Mrs. Sarojini Rao
Principal

HOW IS INDUS DIFFERENT?
• Absence of Fear
• Multicultural
• Student – Centric Learning:
‒ Technology / OLPC
‒ Student Feedback
‒ Teachers as Facilitators
‒ Innovative Projects & Flipping
• Balanced Scorecard
• Community Orientation & IICS
• Partnership with Parents
• Strong faculty & ITARI
• Leadership Curriculum & ISL

MAJOR ACHIEVEMENT

REASONS FOR THE STATE OF ACHIEVEMENT
• Leadership with a clear vision
• Teacher profile
• Encourage parents as partners
• Higher benchmarks across all grades
• Academic support

‘’ To create
and
of tomorrow, through
of Love, Empathy, Discipline and Respect – 21 st century citizens who think globally and act locally .”
To be Achieved by
and

- Higher
Benchmarks
- Sp Support
- Clubs & MDD
- Concert
- Art
- LTT
- Teacher
Appraisal
- IICS
- PD
INDUS LEADERSHIP AND WHOLE
EDUCATION
SI + PI
In School
CI + AI
Leadership
School (ISL)
Academic Rigor
Co curricular
Activities
Sports
Experiential
Leadership &
Whole
Education
CI + EI + SI
For Teachers
SI + EI
Leadership
Curriculum
Sense of mission &
Risk as a means of education is nurtured by
- Outward Bound
- Discovery Course
- Simulation Games
-Vision & Goals
- E I, Values &
Community
Service
- Innovation &
Persuasive
Communication

MISSION STATEMENT 2014-15
I will ensure enhancement in overall Academic Standards to include consolidation of higher benchmarks across all grades to implement the Head start DP and successful graduation of the ninth batch of DP . Introduction to the
Revised Leadership Curriculum, implementation of
Mega projects, Camps, Sports & LTT to Nurture Student
& Teacher Leadership.
Aesthetic Development will focus on the Concert and continue to be an important component of Whole Education.

GOAL 1 - IMPROVING STUDENTS’
PERFORMANCE IN ALL AREAS OF ACADEMICS
1. Achieve international benchmarks plus
2. Specialized support classes from Grades 9 onwards
3. Student centric learning where teaching will focus on:
Experiential
Learning
Beyond Campus
30%
Teacher led teaching
30%
Student as his Teacher:
Problem /
Project-based learning,
Flipping
40%

ACADEMIC RIGOUR (CONTD..)
• Establishment of learning goals and reflection by students for each unit
• Instructional supervision & evaluation
• Pre- IB
• Teacher track to also focus on Head start IGCSE, innovations, student feedback, support, PLG progress, reading and writing skills
• Projects and innovations
• Reading, writing & speaking benchmarks from PYP to
IGCSE
• Curriculum on the file server for internal use
• Analysis of assessments at all levels
• Support classes and study circle
• Student feedback – minimum of 2 every month

ACADEMIC RIGOUR (CONTD..)
Optimization of the DP with focus on:
• Classroom practices
• Discipline
• Support classes
• Syllabus completion
• Deadlines, sanctions and communication with parents
• Clarity on teacher assistance and quality of submissions
• Coordination with Career Counselor
•Clarity on rehearsals and participation

GOAL 2 – STUDENT AND TEACHER
LEADERSHIP
• Revised Leadership Curriculum
• Mentoring Programme
• Leadership Track for Teachers
• Professional Development
• Indus International Community School
• Community & Service
• Sports
• Indus School of Leadership

1. LEADERSHIP CURRICULUM
Classroom – 15%
• Leadership Syllabus 6.8%
• Leadership Summit 6.8%
• Leadership Retreat 1.4%
Experiential – 85%
• Art/Music/Dance/Drama 38%
• Sports 23%
• Outward Bound Camps 10%
• Community Service 14%

EXPERIENTIAL
• Films
• Orchestra and Musicals
• House Visions:
– Hercules – To conduct science exhibition and science
Olympiad for IICS
– Orion – To publish the IICS yearly magazine and two newsletters
– Pegasus – An enterprise (candle making) in collaboration with IICS students
– Phoenix – Conduct the leadership summit for IICS student
• Mega Project - Kalahalli
• Art Exhibition
• Symposium
• Indian idol

LEADERSHIP CURRICULUM
The Leadership components are:
- Vision and Goal Setting
- Innovation & Persuasive Communication
- Emotional intelligence & Values
- Whole education

THE LEADERSHIP SUMMIT AT A
GLANCE….
I- LED
Display of
Innovative
Projects
Display of Club
Achievements
Art &
Photography
Display
Leadership
Journal Display
Leadership
Awards
Film Festival

