Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
SEEK: Social Emotional & Ecological Knowledge
Rangeet
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India
An app for facilitators (teachers, communities, caregivers) featuring a play-based, measurable SEEK curriculum & resources supporting the UNSDGs. SEEK promotes wellbeing & develops agency & global stewardship in children in any context. It's grounded in the science of learning, enables teachers to augment core curricula & aims to address learner variability. Only one device is needed to implement.
Human relationships are at the core of loving & learning. Through song & playful activities, Rangeet flexes our social muscles & prepares children to be tomorrow’s carers, thinkers & citizens.
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Innovation Overview
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Target Group
30 000
Children/Users
3
Countries
2018
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For-profit
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about the innovation
Why did you create this innovation?
Quality education is unevenly distributed, worsened by access issues.
Schools focus on rote methods ignoring learner variability. The science of learning states that children learn best through play & that the 6Cs & socio-emotional skills are foundational.
Understanding the value of & our relationship with ecology & the role we can play to mitigate climate change is crucial to developing agency.
How does your innovation work in practice?
NGOs, caregivers, private/public schools buy licences to implement Rangeet’s platform consisting of SEEK+M&E tools. Facilitators use a mobile device to teach & input data (class, iterative, tests) in multiple languages. A web backend helps program administrators manage the implementation. Users are trained & supported via the app. M&E tools provide real-time insight to administrators/donors. Operable offline, the app resolves access issues.
Rangeet has 3 umbrellas (Self, Society, Ecology) with 75x1hr lessons. Through play-based methods children develop socio-emotional/6Cs skills & ecological knowledge. Activities are tagged based on skill, teaching method & mapped to core curricula. Facilitators can search for activities helpful to their contexts, addressing learner variability. Umbrella pre/post tests are tagged enabling measurement of specific outcomes.
Research Basis: https://bit.ly/3vOSLON
Theory of Change: https://bit.ly/3NLugLc
How Rangeet Maps to the SDGs: https://bit.ly/3tgPuZA
How has it been spreading?
Goal: Build coalitions to implement across the Global South to reach 500k facilitators/2.5million children in schools & communities.
30k children & 2k facilitators engaged. Student answers improved by 25-30% in endline/baseline tests. 90% of facilitators reported enriched pedagogy. More on impact: https://bit.ly/3yvzyDY
Recognised as a UN Best Practice in SDG 4&5 (https://bit.ly/3hk77AI), Hundred.org Holistic Education Challenge Winner, Jacobs Foundation/MITSolve Most Promising Innovation Equitable Classrooms Challenge (https://bit.ly/3us69YP). Cited by Brookings Institution as a playful learning model (https://bit.ly/3nWsLxd)
Jacobs Centre for Productive Youth Development is conducting a study across many settings to evaluate the impact of SEEK on children/teachers in the short/long term
If I want to try it, what should I do?
Please visit https://projectrangeet.com/app/ to download the app which includes a tutorial, free trial & Pandemic Recovery Activities that can be carried out in schools, communities or at home. Hit the sign up button to access all lessons. Our new app is being developed & will be released by August 2022. Progressive versions can be tested in the link above. Or contact us at info@projectrangeet.com
Research
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The use of apps to reach educators and students to share their views on diverse topics makes it easily accessible and impactful. The focus on social and emotional areas are important aspects of development that need to be discussed more often.
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Achievements & Awards
October 2021
Holistic Education in South & South-East Asia
April 2021
“Promising Innovation Award” Jacobs Foundation / MIT Solve 2021
March 2021
Report submitted (https://bit.ly/3e4HcNS) to WEF's Davos Labs 2021 to solve digital divides on the lines of race, socioeconomic and gender.
February 2021
Featured as a Best Practice in the UN South-South Matchmaker / Galaxy, February 2021 (https://bit.ly/38oFsLR)
December 2020
Innovation page created on HundrED.org
October 2020
The Brookings Institution Cites Project Rangeet In "Policy 2020: A New Path To Education Reform" (https://bit.ly/3nWsLxd)
September 2020
Project Rangeet Featured In Good Practices in SSTC for Sustainable Development – Vol. 3 2020, (https://bit.ly/3hk77AI )
December 2019
UN South-South Galaxy Features Project Rangeet (https://bit.ly/2KF8Pkc )
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Explore Project Rangeet
Learn more about Project Rangeet through our app. This tutorial will cover how our curriculum is organised. Try the app features, sample activities and lesson plans.
You can sign up for our full curriculum via the sign up button in the app.
Or email simran@projectrangeet.com
The idea of an app for facilitators only makes this viable for scale as providing digital technologies for fewer people is easier in low resource or remote settings.
- HundrED Academy Member
- HundrED Academy MemberProject Randeet is clearly impacting schools, educators & students in a wide context of settings. Students speak of their understandings with passion & the lessons aim for social impact within communities. The app is content rich, real world issues.