Event Overview
Ed Leadership 2025: When Education Becomes PATH — A New Era Begins Lucknow, India | November 26‐29, 2025
City Montessori School, Lucknow, is set to host the 16th Ed Leadership International Roundtable — India’s largest and most influential education leadership conference. This year’s event marks a transformative moment in the way we think about learning, teaching, and the future of education. With a bold new theme centered around the ALfA PATH model, the conference promises to be a global learning lab where innovation meets impact.
A New Vision for Learning: The ALfA PATH Model
At the heart of Ed Leadership 2025 is the ALfA PATH Model, a revolutionary approach to teaching and learning that’s changing classrooms across India. Developed over 2 Decades of research, ALfA (Accelerating Learning for All) enables children to learn three times faster than traditional methods — and with far greater joy and confidence.
Children using ALfA learn to read in both English and their mother tongue, grasp second-grade math concepts, and complete year-long curricula in half the time — all without pressure or rote memorization. The model is currently implemented in over 10,000 schools, with Memorandums of Understanding signed with 35,000 more. Harvard-certified results show that ALfA significantly boosts creativity, collaboration, critical thinking, and confidence in students, while making teaching more effective and enjoyable for educators.
The PATH Movement: Purposeful, Active, Transformative, Holistic
Launched in September 2025, the PATH Movement is a nationwide initiative to reimagine education. PATH stands for:
- Purposeful ‐ Learning that is meaningful and relevant
- Active ‐ Engaging students through participation and discovery
- Transformative ‐ Fostering deep understanding and personal growth
- Holistic ‐ Nurturing the mind, body, and spirit
This movement is not just a program — it’s a philosophy that places the child at the center of the learning experience. It aligns closely with India’s National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 and aims to make education joyful, inclusive, and future-ready.
Dr. Sunita Gandhi: The Visionary Behind the Movement
Leading this transformation is Dr. Sunita Gandhi, founder of the ALfA and PATH initiatives and the Global Education & Training Institute (GETI). With experience studying education systems in over 50 countries, Dr. Gandhi has dedicated her life to making learning more inclusive, impactful, and joyful.
Her philosophy is simple yet powerful:
“Every child can learn — if we change the way we teach.”
Under her leadership, thousands of schools and educators have embraced the ALfA PATH model, making India a global hub for educational innovation.
Rajnath Singh’s Endorsement: “Education Must Be PATH”
Adding national momentum to the movement, India’s Defence Minister and former Education Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Shri Rajnath Singh, delivered a compelling video address in support of the PATH Movement. In his speech, he emphasized the urgent need for a fundamental shift in education, aligned with the vision of NEP 2020.
He outlined the PATH framework and stressed the importance of building 4C skills in students:
- Collaboration
- Communication
- Critical Thinking
- Creativity
His endorsement reinforces the relevance and urgency of transforming education to meet the demands of the 21st century.
More Than a Conference — A Global Learning Lab
Ed Leadership 2025 is not just a conference — it’s a hands-on experience. Attendees will witness live ALfA classrooms, participate in interactive townhalls and D-Talks, and explore scalable teacher training models. The event also features initiatives like Global Dream, a breakthrough in adult literacy that enables reading in just 2‐3 months.
Whether you’re a teacher, principal, policymaker, or changemaker, Ed Leadership 2025 offers a unique opportunity to engage with cutting-edge educational practices and be part of a movement that’s shaping the future of learning.
Join the Movement. Be the Change.
Ed Leadership 2025 invites educators, leaders, and visionaries to come together and co-create the future of education. With the ALfA PATH model leading the way, this event is a celebration of possibility, purpose, and progress.
Foundations
To Flight
Spotlight on Research
Largest FLN & ECCE
Fair
Dr. Sunita Gandhi
Convenor
Former Economist, The World Bank, USA
PhD, Physics, Cambridge University, UK
Founder, DEVI Sansthan, India
Chief Academic Strategist,
CMS, World's Largest School
Join Us in Pioneering Change
With SDG4 deadlines looming, quality education remains out of reach without first solving Foundational Literacy & Numeracy (FLN) and Early Childhood Care & Education (ECCE). We need an inclusive, evidence-based pedagogy‐scalable, holistic, climate-conscious, and ready to integrate into existing systems.
A Global Learning Lab
The launch of the Global Learning Lab is an opportunity to not only witness the new pedagogy in action, but to go back empowered to scale this up in your own contexts.
Universal Literacy
A systemwide implementation of this transformative pedagogy is the surest path to universal literacy and to ensuring that all children receive a quality education within the systems.
We invite your active participation and catalytic role.
Transform Education with ALfA
Be a part of global learning lab
This Global Learning Lab is about action, not just ideas. Discover ALfA – Accelerating Learning for All, a game changing pedagogy backed by unmatched evidence and rapid adoption. Join the movement redefining quality education, where 21st century skills come built-in. Leave ready to transform learning for every child, faster, better, for all.
