Faculty for MDP (updating)

"Management of Schools for Excellence", 2-6 May, 2016, at CBS

Prof Sitangshu Chakraborty Former Professor and Convener of Management Centre for Human Values, IIM Calcutta				Session 1 and 2:   Human Values in School Education
Prof Chakraborty, earned his PhD in Management and Social Sciences as a Common Wealth Scholar from Liverpool University in 1970. He started post-graduate teaching at Calcutta University in 1962 and retired from IIM Calcutta in 2003. He had founded the Management Centre for Human Values within IIMC in 1995. He had taught at various Universities in India and abroad e.g. Burdwan, Liverpool, Stockholm, Darmstada, California Institute of legal studies, Royal Melborne Institute of Technology etc. He has participated on invitation in numerous conferences in many parts of the world e.g. Guangzhou, Kualalampur, Manila, Generva, Madrid, Tokyo, Edinburg, Toronto, Washington DC etc.   He continues to be a freelance teacher in the academic and corporate sectors. He is a Member of the Board of Governors of IIM-Indore, and Chairman (Hony.) Advisory Council of the Society for Integration of Spirituality and Organisations of Leadership (ISOL). Earlier he had been a Member of the Board of four public sector companies and three GOI committees also. Hes has been the founder-editor of three journals: Decision and Journal of Human Values at IIMC; and Shradha at the Sri Aurobindo Samiti. He authored over 34 books – either as sole author/editor, or as joint author/editor. A couple of them had won national awards. http://www.business-standard.com/article/specials/vedanta-in-management-198033001041_1.html http://www.outlookindia.com/magazine/story/sk-chakraborty-academician/202366 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Ms Meena Kak Principal, Lakshmipat Singhania Academy			Session 3:Case study – Continuous improvement
She did her M.Sc. (Organic Chemistry) from Christ Church College, Kanpur in 1978 and also has a Bachelor of Education.  She adopted the teaching profession not by chance, but by choice.  She feels she has achieved what she dreamt, but satisfaction leads to stagnation, so her motto is ‘miles to go before I sleep.’ Focused in life and believer of horizontal as well as vertical professional growth, she worked as PGT Chemistry teacher at Pitts’ Modern School, Gomia, Bihar from January 1980 to May 1997.   Worked as Principal at Harley’s High School, Kolkata from August 1997 to June 2004 and then at Ashok Hall Girls’ Higher Secondary School, Kolkata from July 2004 to May 2007.  Presently, Principal of Lakshmipat Singhania Academy since June 2007.   She is always kept in high esteem by her students, colleagues and seniors for her positive attitude, perseverance, passion for work and punctuality. She believes in preparing young minds to face the challenges of life with grit and determination.  She trains students to take care of underprivileged and old.  Donating a large sum to HelpAge India and sending children to slums to educate them of healthy living conditions, shows her concern for the society and also trains students to take care of environment.  She supports the idea of inducting children with special needs into main stream for formal learning. She introduced innovative methods of teaching integrated system of teaching, research method, Quality circle and micro teaching in the schools where she worked. Experimenting with teaching practices is her forte. She has been appointed as Co-ordinator of CBSE examination and evaluation work for eight years.  She is on the Inspection Committee for schools applying for affiliation from CBSE. Was City-Cordinator for JEE (Main) and CTET.  She accompanied students on exchange programme to Germany and USA.  Visited UK universities to study the undergraduate and postgraduate courses sponsored by the British Council.  She is member of the Managing Committee for Sushila Birla Girls’ School. Received CBSE National Award from Ministry of Human Resource, New Delhi in 2007 for contribution in the field of education. Was awarded the ‘Bharat Shiksha Ratan Award’ from the ‘Global Society for Health & Educational Growth’, New Delhi.  Was also awarded the ‘Shiksha Rattan Puraskar’ along with Certificate of Excellence from India International Friendship Society.  Received the ‘National Award for Teachers 2010’ on Teachers’ Day 2011 from the Hon’ble President of India. Received Certificate of Appreciation from ‘Commerce Talent Search Examination Foundation’ for encouraging participation and conducting 9th National CTE Test (2014-15), Award from Pariwar Milan for her dedication and services in the field of Education. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Amrita Dass Founder Director, Institute for Career Studies Lucknow  Session 4:  Career Counselling in Schools Dr. Dass is a leading Educationist and Career-Consultant of the country. She is the Founder-Director of ICS-International (Established in 1985) and has the distinction of pioneering the career counselling and guidance services in the country. She is also the Chairperson and Managing Director of ICS Education Ltd.  Dr. Dass is a consultant for a number of leading schools of the country. She has also designed and conducted numerous training programmes on Leadership for Edu-Leaders focusing on Leadership in Education and on Excellence in Education for Teachers. In addition, she has conducted Leadership Programmes for corporates both national and multinationals. She is a columnist for many leading newspapers of the country and writes on a wide range of educational, career and leadership issues. Recipient of the Lions Club Award for Outstanding Social Work and the Rotary Award for Vocational Excellence. Has recently been felicitated as a “Woman Achiever” by Tata Consultancy Services (TCS).

