The FL@T Project is peerlessly universal human revolution, to translate 4IR into an economic miracle for every 8 billion+ of us! AI promises the best manifestations of being human, and 4IR the best softinfrastructure to power individual propensities to prosperity.
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The FL@T Project is a social infrastructure rewrite, globally, anchored on (quantity of quality) education, (economic) dignity to all, and (gracious) national societies. Infinite muscle capability is now real for private efforts to touch lives, way beyond governments.
We have developed unparalleled models and resources for contemporising school education and governance institutions. Fortuitously, same-outcome academics in the school years is the only foundational imperative to partake in the 4IR era. And a society of dignified all, is naturally gracious.
The eight services of The FL@T Project.
DREAM DISTINCTIONS
Embracing the Net
Soumitra Dutta, Sandeep Srivastava.
Financial Times, UK, in 2000
FIRST INDIAN
And among a handful of others across the globe, to author a book about Internet before the first dotcom bust in 2000!
Embracing the Net, 2000, Financial Times, UK, by Soumitra Dutta, Sandeep Srivastava.
Published during the 2000 dotcom bust, it was among the first ten global books about Internet and the first by Indians.
Soumitra Dutta is the Dean of Said Business School at the University of Oxford.
Government @ Net
Kiran Bedi, Parminder Jeet Singh, Sandeep Srivastava.
Sage, India in 2001FIRST PERSON
To author the (world’s first and best-selling) book on e-governance, in 2001, India’s e-governance year.
Government @ Net – by Kiran Bedi, Parminder Jeet Singh, Sandeep Srivastava.
Published in 2001 by Sage, India. The book propositioned that there is nothing virtual about e-governance, it’s about new governance.
Kiran Bedi became the first woman to join the officer ranks of the Indian Police Service (IPS).
Parminder Jeet Singh was a police officer but currently a leading digital society researcher and author.
The Bright Stuff
Arnoud De Meyer, Soumitra Dutta, Sandeep Srivastava.
Prentice Hall, USA, 2001,FIRST PERSON
Along with the Co-authors, to publish books on strategies for transforming businesses, both pre- and post-dotcom bust, 2000.
The Bright Stuff: How Innovative People and Technology Can Make the Old Economy New 2001, Prentice Hall, USA, by Arnoud De Meyer, Soumitra Dutta, Sandeep Srivastava.
Published in the aftermath of the 2000 bust, it recommended “Innovation as Strategy”, probably too ahead of its time.
Arnoud De Meyer was the past President of the Singapore Management University (SMU).
PIONEERING FEW
To have authored a narrative on a new world order and later proved the same real; the norm being the other way – ‘do and then narrate’.
IYCWorld Softinfrastructure Private Limited (IYCWorld) was established in 2001 and has over the years evolved into a Total Information Technology Solution provider. Headquartered in New Delhi, India, covers the Middle East, Europe and the Indian subcontinent.
my journey as authors, educator, and humanist
Incubating educational enterprises
Seeding ‘next-gen school model’ through innovative entrepreneurship for the young professionals, across nations; including The Liberal School, Math Masters (AI-age math tutors), etc.
Global citizen
Taking a shot at creating the world’s first ‘product’ to be in use by all 8 billion+ of us, by 2030. It is no accident that all the three chosen domains of our focus – (school) education, economic dignity, and governance are truly the three most universal needs, and ‘technologically affected’; health is similar but it is much more local too.
Non-career politician
One of the afflictions of the modern times, but the only one continually sliding south is the state of polity, and political institutions. Only deeply active citizens can reverse the tide; such as being ‘non-career politicians’ – nurturing best political choices and participating as needed to get to those ends. I have contested two elections to the Assembly of the NCR of Delhi.
Incubating social enterprises
Galvanising – intellectually, functionally, and financially – public, ‘free’ socio-economic softinfrastructure to ensure economic dignity of all adults. No less, technology solutions for direct, living democracy is another thrust area (as distinct from technology for government.)
Disruptor
The Family College may well be the most disruptive social product and action in history. It goals to revitalise societies by nurturing its cells – families. Unimagined socio-economic renaissance awaits the most comprehensive empowerment of every family.
Educator
Conceived and created mass-scalable 5-year formal school system for the ‘Industry 4.0’ era, to replace the current, ‘Industry 1.0’ origin K – 12 school system. Researched, experimented, and developed resources and processes for ‘Whole School Transformation’.
