People

The CERTAD faculty bring together decades of experience in

  • teaching
  • education administration
  • creation and growth of schools
  • change management
  • teacher professional development
  • technology integration
  • environment education
  • curriculum development based on latest research

This experience spans schools across the Indian urban economic spectrum. CERTAD members also have professional affiliates in institutions at the forefront of educational research and practice such as Media Lab at MIT, Teachers College at Columbia University and Oxford Brookes University, England.

Geetha Narayanan

is the Founder-Director of Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology, and Mallya Aditi International School, Bangalore. A visiting faculty at Westminster Institute of Education, UK, Geetha has taught on both the Masters and Undergraduate teacher education programmes. She has also been visiting faculty and researcher at the Lifelong Kindergarten Research Project of the MIT Media Lab, USA. An MA (with distinction) in Education from Oxford Brookes University, UK, Geetha is currently completing a PhD in Education from Sheffield Hallam University, UK.

Tara Kini

is Head, Teacher Education, in the Centre for Education, Research, Training and Development (CERTAD), Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology. She has an MSc in Agricultural Physics from IARI, New Delhi, and an MA (with distinction) in Education from Oxford Brookes University, UK. As a visiting faculty in the Department of Religious Studies in Stanford University, Tara has taught a course in the Music and Religion of India. She has taught in Mallya Aditi International School for 20 years and been the Administrator for 2 years.

Dharma Kannan

is the Coordinator, CERTAD. She has a Masters in Education for International Schools from Oxford Brookes University, UK, and has taught in Mallya Aditi Internation School for 18 years and has been the Coordinator for the Elementary section for six years.

Rustam Vania

is a Faculty member in the Department of Education in Srishti School or Art, Design and Technology. He is also an independent creative communications consultant. As a graphic designer and cartoonist, he is interested in the interface between educational needs and creative design/communication solutions. He has over a decade's experience in creating popular creative communication strategies for science, environment and development education. He was the founder editor and designer of Gobar Times, a monthly magazine supplement to Down To Earth, the science and environment fortnightly published by the Centre for Science and Environment. He has a special interest in using cartooning as a medium of communication in spreading the message of sustainable development.

Suchitra Narayan

has trained both in mainstream and Special Education across various disabilities, and worked in both areas for 24 years. An MA in Psychology, she is currently completing MA in Education with special emphasis on Inclusion (University of Northampton, UK). She is and alumnus of Harvard Graduate School of Education continuing eduaction programmes since 1995 and has been associated with the University of Northampton since 2000. Suchitra has set up learning support centers in schools and colleges, including Mallya Aditi International School and Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology.

Geetanjali Sachdev

is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University with a degree in Graphic Communiction Management, and is currently pursuing an MA in Education from Oxford Brookes University, UK.

Dipankar Khanna

Dipankar has been leading and facilitating Behavioral and Leadership Processes for over 20 years. A former Tibetan Buddhist monk he is also a trained Yoga Teacher from The Yoga Institute and The International Board of Yoga. He has trained under John Seymour and is a Trainer of NLP certified in the UK' and a Meta Coach certified by the International Society of Neuro Semantics, USA. He has also attended the SMEP program at IIM-Ahmedabad. Recently Dipankar incubated two successful Center's for Corporate Excellence and Behavioral and Leadership Process practices for leading IT service providers as Practice Head and has trained personnel from multinationals
like IBM, CSC, Microsoft, SAP, J. Walter Thompson, Cap Gemini Ernst and Young, Wipro and Suzlon among others . He has been associated closely with Srishti and Aditi for over 7 years before taking on this position on a full-time basis.