LC PROJECTS
• Every Grade from 6 to 9 to be a part of a social project. Grade
11 will consolidate on Kalahalli and work towards the House vision
• Inventions/Innovations/Community Service can be part of the
Grade wise social project
• Those students who are not part of the Grade project, should form part of the regular community service initiatives which include tasks with the IICS & Kalahalli
• These projects are means of inculcating the school values and provide experiential learning
• CAS Coordinator & the HOS to work out the projects by 10
Aug

LEADERSHIP REPORT CARD
Name of Student:__________________ Grade:_____________
Learning Outcome
Set and Achieve Goals
Communicate
Persuasively
Whole Education
Criteria
Students will:
Identify Strengths
Set Goals
Revise Goals and Achieve Outcomes
Total
Critically Analyze
Create and Innovate
Articulate Innovative Ideas or Experiences
Total
Track Attitude
Track Competencies & Performance
Total
Exemplary Proficient
100-81 80-61
Consolidating
60-41
Max. Score
Score
Achieved
20
30
50
100
20
20
60
100
40
60
100
Emerging Beginner
40-21 20-1

2. MENTORING - OVERVIEW
• The Mentoring Programme will include students from
Grades 6 to 9 and 11
• The focus will be on emotional needs, aspects such as sexual abuse, bullying, self discipline, motivation, etc..
• Teachers to be identified as Mentors and to undergo a basic Counselling training in school before the session begins
• Each Mentor will be allocated 8 to 10 students from the
Grades/Programme they teach

MENTORING - OVERVIEW (CONTD..)
• Boarders may be grouped together
• Assembly and Mentoring to alternate weekly
• Mentors to meet their Mentees individually in the two intervening weeks at a mutually convenient time during school hours
• Mentoring meetings could happen in respective
Programme blocks
• Mentoring to begin by 18 Aug

3. COMMUNITY SERVICE
• Focus on implementing the house visions and Mega projects.
• CAS programme for all Grades will focus on Grade wise projects, Kalahalli, IICS and innovations
• Coordinators at each level to prepare curriculum overview for all grades
• Monthly review of progress and individual reporting annually

4. SPORTS
• Nurture at least one skill in every student from
Grade 1. Bimonthly reporting
• Benchmarks have been worked out
• Consolidate on the school teams with structured after school coaching
• Participation in minimum two inter school events at the PYP
• BSC target:
 80% of the students must move to the next level in their respective sport by session end
 Improvement in participation by 25% in interschool sports and achieve the overall trophy in minimum 3 inter school tournaments

5.TEACHER DEVELOPMENT
SELF
DEVELOPMENT
TEACHER DEVELOPMENT
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Leadership Track
•Leadership Retreats
•Dev leadership journals
•Pursuing higher degree
•Internships
•Cross streaming
•Shadowing
•Reading
•Outward bound courses / expeditions
ITARI School
•Certifications &
courses from CIDTT &
Indus with visiting faculty from UK
• Subject Specific
• IB Regional
• Follow-up of themes
• Induction workshops
• AFL
• Flipping
• Reflection and Feedback
• Innovative Projects
• Differentiated Facilitation and
• Use of Technology in classrooms

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Focus for the academic year 2014 – 15:
- Flipping
- Reading and public speaking
- Project and innovation based learning as a instructional strategy
- Use of Technology in classrooms
- Consolidation – understanding and implementation of AfL
- Mentoring

GOAL 3 – AESTHETIC DEVELOPMENT
•Music / Dance / Drama
•Activity Clubs
•School Orchestra
•Visual Arts

1. MUSIC / DRAMA / DANCE
• Curriculum overview – Month wise
• Examinations –Trinity school and Rabindra Bharathi examinations for Music, Drama and Dance to continue
• SMA for all students up to Grade 7
• Bimonthly reporting
• Reports and Rubrics have been worked out
• Focus area of the VP

2. ACTIVITY CLUBS (6-11)
• Culinary
• Gardening
• Pottery and Sculpture
• Stitching and craft
• Chess
• Entrepreneurship
• MUN
• Public Speaking
• Dance
• Drama
• Genomics
(Outsourced)
• Robotics
(Outsourced)
• Film Making
(Outsourced)
Reflections to be recorded in the leadership journals and activity cards

JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAMME
(6-8)
• Graphic Novel and Illustration
• Data Analytics
• Astronomy
• Aero-Modeling
• Vedic Mathematics

• Events to nurture aesthetics – Indus days, School concert , Club displays, Leadership fest, interschool events and inter-house competitions
• Club in-charges to finalize the end product of their clubs and accordingly put up their scheme of work by 05 Aug
• The main focus of Inter-house competition for this year will be sports. All children will get to cheer for the finals

