Rangeet: Teach Through Play

RANGEET SOLVES FOR INEQUITIES AND VARIABILITY IN LEARNING DEVELOPING WELLBEING, AGENCY AND GLOBAL STEWARDSHIP IN EVERY CHILD.

800 million children across the world won’t have the skills to thrive by 2030, including social-emotional skills (World Economic Forum). Across the Global South, children don't have equitable access to education due to disabilities, socioeconomic, gender, race, religious or geographical differences, digital divides and climate disasters. Save the Children states 1.2billion children globally live in poverty, many also affected by climate change. 

India’s problem is formidable. Of the 1.5million schools, 1.1million are government schools (Education for All, 2021). With 400,000 private schools, only ~5% are attempting to solve today’s educational challenges (Oxford University Press(OUP)). The majority, serving ~400million children, apply outdated practices. Disruptive technologies like AI are creating anxiety as most feel they will not have the breadth-of-skills vital for the future, including jobs and interpreting/processing fake news. These problems will rupture India’s social fabric. Problems concerning child marriage, gender inequality, mental health taboos, disabilities and climate anxiety are paramount.  

Education policy bodies are thus emphasising developing a breadth-of-skills, including social-emotional/6Cs (Brookings Policy2020, Hirsh-Pasek et al) and wellbeing (India, NCF2023). To thrive despite AI-led dislocations, children require the breadth-of-skills Rangeet teaches.  

Globally and in India, teacher and student wellbeing is low (schoolsweek.co.uk). Drastic changes in work environments, heavy workloads, low student engagement and limited professional and psychosocial support induce low teacher wellbeing (OUP-Rangeet Teacher Wellness Week2024).

Across the Global South, there’s a dearth of curriculums/resources which measurably prepare children for the future. Schools/communities are not equipped to develop inclusivity, wellbeing, agency, global stewardship. Curriculums should be high quality whilst workable across contexts. Education systems must transform, harnessing technology to implement new systems, methods and processes, including measuring impact (Winthrop; Lantt Pritchett). Solving these problems is expensive and requires extensive training.

Workable, scalable solutions are rare. Edtech companies tend to lead with technology rather than solving educational problems in a human-centric way.

The World Economic Forum estimates 1.2billion climate refugees by 2050. Approximately 40million have their education interrupted annually due to climate-induced disasters. Indirect effects are increased malnutrition, child labour and marriage (Global Partnership for Education;Malala Fund;Brookings Institution).  

“Education is crucial to promote climate action. It helps people understand and address the impacts of the climate crisis...” (UNESCO)

By design, many social-emotional/life skills programs exclude the poorest, requiring computers with internet connectivity. Connectivity costs are high for low-income households and infrastructure/services are unequally distributed(OECD/RMIT University). Edtech can bridge divides but only a small percentage of apps use smartphones(Central Square Foundation). However, most people across the Global South connect to the internet through smartphones eg. there are over 500million internet users in Southeast Asia(Statista), with 90% connecting via their mobiles(Google). 

Furthermore, many such programs are labour intensive and not scalable, implemented mainly in higher population density areas to justify unit-costs. Therefore, children who live in low-resource areas are excluded. 

These conditions maintain a vice-like grip on poor communities, erasing equitable progress and opportunities for all children.

Rangeet aims to democratise quality education through its digital platform for authoring, delivering and measuring the impact of teaching materials for schools, communities and families.  

App Demo

Problem Solution

Rangeet's platform comprises:

I. A Mobile App featuring Rangeet’s proprietary Social Emotional & Ecological Knowledge (SEEK)© curriculum and resource bank.  Designed around the UNSDGs, SEEK™ uses active pedagogies to help facilitators (including teachers and community members) develop a breadth-of-skills (communication, collaboration, critical thinking, creativity, confidence) and literacy in every child aged 7-16, on the path to agency, wellbeing and global stewardship.

SEEK Content

Facilitators can either:

• Teach The Full SEEK Curriculum  

The app is facilitator-facing, helps teach/collect data and works offline. In-app training addresses low digital literacy.

• Or Use The Search Function 
  

Choose activities to suit their needs by typing in a skill, issue, core subject and/or UNSDG they want to develop/tackle to search through the resource bank of 700+ activities. 

Searches list positive externalities/outcomes across multiple dimensions. Eg. a search to develop collaboration could also promote confidence and responsibility whilst tackling bullying and SDG5. 

II. A Web App for administrators/funders includes visualisation and evaluation tools for data collected using the mobile app to help manage implementations and monitor impact, informing timely decisions and adaptations.

