Education
1983 -1989 National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, India.
Diploma in Visual Communication (Major: Graphic Design)
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| Professional Education |
April, 2007 Approach to pre-school education, Reggio Emilia, Italy
2006-2006 Virtual Symposium on Differentiated Instruction, Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.
2004-2005 “Train the Trainer” Certification for the Seven Habits Programme, Stephen Covey Institute, Mumbai.
July 2004 Project Zero Summer Institute, Grad. School of Education, Harvard University.
2003-2004 Web Course(s) in Multiple Intelligences & Teaching for Understanding, Grad. School of Education, Harvard University.
Feb 2003 PYP Training for International Baccalaureate, Mumbai.
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| Professional Experience |
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2009- Fellow faculty at Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education
2009- Promoter - India’s Largest Design for Giving contest
reaching over 30,000 schools
2008 - 2009- Riverside EduRetreat Conference – a Meeting of Minds
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| 2007 June Founder – ‘aProCh’- a protagonist in every child – an initiative to make our cities more child friendly - www.aproch.org |
2001- Present Founder Director, The Riverside School, Ahmedabad
1. Built a primary school & curriculum from ground up which now has 317 students up to Grade 10. Curriculum adopted by franchisee schools with students totaling 4,500 students (and growing).
2. Provided consulting services to premiere secondary (keystage 3) schools across India for language development in their schools. |
1998 – 2000 Principal, Eklavya Junior School, Ahmedabad
As a founding member, established curriculum, team, systems, and values for this new school
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1989 – 2000 Proprietor, Kiran Sethi Associates (Design Firm), Ahmedabad
Provided freelance graphics and interior design services to corporates and businesses
Conceptualized themes and designed the two most successful restaurants in Ahmedabad, India
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| Awards and Honours |
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TEDIndia ’09 Speaker
Selected for the Fulbright Distinguished Teacher Award (deferred due to prior commitments )
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Board Member / The Ivy Group - Multiple Intelligences Institute |
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Call to Conscience Award – King Centre, Stanford University |
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Asoka Fellow ’08 for aProCh |
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Lead India Finalist |
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Semi Finalist for the “Outstanding Young Educator Award” instituted by Association for the Supervision of Curriculum Design (ASCD), USA. |
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Conducted a workshop on ‘Teacher as a tight-rope walker – balancing creativity and content’ for Creative partnerships at the June 2005 Warwick conference, UK. |
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Citation for the Best School Design Award by Designshare.org (Michigan, USA). |
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Awarded the “Best Restaurant and Graphics Design Award” instituted by the Indian Association of Restaurants, New Delhi.
Kiran Sethi was one of the honored delegates at Symposium held by Rockefeller Foundation, at Bellagio Centre, in Italy. |
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A key note speaker at the MI World Symposium in Beijing, along with Dr Howard Gardner |
- In July 2010, she was a Speaker and Panelist at a Conference titled “Where do we go from here: Achieving Global Peace with Justice in a Sustainable Environment?” at The Martin Luther King Jr. Research & Education Institute, at Stanford University.
Extracurricular and other interests
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Columnist for the Times of India (India’s largest circulating English broadsheet) and Indian Express (wrote on education, children, design and learning). |
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Television actor (on National Television), lead singer for Purple Flower (Gujarat’s longest running rock band), etc |
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Conducted creative thinking courses for AIESEC (Association Internationale des Etudiants en Sciences Economiques et Commerciales). |
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