Create Your Own Research Implementations
Share your transformation story and spread your impact.
Scale-Up ALfA
Expand ALfA in your contexts and witness its profound impact through system-wide implementation.
Become an ALfA Ambassador of Change / Trainer
Transform education in your context by leading and supporting change.
Start your 45 day FLN Research Implementation
ALfA enables children under 10 to master reading, writing, and arithmetic up to 10x faster. Governments are invited to begin a 45-day research implementation to transform foundational learning.
Select geography / school count
Conduct a Benchmark Assessment / Pre-Test.
Train Teachers and FLN Managers, both offline and online.
Print the ALfA materials.
Implement the program for 45 working days.
Conduct a Benchmark Assessment / Post-Test.
Scale-up based on the results.
Fellowships & Awards
Each year, Ed Leadership proudly awards over 100 well-deserved fellowships and awards, fully complimentary, determined by an esteemed international jury. This year, fellowships will be awarded to those individuals who wish to implement ALfA, and awards will be given to those schools that have demonstrated impact supported by data and evidence.
INTERNATIONAL JURY
An international jury will make the selections based on transparent criteria to award between 100 to 200 Fellowships this year depending upon the quality of the submissions.
FELLOWSHIPS
All GETI Fellows are expected to carry out their ideas for change post selection, and to gather evidence of their implementation on a regular basis in an e-portfolio. Evidence includes photos, videos, slide presentations, surveys, pre-and post-intervention data (quantitative, anecdotal and qualitative).
All GETI Fellows with evidence will automatically qualify for the Global Ed Innovator Awards.
Harvard Graduate School of
Education
HARVARD ON ALfA FLN
Policy Pathways for Improving Foundational Literacy and Numeracy in Uttar Pradesh, India
in “Rebuilding Resilient Education Systems After the COVID-19 Pandemic”, March 2023, AmazonChapter 8 of the book by Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), Cambridge, USA, published in March 2023 documents the ALfA program in Shamli, and recommends its widespread adoption in UP.
Chapters 8 also documents results from the ALfA program from a Randomized Control Trial (RCT) conducted in the Shamli district of Uttar Pradesh. The RCT demonstrates a significant effect size of 0.23 for Grade 3 and 0.89 for Grade 5.
Chapter 10 of the same book is about the introduction of ALfA program at the nationwide level in the Republic of Maldives.
On this and next page are some extracts from the chapter on FLN in UP by HGSE.
PUBLICATIONS & MEDIA
A Groundbreaking Pedagogy
ACCELERATING LEARNING for ALL
“A much-needed manifesto for achieving large scale transformation of the global literacy crisis.”ALfA: Accelerating Learning for All breaks the shackles of the industrial education system, revolutionizing the school experience through peer learning and hands-on activities. The ALfA program enables children and adults alike to learn foundational literacy and numeracy in months rather than years. Beyond reading, writing and arithmetic, ALfA builds the crucial life skills of collaboration, creativity, citizenship and character.
Both a classroom guide for teachers and an implementation roadmap for policymakers, this book explores a transformative approach to teaching and learning. Sprinkled with anecdotes from teachers, principals & students, Accelerating Learning for All inspires and equips us to build a better education system.”
DISRUPTIVE LITERACY
”A must read for policymakers and all those associated with the campaign against illiteracy."“Foundational literacy and numeracy are crucial to every person’s wellbeing. A nation’s literacy rate is a key predictor of its social and economic progress. Yet the world still has hundreds of millions of children in school but nor learning the basics, and adults deprived of these foundational skills. Why?
Drawing from remarkable examples of movements around the world, and sprinkled with stories from the authors’ grassroots educational work in the Global Dream Accelerating Learning for All (ALfA) program, Disruptive Literacy is an easy-to-read but hardto-ignore manifesto that will touch your heart and inspire you to action.”
Past Ed Leadership Conferences
2008
Hands-on
Learning
2009
Creating conversations that lead to meaningful change
2010
Come let’s
shape a new
education
2011
Metamorphosis in education
2012
Creating high performance education systems
2013
When the best is not enough
2014
Come let’s shape a new education
2015
Imagine learning
2016
Creating a child-centric education
2017
Creating Spaces for Change
2018
Well-being & Happiness in Education
2019
A Stress Free Education
2021
The Power of Change inspiring the teacher within
2024
Foundations
to Flight
27-29 November 2025Ed Leadership Roundtable
- COME LEARN
- BE EMPOWERED
- LEAD CHANGE
| Ed Leadership | Registration | Accommodation | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Private Schools | 500 | 2000 | Shared Basis |
| General | 500 | ‐ | Not Available |
| lnvited Schools | Free | 1500 | Shared Basis |
| NGO | Free | 1500 | Shared Basis |
| Government Officials | Free | Free | |
| CSR | Free | Free |
*Accommodation available for just 100 people on shared basis