Responding to growing demand, Rangeet is currently developing programs for:

• Mindful use of devices/social media/literacy around AI, improving wellbeing. 

• Teacher and adult/youth wellbeing in collaboration with performance and health intelligence experts who develop holistic practices, products and enduring hacks for daily life.  To help teachers rediscover the joy of teaching, we have created a branded e-wallet.

These will be added to Rangeet’s app shortly.

Rangeet encourages facilitators and children to bring their experiences, cultures and contexts into lessons. Different viewpoints are encouraged, involving critical thinking and consideration of diversity as a basic premise (Emily Style; Professor J.A. Banks). Children learn to assess credibility of templates and behaviours imbibed/taught to them. Children and teachers become more accepting of each other, leading to more engaging, inclusive classrooms and better learning outcomes. In many communities, children with disabilities who were being bullied are now being included and valued.

Rangeet’s outcomes are authentic/verifiable: facilitators and learners experience consistent, in-depth, evaluated lessons, leading to sustained impact, building agency.  

Rangeet's app contains tools that measure impact and collect feedback. Brookings (November 2022) cites Rangeet as an app making a fundamental change in education today, improving the teaching-learning experience, reliability of data collected and visualisation. Rapid experimentation, data-driven decision-making and improvement is possible at low cost without causing upheavals and disruptions.

Rangeet’s teaching resources can be mapped to any curriculum, bringing the best of international learning-science to all classrooms/communities.  

SEEK is the foundation for the first wellbeing curriculum in India developed by Rangeet and OUP, available to upper-middle class students. Rangeet's low-cost solution, however, enables anyone to teach anywhere at anytime, democratising quality education, reducing learning inequities.

Research/Educational Basis

Media

Primary Beneficiaries:

• All Children: in and out of school; rural, urban, marginalised, girls, disabled. Develop a breadth of skills vital to daily life, academic and job success. 

• Facilitators/Adults/Youth: develop wellbeing reducing burnout.

Secondary Beneficiaries:

• Facilitators (educators, support volunteers, caregivers): 100% of facilitators reported an improvement in their pedagogical skills, social-emotional competencies and wellbeing.

• Schools/administrators: flexibility allows curation of lessons according to context; app easily tracks and reports progress. Schools/community centres observe greater attendance on days Rangeet is taught.

• NGOs/Community Members: can take ownership of bettering their communities by sharing the teaching/learning burden with schools, tackling systemic issues.

• Donors: can create measurable, demonstrable impact. App tracks and reports progress easily in a timely manner to donors.

Social/Environmental Impact

Climate change is impacting people’s lives and livelihoods, acting as a threat multiplier in poor communities. If unchecked, the global economy could lose 18% GDP by 2050(Swiss Re Institute).  Poverty will rise and low income countries will lose larger shares of their economic output(Brookings). It is understood that climate action could lead to economic gains. Such action requires education leading to understanding, changes in mindsets and preparation for jobs of the future.  As we have seen, it is the youth who are leading the way towards climate action.  Rangeet’s mission is to develop climate agency through our Ecology Umbrella, providing the foundation children need to tackle the climate crisis.

Impact stories:

• 10-year-old boy sought help from his teacher and parents to stop the child marriage of his neighbour, instead continuing her education.

• A girl, being harassed at her bus-stop, used her voice to try and stop it. She fought back to continue going to school. 

• Children in Rajasthan deduced their elders were wasting water and built a tube well to regulate usage.

• A class realised they were bullying a classmate who wore thick glasses, another on crutches, a third who was dark-skinned. They apologised and protected them against others.

• Government officials reported that unmonitored, distant schools were readopted due to Rangeet's digital platform.

• Teachers started addressing children by their actual names instead of "son of X"-which is the norm in many patriarchal societies, improving student-teacher relationships.

• Although SEEK is taught once weekly, teachers report an overall improvement in their life because Rangeet has improved attendance and student interest in learning.

• Teachers report pedagogical upskilling, confirming adoption of play-based teaching across subjects, improving student interest.

• A teacher reported that she was discriminating against disabled students and changed her behaviour to become more inclusive.

• A teacher reported that she realised she was being discriminated against in her own community and family and was given the tools to address it.

All of the above led to more inclusive classrooms, higher attendance and better learning environments for ALL students.

Whilst Rangeet has developed Wellness and UNSDG Curriculums and a Teacher Wellbeing Guide for OUP, Rangeet's low-cost mobile-app solution is scaling across India, building public-private coalitions to democratise quality education and resources, reducing learning inequities and creating inclusion.

