16th and 17th November, 2024
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Celebrating 15 Years of Collective Action Towards Ed-Equity
Power of Staying the Course
Sandeep Rai will lead an interactive workshop on the importance of perseverance and staying the path in the fight for equity. This session will highlight how staying the course allows for deeper impact over time and how leaders can maintain their drive in the face of systemic challenges. Participants will walk away with insights on navigating the complexities of educational equity and personal sustainability in mission-driven work. We'll get real, embrace uncomfortable truths, unpack barriers that make us doubt this path, and lean into questions that give us clarity, and conviction.
Key Themes: Long-term commitment to equity and education | Deepening impact through perseverance and clarity | Personal sustainability and mission adherence
Venue: Idea Room
Time: 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Sandeep Rai
Sandeep helped launch Teach For India in 2008 after teaching secondary science in Washington DC, as a Teach For America Corps Member. Over the past twelve years, Sandeep has been a key architect of Teach For India’s organizational strategy and flagship fellowship program. After serving in more than half-a-dozen roles, in 2017 he began overseeing both strategy and operations across the organization’s eight regions. Sandeep has always believed in the transformational power of schools to offer opportunity and promise for children from underserved backgrounds. That conviction - coupled with the belief that schools need to be fundamentally reinvented - has driven the founding of The Circle.