Technologist
Among the pioneering batches of computer engineering graduates in India; founded India’s first truly knowledge-led company – no-debt, no-equity dilution in the past 22 years! Debunked the much celebrated ‘Edtech’ industry for learning is essentially social.
Author
Unique pride of writing next-gen, ‘Family edition’ math, science, social science ‘textbooks’ for Grades I – X; and math for XI-XII too! Besides the path-breaking books on Governance, Society, and Education.
THE INSPIRING OTHER
We ‘home educated’ our daughter in Grades VII-XII, and became co-learners in her preparation of math, physics, chemistry, biology, economics and English language as a private student for CIE’s ‘AICE’ (XII) examination, 2014-16.
For the past seven years we have worked in intensely complementary dimensions in education.
My wife and I have lived and worked as (ideally) expected of educated middle-class – proactively nurture the world we want to live in a happier humanity, cutting across all divisions!
The common thread of what affects quality, running through the four years, are: the school leadership’s ‘definition and expectations of quality’, the language competence of teachers in the academic language for all subjects, the domain competence of the heads of various subject departments, close routine involvement of parents, and language competence of students.
The consistently important input factors for quality include the frequency and (easy) actionability of assessment reports to parents, continuous teacher motivation development, better books and learning materials, career guidance resources and processes and ‘happy socialisation’ in primary school years.
The five most universal indicators of quality education are: minimum dispersion between the top and bottom performance of classes in every scholastic subject,normal distribution of performance of classes in every ‘co-scholastic subject’, open and respectful student-teacher relationships, ‘education-friendly homes’, tuition-free homework/assignment submission.
Srategies that work are – literary-level reading skills in any language of all students, ‘public knowledge of the lesson plans’, level of pre-class preparation by students, the micro nature of assessment and reporting, micro-remedial efforts at home and school, and cumulative progress reporting.
This paper is the analysis of ongoing evaluation of our successful strategies in school management by classifying schools into 9 distinct categories and tailoring optimal leadership performance role definitions/models for each. The 9 school categories emerge essentially from the 3 stages of progressive growth for schools (Effective, Successful, Living) for each of the 3 types of schools (Teacher-centered, Parent-centered, and Student-centered). Effective schools are academic focused, successful schools are overall-development focused, and Living schools are next-gen, ‘boundary-less’ schools.
This paper presents 9 high-performance leadership models tied to on-ground realities of types of schools and their stage of growth.
The challenges, which reflect the agenda for further research, are as follows – tools to make it easier for parents to duly complement language and math transaction of their children in school (up to elementary school level), specifically defining the ‘facilitator/co-learner’ role of teachers in the times ahead, development of ‘career discovery and preparation’ curriculum starting early (ideally from middle school), addressing the needs of gifted and talented children in every classroom, and fool-proof strategies for development of ‘slow-learners/weaker students.
To top it all, these five challenges evade effective strategies towards their mitigation, let alone attempts to eliminate them.
This paper, clued to research and rooted in on-ground school development strategies, proposes school leadership standards and competencies that will assuredly propel school’s equity and quality goals. However, standards and competencies are all-encompassing, and can’t be developed and applied universally. In this paper standards are mainly focused on making student learning as the end-all mission, whole-person development as core value, educating talented and gifted, multi-dimensional inclusion, teacher-student relationships, micro-curricular organization, parent and community integration, leader’s effectiveness policies, ethical and operational norms, whole-school community and distributed leadership roles.
This paper showcases extensive and sustainable details on standards and scalable competencies.
Very many factors influence student outcomes and the quality of school leadership tops the list by a mile. This paper is an ongoing, 12-year action research on exploring diverse models of school leadership in my capacity as a leading school’s co-founder, in India. Literature review on the subject is rich and diverse, but the verdict is still wide open; from Drysdale’s model, ISSPP’s eight models, to tri-model (transformational, instructional, distributive), but none of them are independently applicable. However, talking of ‘performance’, the literature can be divided into models that help create effective schools, versus successful schools.
This paper uniquely explores and integrates models for a working model of effective school leadership.
how can we be mutually meaningful?
Falling in love with mathematics
Nurturing ‘reading family’, excel in the language of academics/business
Let ‘schooling’ not interfere with your child’s education
Enriching 21st century career
Enliving citizenship for a ‘citizen-centric’ governance
Improving quality of life of community around you