Impact

Testimonials

Simran Mulchandani, Co-founder/CEO (B.Sc.Computer Science, Brown University) Member LSX, HPFutures Council for 4IR Skills

“Teaching at an under-resourced school committed me to bring quality education to every child. I lead the development of Rangeet's app working closely with teachers and education service delivery professionals understanding their needs and pain-points. I combine my technology skills and interest to learn from those we serve to develop products they need and will benefit from; importantly learning and solving for the challenges they face: lack of electricity, connectivity and digital literacy.”

Karishma Menon, Co-founder; Curriculum/Product Design

"School made me feel like an outsider because I didn't fit a mould. I'm consumed by how I can help others like me feel like they matter and belong, and help teachers who want to support such students, rediscovering why they became teachers to begin with. Through my lived experiences and hours spent with teachers in classrooms, I have led the development of Rangeet's SEEK curriculum, aiming to include every child and giving them access to quality education."

Renisha Bharvani, Research/Legal/Funding (licensed to practice law in UK/Singapore/New York) Member SEL4India

“I grew up surrounded by people from almost 100 different countries. Everyone was equal no matter their gender, race, religion or socioeconomic background. Differences were celebrated and instrumental to learning. As a result, appreciation of diversity and equality in all aspects of life became core to who I am. These principles influence our organisation and the development of SEEK.”

Sandeep Mishra, Business Development/Strategy 

Sandeep’s a dedicated professional with a foundation rooted in public education, having attended a government school himself. Sandeep’s first-hand experience not only underlines his understanding of the challenges and opportunities within such educational settings but also fosters a deep connection with the communities Rangeet serves. Drawing upon his intimate knowledge of government schools and the needs of rural communities, Sandeep has demonstrated an exceptional ability to design and deliver education programs tailored to address specific needs. His ability to bridge the gap in educational access and quality reflects an extensive understanding of societal requirements, enabling him to advocate for and implement sustainable solutions to uplift underserved populations. 

Human-Centric Design

Extensive interactions with our diverse 4500 strong community of teachers, government officials and students provided key inputs to our app/process design. Examples of feedback loops: iterative feedback through our app from every Rangeet session, regular interviews with teachers, principals and parents; frequent interaction with government officials to understand their pain points. Our program of community-driven development led to the following learnings: 

• Lessons require time-management, fitting into school timetables

• Content needs adaptation to context

• Must function in low-infrastructure settings 

• Minimal training/preparation

• Easy account creation, data collection, data visualisation

• Lessons must develop individual/societal wellbeing, social-emotional skills, climate agency.  

• Must be learning-science based.

• Teachers require wellbeing resources to avoid burnout.  

• Teachers want the flexibility to teach SEEK as a curriculum and embed it in all subjects. 

• Teachers want content to improve their own wellbeing. 

• Data should be available in real-time to allow for rapid analysis/experimentation/adaptation.

Implementations:

2019

Bangladesh - 50 facilitators, 5000 children, 30 BRAC/Government schools

2020 

India - 2 states, 900 facilitators, 16,750 children, 250 schools/community centres

2021 

India - 2 states, 30 facilitators, 900 children, 20 schools/community centres

2022 

India - 7 states, 4 languages, 130 facilitators, 4800 children, 75 schools/community centres

2023 

India - 850 facilitators, 40,000 children, 300 schools/community centres

-Rangeet as a Service (RaaS) where other curriculum developers digitise their curriculums using Rangeet’s curriculum agostic app - 100 facilitators, 4000 children, 100 community centres

2024

-India - 2500 facilitators, 100,000 children,1500 schools/community centres

-South Africa - 250 facilitators, 10,000 children, 250 schools/community centres

-OUP Books (India) - 100,000 sold (300,000 committed)

-OUP Teacher Wellbeing -15,000 facilitators (committed by OUPI)

-OUP SDG Toolkit - 20,000 (committed)

-RaaS - US (100 facilitators, 2000 children), India (500 facilitators, 15,000 children)

Progress:

• Rangeet completed a seed round in 2023, raising USD400,000 through SAFE Notes.

• Scaled to impact 4000 teachers, 100,000+ children across India and Bangladesh, in schools and community centres.

• Implemented in rural and urban settings, across different geographical, socioeconomic, language, religious, racial backgrounds and digital divides, working offline.

• Developed digital platform, including RaaS

• 80+hours teaching material and resource bank

• Authored first Wellbeing Curriculum and UN Sustainable Development Goals teaching toolkit for Oxford University Press India for global distribution.

• Developing teacher and adult/youth wellbeing programs

• Summary of Awards and Citations

• Scaling in private school sector

• Tech platform used by US coalition & Indian NGO

• 2024-25 Leading a private/public coalition to impact 5000 teachers,150,000 children.

