Noida; BenQ India, Gurugram; Life Educare, Bengaluru; Zamit India, Delhi; Startup U, Bengaluru; Eagle Robot, Bengaluru; WoodApple Resources, Indore; Vidyashilp University, Bengaluru; YPay, Noida; AcadAlly, Delhi, School Shack, Surat and Afairs Exhibitions Pvt. Ltd, Kolkata.
In the pages following, we present a representative pictorial essay of EWISRA 2022-23. For the full pictorial essay of the two-day event (October 11-12) visit www. educationworld.in.
