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moderating the game myself a few times, the teachers found that the game improved mental
mathematics of primary kids. My art teacher gives shape to my ideas with a core BaLA team of 15
students. The Manthra has been to involve students and look for novelty. After integrating most of
the periodic table, a new table which has not only the symbol, atomic number, mass,
solid/liquid/gaseous state but also the field where the element is useful has been made. The entire
campus now has paintings mounded on hard board has made walls look far better than what it had
been.

Further Areas for Change/ Transformation

One thing that we have all understood over the last two years is that nothing can be achieved overnight
and it takes patience and perseverance. The success of one leads to another and has its effect in
academic milieu as well. The attendance to school has improved; the demand for admission has more
than doubled. The expectations have increased and hence we propose the following.

1. Managing food waste and making class wise compost. Making the children feel pride of having
achieved something.
2. Providing the vast land with plastic tanks of 500 litre capacity to make watering easier.
3. Finding a way out to get rid of the grass growth, since grass cutters won‘t be of much use and
would get damaged soon on the rocky terrain.
4. Preparing more vermi-compost.
5. Improving Class room ambience and ensuring that the classrooms look encourages more learning.
6. Approaching the corporate houses for solar lighting and drip irrigation as a part of their CSR
activities.
7. Ensuring that BaLA as a creative concept takes further progress.
8. Exploring possibilities of more indoor games.
9. Encouraging students who attend school on bicycles.

School leader and Transformation

I see myself as CATALYST from the position of leading from the front. From a position when we had
hardly 4 teachers, we have 16 teachers and they can make the task a lot easier for the school to achieve.
Teachers have transformed into committed work force not just in the classroom but outside too. The
students are a well-motivated force now and I can see that through activities they would learn to care for
the environment and make their own learning based on their own activities. We all would agree that the
primary duty of a school head is academic administration. But those who restrict themselves as heads and
limit themselves to academic activities alone cannot be leaders to form a society. As the School head, I
look at myself as a person not just teaching a subject in the class but to ensure that areas of social and
environmental concerns are addressed. If our students can go out not just with the knowledge gained in the
classrooms but also from the experiences of facing challenges and looking for solutions, the nation will be
in safer hands in future.

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