~ In 2025, 28,000 children in government schools in Mumbai alone will benefit from Rangeet’s Social Emotional & Ecological Knowledge curriculum~
Mumbai: In a partnership rooted in shared values and a deep commitment to holistic education, Rangeet, an impact-first social enterprise, and Pratham Mumbai Education Initiative, one of India’s most trusted education non-profits have joined hands. They are bringing Rangeet’s proprietary digital platform and Social Emotional & Ecological Knowledge (SEEK)© curriculum and teaching resources to government schools in Mumbai.
Till date, Rangeet has impacted 500,000 children across India. In Mumbai, the Rangeet-Pratham partnership started at 10,000 children and is increasing to approximately 28,000 children, 500 teachers and 50 schools this year.
Rangeet helps teachers, parents and community members measurably develop every child with the skills vital to thrive. SEEK develops better learners, leaders and carers by fostering the skills essential to thrive in a world where education is not evolving as rapidly as the jobs of the future.
Founded in 1994 in collaboration with UNICEF, Pratham has long championed the mission of “Every Child in School and Learning Well.” Its approach has always focused on innovative, low-cost, and scalable solutions to bridge learning gaps and make quality education more inclusive and accessible across India, hence fueling the collaboration with Rangeet.
This partnership reflects an important evolution in education: an understanding that academic skills and rote learning aren’t enough to prepare children for today’s complex world of intolerance, changing jobs, climate anxiety and digital addictions. By fostering agency and wellbeing, SEEK helps children build the skills they need to grow into empathetic, confident, and responsible citizens. This is an important moment in education reform because typically change is viewed as the domain of the privileged, which perversely has the effect of widening inequities. Rangeet specifically designed its platform listening to thousands of teachers to work in all contexts so that any child, anywhere and at any time benefits.
“We’re delighted to collaborate with Pratham, an organisation whose work we’ve admired for years, and from whom we have much to learn,” said Simran Mulchandani, CEO & Co-Founder at Rangeet. “We’ve heard wonderful stories from Rangeet classrooms around the country, including young boys standing up for the rights of women in Uttarakhand; children campaigning for water conservation in Rajasthan and increased attendance in Jharkhand on Rangeet days. Success for us will be hearing many more such stories and at scale.”
“We have collaborated with Rangeet for the last one year,” said Pratham founder Farida Lambay. “The children in the schools we work at are busy, as their goal is academic excellence, but Rangeet and Pratham attempted to make the children happy, inculcate values and make them thinking human beings. What we want is that our children be future-ready, equipped with skills of self-care and a caring attitude.”
Over the past year, teams from Rangeet and Pratham have worked closely in Mumbai:
● Identifying and onboarding schools across Mumbai
● Conducting in-person teacher training sessions on how to use the Rangeet app and deliver the SEEK curriculum
● Coaching teachers through ongoing classroom visits
● Encouraging teachers to input real-time data through the app to measurably track progress
Teacher training sessions—typically lasting 1–2 hours per school—go beyond app navigation. They focus on why SEEK matters, how children learn best through guided play, and how teachers can support that journey in their unique classroom settings. SEEK can be taught anywhere, at any time, by anyone.
The feedback from educators and students alike has been overwhelmingly positive. In one school, a teacher shared, “SEEK helps to advance social values in a broad spectrum in our students.” The Principal of a different school agreed and went on to say: “Rangeet is helping children nurture these values and we’re starting to see the positive impact of this in the kids.”
One student proudly told a story after undergoing a few SEEK lessons about gender equality: “After learning about how girls and boys are equal, I went home and after I told my father, he understood what that meant and he has started helping my mother out at home!”
Students have embraced the curriculum with enthusiasm, engaging in storytelling, role-play, games, discussions, design-thinking and team activities that help them learn skills like emotional resilience, communication and critical thinking, while exploring topics like mental health and climate change.
A hands-on approach—from regular classroom observations to coaching for teachers—ensures that the curriculum is not only delivered consistently but also tailored to meet the specific needs of each school and child.
Looking ahead, Rangeet and Pratham are committed to strengthening and expanding this alliance across Maharashtra with the shared belief that true learning isn’t just about information—it’s about transformation.
About Rangeet:
Rangeet is a digital platform that helps teachers, parents and community members measurably develop every child with the skills vital to thrive. It prepares learners for the future by fostering agency around wellbeing, equity, ecological sustainability and digital citizenship using a play-based curriculum.
Education is solving the problems of a previous generation, not preparing children to meet the needs of the future. Children who have skills like creativity, critical thinking and resilience become better learners, problem solvers and engaged members of society which results in high levels of wellbeing.
Wellbeing is connected to the actions we can take to address: our physical, emotional and mental health; mindful and safe digital practices; the fairness we see in the world; and the climate crisis.
