Please find below the parameters for the categories according to which you have to submit all the supporting documents on mindmingleawards@gmail.com
Sr. No. | Categories | Suggustive Parameters |
1 | Outstanding development of International dimension in the curriculum | Share what all international dimension have you added to your curriculum |
Share the yearwise development in the curriculum (based on past 5 years) | ||
2 | Best School for Community involvement award | why do you think community involvement is important? |
How many projects does your school do in a year involving community | ||
What all social change did your school bring in past 3 years | ||
Does the school hold preliminary meetings with community leaders and enlist their support to mobilize community participation | ||
Feedback from the community about the project | ||
3 | Best school doing projects in Govt. collaboration | why do you think govt. collaboration is important? |
How many projects does your school do in a year with govt. collaboration? | ||
How did it benefit you, community or govt.? | ||
4 | Best school in teaching entrepreneurial skills award | Why do you think teaching entreprenerial skills is important in school? |
how many entrepreneurs have come of your school in past 5 years, name all of them | ||
Do you have a separate period for teaching entrepreneurail skills? | ||
what kind of teaching method do you follow to inculcate entrepreneurial skills, give one example | ||
5 | Best school for international exposure award | Why do you think international exposure is needed ? |
what all kinds of international exposure do your students get? | ||
give examples, how your students are getting benefitted from such exposures | ||
do your students get placed in International universties ? What | ||
6 | Best school in teacher retention award | Share last 10 years stats of teacher attrition |
Share top 5 reasons why teachers love this school | ||
Share feedback from minimum 5 ex-teachers | ||
7 | Best emerging chain of school award | Please share the last 5 five years growth rate, in terms of number of students, staff, institutions etc |
8 | Best school infrastructure award | Availability of sports facilities in the school |
does the school have the provision of integrating information techonology into learning process? | ||
does the school have enough opoortunities for teachers to be computer literate | ||
Share all infrastructure related facilities such as, all type of labs, sport facilities, learning spaces etc | ||
Is your school infrastructured planned keeping learning outcomes in the mind, if yes please share details | ||
9 | Best school for academic results | share academic results of past 3 years |
what has been your bottom result for past 3 years (how much did the last child score?) | ||
Share the result improvement of weaker students in past one year | ||
what is your average board result? | ||
10 | Best residential facilities award | share infrastructure facilities |
what it takes to be safe and secure school | ||
Nutitious meals and other basic facilities | ||
what does school do to make students feel like home? | ||
how does the school inculcate the sense of community and personal growth | ||
11 | Best eco-friendly school award | does the school has a curriculum plan integrating a range of environmental issues into the curriculum across some year groups or classes in a rangge of subjects |
How do you spead eco awareness in the community? | ||
does the school undertake environmental review once a year to evaluate overall improvement? | ||
How does the school ensure that the whole school is aware of progress of environmental action? | ||
any recognition, awards and accolade? | ||
share eco-friendly infrastructure detail | ||
share one of your best eco projects that has left a good impact | ||
12 | Most innovative School award | 5 reasons why your school is an innovative school |
How does the school find support in their principals, administrators, in their community members and everyone around them to allow innovation efforts to thrive? | ||
How does the school in vulnerable contexts implement changes in its regular practices? | ||
Does the school recognize the reality in which their students and teachers live, in order to find solutions that are realistic and plausible? | ||
How are the classroom desinged for innovative teaching | ||
list few most innovative practices you have designed or you follow | ||
Awards and recognition, if any? | ||
13 | Best standalone school award | top 5 USP in details |
academic achievements | ||
Infrastructure details, sport facilities, labs, classroom design, eco-friendliness | ||
overall growth rate | ||
14 | Best school in Extra-curricular | List the activities that allow students to make a meaningful impact, either in their own development, or in the community |
How does your school encourage maximum participation in extracurrcular activities | ||
How have these activities developed the personalities of the children? | ||
any significant achievement apart from academics | ||
Awards and recognition, if any? | ||
15 | Best school in sports facilities | why do you think sports facilities are needed in school? |
Does the school have anough sport facilities for overall development, list them all | ||
How experienced faculties are there for sports | ||
Awards and recognition at state and national level | ||
Any special contribution by sports champions at national or international level? | ||
16 | Best chain of school award | List all the schools under your banner |
top 5 USP in details (that exist in all branches) | ||
academic achievements (average result as per all branches) | ||
Infrastructure details, sport facilities, labs, classroom design, eco-friendliness (that exist in all branches) | ||
How do you ensure equal quality/facilities in all schools | ||
overall growth rate | ||
17 | Best Budget school award | Share the fee structure |
mention all the in-school facilities students get | ||
Do your students get scholarships? Share top 10 achievement from past 2 years | ||
