Inventure Academy, Bangalore

Inventure Academy, Bangalore is perhaps India’s most Multiple Intelligences-focused school, personally endorsed by Dr. Howard Gardner, professor at the Harvard School of Education and developer of MI theory –  Dilip Thakore Sited on a spacious ergonomically-designed 30-acre campus in Whitefield, once a sleepy suburb of Bengaluru (aka Bangalore), which has transformed into a satellite township hosting the Indian operations of dozens of multinational corporations including IBM, Dell, SAP, the Inventure Academy (IA, estb.2005) has quickly won the hearts and minds of well-informed and discerning parents, teachers and educators in Bengaluru (pop. 9 million), widely acknowledged as the new age ICT (information communication technologies) capital of the country. Currently this K-12 co-ed day school, affiliated with the CISCE, Delhi and CIE (UK) examination boards, has 1,030 students (including 478 girls) mentored by 135 teachers on its muster rolls. Nor are the golden opinions this globally benchmarked school has garnered confined to its parents’ community. In the EducationWorld India School Rankings 2015, IA is ranked #12 nationally and more significantly (for a day school) #3 in Bangalore. Conceptualised as an internationally benchmarked affordably priced school 11 years ago by Nooraine Fazal, a management science postgrad of Boston University with valuable business and organisational experience in a ten-year corporate career with IBM and Reuters across London, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sydney, and Hong Kong, and co-promoted with Irfan Razack, chairman of Prestige Properties Ltd — a publicly listed Bangalore-based real estate development and construction company — IA is perhaps the most MI (multiple intelligences)-focused school in India. It was personally endorsed by Dr. Howard Gardner, professor of cognition and education at the Harvard School of Education, and author and developer of MI theory, when he visited the school in 2012. “Inventure Academy, which has the qualities of invention, adventure, sensitivity to nature and nurturance incorporated into its identity, was conceptualised as a composite pre K-12 school which nurtures the individualistic and innovative intelligences of every student to discover her passion, and work towards its realisation in an environment in which the happiness quotient is high. I believe that during the past ten years, we have substantially attained this objective,” says Fazal. To actualise the vision of the founders, the IA trustees and management have drawn up a set of “core values”, viz, nurturing individuality and teamwork, providing maximum exposure, inculcating passion for excellence, instilling integrity, encouraging sensitivity and fostering dynamism in all students. “IA’s most significant achievement of the past ten years is that we have been successful in infusing the school’s core values into a holistic curriculum and culture. Our purpose is to nurture the multiple intelligences of our students and develop their critical thinking skills to enable them to meet new and unanticipated challenges of the rapidly evolving global marketplace, as also to develop their special intelligences in the classroom and playing fields. Within the short period since IA began its operations, we have already produced national champions in swimming, sailing and tennis in several age groups while some of our girls…