India's Most Recognized Preschools to Watch -2022

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Importance of
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Effects of Preschool
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VOL. 06
ISSUE 12
2022

Editor's Note
COMPREHENSIVE FUNDAMENTALS
RE-SHAPING THE BRIGHT MINDS OF THE NATION
o you get thrilled when your child brings home
Dadorable craft projects that you can proudly
display: a turkey made from a handprint, a
crocodile created from an egg carton, and a spider
twisted with pipe cleaners, and do you see preschool as
one of those crucial means to prepare your child
academically for kindergarten?
If you answered yes to these questions, you are on the
right track in determining what constitutes a high-
quality preschool. Like many parents today, you think a
child-centered classroom is superior to an adult-
centered one. What you interpret as signs of excellence
are what most scholars in early childhood education
recommend.
When choosing a pre-school, parents should focus on
the prominent qualities that adhere to developmentally
appropriate practices where kids are allowed to be
kids! Playing, creating, pretending, and exploring. Their
teacher is not front and center, filling them with
knowledge, but rather is an inconspicuous facilitator
encouraging their curiosity. Teachers' long-range goal is
for them to become critical thinkers, life-long learners,
self-starters, and well-adjusted individuals.
It is never too early to start preparing for your child's
preschool plans. Some studies have highlighted the
crucial fact that a child's brain development and
capacity to learn begins at birth, but also those who
engage in preschool perform better. Effective pre-
schools encourage students to engage in activities—and
lessons—that inculcate both fun and education.
This helps students build self-esteem and learn
effective social skills along with developing qualities
like courtesy, compassion, and respect—preparing them
early on for successful social interactions as they grow
up. During a child's first five years, their brains develop
faster and more significantly than during any future
time in their life.
In a quest to find preschools that provide your child
with the opportunity to broaden and deepen their
essential skills, which will ready them for a life of
learning and empower them to make positive
contributions to the world around them, CioLook India
introduced its latest edition 'Most Recognized
Preschools to Watch – 2022' that inculcate the vitality
of education and inculcate essential values.
Flip through the pages and embrace the journey of
these renowned pre-schools that are reshaping the
bright minds and the future generation of this nation.
Have a delightful read!
Abhishek Joshi
Deputy Editor
abhishek.joshi@insightssuccess.com

Dhruv Ahuja,
Marketing Manager
Amita Bhardwaj,
Vice President
Raghu Kankanala,
Founder and Chairman,
Surekha Kankanala,
Co-founder and Principal
Little Einsteins aims to provide a broad and balanced
international curriculum which supports individual needs
and allows students to achieve their full potential.
Ikidz is a chain of Premium Play School in that
ensures the intellectual, social and emotional
development of kids between the age of 2-5 years.
Footprints Childcare provides Play School and Day Care
programs for the parents looking for world
class education and child care for their children.
Tijay Gupta,
COO
Bachpan: A place where eminence in learning is felt.
The amazing part of this kind of learning is that this power
and fun in learning is felt both by parents and the kids.
Next-Gen Kids' curriculum is inspired by globally accepted
teaching methods. Its management believes that any kind
of learning should be the outcome of the actual experience.
Kopal Maheshwari,
Chairperson
Brief
Name of the School
Footprints
Next-Gen Kids
Little Einstein's
Preschool
Ikidz Education
Bachpan Play School
Featuring
India's
Moﬆ
Recognized
to Watch-2022
Rajni Chhabra,
Principal and
Founder Member
Sswings is one of the best PreSchools that focuses on all facets
of Child Development including Linguistic,
Physical, Socio-emotional, Cognitive and Creative to
ensure the overall development of the child.
Sswings Preschool &
Day Care

Bachpan Play School
Redeﬁning Education by
Instilling Holistic Values
C O N T E N T
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Little Einsteins Preschool
Multiplying Intelligence to
Exemplify the Genius Within
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A r t i c l e s
P r o f i l e s
22
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NextGen Kids
Futuristic and Holistic Learning
Universe for the Budding Minds
26
Importance of Caring and
Effective Teachers for
pre-school
Comprehensive Learning
and Caring Effects of Preschool Curriculum
Programs on School
Readiness
Essential Fundamentals

