What successes has your school achieved during 2023-24 that have inspired students, parents or the community? We are looking for a school that can show how they are an inspirational school for this academic year. Judges will be looking for innovative approaches with measured success and the category will be looking at anything the school considers to be inspirational across the whole school curriculum or specific projects.

What successes has your school achieved during 2023-24 that have inspired students, parents or the community? We are looking for a school that can show how they are an inspirational school for this academic year. Judges will be looking for innovative approaches with measured success and the category will be looking at anything the school considers to be inspirational across the whole school curriculum or specific projects.

Analyzing the teaching-learning efficiency in a physical classroom is an easy task, but becomes challenging in the online mode. This category is on the lookout for schools that successfully looked into the efficiency of the digital learning process. This could include the creative use of new elements related to the curriculum or the production of something new, resulting in educational innovations.

Did your schools take any special initiatives to prepare the students for the online learning experience and introduce them to your learning management system? Were there any unique engagement strategies you adopted to see that the students were actively participating in the learning process?

How well is your school keeping up with the times? Has it taken initiatives to cater to the learning needs of the modern-day learners? This category is looking to evaluate schools that have put in constant efforts to tailor their curriculum while keeping in mind the needs and abilities of the students as well as the challenges thrown by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Being clever but humble, compassionate, and leading by example are some of the qualities that make a great leader. This category acknowledges the efforts of exemplary leaders in the education fraternity. This could include school officials who have made remarkable contributions to the school by drastically improving its pedagogies or policies and by introducing new perspectives and opportunities for the students.

This category is on the lookout for schools offering new-age future-proof learning with career-oriented skills.

Research is the first step of any major breakthrough. Life-changing innovations that are brought to the marketplace are usually backed by a great team of researchers. We are looking to recognize and celebrate the school that has introduced the most innovative products, projects and concepts by way of its students. What we look for is originality, creative thinking and well thought out research. The shortlisted schools will be ones that have taught their students the art of research, instilled in them an eagerness to learn about every aspect of a particular topic and encouraged them to come up with innovative ideas that would stand out in the marketplace.

With a major challenge during the pandemic being addressing the attention span of students during online classes, the need of the hour has been to create a structured environment. This category is looking for schools that have meticulously put in efforts to provide this structure and go beyond replicating a physical class through video capabilities and using a range of collaboration tools and engagement methods that promote inclusion, personalization and intelligence.

How effective has the implementation of learning tools been after the teaching-learning process was shifted to the digital mode, and how has it resulted in positive learning outcomes on the student's academic performances?

This category is looking for schools that have developed a STEM-based project during the academic year 2023-24, to provide an opportunity to develop an innovative and effective approach to encourage students to engage with science, technology, engineering or math. It can be a project that has a focus on one element of STEM, or one that covers all four areas.

With the Indian Education System being one of the largest in the world with over 250 million children attending more than 1.5 million schools, there is a large section of the society that requires budget schools. This category is looking for schools that are affordable for middle-class families without compromising on the quality of education delivered to the students.

With the greatest challenge during the pandemic being addressing the attention span of the students during online classes, how did your school strive to motivate students to attend and actively participate in the classes? Were there any additional innovative platforms created or initiatives taken to ensure that their interest and motivation levels were kept high?

How and what has your school done to develop innovative and out-of-the-box approaches to learning during the pandemic, across the various levels of learning? How did you ensure the development of skills such as problem solving, creative thinking, etc, on the online platform?

Has your school developed a Learning Management System (LMS) after the switch to e-learning, and how have you assured that quality learning materials have been uploaded for the students to access during the pandemic? Have you used it to conduct seminars and workshops, and to keep track of everyone's activities and performance, along with their records, grades, submissions, and engagement during the classes?

How has your school transformed its distant learning content with time? Are you breaking free from providing students with text-heavy materials and improvising on engaging digital learning content to render the process of remote learning more interesting and fruitful?

An immensely crucial aspect during the pandemic has been the mental & emotional well-being of the students as well as the school staff. This category recognizes those schools that have prioritized mental health and have put in umpteen efforts to boost the morale of their staff and students during these testing times. What are some of the extraordinary efforts your school has put in, in addition to general counseling?

This category recognizes schools that have set the benchmark high when it comes to delivering promising academic structure and content. The focus should be set on moulding students into bright and intellectual personalities with the essential life skills required for them to succeed in the real world, rather than just imparting bookish knowledge.

Institutions that are putting in tremendous efforts to be present online and engage through social channels will be recognized under this category.

Here we will be recognizing private institutions that have been successful in educating their students about eco-friendly practices, and have been initiating activities to support the purpose.

This category is on the lookout for educational institutions that have been adopting innovative techniques to enhance learning and experiences in the K- 12 segment.

This category recognizes schools that inspire students to develop a comprehensive understanding of the various career pathways and opportunities open to them. We are looking for innovative and creative approaches to guiding students towards future careers and developing the next generation of workers. Are your students being prepared for the world of work with measured outcomes?

Tell us how your school has developed close community partnership links, with examples of specific community-led projects. Who has your school formed community partnerships with and what have been the results for the school, students, parents and the community? We're looking for the best partnerships that have delivered real results.

What successes has your school achieved during 2023-24 that has inspired students, parents or the community? We are looking for a preschool that can show how they are an inspirational school for this academic year. Judges will be looking for innovative approaches with measured success and the category will be looking at anything the school considers to be inspirational across the whole school curriculum or specific projects.

This category will identify the most outstanding leadership team and will involve the head teacher/principal, deputy, as well as other senior leadership staff. We are looking for the team who can demonstrate and show, by key performance indicators, why they are outstanding, while highlighting key successes for the academic year 2023-24 and explaining how the team is on track to achieve its set objectives.

Does your school represent the widest array of students hailing from different communities, regions and districts of our country? This category is aimed at celebrating schools that ensure diversity in all forms, be it cultural, linguistic or regional diversity. Here, the judges will take a close look at the demographics of a classroom, and assess how good the school is at catering to the needs of different social classes, while ensuring smooth cooperation and assimilation of students from various back grounds.

What makes a good leader? Humility, compassion and leading by example are some of the answers given by our judges. The Innovative Leadership is a management category that aims to celebrate exemplary leaders in the field of education. This could be school officials who have successfully made significant changes to a school, its pedagogy and policies or those who have introduced fresh perspectives and facilitated new opportunities for their students.

This category is on the lookout for creative teams of the institutions that implemented a divergent marketing plan to communicate with the stakeholders and students.

What are the various e-learning platforms your school has implemented in its attempt to ensure that the learning process is smooth and interesting for the students? Were there any additional innovative platforms or teaching aids incorporated that yielded great academic results?

This category aims to recognize the school that can demonstrate an increase in the quality of care and educational services provided to students with Special Educational Needs through a proactive and caring approach which has led to having a real impact within the school.

Those schools that have put in tremendous efforts in creating divergent marketing communication for the institutions in the K-12 community will be recognized under this category.