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It is a matter of immense pride for the entire Delhi Public School Varanasi, Nashik and Lava Nagpur Fraternity that our PRO VC, Mr.Gautam Rajgarhia has been awarded as lndia’s most lmpactful Leader in 2020 during a live virtual ceremony organized by Indian Principals' Network and Matific UK.

Although 2020 has been a precarious year so far, yet Mr.Rajgarhia has always stood determined & robust in his approach and efforts for doing what is best for the society at large, entailing various aspects ranging from education, health & environment.

Team DPS always looks up to its PRO VC as a role model and aspires to follow in his footsteps. Mr. Rajgarhia was nominated by 400 plus Leaders across India and was honoured for his visionary approach, never say die spirit, and exemplary leadership.

The Members of the jury, Dr. AP Jayaraman, Nuclear Scientist, President STEAM Academy& Chairperson NCSC, Mr. AK Sharma, Former Assistant Commissioner, KV Sangathan. Former IAS, Author & Motivational Speaker, Mr. Vivek Atray, Strategic Advisor & Board Member Eduace Services Mr. Sanjay Virnave, interacted with him and were impressed to hear about the achievements and innovations.

Ms. Anupuma Sagdeo, the Principal of DPS Lava, attended the Induction programme for Principals conducted by DPSS HRDC from 9th Dec to 11th Dec. The sessions were informative and enriching, especially the sessions on NEP 2020, Montessori Method, Positive Psychology and Inclusive Education.

Madam also attended an interactive session on 17th and 18th Dec with the CBSE organized by DPSS HRDC.

Mr Manoj Ahuja, CBSE Chairman spoke about the NEP 2020 and explained the affiliation process. Dr Joseph Emanual, Academic Director CBSE, Spoke about the pedagogical plans, new academic initiatives by CBSE. Mr Anurag Tripathi, Secretary CBSE, spoke about learning skills, literacy skills and life skills. Dr Biswajit Saha's chaired a session on vocational training. Dr Sayam Bharadwaj, Controller of Examination CBSE, gave directions to conduct the practicals, evaluation, fixing of examination centres and assessment in lower classes.

“If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don’t bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.”

Ms. Anupuma Sagdeo, our Principal, shared how we at DPS Lava had embraced digitalisation. Our teachers are providing the students with new tools to help them explore new ways of thinking and retain information. They reinvented themselves totally and ensured that the learning of their students continued uninterrupted. The online mode has strengthened the teacher student relationship.

Parents' Orientation, Teacher Training, Project Based learning, Student led Conferences, Passion Projects, have helped children to take responsibility of their own learning.

The teachers also brought in the formative assessment tools from physical classrooms to virtual classrooms and are able to use a platform like exam.net successfully for summative assessments in higher classes.

We are conducting a plethora of activities in the school Inter House competitions, co-curricular activities like dance, music, art n craft are also being conducted online. Health and Fitness classes are conducted by our PE teachers.

We are also taking care of their emotional learning. Life skills classes through School Cinema are conducted weekly followed by quality circle time.

The teachers and students have embraced the new age teaching learning methods and the teachers are definitely not going back to their old methods of teaching..

Delhi Public School , Lava is running successfully online, it’s just that the building is closed.