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Dreaming Big, Going Virtual- Kamla Nehru Public School

“Empowered Educators Lead to Engaged Classrooms” –Paramjeet Kaur Dhillon

 The pandemic made its mark worldwide in the early months’ of 2020. Since then organizations, firms, educational and other institutions have been promoting people to use the online platforms to do their day-to-day activities. May it be your day-to-day purchases, your work or even your studies, every aspect we can think of was made online for our convenience and our safety.

Today we are bringing to our readers one such Institution that took the online medium for studies on a serious note. 

Kamla Nehru Public School(KNPS) is a school which is located in Punjab’s Chak Hakim village. The school was founded in April 2007 and aims to provide quality education to the students. The school has over 1600 students and is headed by the principal Ms. Paramjeet Kaur Dhillon. She is a quite vivid and passionate personality which encourages her students and teachers to dream big with technology. Her zeal to keep up with the changing times is what helped them to cope with the changing times where education went from physical classes to online classes. She, along with her colleagues designed an online learning program for their students as early as April 2020 which was well ahead of other schools located throughout the nation.

Though she is restricted within the premises of her home, Ms. Pramjeet makes sure she visits various online classes each day to check on the progress and address other issues. Her students hail from around 60-65 villages near the school.

The students make use of smartphones and other gadgets to attend online classes and use the latest internet plans given by service providers.

Various other schools have followed the example set by this school which was one of the first to move to online platforms for their day-to-day classes. They seek the techniques and methods KNPS uses for their own school’s progression.

Though Ms Dhillon herself got to know a desktop only in the late 1980’s she made it a point to teach technical skills to her students at a very young age. The school currently has classes from Kindergarten to Grade 12 and most of the students are first-generation learners hailing from farmers families or their parents have gone abroad to greener pastures and work hard as labourers on foreign lands to help their children back home in India. It’s through those means they afford the required technology for their kids to study.

Ms Dhillon along with staff and students of KNPS has set a bright and positive example for other institutions to follow.
They are a living example of the saying “Where there is a will there is a way”.

Not even the pandemic was able to stop them from teaching or learning. In this current era where success means how fast one can cope with change, The Kamla Nehru Public School along with its principal, staff and students have shone bright, showing the way forward for the rest.

RiseUp4SDGs is an eight-month-long collaborative project open to educators from around the Globe initiated by Ms. Dhillon which is to commence from January 15th 2021.

With a vision to collaborate to create awareness, take actions and shoulder accountability for SDGs , RiseUp4SDGs  is meant to Accelerate the United Nations’ Global Goals Agenda 2030.

Image credit: http://kamlanehrupublicschool.com/

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