Life is a race. If you don’t speed up, you will be left behind. LEAD School is a boon in today’s time. This is a platform that offers much more than conventional learning.
It helps the child to learn well, think deeply, do good, develop leadership qualities to be future-ready.
LEAD is an innovative school ed-tech solution combined with an international school curriculum to enhance the way of learning.
Founders
Sumeet Mehta and Smita Deorah are the co-founders of LEAD. Smita is a certified Chartered Accountant. Later, she has done executive programs at Harvard school of education and Stanford graduate school of business.
On the other hand, Sumeet is a management executive and later became an educator by choice. He has more than 20 years of expertise in this field.
They further aim to transform the education system in India, and their main focus is the small towns.
Objective
If India has to achieve its true potential, our schools have to significantly transform so that every child can get the best education.
In Ed-tech, people usually focus on test preparation and tuition. But, LEAD is important to school because children spend more of their time.
Therefore, they developed School Ed-tech. They believe every child should have access to high-quality education, which is also affordable.
Hence, they have specially implemented their platform for small towns in India.
LEAD makes spending on school more efficient. They achieve this by providing a high value, an integrated solution that will significantly improve learning outcomes at school to the parents in the school fees they are anyways paying.
The two started with a small school in a remote village with only 14 students. They observed that a lack of proficiency in English was a big obstacle.
Later they took over 4 govt. Schools and several other public schools. In 2017 they started providing an integrated system to schools by digitizing their curriculum.
In 2018 LEAD received an Education Leadership Award from the American Leadership Board. In 2019 they received the Best School Management award. Later last year, LEAD was appreciated by Outlook India for its great work and the impact that it has left on the education system.
Presently, LEAD integrated system includes 20+ states, 400+ cities, 3,000+ schools and 12,00,000+ students across the country.
Features
LEAD records and monitors the data and sets goals to improvise the performance of the schools. They focus on improving the learning experience of students and the teaching experience of teachers.
They install Smart TV in classrooms, provide tablets to teachers, and give an excellence kit.
If the roots are strong, the tree will be stronger. The emphasis is on the children’s foundation by making their learning experience better with visual audio and kinesthetic.
This creates an interactive environment that helps them learn and memorize things better.
The LEAD app, which is on their tablet, helps the teachers become better by providing lesson plans, feedback, and continuous training.
Above all, the integrated school Ed-Tech model of LEAD is personalized to every student. This also provides them with the right and timely resources.
Investors
LEAD has raised a fund of more than $100 million and is backed by giants like Elevar Equity, Westbridge, and GSV Ventures.
It is the third startup to enter the unicorn club in 2022.
Conclusion
Founders claim that LEAD students are confidents and fluent in English, master the skills of literacy, numeracy, and sciences, and are ready for life.
LEAD further wishes to propel learning for 25 million students in India by 2026.
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