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While it is true that seeking an exclusive pre-school is
essential if you have little ones in your house, building a
solid foundation for an excellent education starts with pre-
school. When you explore and find a proper environment,
your children get exposed to a plethora of elements that
enhance creativity, bolster social skills, and develop an
extensive base for a bright, education-driven future.
Bachpan
PlaySchool Redefining Education by
Instilling Holistic Values
t is not uncommon for parents to spend a lot of time
Isearching for schools that nurture their children in the
best way possible. Parents value the school systems
that offer an optimal opportunity for their children to grow
and learn. This is a primary why they seek out schools that
boast of high test scores and cultivate positive
student/teacher/parent relationships.
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If you are feeling overwhelmed by the variety of pre-
schools available, you can conclude your search for an
incredible preschool, look no further! Bachpan Play
School uses state-of-the-art teaching methods amidst an
environment of endless learning opportunities.
Under the profound leadership of Mr Tijay Gupta,
COO, Bachpan play school instils a spirit of joy and
fervour in children for learning new things and outshine
in the competitive world. Being one of the most
renowned nursery schools, Bachpan has all that a
growing toddler needs to complete his early education!
In an interview with CIOLOOK India, Tijay Gupta
shared valuable information highlighting the
significance of Bachpan Play School in the education
sector.
Please enlighten our readers about Bachpan Play
School and its significance as a recognized pre-school
in the education sector.
Bachpan Play School, which started in 2004, pioneered
a curriculum for children in our country that has never
existed before. Our Nursery Schools are devoted to
children's early development and systematically and
creatively introduce them to organized learning. We
now have a nationwide presence, with over 1100
preschools across the country.
There is a list of services that are continuously updated
for our students too. At Bachpan, we offer kids a mixed
bag of innovation, technology, and lots of fun. We
believe in making everything as easy as possible so that
they don't take the burden of any activity and can learn
flawlessly. We take assistance from smart classes and
virtual reality to foster a kid's learning.
India's Most Recognized Preschools to Watch -2022

Tell us about your school's uniqueness in providing
amenities and educational programs for pre-school
children.
Our USPs are unique in the industry and cover every aspect
of modern education. Speak-o-Kit, Robotime, Virtual
Reality, and Robotime are a few of those USPs that are
regularly used in our preschools everywhere to foster
learning for kids.
Robotics fosters critical thinking and is a popular hobby
among Bachpan students. Smart Classes are essential for
new-age education, as youngsters must be able to
comprehend topics using learning tools. This is truly
fascinating at Bachpan. The VR headgears allow you to
travel to different locations while sitting in a classroom.
Learning has never been this simple and more accessible
with the latest Bachpan 360 App's useful features.
The Speak-O-Pen, which works in conjunction with the
Speaking book, has significantly improved the approach of
our preschool education system. It comes with a Speak-O-
Kit for kids that they can use to listen to the printed material
and study at their own pace.
What strategies and programs does Bachpan Play
School implement in teaching preschoolers phonics and
early literacy skills?
We make every effort to make learning enjoyable for
children. Bachpan has successfully raised the green flags in
linking technology to preschools by starting the Technology
Application. We are regularly introducing the idea of
edutainment into the classroom curriculum and serving the
educational sector following a chain of glorious
hardworking years. We ensure Absolute Concentration on
Holistic Values.
As children's education guardians, we are committed to
fulfilling our responsibility to provide the little ones with an
exact recipe for emotional, social, value-based, intellectual,
and cognitive growth. We are raising children who will be
able to endure the competitive spirit.
According to our instructors, childhood is the most
significant era in a person's life, and it forms them
according to the strokes. It all depends on how parents or
teachers nurture childhood and prepare the road to give it a
specific shape and educate the small tots' future.
We've reached a level of complete improvisation in the
usual play school curriculum, thanks to our technical
enterprise, Prismart. Prismart offers Smart Classes,
Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, and Robotime to help
students learn more effectively.
How do you plan to enhance Bachpan Play School's
readiness to increase engagement with children?
Together, we Recreate. Our preschool platform provides an
open field for children to engage in recreational activities
with a wonderful relationship between technology and
education. Bachpan's learning is distinct and fruitful due to
its unique pedagogy and cutting-edge infrastructure.
Regular engaging activities are conducted for kids, which
gives them reasons to come and enjoy the school daily. Our
infrastructure is well-equipped and filled with engaging and
needed varieties.
How do you envision Bachpan Play School's operations
with the emerging technology and K-12 education that is
revolutionizing the education industry?
As I have stated earlier, technology is the need of the hour,
and we have inculcated every bit of it in our curriculum and
daily activities. We are constantly striving to make
everything easy and comfortable for the kids and would
adopt every possible method to make kids learn and grow in
the best form.
As an experienced professional, what would you like to
advise the budding entrepreneurs willing to venture into
the education industry?
The advice is straightforward: stay focused on what you're
doing, and don't be scared to make major decisions when
the time comes. Because it requires a lot to get back on
your feet once you've fallen behind. Once you're ready to
go, believe in yourself and make the correct decision at the
appropriate moment, as we did when the country's
educational system needed to reform.

