Kalpana S

Veteran Principal and a proactive educationist with 20 plus years of progressive experience in instructional design, academic leadership and curriculum development for K-12 education. Highly committed to fostering a positive educational environment, promoting academic excellence and enhancing students’ holistic development and success through strategic planning, dynamic implementation and collaborative partnership. Adept at leading cross functional teams, managing large scale educational initiatives and fostering a culture of continuous improvement & inclusivity to ensure every student receives a quality education.

• Foster parent – student mentorship and retention program: Initiated a faculty-student mentorship program targeting at-risk students, reducing the dropout rate by 30% over 7 years.
• School-wide literacy intervention program: Reading marathon, comprehensively designed targeted reading interventions across all grade levels, improving reading proficiency by 25% at primary levels in an academic year.
• Digital learning transformation: Collaborated with edutech corporates for a school-wide digital learning transformation, implementing interactive smart boards and LMS tools across every classroom, thereby increasing students’ engagement to more than 30%.
• New teacher mentorship program: Designed and launched a mentorship program to support the onboarding and development of new teachers, improving first-year teacher retention by 30%.
• Academic recovery initiative: Curated and launched a school-wide academic recovery initiative program targeting low-performing students or low achievers to improve their grade proficiency by 25% each quarter.

• Good orator - mature, patient, responsible and positive attitude
• Approachable and a positive reinforcer in students behaviour management
• Innovative, passionate and energetic in classroom management
• Maintaining the work ethics and congeniality among fellow workers
• Practicing delegative and participative Leadership strategies with multidisciplinary team
• Professionalism, ambitious and a good vision builder
• Dogged determination and herculean in task accomplishment

• ENGLISH
• HINDI
• TAMIL

Blood Group - B+

Medical Ailment - Nil

Medicine Allergy - Nil

• Date of Birth: 05/27/82
• Nationality: Indian