Mentor Tales – Blogs from KnowYourStar http://blog.knowyourstar.com THE HARVEST Thu, 10 Jan 2019 10:58:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.0.3 http://blog.knowyourstar.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/cropped-KYS-logo-32x32.png Mentor Tales – Blogs from KnowYourStar http://blog.knowyourstar.com 32 32 Why We Need Role Models Like Sangeeta In The Khekra Community! http://blog.knowyourstar.com/sangeeta-khekra/ http://blog.knowyourstar.com/sangeeta-khekra/#respond Tue, 11 Sep 2018 07:20:27 +0000 http://blog.knowyourstar.com/?p=4848 How easy it is to close eyes on matters which need urgent attention in our country? When given a choice do you feel helpless or roll up your sleeves? As easy and entitled as it is to do nothing, some heroic ones choose to rather […]

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]]> http://blog.knowyourstar.com/sangeeta-khekra/feed/ 0 Brindavan Tent School Transformation Story In Pictures & Videos (Don’t Miss The Infographic At The End!) http://blog.knowyourstar.com/brindavan-tent-school-infographic/ http://blog.knowyourstar.com/brindavan-tent-school-infographic/#respond Tue, 27 Mar 2018 12:11:51 +0000 http://blog.knowyourstar.com/?p=4620 Transforming a school is an ambitious project, and as you know, we began working with one last year, and have been sharing the happy story through our blog posts. The Brindavan Tent School offered us the freedom and opportunity to get our creative juices flowing. […]

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]]> http://blog.knowyourstar.com/brindavan-tent-school-infographic/feed/ 0 Student Intervention At Brindavan Tent School With Tarkeybein’s English Curriculum http://blog.knowyourstar.com/brindavan-tent-school-tarkeybein/ http://blog.knowyourstar.com/brindavan-tent-school-tarkeybein/#comments Thu, 08 Feb 2018 10:00:10 +0000 http://blog.knowyourstar.com/?p=4542 Last week, we wrote about what Sarala Ma’am, the teacher at Brindavan Tent School, had to say about the changes she’s seen in the kids and the entire school ecosystem after our student intervention program – Mentor India – during this academic year. (You can […]

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]]> http://blog.knowyourstar.com/brindavan-tent-school-tarkeybein/feed/ 2 Behind The Scenes At The Brindavan Tent School – What A Year It’s Been! http://blog.knowyourstar.com/brindavan-tent-school-2017/ http://blog.knowyourstar.com/brindavan-tent-school-2017/#respond Thu, 01 Feb 2018 10:08:30 +0000 http://blog.knowyourstar.com/?p=4529 It’s almost the end of the academic year at Brindavan Tent School. It feels like it was just yesterday when we first walked to the little school and got to know the kids individually while conducting their baseline assessment. That was followed by a full […]

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]]> http://blog.knowyourstar.com/brindavan-tent-school-2017/feed/ 0 Mentor India – Paranga Vidya Kendra In Top 100 Of DFC ‘I CAN’ School Challenge 2017 http://blog.knowyourstar.com/paranga-top-100-dfc/ http://blog.knowyourstar.com/paranga-top-100-dfc/#respond Thu, 23 Nov 2017 10:09:27 +0000 http://blog.knowyourstar.com/?p=4430 Implementing the Design For Change curriculum as part of Mentor India has been so fruitful for us and our kids at Paranga Vidya Kendra, which we always refer to as our Pyramid School! We did know that a curriculum designed from the heart has the […]

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]]> http://blog.knowyourstar.com/paranga-top-100-dfc/feed/ 0 Celebrating Our Little Accomplishments On Children’s Day! http://blog.knowyourstar.com/childrens-day-accomplishments/ http://blog.knowyourstar.com/childrens-day-accomplishments/#respond Thu, 16 Nov 2017 08:44:44 +0000 http://blog.knowyourstar.com/?p=4410 As a part of Mentor India, we have been collaborating with Tarkeybein to use their English curriculum to teach letter recognition along with phonetics and reading to our children. Apart from delivering the content, we also trained the teacher to be able to keep the […]

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]]> http://blog.knowyourstar.com/childrens-day-accomplishments/feed/ 0 #TentToAirport – Celebrating Daan Utsav With Our Tiny Tots! http://blog.knowyourstar.com/tent-to-airport-daan-utsav/ http://blog.knowyourstar.com/tent-to-airport-daan-utsav/#respond Thu, 12 Oct 2017 09:37:45 +0000 http://blog.knowyourstar.com/?p=4345 Last Friday was a crazy day for the Mentor India brigade! Thanks to the amazing folks at Daan Utsav, we got a chance to celebrate the Joy Of Giving Week by taking our tent school kids on a field trip. Where to? A place where […]

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]]> http://blog.knowyourstar.com/tent-to-airport-daan-utsav/feed/ 0 Mentor India – Our Little Superheroes Save Their School From Snakes! [Video] http://blog.knowyourstar.com/mentor-india-superhero-video/ http://blog.knowyourstar.com/mentor-india-superhero-video/#respond Thu, 21 Sep 2017 08:41:35 +0000 http://blog.knowyourstar.com/?p=4295 Mentor India classes have been going on wonderfully in Paranga Vidya Kendra in Magadi, which we always refer to as the Pyramid school, well because how often do you get a chance to teach in classrooms that are each designed as a self-sufficient pyramid? The […]

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]]> http://blog.knowyourstar.com/mentor-india-superhero-video/feed/ 0 Happy Launch Of Passion To Profession Tool In Manipal Seva Mela http://blog.knowyourstar.com/passion-to-profession-manipal/ http://blog.knowyourstar.com/passion-to-profession-manipal/#respond Wed, 09 Aug 2017 10:35:59 +0000 http://blog.knowyourstar.com/?p=4134 The weekend that went by was one filled with so many levels of happiness and excitement for all of us at KnowYourStar. We were in Manipal to attend the National Conference on Youth in Social Change organised by the Manipal University, where we also set […]

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]]> http://blog.knowyourstar.com/passion-to-profession-manipal/feed/ 0 Mentor India Is Back! Join Us At Brindavan Tent School In The Heart Of Bangalore http://blog.knowyourstar.com/mentor-india-tent-school-bangalore/ http://blog.knowyourstar.com/mentor-india-tent-school-bangalore/#respond Thu, 15 Jun 2017 03:57:02 +0000 http://blog.knowyourstar.com/?p=3807 Last year, as a part of our Mentor India initiative, Team KYS frequented rural areas around Bangalore. This time around, when someone introduced us to Brindavan Tent School in Vignan Nagar, which is right in the middle of this metropolitan city, we went to take […]

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]]> http://blog.knowyourstar.com/mentor-india-tent-school-bangalore/feed/ 0 Mentor India – Celebrating Sports Day At Paranga Vidya Kendra http://blog.knowyourstar.com/mentor-india-sports-day-paranga/ http://blog.knowyourstar.com/mentor-india-sports-day-paranga/#respond Wed, 25 Jan 2017 07:59:50 +0000 http://blog.knowyourstar.com/?p=2982 A few months ago, we published a great first-hand account of the Mentor India programme at Paranga Vidya Kendra written by Jaishree Garg, a first-time mentor. After her experience teaching these wonderful kids, Jaishree decided that she wanted to go the extra mile and make a tangible […]

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