Usha Menon is the founder of Jodo Gyan[1], an Indian non-profit working on education from New Delhi.
Jodo Gyan
Jodo Gyan is a Delhi-based organisation that develops teaching-learning materials and pedagogy for foundational mathematics and early literacy. It supplies kits and classroom resources for pre-primary, primary and middle school, and works with state governments, private schools, NGOs and teacher education institutes. Its numeracy programmes have been adopted by state education departments including Sikkim and the Ladakh administration.
Jodo Gyan reports the following, on its own site:
- Under the Manchadi programme initiated by K-DISC (Government of Kerala), Jodo Gyan's primary mathematics programme was implemented in 400 schools across 4 districts of Kerala in 2025-26 in collaboration with the DIETs.
- In its engagement with Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan schools, Jodo Gyan is running intensive residential workshops across the country with more than 1,000 teachers participating, supported by follow-up online sessions.
- Jodo Gyan's 2013 pilot project covering 481 government schools of Patiala district, Punjab, was extended through an MoU with the Punjab government to cover all 7,624 schools of Punjab, and its Delhi programme now runs in all 451 Sarvodaya schools.
- Organisations
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- Based in
- New Delhi
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- Press
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References
- [1] “Jodo Gyan curriculum is developed by Usha Menon, founder, Jodo Gyan, as part of an effort to make research and new knowledge creation to be rooted in practice.” — Jodo Gyan. Source
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