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FACULTY PROFILES

DR. KASHYAPI AWASTHI is an Assistant Professor with the National Centre
for School Leadership, NIEPA. Her current focus has been on School Leadership
Development where she has been actively engaged in the development of
Curriculum and Handbook along with the team. She is involved in teaching,
research and guidance to M.Phil scholars and Practitioners. Prior to this she has
served as a lecturer at the Department of Education, (CASE), M. S. University of
Baroda, Gujarat from where she also obtained her Ph.D. She has contributed in the
area of community participation in elementary education and capacity building
of teachers in elementary education. She is currently engaged with capacity
building of school heads and the resource team in states of Gujarat, Himachal
Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Rajasthan, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Tripura,
Andaman and Nicobar Islands as part of her current assignment. In 2019-2020, she
has been involved in Capacity Building of State Resource Persons for NISHTHA-
National Initiative for School Heads' and Teachers' Holistic Advancement, a
nation-wide programme of MHRD.

DR. SUBITHA G.V MENON has her Ph.D in Education from Regional Institute
of Education, Mysore. She has done considerable work in the area of instructional
designing and module development in educational psychology. She worked as
an Instructional Designer developing Computer Based Training modules in the
area of e-learning. She has worked on projects at IIT Madras which includes
Monitoring of SSA implementation and Assessing ALM in Government schools
of Tamil Nadu. She is currently working as Assistant Professor for NCSL, NIEPA,
while coordinating the NCSL school leadership programmes in Assam, Karnataka,
Telangana and Odisha. In 2019-2020, she has been involved in Capacity Building
of State Resource Persons for NISHTHA- National Initiative for School Heads'
and Teachers' Holistic Advancement, a nation-wide programme of MHRD.

DR. N. MYTHILI is presently working as Assistant Professor, NCSL, NIEPA. Her
field of interests relate to Designing and Planning teaching programmes on School
Leadership and Management, implementing capacity building programmes
on School leadership and Management in a few Indian states and research in
Women in School leadership. She has also worked on Quality of Schooling with
special reference to rural government schools in Karnataka. She has researched in
the area of academic structures in school education system with special reference
to restructuring teacher education under 12th Five Year Plan. She was earlier
associated with Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore; Centre for
Multi Disciplinary Development Research, Dharwad; Azim Premji Foundation
(Bangalore), TISS (Mumbai). She has several research Publications in referred
journals. She is leading school leadership development programme in Andhra
Pradesh, Kerala, Meghalaya, Manipur and Sikkim. In 2019-2020, she has been
involved in Capacity Building of State Resource Persons for NISHTHA- National
Initiative for School Heads' and Teachers' Holistic Advancement, a nation-wide
programme of MHRD.

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