Mr. R. S. Jhawar     B.Com., LLB; FCA; ACMA  Finance Director, Williamson Magor Ltd. and Member of BOG, CBS				Session 5 and 6: Financial Management in Schools
Mr. R. S. Jhawar has been associated with Williamson Magor Group in various capacities for about 5 decades. During his tenure of employment with Williamson Magor & Co. Limited, he held senior positions in Finance and General Management and gained valuable experience in corporate finance, lending, investment and other aspects of corporate management. Mr. Jhawar was a Whole-time Director of Williamson Magor & Co. Limited till 31st March, 2008. He possesses considerable experience in Tea Industry. He was the Chairman of Indian Tea Association for two consecutive terms and was also the Vice Chairman of the Tea Board.

Mr Ranjan Mitter Director, Future Foundation School Session 7: Marketing Management for Schools

Session 8: Case study – Sri Arobindo Inspired school

Mr. Ranjan K. Mitter is the Secretary of Sri Aurobindo Institute of Culture, an eminent not for profit educational, cultural, social and research institution in Kolkata. Concurrently, he is also Principal of The Future Foundation School. Mr Mitter is a member of the Standing Committee on Examinations of the Council for Indian School Certificate Examinations since 2002 and has catalysed a number of teacher training initiatives from the Council. Mr Mitter teaches at the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, (since 2000), where he has developed curricula on Business Ethics for students. He also teaches course like “Entrepreneurship in NGOs”. Moreover, Mr. Mitter has pioneered training programmes on ‘Educational Leadership’ for heads of educational institutions. Mr. Mitter is on the Governing body of The Institute of Business Management run by National Council of Education under the auspices of Jadavpur University. He has Co-directed and or been a resource person in workshops for ICSE/CBSE Heads at IIMC. He was also Lead Speaker at the CBSE Gulf Conference 2011 at Kuwait and also at several CBSE Sahodaya Conferences. He is a member of the Education Sub-Committee of CII (ER). Mr Mitter has been a member of the Corporate Citizenship Sub-committee set up by the Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry during its 150th anniversary. He has lectured for two successive years on Business Ethics at the European Summer School for Advanced Management, Aarhus, Denmark, and consults with major multinationals in Europe and India. His services have been sought by leading national and international business schools and he has addressed various national and international fora of repute. He has been nominated as a member of the Regional Advisory Committee of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations. Mr. Mitter is closely associated with the Fair Trade Movement. He is President of Sasha EDF, a fair trade NGO in Eastern India. He has spoken at the World Social Forum in Mumbai and offered the keynote address at the International Federation of Alternative Trade’s Asia Conference in Hanoi in 2004. In the past Mr Mitter has held top management positions in Indian industry in organizations like Philips, Titan, Shaw Wallace and Polaroid. He has also worked abroad in the headquarters of NV Philips in Eindhoven. Mr. Mitter did his schooling from St. Xavier's Collegiate School and is an engineering graduate from Jadavpur University. He did his Masters' in Engineering from BITS, Pilani and his Masters in Business Administration from INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France. He has to his credit a Bachelor of Education degree from IGNOU.

Mr G. Balasubramanian Former Director (Academics) CBSE				Session 9 Educational Policy for Schools
A passionate teacher and Teacher trainer, Curriculum Designer, Education Management Mentor, Global education consultant. Mr Balasubramanian is a repository of rich wisdom and knowledge in the field of Education. An erudite scholar who keeps his audience spellbound with his magical exposition of any theme, having a never ending penchant for innovation and new philosophies and practices in Education.

Fr. Sebastian James, S.J. Principal, St. Lawrence High School, Kolkata Former Principal of St. Lawrence High School  Former Vice Principal at St. Xavier’s Collegiate School