We have learned the high value of networks like Solve, HundrED.org, LSX, and Jacobs. Solve’s stamp of approval has helped us gain favourable regard and expand our network. 

Qualifying as a 2022 MIT finalist served Rangeet well when competing with well established organisations for CSR funds.  Furthermore, after reviewing Rangeet's Solve submission, OUP approached Rangeet to develop two curriculums and a teacher wellbeing program, earning us the title of being OUP's wellness content partner. 

Our Goals:

• Continuously evaluate whether Rangeet is successfully developing better learners, agency and stewardship at scale using an app in different communities, contexts, languages, regions, geographies.

• Provide evidence that learning outcomes are improving and based on this, influence learning systems.

• Inform how communities can work in collaboration with schools to support learners and share the teaching-learning burden. 

• Help address acute shortages and problems in the education system by enabling anyone to be a part of the teaching-learning process.

• Sound evaluation requires thorough input, ideally implemented through randomised controlled trials, testing efficacy, and the time to evaluate the output generated. This requires networks, collaboration, capital and time.

As we have seen from our Jacobs/MIT Solveathon Award, Solve’s guidance is invaluable and will help us achieve organisational sustainability to achieve our goals.

• Mentorship, expertise, guidance and resources in all areas

• Network we become part of and exposure we receive 

• Collaboration and advice/feedback from experts & peers

(i) Benefit: from information exchange/guidance around sales growth strategies, curriculum, improvement of systematic data collection methodologies, technology, and methods to map Rangeet to core curriculums and test for Rangeet’s efficacy in terms of improving learning outcomes. 

Building our school distribution business has been challenging. We have been plagued by wrong hiring decisions and developing an unworkable model. We quickly pivoted and would be grateful to discuss our learnings and receive feedback/inputs. Also as we scale into different countries we will need to hire internationally. Solve’s network would be invaluable.

The Solve community could help us be on top of the global education research and practice landscape which will help in our learning. The robust and global Solve community of researchers and practitioners will not only help us deepen our impact in India but help us scale in other countries, paving the way for impacting the lives of millions of children who are living in learning poverty.

(ii) Offer: Rangeet captures valuable anonymised data in conformity with EU regulations, through its regular learning/classroom operations. We’re making our data open source for the advancement of learning-science. Where permitted, we’d like to share implementation stories from our communities. It could be useful for solvers to learn from thousands of teachers about their journeys implementing a play-based curriculum which teaches a breadth-of-skills, agency and global stewardship in multiple contexts around the world.

(iii) Collaboration: we hope to form coalitions with the Solver network to test out hypotheses, learning outcomes that will inform how learning systems of the future ought to be built and help create learning equity for all while preparing our youth for the future.

Rangeet harnesses smartphone technology for maximum reach to democratise quality education, impacting not just individual children, but future societies and thinking. Rangeet’s app is facilitator-facing, with teachers/caregivers/community members providing the scaffolding required to develop the breadth of skills required by everyone to navigate daily life. Rangeet's technology has been designed for rapid/continuous experimentation and adaptation, enabling inclusive learning environments. Minimal infrastructure/training makes it easy to adopt and adapt. Rangeet connects ecosystem players to address the concerns of communities.

Rangeet as a Service (RaaS) allows any curriculum developer to digitise, deliver, monitor and measure the impact of their proprietary teaching-learning materials through Rangeet’s app.

LEARNING-SCIENCE BASED APPROACH

• Changes the way children learn, using active playful learning (Brookings Policy 2020, K. Hirsh-Pasek et al) and multiple intelligences to include every learner.

• Teaches a breadth of skills on the path to literacy, agency, wellbeing and global stewardship. Activities mapped to core subjects, skills developed, issues solved, UNSDGs

• Research/experience-based human-centric design

• Structured/codified lessons ensure quality teaching/learning (SDG#4)

• Facilitators develop their own socioemotional skills

• Teachers/facilitators are upskilled pedagogically across subject fields

• Blended approach combines technology with personal scaffolding 

• Enables creation of personalised program, data gathering and testing

ADAPTABLE, INCLUSIVE, SCALABLE

• Affordable. Democratising education in a reliable and effective way

• Can be taught in a classroom/outside anywhere, anytime 

• Easy to follow structured lessons ensure the quality of teaching, enabling anyone who can read to teach.

• Only ONE mobile device required (by facilitator NOT children). Uniquely suited to no/low connectivity/electricity settings where students do not have devices.

