Every Child Can - A Conversation with Kiran Bir Sethi

With the recent release of her book 'Every Child Can: Riverside
School's Design-Led Approach to Empower Children', the wonderful
Kiran Bir Sethi is joining us again on the podcast this week.


Kiran Bir Sethi⁠ is a designer who became a teacher, a principal
who grew into an education reformer and subsequently morphed into
a social entrepreneur. A trained graphic designer from the
National Institute of Design, she comfortably uses the language
of design – iteration, prototype, design specs – to develop not
only curriculum innovation, but also community-based social
programmes.


Kiran founded the award winning ⁠Riverside School⁠ in Ahmedabad,
India, in 2001. Riverside, is viewed as a laboratory to prototype
design processes that uses a systems approach to build a culture
of empowerment, graduating young citizen leaders with an ‘I CAN
Mindset’ – using their agency for the greater good. Riverside won
the T4 Education 'World's Best School Prize' for innovation in
2023:
https://t4.education/worlds-best-school-prizes/the-five-prizes/innovation/.


In 2009, Kiran launched ⁠Design for Change⁠ which uses a simple 4
step design framework – FIDS (Feel, Imagine, Do, Share) to
cultivate the I CAN mind-set in all children. Today, DFC is the
world's largest movement of change - of and by children, and is
in 60+ countries—impacting over 2.2 million children and 65,000
Teachers.


Kiran is a judge for the prestigious YIDAN Prize and a Visiting
Global Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. In
2019, she was awarded the Earth Prize in Luino, Italy, the Lexus
Design Award for 2019, in Pune, India, and DFC has been
recognised man times as one of the 100 most innovative
educational programmes in the world by HundrED.org.


Social Links


Instagram: @kiranbirsethi -
https://www.instagram.com/kiranbirsethi/


Twitter: ⁠@kiranbirsethi⁠ - https://twitter.com/kiranbirsethi


LinkedIn: ⁠@kiranbirsethi -
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kiranbirsethi/