Rangeet: Play-Based Teaching

Rangeet is a social enterprise that partners with governments, communities, private and public schools to equip every child, aged 6-16, with the skills essential to thrive. Children enter a richly illustrated world filled with characters, poetry, games, stories, music, experiments, art and craft through our Social Emotional & Ecological Knowledge (SEEK)© curriculum. It nurtures knowledge, voice and agency around wellbeing, societal equity, ecological sustainability and digital citizenship. SEEK™ is delivered through a digital platform that enables teachers and parents to act as agents of change and measure impact. Aligned with global educational frameworks, it can be taught as a stand-alone subject or used to enrich and supplement textbooks. Grounded in the latest international learning science, SEEK makes education both joyful and future-ready. About the App • Facilitators teach, collect and submit data (only one device needed per class) • Designed to work with limited connectivity and electricity • In-app user training addresses low digital literacy • Dedicated 'My Wellbeing' chatbot for conversational support with stress and workload to improve facilitator/teacher wellbeing • Designed with flexibility in mind • The entire SEEK™ curriculum can be taught in a structured manner as a subject, using the app • Facilitators can use the Search function to find specific play-based activities to help teach lessons, develop/infuse skills into everyday classroom life, teach mainstream subjects in a play-based manner and solve issues in their classrooms, family and community • Easy lesson planning with Bookmarks, custom Activity Folders, and personal Sticky Notes • Facilitators can share their screen directly from the app to display created Activity Folders and child-facing resources • Convenient sign-in process with OTP verification via SMS, WhatsApp, and email. • Intuitive user interface and navigation bar for one-tap access to key functions • In-lesson search function and filtered results Recognition Rangeet has been recognised as a United Nations Best Practice for achieving SDGs 4 (access to quality education) and 5 (gender equality); cited as a model for play-based learning and one of the top 3 apps for real-time data collection by the Brookings Institution (USA); adjudged Best Social Enterprise of the Year 2024 by SABERA Awards (India). Rangeet’s “My Happiness and Me”, a Grade 1-8 activity book series on wellbeing published by Oxford University Press (OUP), is the recipient of the OUP Innovation Award 2024. SEEK™ by Rangeet The Social Emotional and Ecological Knowledge (SEEK)© curriculum is Rangeet’s proprietary flagship curriculum designed to help children develop a breadth of skills like communication, collaboration, critical thinking, creative innovation, resilience, growth mindset, confidence and responsibility, and develops better learners, wellbeing, agency and ecological sustainability. Rangeet's curriculum and platform are designed around 13 out of 17 of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs). Each of Rangeet’s activities is tagged based on the particular SDGs it assists the facilitator to teach. Accessing these activities through the curriculum or through search functionality places a powerful SDG teaching toolkit in the hands of facilitators anywhere. The 10 modules are further divided into 130 lessons of 50-60 minutes each, comprising more than 1000 activities which are the unit of teaching / interaction with children. Our three content umbrellas (Self, Society and Ecology) are cross-disciplinary and can be used in multiple subjects. Impact Highlights Improvements in social-emotional skills and agency around climate change/ecological sustainability, classroom engagement, and teacher effectiveness; students demonstrate empathy, resilience, and responsibility and digital citizenship.