Every learner deserves to be seen, trusted and grown.

Manifesto for Agile Education

We are uncovering better ways of discovering learning
for students, teachers, professors, and others,
by doing it and helping others do it.
Through this work we have come to value:

• Adaptive learning approaches overrigid traditional approaches
• Agile learning culture overcomprehensive content
• Healthy collaboration overunhealthy competition
• Feedforward overfeedback

That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more.

• Satyavrat NiralaChief author
• Preety ChetryPrimary flag bearer
• Naveen Babu GarikapatiPrimary flag bearer
• Willy Wijnands
• Sumara Dilpazir
• Ricardo Vercesi
• Tauseef Baig

© 2017–2026, the above authors/flag bearers of this declaration give consent to freely copy the values and principles in any form, but only in its entirety through this notice.

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In real classrooms since 2018. See the evidence

• Six Principles of Agile Education
• Early adoption in the classroom, 2018Photographs from the first programme
• The research: HCI framework and CISIdeated by Satyavrat Nirala
• Essays by the chief authorFive essays, beginning with Education and Respect for Women
• ArticlesChildhood, screens and human judgement
• Svadhyaya, the manifesto in practiceNow live, for learners aged 6 to 14
• In the mediaCoverage in English and Hindi
• About the Manifesto and its Authors
• Questions and answersWhat it is, who wrote it, how values and principles relate
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