Rainbow Primary School

Kalpana and Ashok reported that the DEO has assigned a new teacher to the Rainbow School, Ravi Kumar. Here is the picture! English Medium, Part II We are all thinking hard about ways to phase the school into English medium of instruction (English medium). Maybe we just start with one teacher (1st standard), and maybe we can convince the new "Teach for India" program to open in Hyderabad (they are in Mumbai and Pune). See more on this program at www.teachforindia.org

I left the Rainbow School a bit over one week ago. I found the school operating better than how I left it. The kids are very happy, they are learning very well. The teachers are happy, even with the change in headmistresses. The new headmistress is Vijaya Lakshmi, she comes from our sister school down the road. I found that the teachers are actively teaching: they use every kind of teaching tool and create new teaching ideas every day. I am so grateful things are working out so well. While I was there, the school gave off a steady roar during school hours, like ocean waves hitting a beach. In one classroom, kids called out their answers back to the teacher. In another classroom, students gave a clap-clap-clap to reward a correct answer. In the fourth and fifth classes, students would giggle and cajole each other as they worked in small groups on projects. Down the way, the preschoolers sang songs and threw balls to each other. All the teachers kept cool in the strong heat,...

I left the Rainbow School a little over one week ago. I miss everyone just so, so much. They don't really need me anymore! But I need them. My heart is so happy to see everything is going well, the operating tempo fits the resources at hand. Warning, the following has shaky camera work. They were learning "A" as in "A is for Apple." They are eating Apples! Thank you, Roy, for the donation for the apples.