PragyaPath

SURAAH

PragyaPath

AI meets heart: a simple tool to document and celebrate the many ways children grow in school.

Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India

India

Nonprofit

In rural India, learning is often equated with test scores in literacy and numeracy—narrow metrics that overlook the full spectrum of a child’s growth. At SURAAH, a school serving low-income children in Uttarakhand, we’ve seen that real learning includes curiosity, confidence, emotional regulation, collaboration, and practical life skills. But we lack a way to track and showcase this growth. This problem is widespread. While 98% of children aged 6–14 are enrolled in primary school in Uttarakhand, only 34.5% of Grade 3 children in rural areas can read a Grade 2-level text (ASER 2018). Beyond foundational literacy, there’s almost no system to assess or support social-emotional learning, especially in underserved communities. Globally, UNESCO reports that over 70% of children in low- and middle-income countries cannot read and understand a simple story by age 10. Parents, funders, and school systems rely on outdated metrics because there’s no accessible alternative. Teachers are overburdened and lack tools to meaningfully track holistic progress. This gap leads to poor engagement, missed interventions, and under-recognition of children’s real potential. We aim to solve this by making invisible learning visible—through a low-tech, AI-supported growth dashboard called PragyaPath.

PragyaPath is a low-tech, AI-assisted growth dashboard that helps teachers, parents, and schools track a child’s holistic development—not just marks. It works like this: Teachers enter simple observations and scores through a mobile form, based on rubrics we’ve co-created for academic, social-emotional, and practical skill growth. Using GPT, these notes are transformed into easy-to-understand summaries and visual reports that can be shared with parents through WhatsApp or printouts. Parents see updates like: “Avni showed kindness by helping a classmate with her bag.” “Ravi improved his reading stamina this month!” “Here’s how your child is growing in confidence, curiosity, and collaboration.” Meanwhile, teachers and school leaders get a dashboard view to spot trends, reflect on progress, and simplify reporting for donors or administrators. The tech stack is entirely no-code: Tally or Typeform for data entry Airtable for tracking GPT (via Make or Zapier) for AI-powered summaries Canva + WhatsApp for report generation and distribution This is not another app to download—it’s a smart system built around real-world workflows in rural schools. PragyaPath helps make visible the learning that matters most.

PragyaPath serves children from low-income, rural families in the Himalayan foothills of Uttarakhand—most of them first-generation learners. It also supports their teachers, parents, and—indirectly—donors, partner organizations, and public schools seeking holistic assessment tools. These children are confident, curious, and emotionally expressive, but traditional assessments overlook their full range of growth. Their parents, many of whom work as daily-wage laborers or farmers, value education deeply but receive limited, academic-only updates about their child’s progress. Teachers, while highly dedicated, lack time-efficient tools to track development in areas like collaboration, creativity, and emotional regulation. PragyaPath addresses this by offering teachers a simple way to log observations, which are converted using AI into visual, parent-friendly growth reports in Hindi, English, or Romanized Hindi—delivered via WhatsApp or print. Parents get a clearer, richer picture of their child’s learning journey. Children receive validation for their whole selves—not just their marks. In the long term, this builds stronger parent-teacher bonds, increases engagement, and supports better learning outcomes. The model is designed to scale across low-tech rural schools, enabling more equitable, holistic education across India and beyond.