“Regard man as a mine rich in gems of inestimable value. Education can, alone, cause it to reveal its treasures, and enable mankind to benefit therefrom.”
We can help Schools do more!
Education is the most powerful force for empowerment—but only when it nurtures the physical, intellectual, emotional, social, and moral potential of students. While academic excellence is a priority for most schools, they also strive to develop essential life skills through co-curricular activities, sports, and creative programs. However, in the process, schools often find limited time to fully prepare students for the life ahead.
The formative years of schooling offer a brief yet crucial window to equip children with the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values they need to lead successful, meaningful lives. Education should not be about preparing students for exams alone—it should prepare them for life. Yet, this requires more than what schools and teachers can often provide. That’s where we step in—to help bridge the gaps.
AMHARTA Educare’s approach aligns with the National Education Policy (NEP 2020) and the National Curriculum Framework (NCF 2023), ensuring students receive a well-rounded, future-ready education. We work directly with schools to help them translate these national recommendations into practical, classroom-based strategies. Our aim is to foster deeper student engagement, stronger teacher capacity, and a school culture rooted in values, equity, and excellence.
Our Programs
Prepare 4 Life: Beyond Exams, Toward the Future
The true purpose of school is to prepare children for life—not just for exams. When schools lose sight of this larger mission, they often become narrowly focused on academic performance, grades, and syllabus completion. As a result, critical life skills and core values—essential for navigating the world beyond school—are overlooked.
At AMHARTA Education, we believe that preparing children ‘4’ life means working simultaneously on four interrelated fronts. These areas align closely with the recommendations of the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, and together, they help schools reorient toward holistic, future-ready education:
1. Course Content
Learning materials must be activity-based and designed to foster conceptual understanding. This moves children away from rote memorization and enables them to genuinely grasp what they learn, making education meaningful and applicable.
2. Pedagogy
Teaching methods should go beyond textbook dependency. Children thrive when they engage in Cooperative learning (working in pairs or small groups), open-ended inquiry, experiential learning, and project-based exploration.
3. Classroom Management
Effective learning requires a supportive and inclusive classroom environment. We promote humane and innovative management practices that foster focus, respect, active participation, and improved learning.
4. Role of the Teacher
The teacher’s role must evolve from that of an instructor to a facilitator of learning. Reducing teacher talk-time and over-explanation creates space for children to express themselves, explore independently, and become active participants in their own learning journey.
When schools embrace these four dimensions, they prepare children not only to succeed in academics but to thrive in life—with confidence, values, and the ability to adapt to a rapidly changing world.
Delivered as in-person sessions within regular school hours, these programs introduce innovative and effective educational practices along the four domains mentioned earlier, providing practical strategies that help educators create engaging, impactful learning environments.
By bridging the gap between traditional teaching methods and future-focused learning, AMHARTA Educare helps schools and teachers nurture students with the capabilities they need to lead successful, meaningful lives.
Effective leadership is central to transforming schools into vibrant spaces of learning and growth. Our work with school leadership teams focuses on two core areas:
1. Reorganizing schools in Line with the 5+3+3+4 structure, sand to empower section heads to plan and implement developmentally appropriate strategies.
2. Cultivating a school environment that supports optimum learning.
AMHARTA’s Academic Support Program empowers teachers with innovative, effective strategies for teaching key academic subjects, and STEM education.
By fostering critical thinking, problem-solving, creativity, and collaboration, the program helps students grasp concepts deeply the first time—minimizing the need for excessive revisions before tests and exams.
The NEP 2020 has redefined the starting point of formal education, bringing preschool into the mainstream and establishing a new Foundational Stage from Nursery to Grade 2 (ages 3–8). At AMHARTA, we help schools restructure these critical early years with developmentally appropriate environments, play-based pedagogy, and a strong focus on Foundational Literacy and Numeracy—ensuring joyful beginnings and lasting learning outcomes.
Real change in education begins with empowered teachers. At AMHARTA, we support teachers in moving beyond traditional practices to adopt experiential pedagogy, joyful classrooms, and responsive assessment—through training and mentorship across key domains of classroom management, pedagogy, and assessment, backed by a deep understanding of their classroom realities.
