Creating joyfully challenging classrooms. Building school systems that sustain them.

Seed2Sapling is a multi-year academic partner for schools. We work alongside school leadership on learning culture, teacher mentoring, end-to-end competency-based curriculum, assessment design, implementation support and experiential learning spaces all through one team. Our co-founders served on the NCF National Focus Group and are part of the National textbook curriculum development team.

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Ever wondered why water narrows as it falls?

50+ schools
95%+ renew every year
Founded by researchers from IISc Bangalore and NUS Singapore

A classroom discovery of evaporation

The teacher wiped the blackboard clean with a wet cloth as the class began. She paused dramatically, pointing at the slowly drying board.

Where did the water go?

“Yes, but where did it go?” she probed further.
Did it seep inside the board?
Did it just vanish? How can we find it out?

That single question changed the energy of the class. Teacher facilitated student designed investigations that led the classroom to discover-

Where did the water really go!

Children crowding at the blackboard, peeping behind it to find where the water went

"Earlier, I believed my role was to explain concepts clearly. Now, I begin with a story or puzzle that sparks curiosity and let children explore. I have shifted from being the giver of knowledge to being a co-explorer. The classroom is no longer quiet note-taking but buzzing questions, lively debates, and small discoveries."

Snehal Bhumkar, Kaveri Group of Schools, Pune

Cover of the resource: Learning Division the Anubhooti way.

Learning Division through Inquiry

How can a simple exploration help children discover multiple methods of division?

A free 32-page resource for teachers: a real classroom's journey through division, where children build their own strategies before the algorithm ever appears, and the Anubhooti textbook pages that go with the story.

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What partner schools say

"I can vouch for the immense changes that this team has brought, with their willingness to challenge traditional teaching and learning methods and in the process have empowered both the teachers and the students. The technique of creating curiosity, questioning previously held beliefs and testing the accuracy of established truths through exciting but rigorous procedures has propelled both the teachers and students on a path of discovery."

Anita Manoj, Principal, Vidyaniketan School, Hebbal, Bangalore

"It equips teachers not just to teach science, but to help students do science."

Anushree Gandhi, AVP Education Leadership, Lodha World School, Mumbai

"What I really like about S2S is that we have the right to be wrong. There is no inhibition. Kids feel free to share even a small observation, because you have taught us to encourage every answer."

Anneka, Middle School Coordinator, Corpus Christi School

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Some of our partners

50+ schools across India. 95%+ renew, year on year.

Institutions and initiatives

Indian Academy of Sciences
Agastya International Foundation
PM eVIDYA
Param Foundation
The Academy Trust

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Map of India with circles marking our partner schools; larger circles mean more schools in that city. — Where our partner schools are.

Researchers who became educators

Seed2Sapling was founded in 2018 by researchers from IISc Bangalore and NUS Singapore who wanted to know what a science book would look like if it began with a question instead of a definition. Our founders have also contributed to national curriculum and textbook development through NCF focus-group work and NCERT textbook-development and review teams. We are now a team of 40+ passionate educators.

More about us and the team

One academic partner for the whole school

Leadership

Visioning and goal setting
Mistake-friendly enabling culture
Impact tracking and review
Parent engagement
Teacher recruitment and onboarding
Admissions process redesign

Teachers' mentoring

Dialogue on Learning: CPD workshops
Teachers' PCK competency assessment
Pedagogical mentoring and conceptual depth
In-Classroom Learning and Reflection

Curriculum aligned resources

Experiential learning textbooks
Ponderbook (pedagogy and assessment tool)
Exploratory materials and kits
Interactive teacher resources
Complete Early Years curriculum

Assessment strategies

Competency-based question bank
Question paper review
Baseline and endline
Holistic Progress Card

Learning spaces

Math Lab
Tinker Den
Life-sized installations
Garden Learning Lab
STEM Discovery Lab
Integrated Learning Studio

Student experience

Student clubs
Gardening, robotics, computational thinking and AI
Maths and science tinkering, design thinking
Paper explorations, kolams and rangolis, cooking
Music, folktales, weather investigations
Inquiry and research, creative reading, and more

Learn2Learn Comprehensive School Partnership Program, our signature programLearn2Learn works with multiple stakeholders in the school, leadership, teachers, students and parents, and brings curriculum, assessment, teacher mentoring, and leadership and culture work together for whole-school transformation.

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