New Education Group - Foundation For Innovation And Research In Education (NEG-FIRE)

Goal: All children of classes 1- 3 from tribal communities in 2 districts of Chhattisgarh and 8 districts of MP access quality early-grade education and enhance learning outcomes as per State competencies.
Objective 1: To capacitate local governance structures constituted under PESA to ensure the delivery of quality educational services to all children from marginalized communities of the project area.
Objective 2: To improve the classroom process by capacitating government primary school teachers and Anganwadi Workers (preschool teachers) to practice mother tongue-based multi-lingual education pedagogies.
Objective 3: To strengthen the educational monitoring mechanisms of district education departments to ensure MTB-MLE pedagogies are practiced in schools.
Objective 4: To develop and establish a State MLE Resource Centre for continuous education for teachers and educators.

Goal: Children from the tribal communities have improved their foundational learning competencies and moved to higher classes to pursue formal school education in 5 tribal-dominated districts: Alluri Sitharama Raju, Parvathipuram Manayam in Andhra Pradesh and Koraput, Nabarangpur and Pottangi in Odisha.
• Objective 1: Cluster-level Community Collectives (CCCs) make quality education a prime development agenda.
• Objective 2: Teachers’ forums at the cluster and block level support teachers to practice MTB-MLE pedagogies in classroom transactions.
• Objective 3: Integration of MTB-MLE pedagogy in the classroom teaching process by effective engagement with district and State-level governments.

Goal: Children from marginalized communities access quality education leading to age/grade-appropriate early learning outcomes.
Objective 1: Ensuring socially inclusive teaching practices are being observed in schools leading to enhance learning levels of Musahar Children in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.
Objective 2: Ensuring Mother Tongue Multi-lingual Educational (MTB-MLE) teaching pedagogies are initiated in Bihar, Jharkhand, and Odisha.
Objective 3: Ensuring training to government teachers on MTB-MLE pedagogies in Visakhapatnam district in Andhra Pradesh and Kawardha district in Chhattisgarh.
Objective 4: Ensuring school readiness of preschool children through child-friendly and joyful teaching pedagogies cutting across all the projects in six states.

Goal: 43350 children of Musahar and Mahadalit communities from 426 primary schools and 821 pre-schools of Bihar have improved foundational competencies in mathematics and language in a safe and inclusive environment.
Objective 1: To strengthen community institutions to engage with the educational ecosystem and departments for making schools inclusive.
Objective 2: To enhance teacher motivation & capacities for transforming the school & classroom environment–inclusive & safe for Musahar & other Mahadalit children.
Objective 3: To develop and strengthen the teacher’s forum at cluster and block level as a common platform for discussion and deliberation on issues and problems related to the inclusive educational process in general & classroom transactions in particular on a sustained basis.
Objective 4: To develop & strengthen interface mechanisms with the existing functional and statutory systems of government to sustain efforts for teacher motivation & capacity building.

Goal: 48181 Children from Gond, Baiga and Korku tribal communities attain early-grade learning (class 1-3) competencies and move to higher classes to pursue formal school education in five tribal-dominated districts in the state of Madhya Pradesh.
Objective 1: To strengthen the capacities of government primary school teachers to practice mother tongue-based multi-lingual education pedagogies.
Objective 2: To engage with government academic institutions (DIET / BRC / CRC) to ensure MTB-MLE pedagogies are practiced in primary schools.
Objective 3: To strengthen local governance structures at village, block & district levels to ensure the delivery of quality educational services to all children from marginalized communities.