Effects of
Preschool
Curriculum
Programson
School's Readiness
Essential Fundamentals

S
uccess is the result of good planning, preparation,
and timely execution. Disciplined and systematic
efforts with periodic monitoring help build control
and get things done as planned.
Like every other industry, the education sector being no
exception; if we look at the basic level of education, the
preschools form the first and the important group where the
young kids are introduced to the primary stages of
education. Considering their young age, level of
understanding and soft emotional nature, a unique
curriculum is designed to enable them to easy learning and
develop themselves steadily.
The preschools that form the first learning stages of kids
identify the curriculum and prepare the complete
functioning accordingly. The effects of preschool
curriculum programs bring about some changes in their
systems and approaches in various ways.
• Students' Engagement with the School
Students get to learn new things in new ways. The new
curriculum introduces new books, tools, accessories, and
various other elements that bring in a different experience
for the young students, parents, and teachers. Students
develop a new liking and attachment through this
engagement.
• Enhanced Education from the Existing Stage
The early childhood education program enhances children's
cognitive abilities, pre-academic skills, behavioral, health,
and socio-emotional outcomes. Preschool enhancement
programs include parenting programs, skill-based curricula,
and teacher professional development programming.
Research findings suggest that adding these to early
childhood education programs can improve a range of
children's outcomes, leading to better school readiness.
• Comprehensive Active Learning Approach
This includes numerous activities like reading, writing,
discussion, problem-solving etc., where the students are
actively involved. As against to passive learning, where
students just sit and listen, active learning promotes
participation of the students in the entire process. These
activities make the student perform different tasks from the
perspective of understanding, organizing the tools and
charts, naming the elements, and performing.
• Enhancing Active Learning Skills
Students are involved in numerous activities where they do
different things making the learning process interesting and
easily understood. Learning is fun when combined with
games, stories, riddles, and small acts that are a part of the
process. Board games, crafts, drawing, making clay objects,
puzzles and riddles and many more interactive games.
Students develop an open mindset with expansive thinking
and analytical skills, thereby enhancing their development.
• Exposure to Extra-curricular Fun Learning Activities
It is rightly said that "Work becomes easy when made with
fun." Similarly, learning becomes more accessible when it is
presented in different and interactive ways.

preschool, the support staff are its necessary arms and
wings. The coordinators, assistant teachers, housekeeping
staff, office assistants and security personnel are essential in
maintaining the organization's hygiene, discipline, smooth
functioning, and safety. They are trained periodically on
communication with parents, attending to new inquiries,
handling, guiding the kids, and maintaining the
organization's professional culture.
• Customization of Teaching System
The teaching methodology is planned and decided based on
the curriculum. However, it is observed that certain students
find it challenging to grasp and learn the topics. The
teaching system is customized in different patterns to make
it easier to understand and learn seamlessly. It includes
adding models, objects, and images that make it simple to
identify and understand. Personalized learning in certain
forms is designing the learning methods in a different
format, so there is better clarity and higher understanding.
Smarter Kids of the New Era
Often, we hear people exclaiming with surprise, "How the
young kids have developed such a good understanding, our
times the scene was different." Yes, of course, this is a
reality. However, it has been possible with the tremendous,
transformational role of the preschools who have prepared
these young kids into bright, dynamic stars of the modern
era.
While learning about nature, the students stroll in a park
where they are shown different trees, plants, birds, and
animals. Their understanding of the music is developed by
introducing them to various kinds of simple musical
instruments like a whistle, bell, flute, mouth organ, small
drum, piano etc. They are taken to play different games in a
team activity.
• Upgradation to Modern Technologies
The modern curriculum includes the addition and
application of new technologies like computers. Students
are taught the use and purpose of computers through
interesting activities like typing words, playing IQ games,
using a voice recognition system, creating images and
pictures from memory etc.
Restructuring the Assessment Process
The introduction of the new curriculum initiates the
changes in numerous elements of the process. This leads to
a restructuring of the complete teaching and assessment
process.
New parameters get added to the list of assessment
methodology. Involvement, enthusiasm, completion of
tasks, attitude, happiness quotient, energy levels,
communication, expressions and many other elements are
considered in the assessment.
• Organizing Training for Support Staff
Preschool management looks interesting but, at times, can
be challenging. Though the teachers form the heart of any

