A teacher writing on a blackboard at a government school in Bengaluru

01 — Flagship project

Project Raaj Drishti — Emperor's Vision. Teacher's Legacy. Nation's Future.

Every child remembers a teacher. Few remember to invest in one. Teacher development remains one of the least supported forms of philanthropy in India, and one of the highest-leverage.

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Stage
Implementation
Geography
Phase 1: two institutions in Delhi
Partners
No partner announced
Domains

Lifecycle position

  1. 01

    Idea

  2. 02

    Research

  3. 03

    Pilot

  4. 04

    Implementation

  5. 05

    Measurement

  6. 06

    Knowledge Capture

  7. 07

    Publication

  8. 08

    Scaling

01 — Problem statement

What this project exists to address.

India celebrates toppers, entrepreneurs, scientists and leaders. Every one of them began with a teacher. Yet teacher development remains one of the least supported forms of philanthropy.

Committed leadership and capable faculty already exist in Indian institutions. What is missing is everyday practice: management systems, improvement methods and evidence-based decisions built into how an institution runs, rather than bolted on when someone asks for a report.

The result is familiar. Faculty development arrives as an event rather than a capability. Outcome-based education is documented for accreditation and practised unevenly in the classroom. Institutions collect a great deal of data and use very little of it. Good work stays local, and avoidable mistakes are repeated elsewhere.

Guiding principle

Your support becomes capability. Capability becomes outcomes.

02 — Objectives

What the project sets out to achieve.

  • 01Establish teaching as India's highest-impact profession, supported and equipped to lead institutional improvement
  • 02Develop approximately 108 educator leaders and 100 MA Education Fellows in Phase 1
  • 03Build a student improvement culture through 5S and Kaizen projects for Classes VI to XII
  • 04Produce IPET-2030, a national integrated performance excellence toolkit
  • 05Publish a policy white paper and a replication toolkit from the pilot
  • 06Prove, at pilot scale, the model that a ₹30 Crore national programme would scale
Participants holding certificates at the close of a training programme in Rishikesh, Uttarakhand

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Target beneficiaries

  • Serving teachers
  • Principals and school leaders
  • Teacher educators
  • Curriculum designers
  • Policy professionals
  • Students, Classes VI to XII

03 — Programme structure

What the project is composed of.

  • 01

    Teacher Professional Capability

    Lean Six Sigma White to Green Belt, improvement science, educational measurement, action research and change leadership.

  • 02

    Student Improvement Culture

    5S and Kaizen projects for Classes VI–XII, showcased upward from school to cluster to district to state.

  • 03

    MA Education Fellowship

    Tuition support, stipends and milestone awards, carrying a capstone, a dataset analysis and a translation contribution.

  • 04

    Leadership Accelerator

    Teachers, principals, teacher educators, curriculum designers and policy professionals developed together.

  • 05

    Global Education Fellows

    Advanced study abroad with a two- to three-year return-of-service obligation.

04 — Activities

What is actually done.

  • Institutional agreements, baseline assessment and cohort selection
  • Capability programmes and fellowship induction
  • Improvement projects run inside participating institutions
  • Student improvement projects and showcases
  • Outcome measurement against the recorded baseline
  • Publication of a policy white paper and replication toolkit

05 — Roadmap

The long-term programme.

  1. Q1–Q2 — Establish: agreements, baseline, cohort selection, PMO set-up

  2. Q3–Q4 — Develop: capability programmes begin, fellows inducted, projects scoped

  3. Q5–Q6 — Implement: projects run, student showcases begin

  4. Q7–Q8 — Measure and publish: outcome measurement, white paper, replication toolkit

  5. Beyond Phase 1 — Scale: the ₹30 Crore national programme

06 — Measurement

How progress on this project will be judged.

These measures are defined before implementation, so that the project can be evaluated on its results rather than its activity.
  • Certification completion — target 80%
  • Classroom implementation — target 70%
  • Student improvement projects — target 500
  • Scalable innovations identified — target 20
  • Policy white paper published
  • Replication toolkit published
  • Funds raised and funds deployed against the published budget bands

Awaiting publication

Impact data will be published as implementation progresses

The Council does not attribute outcomes to a project until they have been measured against a defined baseline. When results exist for this project, they will appear here and on the Impact page — including any that fall short of what was hoped for.

07 — Resources

Publications and downloads from this project.

The Knowledge Hub
  • Project Charter SummaryIn preparation
  • CSR Partnership DeckIn preparation
  • Detailed Project ReportIn preparation
  • IPET-2030 Integrated Performance Excellence ToolkitIn preparation
  • Phase 1 Policy White PaperIn preparation
  • Replication ToolkitIn preparation

Photographs and video

Awaiting publication

Programme photography

Documentation photography from this project will be published here, with the consent of participating institutions and in accordance with the Council’s Child Safeguarding Policy.

Awaiting publication

Recordings

Session recordings and explainers will be published in the media library as they become available.

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