The Central Board of Secondary School has launched a networking concept among its
schools called “SAHODAYA” in the year 1986. Sahodaya, the concept is imbued with
the spirit of ‘caring & sharing’ and is meant to facilitate closer networking and
collaboration among the schools of the CBSE family aimed at excellence in education.
The Sahodaya School Complexes is a group of neighborhood schools who voluntarily
come together to share best practices and innovative strategies in various aspects of
school education including curriculum design, evaluation and pedagogy and also in
providing support to teachers by regular capacity building exercises. Some Sahodaya
clusters also engage with parents and leaders in the community to build partnerships
and network for a larger cause.
At present there are around 250 active Sahodaya School Cluster across the country with
the networking of 4500 schools. In order to bring Sahodaya members on a common
platform the Board conducts National Annual Conference of Sahodaya School
Complexes every year on an identified theme of current educational relevance. Besides
facilitating broad interactions among practitioners, it also serves as an effective channel
of interaction between schools and the CBSE and thereby helps the Board in formulating
its policies in a progressive and pragmatic manner. The deliberations on the issues
arising out of the conference theme trigger meaningful thought processes which are then
encapsulated in the form of Recommendations and disseminated to the other members
of the Sahodaya.
The Board proposes to conduct the 16th National Annual Sahodaya Conference at
Gurgaon, Haryana from 9th – 11th December 2009. The theme of the conference is “Re-
thinking School Reforms – Opportunities and Challenges”. The sub-themes for the
conference may be the following:
1. CCE - Paradigm shift from ‘Teaching to the Test’ to ‘Holistic Education’
2. Examination reforms and Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE)
3. Assessment for learning
4. Objective assessment of learners for CCE
5. Holistic Assessment
6. Changing classroom assessment
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7. Building capacity for enhancing classroom assessment
8. Contextualizing pedagogy to CCE
9. CCE and Societal Change
10. Engaging parents and community for CCE
11. Embedding technology in Assessment
The last date of submission of articles for the proposed Souvenir is 25th
November 2009.
You are requested to kindly depute two or three principals from your Sahodaya School
Complex to attend the proposed conference. In the event of more Principals from your
Sahodaya School Complexes intending to attend, you may send the list to the
undersigned marking a copy to the host Sahodaya before 15th November, 2009. The
delegate would be required to report at the venue by 5.00 pm on the evening of
9th December, 2009 for registration so that they can attend the formal inauguration at
6.00 pm to be followed by pre conference dinner and leave only after the conclusion of
the conference on 11th December, 2009.
The contact person for the conference is: Dr. Indu Khetarpal, Chairperson, Sahodaya
School Complex/Principal, Salwan Public School, Sector-15-II, Gurgaon. Tel.
No.2333956, 2311421 and Ms. Nirmal Yadav, Secretary, Sahodaya School
Complex/Principal, CCA School, Sector-4, Gurgaon. Tel. No.2330098, 2331264 and
Mobile No.: 09810543840. Please note that the travel expenditure and the boarding and
lodging expenses have to be borne by the individual participant and the Board will not
reimburse any expenditure.
The SSC Gurgaon will be sending you complete details of the conference in due course.
A separate website is also being created so that you can make online registration.
Details of the same will be communicated to you by SSC Gurgaon. The details will also
be available on CBSE website www.cbse.nic.in shortly.
The Board looks forward to your active participation in the conference.
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