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'Call to Conscience' award by the King Center

Ms Kiran Bir Sethi was awarded the 'Call to Conscience' award by the King Center at Stanford University on 15th Jan 2009 (Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday)!! This is a validation of the pedagogical practices at Riverside.

Ashoka Fellow, 2008 for aProCh

Ms Kiran Bir Sethi was awarded the Ashoka Fellowship 2008 for "aProCh - A Protagonist in every Child". Ashoka Fellowship is the most prestigious award in the social entrepreneurship awarded by the Ashoka Foundation, USA. It is given to change makers who inspire and provide system changing solutions for the world's most urgent social problems. Past noted Ashoka Fellows from Asia include: Mohammed Yunus - Founder of Grameen Bank, Bangladesh and Nobel Peace Prize winner and Sakeena Yakoobi - Founder of Afghan Institute of Learning.

Amongst Top 8 Lead India candidates from Gujarat

Ms Kiran Bir Sethi was one of the Top 8 Lead India Candidates (a Times of India initaitive) representing Gujarat in 2007-08.

Outstanding Young Educator Semi-Finalist, 2005-06

Ms Kiran Bir Sethi was shortlisted as a 2005-2006 semi-finalist by an international pool of nominees by ASCD (The Association of Supervision and Curriculum Design - Chicago).

School Design Award

Riverside School won a Citation award for it's architecture from Designshare.com, a very respected school design firm at Michigan, USA.

Quotable Quotes

There is a school called Riverside

Which is like a beacon or a guide

To Children worldwide and Adult beside

To rise, make a change, like a huge tide.

Chithra Viswanathan

Relief Foundation, Chennai

September 2010

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