Einstein once smartly remarked 'The true sign of
intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
Nonetheless, whenever you hear the word
intelligence, one could bet that the first concept that comes
to your mind immediately is not out of your own
imagination but a traditional concept of knowledge testing
called Intelligence Quotient (IQ).
Disagreeing with Einstein, standard definitions define
intelligence as an intellectual potential one is born with,
which, although, can be measured by the parameter of IQ,
is very difficult to change.
During the recent decade, other expert views of intelligence
have also emerged including Emotional Intelligence (EI)
and the theory of Multiple Intelligence (MI) proposed by Dr
Howard Gardner, a renowned Harvard Psychologist.
Dr Gardner's theory of MI outlined in his 1983s famous
book 'Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple
Intelligences' proposed that all people and every person
have different kinds of 'intelligences' and not only the
traditional psychometrically viewed single type of
intelligence, the view, which in itself is too limited or
narrow-minded.
According to Dr Gardner, there are possible nine types of
intelligences including visual-spatial, linguistic-verbal,
logical-mathematical, bodily-kinesthetic, musical,
interpersonal, intrapersonal, naturalistic, and existentialist.
These are beyond any single intellectual capacity.
Dr Gardner also suggests that while a person could be
strong in one particular type say musical intelligence, then
such a person might have been born possessing a range of
abilities like musical, verbal, and naturalistic intelligence.
Highly influenced by this theory of MI, Little Einsteins
Preschool was set up in 2007 by Kopal Maheshwari,
currently the Chairperson of this preschool. Kopal shares,
"With the vision of providing learning environments that
are child-centered and based on the multiple intelligence
framework of Dr Gardner, we established Little Einsteins
Preschool."
Little Einstein's Mission Intelligence
The MI approach, which is currently being implemented in
the US and other countries, is truly responsive to the needs
of the 21st Century. This framework prepares the child to be
creative, critical, and divergent thinkers who are able to
really 'think outside the box.'
In this unique school, teachers recognize that by teaching
for understanding, their students are encouraged to
problem-solve, hone their skills, and to develop their
individual strengths.
Kopal says, "Since we understand that every child learns in
many ways and each has his own interests and needs,
LittleEinsteins Preschool
Multiplying Intelligence to Exemplify the Genius Within
The mission is to
ensure that education
is specific to a child's
need where the
emphasis is on how to
learn; as we say, 'The
genius is within.

