1) The Hummingbird School- A Model School.

The Hummingbird School was envisioned as a learning community of children, school staff and the village community. Everyone learns with and from each other. At the heart of all of this is the vision to foster self-learning, critical thinking, and compassion in the children. Most of the children who joined in the first year were from government schools and the majority could not read or write neither English nor Assamese. A lot of focus was given on self-learning, teaching life-skills, leadership and even agriculture. This brought an all-round development, including the learning levels. To this effect, the Hummingbird School is being developed as a model school for curriculum, pedagogy, infrastructure and school management in the context of rural, marginalized communities.

2) Developing teaching and learning resource center

The biggest component of Majuli’s dismal education system is the lack of competent and well-trained teachers. Complementary to the development of the curriculum and pedagogy will be the training of the local teachers and committed youth from the local community. The researched and tested findings from the model school would be part of the teacher training, apart from specific needs. The resource center is envisioned as a hub for all stakeholders with interest and passion for education in Majuli to access information, tools, and techniques on teaching and learning.

3) Being a knowledge, resource and strategy partner to the government and affordable private schools

Within the first year of functioning, the school received requests from all across the island to open more schools. However, it was not possible or even a feasible solution to start more schools. Starting a school from scratch is a huge task. Majuli already has over 900 existing schools. Thus, the school team decided to work with existing schools and partner with them towards school improvement, based on our learnings from The Hummingbird School. They registered an organization – Ayang “which means love in the Mising language”. Towards the mission, they launched the Whole School Transformation Program, where Ayang partners with Government and low-income community schools for 3 years towards school improvement. They do this primarily through building capacities of stakeholders and enabling systems and structures in schools for sustainability, and by empowering local youth to be change-makers through the 2 yearlong Ayang Manthan Fellowship.

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