• App is facilitator-facing, not adding more screen time for children

• Minimal preparation time and resources  

• Adaptable to cultural contexts and language

• Search function enables flexible/personalised teaching enabling adaptability and inclusivity

• Enables sharing of responsibility between educators and caregivers

• Enables creation of personalised curriculum, data gathering and testing according to learner variability and context

• Is flexible with several options for adoption

• Training provided through in-app tutorials, and if required, remotely or in-person

• Monitoring and support provided on an ongoing basis  

• Rangeet monitoring and training team very lean (ie. 1:500 teachers) due to efficiency of app

• Other than SEEK, any teaching-learning materials can be delivered via RaaS. M&E tools track and evaluate data the organisation wishes include 

RELEVANT 

• Inclusion of ecology is key 

• Has universal appeal - through stories, language or culture, children see reflections of themselves; also acts as a window allowing children to learn about and understand other perspectives and cultures. 

• Applies learning engineering principles to continuously adapt content and tech.

• Improves teacher wellbeing and incentivises/rewards them

MEASURABLE

• Built-in process and mechanism to measure, monitor and assess impact of the program in real-time

• Collects Iterative feedback from facilitators and children

• Customises data gathering

COMMUNITY-LED 

• Empowering facilitators. Allows community members to take ownership of bettering their communities and tackle systemic issues 

SUSTAINABLE 

• Minimal infrastructure/training requirement makes it easy to adapt and adopt

• Rather than a workshop format, SEEK can be taught daily or as an 80+ hour curriculum ensuring sustained impact

Rangeet's Theory of Change

Problems

• Quality education is unevenly distributed, worsened by access issues and learner variability

• Out-dated systems don’t develop vital skills

• Student and teacher wellbeing is low. Heavy workloads and limited professional and psychosocial support lead to low teacher wellbeing and increased burnout.

• Social/climate issues require education and community collaboration

• Climate Crisis leads to: loss of livelihoods, increased human migration and millions out of school; loss of biodiversity, breakdown of ecosystems.

• Education systems don’t adapt easily across language, culture and contexts.

• Scaling programs, including training, support, connectivity, electricity.

• Timely/appropriate measurement & evaluation of such programs.

Intervention

• NGOs, caregivers & private/public schools use facilitator-facing app to implement either 

  • codified curriculum/resources using active pedagogies to: solve issues, teach any subject, develop a breadth of skills and wellbeing, OR

  • Teacher and adult/youth wellbeing program.

• Facilitator submits data

• Web back-end includes data M&E tools that help clients manage implementations, monitor impact using data visualisation tools.

• Outcomes may be customised for implementations/communities.

• Users trained/supported via app to address low digital literacy.

• Adaptable across language/culture-can be taught anywhere, in-person/remotely.

• Works offline

Outputs

• Children/facilitators develop a breadth of skills and wellbeing

• Ecological knowledge: develop a connection with nature/biodiversity; understand the value of ecosystems and their functions; and develop agency/global stewardship.

• Tech development improves adaptive learning, data gathering, visualisation & impact analysis (more efficient, timely, less expensive)

• Implementations in different contexts; open-source data establishes platform for ongoing research

• Pedagogically upskilled educators

• Ensures quality education and learning equity

Short-Term Outcomes

• Teacher/student social-emotional wellbeing. Less teacher burnout.

• Agency around climate change, leading to protection of biodiversity and ecosystems

• Increase in empathy/wellbeing for self, others and all life on earth

• Holistic, collaborative, engaging learning environments

• Reduced teacher burnout

• Better learning outcomes

• Less money spent on remediation, training, supporting teachers

Long-Term Outcomes

• Inclusive learning systems

• Climate action and protection of ecosystems leading to new jobs in the green economy with positive economic/social impact; stabilisation of habitats & extreme climate patterns

• Reduced negative mental effects/increased wellbeing in students and teachers

• More likely to transition effectively into future workforce

• Equitable society

• Economic benefits

• Adaptable to unique needs of education systems

Target Implementations

3years - 125,000 Facilitators, 4,300,000 Children

5years - 150,000 Facilitators, 5,200,000 Children

Goals:

• Democratise quality education

• Change pedagogical principles/methodologies

• Prove efficacy of SEEK

• Improving measurement methods  

• Improve care for teachers 

Rangeet collects data from: 

• Facilitator & student iterative feedback

• Facilitator written feedback 

• Facilitator & student baseline/endline data 

• Facilitator, principal, NGO admin staff interviews

Data reporting helps understand whether students are having fun, understanding and learning. Eg. data helped identify that students in Bangladesh were not identifying with the context of a lesson; baselines identified biases amongst learners & teachers in various Indian states which helped instruct teachers more helpfully. This also informed the design of our app which allows teachers to solve problems (identified through testing) in their context through tagging and search. Rangeet applies learning engineering to continuously improve and adapt our platform and content.