Session 10 Case study – Jesuit Schools

Fr. Sebastian James SJ, an  educationist and skilled integrator in bridging modern technology with traditional education platforms.  He is also a staunch supporter of positive action of the youth in society. His mission and aim is to make learning a more joyful and interactive experience. Presently he is the Principal of St. Lawrence High School since June 2014. He had also served as Vice Principal at St. Xavier’s Collegiate School for 7 years. He has brought about a sea change in the infrastructure and has enhanced academic standards in St. Lawrence High School greatly.  He has provided the staff and students with state of the art facilities for teaching and learning. He has embarked upon creating innovative platforms for teaching and learning that includes the School website, School Calendar app, digital classrooms, ERP School Management Software, Auto generation of the Time Table, and Report Cards, Apple Labs for staff and students, Digital e-library and a state of the art Staff room for the teaching staff. He has embarked upon creating diverse elearning platforms for students at large. Fr. Sebastian has also been the corner stone to initiate a Student Exchange Programme with St. Lawrence High School and Yunnan Nationalities High School, China. This in turn has helped students to experience diverse cultural environments that would give them a broader outlook and perspective towards life beyond the classroom. In brief a famous saying “Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand” is the moto of Fr. Sebastian James’ endeavour as a Jesuit educator. Dr. Smarajit Dey Principal Adviser – Strategy and Former President, NIIT Ltd Adviser and Member, Board of Management – NIIT University Session 11:  Technology in Schools   Dr. Smarajit Dey is an Education and Management Consultant with over 35-years of experience in both academic and corporate environments. He has worked at all levels in the education domain (schools to universities, professional and vocational), primarily in the areas of management of education services, technology-enabled learning, employability enhancement and industry-academia linkages.  Dr Dey served as President of the Education business at NIIT Ltd – one of the largest for-profit education and training companies in the world – for many years, managing an operation with 500,000 students-on-rolls in 32 countries. Responsible for new business incubation at NIIT Ltd, Dr Dey founded the country’s first venture in Online Education, and also founded entities in Banking & Financial Services Education (joint venture with ICICI Bank), and Management Education (in association with the IIMs). Dr Dey was instrumental in setting-up NIIT University at Neemrana, Rajasthan, and serves on its Board. Among other affiliations, Dr Dey has been a member of the Executive Board of the Association of Indian Management Schools, an Adviser to the ISC council (CISCE), a Consultant to the Ministry of HRD, a member of West Bengal government’s IT Task Force, and authored the first study of Computerisation in Indian Banks. Earlier, during a decade-long association with BITS Pilani, Dr Dey briefly served as Group Leader Computer Science, and as Chief Consultant. He is currently also Principal Adviser – Strategy to NIIT Lt. He is associated with a top-tiervManagement Education institute, a schools chain at Myanmar, a prospective University, a start-up school and an education-focused PE fund.. Dr Amit Dhiman Associate Professor Indian Institute of Management Calcutta Session 12 Performance Management and Motivation   Amit Dhima is a Phd/Fellow in Management (P& IR) from IIM Ahmedabad, MBA (P&IR) from University Business School Panjab University, and BE (Mechanical) Karnataka University Dharwad. He teaches Human Resource Management; Human Resource Management and Labour Laws; Strategic Human Resource Management in Services at IIM Calcutta, His research interest spans HRM policy making, High performance work systems, Performance management, Work studies. Earlier, Dr Diman worked as Assistant Manager (HR)/ Head (HR) in Musashi Auto Gurgaon; Deputy Manager (Corporate HR) at Triveni Engineering New Delhi; Executive (HR) at JCT Electronics Ltd Mohali; Management Trainee (Corporate HR) at Steel Strips Ltd Chandigarh; Maintenance Engineer at Deepak Spinners Ltd Baddi. Mr. G. Gautama Director – Secretary, Palar Centre for Learning PCFL - KFI Session 14 Case study - Sri J. Krisnamurty Inspired Schools   G.Gautama BTech (IIT Madras) works as the Director - Secretary of the Palar Centre for Learning (comprising Pathashaala school, Outreach programs and a Krishnamurti study centre).  He was Principal of The School, KFI from 1991 to 2009, where he initiated and guided several initiatives such as Mixed Age Group Learning in Junior and Middle school, a dynamic wide learning programme for High School students, establishing a short term Teacher Training programme as well as the design and development of the new residential school called Pathashaala. He supported the development of Active Learning Methodologies for TN SSA which was adopted by 16500 Government schools of Tamilnadu in classes 6,7,8. The core of his work has been to facilitate the building of a robust and sustainable staff culture and shared leadership through which initiative and change can emerge in an educational institution. KFI has six schools across India that endeavour to educate children based on Krishnamurti's teachings. To Krishnamurti, the schools were a milieu in which the larger existential issues could be explored in an atmosphere of freedom and responsibility. Over the years, these schools have grown into Education Centres that reach out to the community around them and the environment in socially responsible ways. http://ggautama.brandyourself.com/

