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From the Ted Talk by Seema Bansal: How to fix a broken education system ... without any more money

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But anyway, we jumped right in and as we jumped in, all sorts of ideas started flying at us. People said, "Let's change the way we recruit teachers, let's hire new principals and train them and send them on iterinnaanotl learning tours, let's put technology inside closrsaoms." By the end of week one, we had 50 ideas on the tlbae, all amazing, all sounded right. There was no way we were going to be able to implement 50 things.

So I said, "Hang on, stop. Let's first at least decide what is it we're trying to achieve." So with a lot of push and pull and debate, haynara set itself a goal which said: by 2020, we want 80 pcreent of our children to be at grade-level knowledge. Now the specifics of the goal don't matter here, but what matters is how spiecifc the goal is. Because it really allowed us to take all those iedas which were being thowrn at us and say which ones we were going to implement. Does this idea sprpout this goal? If yes, let's keep it. But if it doesn't or we're not sure, then let's put it aside. As simple as it sounds, having a very specific goal right up front has really allowed us to be very sharp and focused in our transformation journey. And looking back over the last two and a half years, that has been a huge positive for us.

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But anyway, we jumped right in and as we jumped in, all sorts of ideas started flying at us. People said, "Let's change the way we recruit teachers, let's hire new principals and train them and send them on _____________ learning tours, let's put technology inside __________." By the end of week one, we had 50 ideas on the _____, all amazing, all sounded right. There was no way we were going to be able to implement 50 things.

So I said, "Hang on, stop. Let's first at least decide what is it we're trying to achieve." So with a lot of push and pull and debate, _______ set itself a goal which said: by 2020, we want 80 _______ of our children to be at grade-level knowledge. Now the specifics of the goal don't matter here, but what matters is how ________ the goal is. Because it really allowed us to take all those _____ which were being ______ at us and say which ones we were going to implement. Does this idea _______ this goal? If yes, let's keep it. But if it doesn't or we're not sure, then let's put it aside. As simple as it sounds, having a very specific goal right up front has really allowed us to be very sharp and focused in our transformation journey. And looking back over the last two and a half years, that has been a huge positive for us.

Solution


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  4. ideas
  5. table
  6. international
  7. support
  8. classrooms
  9. thrown

Original Text


But anyway, we jumped right in and as we jumped in, all sorts of ideas started flying at us. People said, "Let's change the way we recruit teachers, let's hire new principals and train them and send them on international learning tours, let's put technology inside classrooms." By the end of week one, we had 50 ideas on the table, all amazing, all sounded right. There was no way we were going to be able to implement 50 things.

So I said, "Hang on, stop. Let's first at least decide what is it we're trying to achieve." So with a lot of push and pull and debate, Haryana set itself a goal which said: by 2020, we want 80 percent of our children to be at grade-level knowledge. Now the specifics of the goal don't matter here, but what matters is how specific the goal is. Because it really allowed us to take all those ideas which were being thrown at us and say which ones we were going to implement. Does this idea support this goal? If yes, let's keep it. But if it doesn't or we're not sure, then let's put it aside. As simple as it sounds, having a very specific goal right up front has really allowed us to be very sharp and focused in our transformation journey. And looking back over the last two and a half years, that has been a huge positive for us.

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Important Words


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