3. FEATURES OF REHEARSAL POLICY
• Practice will commence 2 months prior to major events
• Component practice will happen once a day during zero period
• One month prior, Lead roles (play/dance/orchestra) will stay back after school when needed.
• One month prior, practices will commence after lunch (2 regular periods + 1 zero period)
• 2 weeks prior, after school practice
• 2 days prior, whole day practice (14 periods)

ROLE OF THE VICE PRINCIPAL
• To focus on specialist subjects, which is the most important part of whole education
• Overall student and teacher discipline
• Oversee the English Department
• Oversee Boarding
• Officiate in my absence

ROLE OF THE HEAD OF SCHOOL
• Pastoral care and overall discipline
• Clarify teacher expectations
• Teacher induction
• Student induction
• Implementation of Leadership Curriculum and
Balanced Scorecard
• Teacher development & PLGs
• Student Council
• Cleanliness, SAFETY and maintenance of the blocks
• Overall academic performance
• Conduct sensitization programmes for all teachers and students

ROLE OF THE HEAD OF DEPARTMENT
• Revise the benchmarks to align with the
Head start IGCSE & DP
• Ensure curriculum updates on the file server
• Teacher induction
- at the beginning of the session
- follow up for the first 3 months.
• Conduct minimum two walkthroughs in a week and clinical observations of 30% teachers with focus on new teachers
• Conduct one faculty meeting every fortnight and record minutes
• Ensure quality of question papers and moderation of assessment

ROLE OF THE HOUSE MASTER
• Ensure implementation of the House vision
• Responsible for maximum & effective participation of students in inter house sports and cultural activities
• Responsible for teacher involvement in house activities
• Responsible for discipline, particularly during events which are conducted house wise

ROLE OF THE TEACHER
• ROLE MODEL
• Ensure discipline at all times
• Understand the concept of whole education & leadership
• Follow the code of conduct
• Deliver every lessons with plan for innovations & experiences
• Be part of the solution
• Ensure teaching basics are met
• Try to be part of the leadership track
• No mid session resignations
• Teach the child and not your subject

ROLE OF ACTIVITIES COORDINATOR
• Conduct of Assemblies
• Allot clubs and ensure smooth functioning
• Allocation of Houses to new students and teachers
• Identify and ensure preparation for minimum two inter school events in each of these areas: Public
Speaking, Performing Arts and MUN
• Plan all school events

ROLE OF CAS COORDINATOR
• Finalize Leadership Camps
• CAS documentation
• Conduct CAS classes by:
- Identification of a social project for each
Grade from 6-12
- Group students into IICS, Grade social project, other CAS initiatives & innovative projects
- Allocation of teachers accordingly

Orion House – Ms. Pallavi Mishra
Pegasus House – Ms. Saba Husain
Phoenix House – Ms. Somali Ghose
Hercules House – Ms. Wilma Lewis

CRITERIA FOR HOUSE PRIZE
• Effective implementation of House Vision Initiatives (50 points)
• Cultural inter-house competitions (40 points)
• Films (10 points)
• Sports inter-house competitions (40 points)
• Performance in March Past on sports day (5 points)
• Overall house position on sports day (5 points)
• Aquatics (5 points)
Total: 155 Points

INITIATIVES
• Improved Leadership Curriculum – Workshop model
• Specialized support classes
• Kalahalli and Bornfree projects
• Leadership hall
• Head start DP
• Enhanced security
• Public speaking & Reading
• PYP Evaluation
• Genomics and Nanotechnology
• PGCIE & PGDIE from ITARI
• Our first batch of IICS students to take SSLC exams

CONSOLIDATE
• Flipped teaching
• Project & Innovative based teaching and learning
• File Server for curriculum documentation
• School concert
• Reporting Sports, Music, Dance and Drama
• Student council vision
• Discipline
• Boarding activities
• Student feedback

STUDENT NATIONALITIES
Indians 48%
Europeans 15%
Koreans 5%
Asians 3%
Others 5%
Americans 24%

Student
Achievement
INDUS BANGALORE STRATEGY MAP
Measures Targets Initiatives
Strengthen student leadership
Improve holistic performance of students
Stakeholder
Engagement
Improve stakeholder involvement, ownership & motivation
Internal
Process
Improve curriculum planning and delivery in all areas
Improve monitoring and communication process
Improve administratio n and asset management process
Improved hiring & staffing
Learning &
Growth
Increase in teacher pedagogic knowledge, skills & leadership perspective
Improve sensitization and awareness of School
Philosophy with
Stakeholders
Improve facilities, learning & human resources

IB Examiners
25%
Doctorates
2%
TEACHER PROFILE
Fresh PGs with
ITARI Training
12%
PG with IB qualification and teaching experience
41%
PGs/Grads with teaching degrees
20%