Leadership For Equity

Sector

Education

Students studying in India’s government schools struggle with basic literacy and numeracy. Nearly 50% of students cannot read a grade-2 text or do basic numeracy problems (ASER 2024), largely due to outdated classroom pedagogy and insufficient teacher training and support.

The Challenge

About the Partner

Since 2017, Leadership For Equity (LFE) has worked across Zilla parishad schools in rural, urban, and semi-urban regions of Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Nagaland, Tripura, and Haryana to strengthen classroom practices in government schools.  

We build systemic capacity by co-creating contextual teaching-learning materials, conducting needs-based teacher training, and improving governance, monitoring, and data systems.  

Our targeted intervention includes mentoring and classroom observations to create structures for academic coaching of teachers at scale.  

A combination of all these approaches has reached over 200,000 teachers, leading to up to a 20% increase in students’ literacy and numeracy levels and improved classroom practices of teachers.

HBSF Engagement

The grant from Harish and Bina Shah Foundation is a critical unrestricted fund that supports LFE in strengthening its fundraising function, expanding research capacity, and sustaining large-scale program operations in Andhra Pradesh. It enables high-quality content creation for 180,000 teachers, builds organizational stability through donor engagement, and advances sectoral research to influence education policy and systems change in government schools.