Progress:

• Secured Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) funds from several Corporates to fund implementations in government schools/communities in several states in India, thus forming public-private coalitions to help bypass bureaucratic inefficiencies and disrupt existing systems ensuring target audiences are reached in the most fiscally efficient manner.

• Signed MoUs with state governments to implement in several districts.

• Developed two full curriculums for publisher OUPI, based on Rangeet's SEEK curriculum and resource bank. This is only available to select schools. However, Rangeet's platform is a low-cost solution developed to democratise quality education. We are currently developing a teacher wellness program for OUPI, phase 1 of which will be hard copy journals distributed to teachers. Phase 2 will be wellness materials on Rangeet's app, for which OUP will purchase licences for teachers. 

• Expand our proprietary curriculum and resource bank.

• Mapping of SEEK by external consultant to Indian National Curriculum Framework 2023.

• Testing in various settings and forms (including offline). 

• Apply learning engineering principles to adapt and implement changes, replicating at scale

• Continue to collect data and work with Temple University (Hirsh-Pasek/Elias) and UZH (Dr. Nora Raschle) to study how Rangeet impacts learning outcomes. 

• Entering competitions, holding webinars and workshops to become more visible/relevant with key stakeholders, partners. Rangeet held a Wellness Week with OUP in early 2024. 5000 teachers attended. Teachers emphasised that they too needed help with wellness, that they were burning out. Rangeet immediately started creating such materials. 

• Created detailed teacher resources, documentation, in-app training material.

• The new generation of the app was designed to account for research techniques.

• Contract with US consortium to implement in 4 US states, South African NGO and Indian NGO to use Rangeet's tech platform to digitise, deliver, monitor, measure and evaluate their own curriculums.

• Incentive program for teachers for viewing help videos, carrying out personal wellbeing activities, rewarding streaks (10 continuous days of personal wellbeing which become habit forming), teaching lessons, submitting data.

• Summary of Awards and Citations

All Impact Reports Summary: Implementers’ feedback, including baseline/endline testing.

Rangeet App High Level Functionality:

• Web back-end for admins: subscription management, billing management, notification management; and for curriculum developers, data and reporting tools.

• Mobile front-end for teaching and data collection.

• Teacher incentives/loyalty: points accrual to digital e-wallet for performing wellbeing activities, teaching and data submission. Points redeemed against discount vouchers and certificates (NFT Tokens) which run off the Stellar blockchain.  

(i) Enables any facilitator to develop a curriculum, lessons or activities. In our case, our curriculum developers create the SEEK Umbrellas, Modules, Lessons and Activities using our curriculum editor and tag them in accordance with pedagogical guidelines e.g. skills developed, mapping to core subjects/UNSDGs, problems solved in/out of classrooms and teaching method. 

(ii) Enables facilitators to prepare for and deliver lessons to children. Facilitators are trained and can train others using in-app training material.

(iii) Enables facilitators to use or prepare custom tests - iterative, baseline/endline, collect class data, feedback and subjective feedback suitable for their contexts.

(iv) Communicate with, support and reward facilitators, enable them to collect data from children, iterative feedback/impact data as well as geotagging lessons and verification that lessons have actually taken place. This also helps in keeping records of teachers and children impacted and their locations (which can be anonymised for Child Safety Laws).  

(v) Data Engines allow collection of data at scale, reporting engines allow for graphical representation of the data. Data can be shared to other MIS systems. Data collected helps in identifying and monitoring KPIs for tracking our progress and meeting learning goals.

(vi) Smart Search: Functionality that allows facilitators to find lessons and activities that help them solve issues / develop skills that are relevant / required for their context. Eg. A social studies teacher can find a 5 minute game about pollutants in our neighbourhoods that develops collaboration skills, deals with climate anxiety and develops agency. This enables teachers to deliver relevant and exciting activities and icebreakers in every classroom which have meaning and purpose. Children become emotionally present and ready to learn.

(vii) Subscription management / project design and management / user management / automated billing.  Client admins can purchase pre-set packages from Rangeet, or design customised packages based on their local requirements / teaching staff. 

APP DOWNLOAD

Look for “Rangeet” on the App Store or Play Store Or click on the relevant link below from a mobile device

Play Store- https://bit.ly/3XPFRPc

App Store- https://apple.co/3OWWCUw

Rangeet was included in this Brookings Institution’s November 2022 report that features Digital Tools from around the world that leverage real-time data collection and visualisation in education. Rangeet has been classified under typology D as below - i.e. tools that enable data collection, data analysis & visualisation and enable content delivery. One of only 3 such solutions globally.

