At Seth M.R. Jaipuria School the community is the curriculum. Parents, grandparents, alumni, and the children of a free school on our own campus belong to one circle of learning. It is how we raise calm, conscious, capable young people.
A child cannot transform alone, so we built a community that transforms together: family at home through SMRJ Samvad, neighbours through Navsrijan, and friendship across very different lives through the buddy programme. It is the reason we are shortlisted for the World's Best School Prize for Community Collaboration.
ScrollParents, grandparents and students in structured dialogue, closing communication gaps at home. Three generations at one table, each one heard.
Every Grade 7 student pairs with a Navsrijan buddy. Empathy is learned the only way it can be: in person, by name, over time.
Not an audience. Parents sit on the Innospark jury, walk the nature trails, and are graded partners in their child's growth.
My daughter was going through emotional challenges. The school's meditation room gave her five minutes of peace. In today's busy world, every child needs that.
Everyone assumes my 96% means I was always a topper. My journey was full of struggle. I changed my path, found what I truly loved, and earned it.
Jaipuria gave me cooperation, togetherness and unity. There was potential hidden inside me that I never knew. Now I can speak, and share what I feel.
If I had to describe my years here in three words: growth, friendship, and opportunity.
Four times a day a bell rings and the whole school stops, nursery to Grade 12, teachers included. Two minutes of stillness, guided by The Mother's meditative music, that resets attention and calm.
Five years. Five rungs. From civic responsibility, to inner work, to changing the world outside. Each grade has one verb.
Adopts a public institution, studies it, and presents recommendations to its director.
Studies a great Indian who lifted the consciousness of the country.
Learns and orates the world's great speeches, the words that changed history.
Seven months working on one personal weakness, defended before a jury of parents.
Having changed themselves, students go out and change society, from plastic-free markets to carpools.
Since 2011 every Grade 8 student spends seven months identifying one personal weakness — anger, fear, procrastination, screen addiction — and consciously transforming it, with reflection, action and feedback before a jury of parents.
Students build technology that serves: a device that helps visually impaired people shop independently, an app for diabetic patients inspired by their grandparents. Middle schoolers mentor juniors, with parents and alumni on the jury.
Most subjects up to three times the national average.
Among the admits, Navsrijan scholars now at LSR and Hindu College, Delhi.
Piloting our practices across other institutions, training educators nationwide.
Curriculum architects from Finland, researchers from MIT and UC Berkeley, the founder of Teachers Without Borders — they meet with our team, challenge our pedagogy, and keep the school in conversation with the wider world.
🇺🇸Designs and evaluates experiments testing the effectiveness of educational technology at MIT. A former special-education teacher, she co-teaches a course in which MIT students travel to India to co-create assistive technology with people with disabilities. Also contributes to research at Harvard's Langer Mindfulness Institute.
🇫🇮Led Finland's national curriculum reform from 2012 to 2016 as Head of National Curriculum Development at the Finnish National Agency for Education. Member of the international Steering Committee of High Quality Problem-Based Learning and a longtime advisor to IBE-UNESCO.
🇺🇸Teaches computational materials science, human-centered design, and engineering of assistive technology at MIT. Honoured with the Infinite Mile Award for teaching and the James N. Murphy Award for dedicated service to students. Program Director for Wolfram Summer School and High School Summer Camp.
🇫🇮Professor of special education focused on psychological wellbeing, self-determination theory, science education, and learning-to-learn. A special-education and language teacher who believes in social justice and a world without borders, advanced through her work in education.
🇫🇮Has drafted national legislation and changes to Finland's National Core Curriculum for pre-primary, basic and upper-secondary education. National Coordinator for Finland at the European Agency for Special Needs and Inclusive Education; keynote speaker on inclusion worldwide.
🇮🇳Architect with eighteen-plus years across master planning, mixed-use, residential, hospitality and interiors. Founder of team3 (2012); previously a partner at Morphogenesis. His work is recognised by Green Good Design (Chicago), AIT Germany and the IIID Awards, including a commendation for Seth M.R. Jaipuria School, Lucknow.
🇧🇪Founded Teachers Without Borders in 2000 to connect teacher-leaders across 171 countries. Awarded the Champion of African Education Award and the 2018 Luxembourg Peace Prize. Holds appointments at Johns Hopkins and the University of Brussels. "Brains are evenly distributed throughout the world — education is not."
🇺🇸Leads education at the Greater Good Science Center, translating the science of wellbeing into classroom practice. Facilitates the GGSC Summer Institute for Educators and consults with schools and organisations worldwide on social-emotional learning and caring teacher-student relationships.
Our students, parents and teachers, in their own words. Filter by theme, and tap any story to watch.
A daily school-wide practice where students sit in stillness to build inner awareness, focus and calm before learning begins.
"A student must realise he has the power of transforming himself first, and later society as well."
"Real change begins inside us, not outside us. It is learning to see the same world through new eyes."
"The metamorphosis I saw was commendable. Like a caterpillar into a butterfly, every child emerged with bright colours on their wings."
"When you walk and look at the silence, it makes you complete. If my children learn what matters to them, they can make a better life for others too."
"I took my family for granted, but it was my backbone. We started talk time at the end of each day, and we still do it."
"Children talk to us with ease, but hesitate to talk to their parents. That gap is exactly what Samvad exists to close."
"Parents who once came to us in tears now tell me: we have got wings to fly now."
"Witnessing the creativity, confidence and courage of these young minds was truly inspiring."
"I have grown here from LKG to Class 12, fourteen years. Never once did I feel my emotions were neglected."
"Jaipuria made me realise my purpose was not just to serve myself, but to serve the community I grew up in."
"When I hear the word Jaipuria, the first feeling is home. That is true even today, for every Jaipurian I know."
"My daughter was going through emotional challenges. The school's meditation room gave her five minutes of peace. In today's busy world, every child needs that."
"Everyone assumes my 96% means I was always a topper. My journey was full of struggle. I changed my path, found what I truly loved, and earned it."
"Jaipuria gave me cooperation, togetherness and unity. There was potential hidden inside me that I never knew. Now I can speak, and share what I feel."
"If I had to describe my years here in three words: growth, friendship, and opportunity."
"I used to cry about everything. Then I learned to cope on my own. Whatever life gives you, face it and be happy. You figure it out eventually."