Kopal Maheshwari
Chairperson
Little Einsteins Preschool

we provide children with multiple access or entry points to
a concept through their different intelligence or ‘smarts’.
The mission is to ensure that education is specific to a
child's need where the emphasis is on how to learn; as we
say, ‘The genius is within’.
STEAMIND-Framework
Little Einsteins aims to provide a broad and balanced
international curriculum which supports individual needs
and allows students to achieve their full potential.
Science
Engaging preschoolers in experimental science helps
develop logical reasoning, and critical thinking, forming a
strong foundation in science.
Kopal says, "Lab exercises at our school involve fun things
like a seed house, creating a tornado in a jar, water cycle in
a bag, a volcano on a plate etc to help them understand the
basics of science."
Technology
Preschoolers at LE are engaged early in technology. It has
been identified as a critical piece for future preparation.
Lab assignment includes using computers, cameras,
creativity and imagination apps, single instruction coding
games and collaborative work on iPad.
Engineering
Children are natural engineers; they love to design and
build with anything they can get their hands on.
Lab assignment includes experiments to identify how
weight is distributed on bridges, the buoyancy of ships,
creating 3d structures using lego etc.
Arts
Creativity stimulation is a key aspect of lifelong learners.
"At LE we do art and craft activities every day.
We spark their creativity using varied hands-on materials.
Cognitive development also focuses on learning through
art," conveys Kopal.
Mathematics
Maths is taught as a life skill at LE. Reasoning and critical
thinking are the core of Mathematics.
Multi-format approach is adopted. Manipulatives in form of
puzzle cards, teaching aids, gamification and online offline
method are followed to help them be analytical thinkers.
An educational approach to learning that uses Science,
Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics as access
points for guiding students' enquiry, dialogue and critical
thinking
Nurturing Genius Minds of the Future Einsteins
To enhance LE's readiness to increase engagement with
children, it works to offer a rich and stimulating blended
learning environment which fosters students' natural
curiosity and thirst for knowledge, enabling them to acquire
the necessary life skills to function confidently and
effectively in a rapidly changing world.
Kopal reflects, "Our vision is to create a caring community
in which students learn to value themselves, others and the
environment."
Envisioning LE's operations with the emerging technology
and K-12 education that is revolutionizing the education
industry, Kopal says that they provide an integrated
technology solution that helps in the managing center,
seamless communication with parents, video classes and
multimedia digital content.
For the Genius Mind Learning is Forever
As an experienced professional, Kopal's advice to the
budding entrepreneurs willing to venture into pre-schooling
is a philosophy in itself. She says that this is a great
opportunity to venture into and the one that will give you
much better satisfaction and standing in society due to its
noble cause.
"You should always look for the right partner who is
renowned for the global best content and curriculum. In the
end, the quality of learning matters and nothing pleases us
to see our kids doing much better than their peers. These are
critical foundation years, and the industry would do great to
have educated, focused and passionate entrepreneurs to start
preschool," concludes Kopal.

Comprehensive
Learning and Caring

Importance of
and
Teachersfor
Pre-school
ids are said to be the ﬂowers of heaven for their innocence, soft and sensitive
Knature. They are new to the outside world as they steadily grow up in a protected,
cared for, and loved environment. They look at numerous things from the guiding
perspectives of their parents and teachers.
Preschool teachers are the following guides who introduce the basic learning process
through group teaching, interactive methods of singing, dancing, painting, storytelling and so
on. Amicably and delicately, the kids are also taught through instructions about basic
hygiene, safety, good health, manners, and numerous other things. They prepare the kids to
learn independently in the company of same-age kids, enhancing their social and
interpersonal skills.
Teachers in preschools are special and trained explicitly to look after the kids as they must
play many roles as teachers, friends, relatives, guides, companions, and more. Whether it is
choosing the right preschool for your kid or recruiting a preschool teacher, it is essential to
understand the qualities and important attributes of the preschool teacher.
• Pleasing Personality
Teachers with pleasing personalities are always welcoming and comforting. They create a
positive image of the teacher in the minds of the kids and their parents too. Teachers are the

ideals of good manners and inspiration, so a pleasing
personality adds to their value.
• Compassion
Compassion is one of the necessary qualities preschool
teachers should possess. Compassionate teachers can make
students feel homely, cared for, and loved. The similar care
for their parent can be provided with a compassionate
approach.
• Innovation
Teachers should have an innovative mindset in all their
activities. They should develop new and different ideas in
various ways to motivate and engage the kids
constructively.
• Self-Confidence
This is one of the promising traits of the teachers who are
well qualified, trained, and experienced in handling
numerous types of kids and guiding them properly with
importance and reasoning.
• Organized Nature
Smart teachers are always ready with their teaching
schedule and additional tasks listed with them. They are
organized with toys, charts, samples, and models to show
the kids during the activity. The better organized the
teacher, the more effective learning.
• Flexibility
Teachers are focused on their scheduled activities.
However, due to specific circumstantial challenges, they
should be flexible in altering the plan to make the learning
more engaging and exciting.
• Patient in Approach
The first and essential virtue of any teacher is patience.
Preschool teachers must be more patient as kids come from
various backgrounds and cultures with different natures.
They must be calm and patient in their teaching methods,
giving them kindness and listening to whatever they might
say, be it answers, questions, complaints, or anything.
• Knowledgeable
Teachers are very knowledgeable about numerous aspects
of our world, including day-to-day happenings, spirituality,
food, nature, birds, animals, manners, and numerous
subjects. This characteristic personality feature makes them
a popular and dependable resource.
• Excellent Communicator
Fluent communication is the nature of every teacher, which
displays professional confidence, experience, inspiring role
model, and command in their function.
• Maturity
They are kind and mature enough to understand the kid's
behaviour. They have specific guidelines to access the kids
in various aspects of manners, speaking, hygiene, learning
abilities, etc. They regularly communicate with the parents
about the kid's performance and try every way to improve
their learning.
• Leadership Qualities
Teachers are excellent leaders. Whatever they teach,
convey, or introduce, they do it themselves and ask the kids
to follow them. With the clear understanding that kids learn
by observing rather than instructions, they do all the
activities themselves and get the kids to do them.
• Vibrant Energy
They display amazing energy throughout the day,
encouraging the kids to learn, get involved and participate
in the activities. In between, the teacher jumps, tells
examples, puzzles, and jokes to keep the kids interested and
engaged.
Managing with Care and Enthusiasm
The role of preschool teachers is vital in introducing the
new world of education to cute and innocent kids. Getting
them softly introduced to opening with other kids through
songs, plays, and games, the teachers steadily prepare the
kids for mindset on education, emotional development, and
expressing themselves. These are the first essential places
where the kids listen, talk, repeat, observe and learn new
things slowly. In the entire development process, the
preschool teachers' role deserves well-deserved credit for
not doing their job as teachers but for creating a new
generation of future citizens of the country.
- Kedar Borgaonkar

