Keeping teachers in the center of quality education delivery and designating them as ‘Agents of Change’, the project aims to ensure that every child in the age group of 6 to 11 years goes to school and there is zero dropouts among these primary school-going children. The program's motto is to catch them and work at building the learning foundation. Primary schools in the Tamia block of Chhindwara district in Madhya Pradesh have been selected for implementing the project. Tamia is one of the poorest blocks of the state and is inhabited by the ST population. There are 31 schools and 61 teachers covering over 1500 students who have been identified for this program. The project follows a twin approach of training primary school teachers so as to make the teaching of Mathematics and Hindi interesting for students. At the same time, it will strengthen the members of School Management and Development Committees (SMDC) to exercise their right to improve the quality of education in the schools.To ensure that the efforts yield sustained results, strategically the program will work in coordination with the state education department.

• Annual Plans: Preparation of an action plan with details of annual calendar of teacher training, schedule of Protsahan Kendra and Bal-melas with modules designed for it to meet the gaps. A calendar preparation for the communication, meetings and training for the target community and SDMC members including online delivery of such programs.
• Protsahan Kendra: This specifically focuses on out of school children – both drop outs and those who have never been to any school. Such children would be identified by organizing village level events and the Protsahan Kendras will work with them to prepare them to join a regular school.
• Visit to Schools for Handhold: The trained members of the project team will visit the selected schools to organize classes on Hindi and Mathematics, subjects that are considered as difficult by many students. The team will hand-hold teachers and make them acquire the new techniques to roll out activity based learning methods for children.
• Organize Bal-Melas: This is a 1-day event to demonstrate concepts of mathematics to students and teachers will be encouraged to organize such Melas on their own. Teachers’ Training and Exposure visit: Training on teaching mathematics and Hindi will be organized in two batches focussing on teaching methodology. They will get the opportunity to interact with other teachers, who have acquired mastery in teaching the subjects.
• Block Training Resource Centre (BRTC): A block level BRTC will be established along with a Library facility. Such a Centre will facilitate regular interaction among teachers and help to develop and innovate suitable TLM.
• Coordinate with the Education Department: The interventions will be planned in close coordination with the education department at the district level beginning with sharing the findings of the baseline survey. A mechanism will be put in place to share the project progress to the functionaries at the block and district level and also to ascertain their view of the critical gaps and plans for improvement of teacher training techniques and TLM.
• Capacity Building of SMDC: It is well established that involvement of community and parents in functioning of the school has directly improved the quality of education in particular and overall status of the school in general. The SMDCs will be mobilized and provided with training so that they come together to exercise their rights and perform their duties.
• Project Outcomes: All children in the age group of 6 to 11 years are enrolled in school and significant improvement in their attendance including drop outs and those who have never been to school Teachers of primary schools will be trained and 40% teachers will use activity based teaching methods in their classes. Improvement in quality of education resulting in improvement in grades by 50 %. A Resource centre will be functioning well and teachers from all the Centres in Tamia block will be benefitted. The trained and experienced staff of Pararth Samiti will be ready to scale-up the project.
• Project Monitoring: Project will organize review meetings and use an MIS to record the volume of different interventions and its outputs. Evaluations will be undertaken at suitable intervals. Monthly meetings of teachers will be organized at Jan Shiksha Kendra for experience sharing and cross-learning and to collect feedback of teachers and collect their suggestions for improvement.