NEW DELHI: Close to 15 years of experimentation of empowering teachers with leadership qualities at a Delhi school became a case study at India’s top B-school, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. The case study on Ahlcon International School and its director Ashok Kumar Pandey was done by professor Ambrish Dongre of IIM-A’s Ravi J Matthai Centre for Education Innovation.
The case study was developed against the backdrop of the realisation of Pandey, Ahlcon principal since 2003, that many schools had stopped “growing” and students missed the joy of learning of the challenge in finding high-quality teachers given that teacher quality fashions the quality of educational experiences. Pandey also felt that school principals acted more like administrators and not “pedagogical leaders”.