NextGen Kids
Futuristic and Holistic Learning Universe for the Budding Minds
Einstein, one of the world's biggest genius once said,
"I have no special talent. I am only passionately
curious." Every child is also born with that gift of
an innate, passionate, inquisitive curios mind, with a brain
containing more than a hundred billion healthy and hungry
neurons. Hungry for learning and as healthy as a neuron
could get.
Every healthy, hungry, and blank book of a brain with its
innately passionate and curious mind craves for learning
novel, noble, good, moral, and spectacular things. It looks
at everything in this world with awe, wonder, inspiration
and enthusiasm. It wishes to know, experience, sense, touch
feels, and live through this world full of unknown and
unseen things for him.
Its future depends on the nourishing, nurturing, and
education it thus receives. Initially, parents, immediate
siblings, and people around the baby and its surrounding
environment is its world. It begins grabbing, tasting,
enjoying, imbibing, learning, and grasping things, people,
and their expressions with that blank book of its mind. It is
a baby's earliest learning days in the world, though most of
that period never gets permanently written in that book
except mother's love.
We can call it the first paragraph of the prologue. At the age
of two to three years old the most important phase of a
child's future progress and development begins. The time
for pre-school. Although it is the most crucial period,
traditionally, nursery education is rather overlooked by our
society in general.
And ninety-nine per cent of the pre-schools are just an
excuse for the owners of those pre-schools to give artificial
satisfaction to the parents whose children they accept into
their inadequate and half-baked pre-school environment
and pilfering those parents of their hard-earned money.
It was the case before entered Raghu Kankanala -
Founder and Chairman and Surekha Kankanala – Co-
founder and Principal of NextGen Kids Educational
Society, one of the most futuristic yet most affordable pre-
schools in the truest sense.
Nurturing and Educating the Future Generations of
Budding Minds
And it was Raghu and Surekha's ever-increasing love for
children and passion to nurture, educate and fulfill the
curiosity of these young budding generations' minds that
they commenced their journey with NextGen kids in the
year 2010. They want to give the best preschool education
to the children with international standards with a
reasonable fee structure for the parents.
NextGen kids started its mission in the year 2010 with 40
students located at KPHB 6th phase, Hyderabad and
reached the 400 students mark in the year 2020 with the
help of 50 Teachers and supporting staff members.
As per the pre-school statistics, the NextGen KPHB branch
has the highest student strength of any other individual pre-
school branch in AP and Telangana States, and it is one of
the biggest in India. NextGen recently started new branches
at Pragathi Nagar in Hyderabad, they are also doing
excellent in expanding their education further into the
society.
NextGen Kids Curriculum and Methodology:
Surekha reveals, "Our curriculum is designed to provide all-
round development for your child. We use the Play-Think-
Explore-Learn method of teaching by using sensorial
development activities. Our low student/teacher ratio
enables individual attention and care. We use 'Modern
Teaching Aids.' Sensorial Development Activities with
Touch-Explore-Learn methods.”

