Achiever's Success Story
“Akash Dnyaneshwar Namita Raut, Principal, FirstSteps IB World School”
Bill Bradely has rightly said, “Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.”With the 21st century skills in vogue, many educators are transcending across several education systems and styles of teaching, finding it difficult and challenging to accommodate themselves to the contemporary methods of learning. To address this, Mr. Akash Dnyaneshwar Namita Raut founded the social project ‘Borderless Education‘ in 2018 to reach out to educators and learners in India and outside helping them become lifelong learners, an absolute need!
At the outset of pandemic last year, he decided to conduct customised professional development workshops facilitating educators struggling with virtual teaching and learning. These workshops were free of cost and open for educators across various school systems in India and outside. It was planned to support and empower the educators ultimately benefitting the learning community. Around 2500 educators from India and outside enrolled for the workshops. In return, what he received was immense love and productive feedback from the educators.
As an educator, the values of learning being life-long, dynamic and meaningful is deeply engraved in his practice. He quotes ‘I am an educator because I wish to change the world. While I realize what I hope to accomplish is limited, I know education is where I can have the greatest impact. I believe that the purpose of human existence is to uplift one another and education is the key to this upliftment. What one learns should never remain in the closed books rather reach far and wide touching the lives of people who wish to be a part of this change’.