Selected testimonials from teachers, researchers,  and NGO partners who have used the Rangeet app successfully in real classroom settings across diverse settings:

“Running a program across various centres located in different geographical areas can prove to be quite a challenge. Rangeet organises all of their content and modules in one very easy to use application. The detailed summary of assessments as well as student feedback makes it very easy for us to monitor their progress and study the impact of the project on our children.”

Dhruv Jayal, Manager IT, Aasraa Trust, India

“Rangeet is a remarkable educational program. Its evidence inspired approach helps children become kinder to themselves, society and the world. Rangeet is also notable for its educational technology. By consulting the Rangeet app, teachers receive an array of instructional resources to promote student learning via hands-on activities. Lastly, Rangeet shows an impressive level of adaptability through its implementation across languages and cultures”

Elias Blinkoff, Department of Psychology, Temple University, USA

“Aasraa Trust has successfully implemented Rangeet, a comprehensive learning system that imparts life skills and values, in Aasraa's 9 government partner schools under its SQEP (School Quality Enhancement Program model). This innovative system has positively impacted over 1500 children and 40 teachers, providing a logically designed curriculum, teaching plans, and assessments. Educationists will find Rangeet to be an invaluable resource, with its user-friendly app and coaching and mentoring support available 24/7. The in-depth guidance and support provided by the Rangeet team have been greatly appreciated by the staff at Aasraa.”

Neelu Khana, Trustee , Aasraa Trust, India

“Rangeet provides different tools that help to effectively communicate with the students and understand things from their perspective.Through some music, fun-filled activities, roleplays etc. it is easy to reach out to every kid in the classroom. The detailed mobile application and well structured lesson plans are easy to implement. Hats off to the Rangeet Team, you are making a difference!”

Seema Venugopal, Principal, Global Public Schools, India

“Rangeet provides teachers with a truly joyful and engaging way of working with children. With lessons focused on mindfulness, empathy, anti-bullying, gender equity and building an appreciation for nature - it enables children to face the world with confidence, and to make better choices, especially in these challenging times. Our teachers and children have thoroughly enjoyed the teaching learning process through this easy and interactive app, which importantly includes impact measurement.”

Kreeanne Rabadi, Regional Director, CRY, India

13 full-time staff

6 years

Two of the three founders, and one executive/stakeholder, are women. 

The team comprises people from varying socioeconomic, geographical and religious backgrounds. However, we are all open-minded individuals who want to make a difference, many having gone to government schools and lived/experienced the issues we tackle in our content eg, discrimination, education inequality, mental health problems.

Between us, we have lived all over the world, from major cities to rural villages, worked in a variety of organisations from NGOs, government bodies and schools to education start-ups, investment banking to film production, law firms, hedge funds and live music venues. This diversity of experience means that collectively we have had many years of meeting and appreciating people from different walks of life and learning to embrace the differences we see in the world, rather than using them as weapons to tear us apart.

We believe that just as biodiversity ensures strength in natural systems, diversity in human systems is an essential requirement for achieving learning and societal equity. And we don't want to create a company that tackles issues that have already been done, but to face up to the issues that are hard to talk about especially in the developing world like LGBTQIA, Body Positivity and Gender.

Our work is all about diversity and inclusion, and we strive to build a world in which nature and society are at peace.

Rangeet operates in an area identified by experts as critical, developing skills children need to thrive. It is affordable by the most marginalised schools/communities.

The Indian government/education boards have acknowledged that education needs to be repurposed for 400million Indian children. In February’23, Brookings CUE proclaimed urgency for the UNSDGs and developing a breadth of skills using active pedagogies. Across India/Global South, in the public/private sector, demand is increasing for programs which measurably prepare children for the future. 

Rangeet is a socially-focused edtech company providing its bespoke curriculum on its own cloud platform. Rangeet charges USD2.50-3.00/child/year, which is significantly less than Governments and educational institutions spend on this sort of education for children. To put this in perspective, India spends USD500, Indonesia USD1,500 and Western Europe in the range of USD10-20k/child per year in public schools. Rangeet’s cost to serve is less than USD1.00/child/year at scale.

I. Government Schools:  Recurring revenue contracts with State Governments, Public Schools, NGOs and Indian Corporates. Rangeet offers a full service: technology platform, curriculum, training and support. Our Go-To-Market involves partnering with Indian Corporates to run 3 year pilots in government schools. Post-pilot plan contemplates statewide adoption with the government taking over costs if the pilot is successful. The government can experiment now at no cost with Corporates spending CSR funds to associate themselves with a state-wide program.