We at
NextGen, are
the first
pre-school in
India providing
interactive
smart books for
Nursery
education.
Raghu shares, "We give respect to the ideas of each child.
We encourage young children to explore their environment
and express themselves using multiple ways which may
include speaking, singing, movement, drawing, painting,
writing, building and designing, dramatic play, dance and
music."
The children have the opportunity to engage with concepts,
ideas, and interests, which arise within the group. True to
providing a holistic environment of learning for the
youngest minds, infrastructure wise, NextGen Kids is
equipped with world-class preschool infrastructure.
The journey of lifelong learning begins at NEXTGEN
KIDS
At NextGen, Surekha and Raghu believe that Education is
more than giving knowledge. It is about inspiring children
to do significant things. Therefore, NextGen's curriculum is
inspired by globally accepted teaching methods. "We
believe that any kind of learning should be the outcome of
the actual experience," adds Surekha.
Curiosity is encouraged and learning is always a fun-filled,
exploratory process. The environment has been carefully
designed to encourage exploration and experiential learning
in a fun-filled and interesting way. The physical
environment at NextGen kids provides opportunities to
Play-think- explore- learn.
NextGen had a vision, and its first priority is the safety of
children and the comfort of parents. Raghu says, "We can
Proudly say that we are the first school in INDIA that began
online teaching-learning-observing facility in the year
2010."
While Surekha recollects, "Still we can remember those
days. How parents wondering while watching their kids'
classroom online in the year 2010."
Interactive Smart Learning
NextGen is always ahead of using technology for
education. Surekha shares, "We are the first pre-school in
India providing interactive smart books for Nursery
education."
Raghu Kankanala
Founder and Chairman
Surekha Kankanala
Co-founder and Principal

NextGen started using Interactive Smart Books in the year
2014.
Interactive Smart Books: "We are born with five amazing
sensory instincts that we learn from. We can see, hear,
speak, smell and touch," states Raghu. You would have
noticed the difference in your quality of experience when
what you are doing involves one or more of your senses.
Interactive Smart Books - The right bit of technology for
your child to enjoy learning in the most traditional,
organic and simple ways. Simplify everything!
Surekha believes, "Our classrooms and surroundings
provide a fun-filled, comfortable and safe environment for
children. We use best of class specially designed apparatus
and materials."
Kids Theatre and Hobby Room: Audiovisual aids help
children to understand lessons in a simple, effective and
easy way. Music helps kids remember basic facts such as
the order of letters in the alphabet, partly because songs tap
into fundamental systems in our brains that are sensitive to
melody and beat. That's not all. When you play music, you
are exercising your brain in a unique way.
At NextGen, children explore the joy of growing their own
plants, fruits and vegetables and observe the nature process
in action.
Learning in the Digital Age
Surekha says, "...now we are in YouTube and Facebook
age." While Raghu furthers, "Without any efforts, our
NextGen Kids youtube channel received more than
15600000 (15.6M) impressions and 3600000 (3.6M) views.
We can proudly say that no school or college annual day
performances achieved these numbers. All this credit goes
to our children and NextGen teachers.”
Raghu and Surekha's advice to the budding educators
aspiring to venture into this niche is to the point. They say
that if you are not able to spend your full time for the
children, please don't venture into pre-schooling. It requires
a lot of passion and patience.
Surekha expresses, "We always give first priority to the
safety and happiness of the children. NextGen Always try to
create the best learning environment for the children with
the help of our teachers.”
Expanding Today's Learning Universe into the
Tomorrow
At NextGen, Surekha and Raghu are developing and using
different educational tools for the better understanding of
concepts to the children. They are doing it by the
continuous monitoring and improving child social,
emotional and learning skills by understanding and
interacting with the children.
Future-Ready: Surekha explains, "Science and Technology
exhibitions and awareness programs are conducted to
provide hands-on experience to our children.”
Here Raghu states a quote: "Mediocre teacher tells. The
good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates.
The great teacher inspires," said years ago by William
Arthur Ward.
Inculcating William Arthur Ward's philosophy Raghu says,
"Our teachers are committed to teaching and nurturing your
children who are at this age of immense growth and
change." At NextGen, each teacher plays an important role
in encouraging your child's zest for learning.
Teacher's Teaching Forever: "Most of our teachers
working with NextGen for more than a decade and we
create family-friendly teaching environment," says Raghu.
And Surekha concludes, "Finally, we want to say only one
thing…We only gave birth to NextGen. Our students'
parents and teachers helped us to bring NextGen kids to this
bigger level."

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