An important endeavor at AMHARTA is the help that we provide schools for implementing meaningful programs in moral and values education which aren’t just taught but are lived.
Our approach is deeply rooted in Peace Education, for training children to become Peacemakers—equipped to prevent and resolve conflicts with necessary values, attitudes and skills. In today’s polarized world, this is not just relevant—it is essential.
We support schools in building constructive, trust-based partnerships with parents, encouraging them to become allies in their children’s education by promoting cooperation over competition, modelling positive values, and fostering a home environment that aligns with the school’s vision for holistic development.
For details of teacher-training interventions currently being offered, download the list of training modules here:
Our Team
AMHARTA Educare is served by a growing team of experienced, skilled and motivated individuals for delivering its programs.
Payam Shoghi
Founder, and Director of Pedagogy & Training
Neda S. Mihrshahi
Executive Director and Chief Academic Officer
Lua Poorekhorsandi
CEO and Chief Technology Officer
Pezhman Singh
Director of Marketing and Outreach
What schools say about us !
At AMHARTA Educare, we are proud of the positive impact created in the schools we’ve partnered with—and grateful for the trust they’ve placed in us. Here’s what some of them have to say about their experience working with us.
Mr. Payam Shoghi conducted a workshop on “Collaborative Learning” for over 50 teachers of our school. His workshop has brought home to all of us the need to bring collaborative practices into our schools and classrooms in an increasingly cut-throat competitive world.
Mrs. Jyotsna Brar
Principal
Welham Girl’s School
Dehradun
Mr. Shoghi has a pleasant versatile personality He relates ideas to day to day life by giving thought provoking real life instances. He is able to retain the interest of the participants for long periods of time. He has a positive approach to individual opinions, is open to new ideas and appreciates inputs from the participants.
Dr. A. H. Mehrassa
Principal
New Era High School
Panchgani
The training offered by Payam Shoghi and his team was of invaluable assistance in helping our teachers to refine their skills in developing more effective strategies for classroom management and to promote positive student behaviour.
Ian Bailey
Director
The British School
New Delhi
The work led by Mr. Shoghi has provided the school with a compelling vision for its future development, and a practical, actionable roadmap for improving the quality and relevance of its educational activities. The teachers have greatly benefited from these interventions, reporting increased confidence, greater clarity in their teaching practices, and renewed motivation to create more engaging and meaningful learning experiences for their students.
Mrs. Zena Sorabjee
Founder
Brilliant Stars School, Udaipur
Tripura
Mr. Payam Shoghi’s workshops were a perfect blend of theory and practice, delivered with clarity, enthusiasm, and deep educational insights. We are grateful for the opportunity to learn from him and look forward to applying the knowledge and tools he shared with us. It was truly a transformative experience for all who attended.
Dr. Swapnil B. Nirmal
Principal
Motiwala College of Educational
Sciences, Nashik
Throughout the academic year, our educators have implemented several cooperative learning structures introduced during the training. The training has played a key role in building our educators’ confidence in using Cooperative Learning strategies and has equipped them with practical tools to promote teamwork, active participation, and deeper learning. We look forward to continuing to strengthen the cooperative learning culture across our classrooms.
Tarun Joshi
Chief Executive Officer
Ashraya Foundation for Children
Pune
Get in Touch
We welcome individuals and institutions who resonate with our mission to transform education in meaningful ways. Whether you’re a school looking for professional support or an individual seeking to contribute, AMHARTA Educare would be glad to hear from you.
For Schools, please feel free to reach out if you are a school leader or educator looking to:
- Train teachers to align with the NEP/NCF recommendations
- Improve classroom practices, curriculum implementation, and assessment strategies, or
- Partner with us for long-term, systemic interventions to raise the overall quality of education in
we offer:
- Customized in-person and on-site teacher training programs
- Academic and strategic consultancy service
- Hands-on support for the implementation of foundational reforms that place children’s learning and well-being at the centre.
We work with schools across India – government, aided and private – and are committed to solutions that are context-sensitive, sustainable and impactful.
