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03 — The programme

An ecosystem, not a training course.

Five layers that hold each other up. Remove any one and the layer above it stops reaching a classroom.

Layers
Five
Educator leaders
~108
MA Fellows
100
Global Fellows
12–18

How to read this

Raaj Drishti is Improvement Science, Educational Leadership, Applied Statistics and Lean Six Sigma taught together. It is not 'Lean Six Sigma for teachers'. The methods are a means to educational judgement, not a substitute for it.

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Layer 01

Teacher Professional Capability

Serving teachers and faculty

The methodological foundation. Teachers learn to diagnose a problem in their own institution, design a change, measure whether it worked, and write up what they found.

What it contains

  • Lean Six Sigma — White, Yellow and Green Belt
  • Improvement Science
  • Educational Measurement
  • Action Research
  • Change Leadership
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Layer 02

Student Improvement Culture

Classes VI to XII

Improvement is not something done to a school by adults. Students run their own 5S and Kaizen projects, and present them upward through a showcase ladder.

What it contains

  • 5S and Kaizen projects for Classes VI–XII
  • School showcases
  • Cluster showcases
  • District showcases
  • State showcases
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Layer 03

MA Education Fellowship

100 fellows in Phase 1

Financial support attached to academic obligation. A fellowship is not a grant; it carries a capstone, a dataset analysis and a translation contribution back to the commons.

What it contains

  • Tuition support
  • Stipends
  • Milestone awards through to Black Belt
  • Capstone project
  • Dataset analysis
  • Translation contribution
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Layer 04

Leadership Accelerator

108 educator leaders in Phase 1

The people who decide whether an improvement survives: teachers, principals, teacher educators, curriculum designers and policy professionals, developed together rather than in separate silos.

What it contains

  • Teachers
  • Principals
  • Teacher educators
  • Curriculum designers
  • Policy professionals
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Layer 05

Global Education Fellows

12–18 fellows

Advanced study abroad, carried back. Each Global Fellow accepts a two- to three-year return-of-service obligation, so the investment returns to Indian institutions.

What it contains

  • Advanced study placements
  • 2–3 year return-of-service obligation
  • International research collaboration
  • Knowledge transfer on return

National deliverable

IPET-2030Integrated Performance Excellence Toolkit

Coming 2027

A national deliverable of the programme: the consolidated toolkit an institution can pick up and apply without an external facilitator in the room — assessment instruments, improvement templates, measurement frameworks and worked examples from Indian institutions.

The test of the toolkit is whether a school that has never met IPEC can open it and run an improvement cycle unaided. Anything that needs us in the room has not been finished.

Frameworks and toolkits in the Knowledge Hub

In short

Methods without leadership do not survive a change of principal. Leadership without students never reaches a classroom. The layers exist because each one fails alone.

Next

What the programme costs, and what Phase 1 commits to.

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