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Our School - Our Society

Name of the Head Master : Jarthi Sathish Kumar

School Name : ZPHS Gangapur, Rebbena (M)
District : Kumrambheem Asifabad

Phone Number : 9490201890

E-Mail ID : jarthi.sathish@gmail.com

Theme : School leadership for improving students learning, enhancing life
skills, and changing their attitude towards society.

The government school authorities work went into the process of nurturing

would face multiple challenges when taken the children. The children come from
the responsibility to improve the school Marathi speaking families. Here comes the

conditions. One of the major challenges challenge, the teachers impart lessons in
is the language barrier. It takes Telugu language as the medium of
considerable time for any school to fix this teaching is Telugu in the school. This

issue. It is the same case with ZPHS resulted to increase in drop outs. On
Gangapur. The school is located in knowing the reason, the headmaster
Gangapur, a village that is 3km away from J Satish Kumar initiated a few measures

Rebbenamandal and 25km far from to chase the issue. He arranged parent
Asifabad district headquarters. meetings on regular basis and with the help

This is the story of a school which of Marathi speaking teachers, the school

upgraded to Upper Primary School in authorities could communicate about the
2009. It is one of the high schools in the child's performance. When given a thought
district that provides quality education to on how can the students learn Telugu

children and the teachers invest their language, the headmaster has organized
efforts to identify the skills and capacities Language Mela and constituted BalaSabha.

of students. The students are encouraged In Bala Sabha, the students recite poems,
to gain expertise in the skill they are born stories, songs, skits, etc in Telugu. Apart
with. However, a lot of efforts and hard from that each student should speak two

180 Transformation of Schools into Vibrant Learning Hubs