R.C. No. ESE02/440/2022-SCERT Dated:03/06/2022
Sub:- School Education- SCERT-AP- Academic and Administrative reforms – Ensuring adequate learning outcomes among students – Action Plan for 2022-23 – Meeting with all Headmasters of High Schools in the State (Spell wise) – Certain guidelines – issued.
Ref:-1. Observations of the School Education Higher Officials during their visits to schools.
2. This office Proc. R.C. No. ESE02/2o0/2022-SCERT, Dated 04/04/2022.
The attention of all the Regional Joint Directors of School Education and the District Educational Officers in the state is invited to the reference 2nd above wherein certain guidelines were issued regarding the implementation of Academic and Administrative reforms in the state.
2. The government is now giving utmost importance to school education by strengthening the existing infrastructure for all government schools, by streamlining the Mid-Day meal program and revising the menu, by taking up curricular reforms in consonance with the National Education Policy 2020 and also by setting up a regulatory and monitoring mechanism to streamline the functioning of schools. The Govt. has also supported the mothers by providing financial assistance to send their children to schools and also distributed teaching learning material to the students in the form of students’ kits well before the reopening of schools. All these dedicated efforts are intended to bring in a radical transformation of school education with a long-time objective of preparing the students of Andhra Pradesh for a global citizen with a bright future.
3. The vision of the government is to transform the education ecosyste by investing in child-centric interventions along the entire canvas of the education value-chain to improve the learning outcomes, with specifc focus on foundation literacy and numeracy, to make every child globally competitive, To develop all government High schools as Schools of Excellence and to make the children “How to learn” we need to move away from traditional way of rote learning to child centric pedagogy, focus should be on foundational stage and optimum utilization of both physical and human resources.
4. Keeping in view of the above aspirations it is proposed that to have the direct interaction with all the Headmasters at possible extent to inculcate the dire need of addressing the learning gap among students and to ensure the school development plan in all schools duly compiling all the efforts that are being made regarding academics. Special Chief Secretary to Govt., School Education, Commissioner of School Education, State Project Director, Samagra Shiksha, Advisor, Infra and all other senior ofcers in School Education are attending the said conferences
5. The tentative agenda is as follows.
a. Efective implementation of Academic Calendar.
b. Curricular reforms and new textbooks
c. Academic Monitoring and Supervision.
d. Headmaster – The Leader
e. Assessments.
f. Various initiatives in School Education.
g. Supporting Andhra in Learning Transformation (SALT).
h. Digital infrastructure and optimal utilization.
i. Community involvement in development of schools.
j. Other items with the permission of the chair
MEETING DETAILS:
West Godavari and Krishna Districts (Erstwhile) : 08.06.2022 from 10.00 a.m to 05.00 p.m (VIJAYAWADA)
VENUE: Murali Convention, Poranki- Nidamanuru Road, Opposite Narayanapuram Colony Bus stop, Vijayawada
Guntur and Prakasam Districts (Erstwhile): 10.06.2022 from 10.00 a.m to 05.00 p.m(GUNTUR)
VENUE: will be declared shortly
6. Therefore, all the Regional Joint Directors of School Education and District Educational Officers concerned are directed to inform the same to the Headmasters of High schools concerned and to ensure their participation in the said conference.
7. The State Project Director, Samagra Shiksha is requested to instruct the Additional Project Coordinators concerned to make the necessary arrangements duly meeting the expenses from the respective DPOs not exceeding @500/- (Five Hundred Rupees) per participant.