name minimum top 10 alumni | ||
18 | School of future award | What is a future school? |
Share details of at least one project where students learn about the future | ||
How does the school teach students to become adaptive to change | ||
is your school space(building) is different from any traditional school? If yes How? And how does it improve learning outcomes? | ||
what % of in-school time do student spend in exploring/experintial learning | ||
share top 5 unusual/unique educational practices | ||
19 | Happiest school award | Do you have alumni who came back and served/serving as teachers or working for schools in any other role?, list the maximum names |
in which class do students appear for the formal examination? | ||
how do you minimize the exam pressure, specially in senior classes? | ||
how do you deal with students who don't want to learn something specific | ||
How much freedom do students have in chosing what they want to learn and how they want to learn and how do you manage that in a class of so many students? | ||
20 | Principal of the Year award | your top 3 priorities as a school principal, explain the "WHYs" |
top 5 changes you brought in your school as a principal in past 3 years | ||
1 quality for which your team know you | ||
1 quality for which your students will always remember you | ||
share the most difficult task you completed in past 1 year | ||
How do you keep your teachers motivated? | ||
Any award, recognition ? | ||
21 | Most Dynamic young school leader of India (applicable for aged upto 35) | Age proof? When did your journey started as a school leader? |
your top 3 priorities as a school leader, explain the "WHYs" | ||
top 5 changes you brought in your school as a leader in past 3 years | ||
1 quality for which your team know you | ||
share the most difficult task you completed in past 1 year | ||
How do you keep your team motivated? | ||
what are the first 3 changes you'd bring if you become education minister | ||
Any award, recognition ? | ||
22 | Most Dynamic Young edupreneur award (applicable for aged upto 35 years) | Age proof? When did your journey started as an edupreneur? |
your top 3 priorities as an edupreneur, explain the "WHYs" | ||
what innovation or new thought have you started your institution with? | ||
top 5 changes you brought in your school/institution/orginzation as an edupreneur in past 3 years, and what do you expect them(changes) to lead in next 5 years? | ||
share the growth rate of your institution | ||
share the most difficult task you completed in past 1 year | ||
Any award, recognition ? | ||
23 | Excellent school leadership award | your top 3 priorities as a school leader, explain the "WHYs" |
top 5 changes you brought in your school as a leader in past 3 years | ||
1 quality for which your team know you | ||
Share the most difficult task you completed in past 1 year | ||
How do you keep your team motivated? | ||
What are the first 3 changes you'd bring if you become education minister | ||
Any award, recognition ? | ||
24 | Teacher of the year award | Why do you think that a teacher is important in a world where google knows everything? |
What has been your biggest learning in last 1 year? | ||
1. quality for which your students will always remember you? | ||
What is the most innovative method did you discover to teach any particular topic? | ||
Share one incident where you helped an extremely weak child in learning something-which the child was reluctant to learn | ||
25 | Most internationally exposed school leader | How many countries' schools have you visited? Name all the schools with country name |
How many professional development programs have you attended outsite India? | ||
Have you ever been invited as a speaker/facilitator at a conference overseas, list all the events | ||
Share the major implimentations from overseas | ||
26 | Most powerful school leader of the year male | Bio-data (profile) |
2. Teacher retention rate | ||
3. Growth rate of the institution in all aspect, as number of students, results, number of institutions etc. (in past 3 years) | ||
4. What is the maximum number of lives can be influenced with your divisions? (please share an estimate stat including parent, teachers+staff, students, neighbor schools) | ||
5. How many groups of "school association" as such as sahodaya, school societies etc are you part of, and in what capacity? | ||
6. Share one real example where your decision/action/initiative influenced a large number of people or policy makers | ||
7. Top five school leader qualities that you hold and how it has affected your institution | ||
8. Your best initiative/innovation you brought as a leader which has helped your institution/organization reach where it stands today.? | ||
27 | Most powerful school leader of the year female | Bio-data (profile) |
2. Teacher retention rate | ||
3. Growth rate of the institution in all aspect, as number of students, results, number of institutions etc. (in past 3 years) | ||
4. What is the maximum number of lives can be influenced with your divisions? (please share an estimate stat including parent, teachers+staff, students, neighbor schools) | ||
5. How many groups of "school association" as such as sahodaya, school societies etc are you part of, and in what capacity? | ||
6. Share one real example where your decision/action/initiative influenced a large number of people or policy makers | ||
7. Top five school leader qualities that you hold and how it has affected your institution | ||
8. Your best initiative/innovation you brought as a leader which has helped your institution/organization reach where it stands today.? | ||
28 | Most inspiring teacher of the year | Share your inspiring story from last year |
What has been some major difficulties you faced in your career and why you did not give up? | ||
The source of your energy/motivation? | ||
29 | Modern leader preserving Indian Tradition | Are you promoting any activity that is making people aware of Indian Tratition? |
Why preserving our tradition/heritage is important? | ||
How in a modern world are you able to do it? |