Kiran Bir Sethi is the Founder of The Riverside School in Ahmedabad. In today’s video, she talks to ACER India's Anannya Chakraborty about the school's user-centred curriculum.
As a trained Graphic Designer, Sethi has used design thinking to develop a curriculum that focuses on ‘transformative’ learning experiences and student wellbeing. In this video, she discusses the purpose, meaning and joy in learning.
Her education leadership and the Riverside approach have garnered praise and accolades, but she says it’s not really innovation as much as common sense.
‘The fact that children must engage with each other, they must have a voice, they must have a say in their learning is not innovative by any stretch of the imagination. The fact that we don’t put it into practice on a daily basis; I find that is what possibly schools can learn from Riverside – how do you put common sense into common practice and then how do you create processes that can be replicable and sustainable.’
Sethi says the design processes are a lot to do with helping schools reimagine what a single day might look like and that the real ‘magic’ is in timetabling. ‘When your timetable becomes your conscience, then it changes the way you look at time, otherwise, we timetable for subjects – we don’t timetable for relationships, or relevance, or rigour.’
Enjoy the full conversation below.
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