II.    Affordable Private Schools:  400,000 schools in India will be in need of such programs. Given our ability to scale at low cost anywhere, we can deliver value and impact here. Rangeet aims to partner with schools providing its full service offering for long-term recurring revenue contracts. Our Go-To-Market involves digital and traditional outreach as well as conferences and workshops. We have built-out our team to develop our pipeline here. Given the cost to serve customers is low, we are incurring upfront costs before benefiting from long-term revenue streams at high margins.

III. Partnerships:  As demand grows from states and schools, publishers require quality teaching material like Rangeet’s SEEK program, as demonstrated by our collaborations with OUP. Additionally, we are partnering with a UK-based education think-tank to deliver SEEK to state governments in Africa/India and with a South African Teacher Training Institution. NGO partners in India/Bangladesh intend to scale programs in the next 12 months. Currently developing a Teacher/Adult Wellbeing program. We retain all IP and earn royalties.

IV.    Rangeet as a Service (RaaS): Educators are stumbling to build solutions that work; edtech companies are leading with technology rather than solving educational problems. Rangeet’s platform is curriculum-agnostic and fulfils the needs of educators/NGOs who aim to scale their own programs cost effectively. We are delivering value as a technology partner in the US, South Africa and India.

By creating a platform(tech+curriculum) that is modular and flexible, Rangeet is positioned to solve multiple/diverse educational challenges.

Social Business Canvas

Unit-wise plan for financial sustainability

 I.         Government Schools:

Recurring revenues through long-term State Government contracts, CSR programs and NGOs. Rangeet provides low-cost app+curriculum+training+support.

Estimated opportunity at USD30m/year (10m children per state@USD3 per child/year). There are significant tailwinds: National Curriculum Framework (NCF2023) requires implementation of holistic programs developing a breadth-of-skills.

Strong traction across this business line: NGO with funding from a corporate partner in 6 states with discussions to expand engagement; corporate partners funding programs in 3 states; NGO in Uttarakhand expanding engagement.

Our cost-to-serve and go-to-market are low given this is direct outreach and inbound. We are expecting to surpass our revenue expectation for this fiscal year($360k), expecting to be profitable on both P&L and cashflow. 

II.      Private Schools

Aim to penetrate 0.5% of 400,000 schools i.e.2,000 schools with a goal of impacting ~500,000 children.

We’re currently spending on marketing/brand awareness through workshops, teacher engagement. Since launch in March, we have spent ~USD1k to generate 60 leads, 3 of which are hot leads, highlighting the traction we’re getting. Timing is optimal with NCF2023 mandating holistic education/life skills. We will incur significant upfront costs before we generate revenue with low cost-to-serve that should cover upfront costs. Payback period: 9 months. This is expected to reduce.

III. Partnerships:

OUP is distributing our content in print and digital. OUP India’s footprint: 200,000 students (digital), 12.5million students (print). This is in the private schooling space, particularly the top 40,000 schools. Rangeet earns annual recurring royalties on sales. Orders received from Nepal, Middle East; China and Bangladesh have expressed interest. 100,000 books sold in 3 months. Expectation that 700,000-1,000,000 books will be sold in 2024-25. Royalties of USD150,000+ expected. Developing adult/youth wellbeing resources with “Behavioural Foresight” a leading performance and health intelligence company. Rangeet has a revenue stake in this large growing market.

III.     Rangeet as a Service(RaaS): 

Rangeet is working with NGOs/teacher training institutions/tuition centres to provide its platform for their own curriculum use.  

Rangeet is currently serving clients in India, US and South Africa and has built a pipeline of $95,000. Rangeet charges $75 per user/year and the cost to serve is limited, enabling Rangeet to quickly turn profitable after covering its fixed costs.

Funds To-Date

2019: USD65k from BRAC for interventions across Bangladesh.

2021: USD55k - Equitable Classrooms award from the Jacobs Foundation/MIT Solve. This funded compensation and technology platform.

2023: USD400k through SAFE Agreements from investors.

2021-2023: Accrued revenues from NGO partners in 7 Indian states.

2023: USD80,000 through direct investment into programs. We will directly impact 1,000 schools, 2,000 teachers, 60,000 students.

2024: CSR funds spread across 2-3 states to increase our chances of statewide adoption.

Stakeholders benefit: CSR funds large-scale programs in multiple states in a leveraged manner; state government experiments at no cost, children/teachers benefit.

Rangeet earns through licensing its software/curriculum building significant monetisable intellectual property.