Mr John Mason Former Headmaster, The Doon School, Dehradun  Former Principal, St James School, Kolkata Session 20 Case study - Iconic Doon School Mr. Mason has been a teacher for fifty years. He taught at La Martiniere and was Head of St. James' School, Calcutta, The Modern High School, Dubai, and the Doon School, Dehra Dun. For a few years he was Head of Asian Schools in Dubai, supervising Indian schools in the Gulf while establishing schools in India for an education company, the Varkey Group. Mr. Mason has spent more than half his career in the management and administration of schools, each fortuitously distinct from the other, enabling him to assimilate the subtle and overt differences in their design and operation and providing him practical insights into varying management structures of schools. He is now actively retired, engaged as an education advisor and on the Board of several schools around the country. He and his wife divide their time between their homes in Dehra Dun and Gurgaon.
Swami Suparnanada Secretary, Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture Former Secretary, RKM School & College, Narendrapur	Session 15 Case study - Swami Vivekanada Inspired Schoools
Mr. N. R. Murali Deputy Commissioner Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan, Regional Office, Kolkata	Session 18 Case study - Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan
Mr Murli leads KVS Kolkata, which cover a region spanning over a vast area covering West Bengal, Sikkim, Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The region shares the vision and mission of the KVS organization with more than sixty schools under its umbrella.  Under his leadership, the KVS Kolkata Region is surging ahead in all spheres of activities be it curricular or co-curricular. Given the vast potential lying within the students, teachers and other employees belonging to this culturally and intellectually rich part of this great country, it has become a vibrant and exemplary region among the rest of the regions of KVS.
Ms Rita Bibra Secretary General, Vidya Mandir society		Session 21 Case study - Keeping Pace with Time
Ms. Bibra is an acknowledged administrator and leader, responsible for transition of Birla High School amongst others. She is associated with the S. K. Birla Group for almost 30 years.  Since its inception in 1992, she is leading the J. D. Birla Institute as its Chief Administrator. Ms. Bibra is also the constituted Attorney of Sukriti Education Society, the Trust that manages J. D. Birla Institute. She is the Secretary General of Vidya Mandir Society – the trust under which Birla High School, Sushila Birla Girls High School and Birla School of Management operate.  http://www.jdbikolkata.in/chief-administrator.html  http://www.jdbikolkata.in/chief-administrator.html
Ms Devi Kar Director, Modern High School for Girls	Session 15 Case study - Change Management
She is an acknowledged educator, mentor and leader of school education. She is the director of the Modern High School for Girls (Ested 1952) a leading private school (nursery, junior and senior school) in Kolkata. MHS won the British Council - International School Award for the period 2011 to 2014 as also the CINI and Save the Children Best School Award for "Each One Teach One" campaign.  The school motto is "Satyam Shivam Sundaram".
Mr. Sanjay Baid Advocate, Calcutta High Court				Session 19 Legal Issues in School Management
Advocate Sanjay Kumar  Baid had been practicing in different branches of law since 1989. He is intimately associated in counselling of schools in different legal matters. He was been the standing counsel of the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations since 1992 in West Bengal.  His brief includes dealing with matters related to School Minority Rights under  Article 30(1) of the constitution of India, assisting in setting up Trusts and new schools in West Bengal, drafting  service rules etc . Besides, he is also involved in dealing with commercial litigations and drafting of deeds and documents .  He is also serving on the  Boards of St. Michael's School, Durgapur and  St. Peters School Benachitty . In addition, he was associated with an  NGO Udayan.
Ms Bratati Bhattacharyya Secretary General, Shikshayatan Foundation				Session 13 Leadership, Delegation and Accountability in Schools
A Visionary who believes in Literacy and Compulsory Education- a platform for each and every individual at every level. She did Masters in Economics, B.Ed (Gold Medalist), and PGDFM. Before moving to Education she worked as an Investment Banker for 5 years. She is a seasoned Educational Administrator with expertise in solving varied complex problems in the field of education and management by involving, guiding and energizing people around.  As Secretary General of Shikshayatan Foundation, the apex body, she oversees the Marwari Balika Vidyalaya, Shri Shikshayatan School, Shri Shikshayatn College and Calcutta Business School.  She works best when assignment comes with high responsibility, complexity, authority, and power with proper focus and targets - a decision maker who manages priorities after viewing short & long term goals.
Dr Ashok Banerji Professor at Calcutta Business School and Recognised Faculty at University of Liverpool Online					Session 17 e_learning for Schools
Educator with multi-disciplinary exposure in engineering, management and academics. Did his BE in Electrical Engineering from BE College, Shibpur (now IIEST), MTech, and PhD (computers) from University of Teesside, Middllesbrough, UK. Current professional interest in e-learning, educational and instructional technology, multimedia and EPSS (Electronic Performance Support Systems). Personal and professional goal: to promote education and supporting performance leveraging technology. He was the first eProfessor from India at Jones International University (the first accredited virtual university in USA) where he was the JIU Professor of the year, 2012, Gold Standard faculty since 2008 and received Outstanding Faculty Service award, 2015. Currently he is also associated with University of Liverpool Online.

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