Dilip Vasu
Leadership with AI. AI Mentor
Mumbai. India
Professional Status
Employed
Available
About Me
With 27 years of dynamic experience in international and Indian education, I am dedicated to redefining school leadership and educational methodologies. My innovative approaches, such as integrating iPads and virtual learning environments, have consistently enhanced student engagement and learning outcomes. As a recipient of the National Award for Excellence in Education and a recognized digital leader, I have served as Principal and consultant, leading transformative changes in school systems. My expertise spans curriculum leadership, teacher training, and leveraging technology to foster a data-driven, empathetic educational environment focused on holistic student development. My commitment extends beyond the classroom to developing international educators and advocating for continuous improvement in educational practices globally.
- A course developer, trainer and Co-trainer for the essential skills courses.
- Served as Principal, Adviser and Teacher in International and Indian board schools for nearly 3 decades and has been a consultant to many schools, conducting professional development sessions on a wide range of topics related to the effective school development, including curriculum leadership. teacher leader strategies, instructional strategies, faculty evaluation and Governance.
- Attended the Training center for international educators workshop by Kelly Armitage
- Teacher Leader Institutes
- A program of the Teacher Training centre for International Educators.
- A School cannot be effective without strong leaders. This course offers participants the opportunity to explore the essential leadership skills and team processes required for the International School.
- Situational Leadership and other prominent leadership models. Crisis leadership and management in the international school context. Effective means of staff motivation. Building effective, impactful teams through the school. Creating a decision-making model that consistently and positively impacts student learning. Applying the extensive knowledge base about team dynamics for all types of school teams.
- Effective communication and how it influences and shapes effective leadership.
- Assessing personal leadership strengths, growth areas and approaches.
- Schools have unique characteristics which compel its leaders to have a sharpened view of the big picture and skill to match. This course offers the knowledge and skills for school leaders to articulate a vision and to design and implement a plan for an effective school that is focused on STUDENT LEARNING. It addresses the "Big Picture" of what schools are and how leaders can optimise conditions to maximise learning through focusing on results.
- Learning Goals: Identify the elements of an effective school that is focused on learning and constantly improving. Develop strategies for bridging from mission, vision and learning principles to day to day efforts decisions. Demonstrate the importance of a systematic process for the collection, analysis and use of data for school improvements. Analyse how schools can be best organised to support learning in areas of teacher configurations and leaderships roles, student groupings patterns, and learning sequences and timing. Apply an understanding of systematic change modes to one's school and determine leverage points. Develop skills in human resource allocation for recruiting, hiring and developing quality staff and in building relationships and incorporating parents into the school culture. Develop strategies for creating an effective professional development program. Deepen understanding about the role of culture and determine leadership activities to build and maintain a strong culture. Apply principles of social justice and anti-racism across all facets of school design and implementation.
- Received National Award for excellence in education installed by the Kanchi Matt. Jagatguru Shankaracharya Jayendra Saraswati. Dec, 2011.
- Certified as DIGITAL LEADER by Eric Sheninger, A digital Award winning principal, Learner, National and International Keynote speaker.
- Certified by The Principals Training Center for International School Leadership for CREATING AND EFFECTIVE SCHOOL by BHAMBI BETTS
- Flat Classroom and Digital Connect Member.
- School ranked no. 13 among all the international schools in India.
- Awarded No. 1 school in MP.
- Certified by Melissa Schlinger as an SEL trainer on Leading Schoolwide SEL: Preparing for the journey ahead.
- Certified by Principals Training Center, Miami as TECHNOLOGY LEADER at the PTC summer Institute.
- Certified by Daniel Goleman on "Essentials of Emotional Intelligence" from the Goleman Institute.
- Certified by WOBI on Emotional Intelligence conducted and certified by Daniel Goleman.
- ISTE Global Collaborator.
- Academy for International School Heads | 110 Breeds Hill Road, Unit 2 | Hyannis | MA | 02601
- Web 2.0 expert.
- Knowledge about setting up International schools.
- Documentation and Policies of IB and CIE.
- Collaborative network across the world.
- examiner for IBDP Business and Management.
- Member of World Flat classroom.
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Attended the following workshops of IB:
IBDP Coordinator workshop face to face and online.
Business and Management Level 3.
Making PYP Happen online.
Pedagogical Leadership workshop online.
Web 2.0 workshop online.
Governors workshop, Shanghai.
Leadership of Heads , Malaysia.
Getting Through the 5 year Evaluation for DP. -
Team Leader of New England Association of Schools and Colleges, Commission on American and International schools abroad for Excellence in International education and school improvement through Accreditation.
Attended a workshop at TAISI Cochin sept. 2012. -
LANGUAGES KNOW: ENGLISH, HINDI, MARATHI, MALAYALAM
Can speak and read these languages. -
Well versed with the continuum of PYP, MYP and DP as all the three
programmes are authorized in the school . - Well aware and experienced with the process of accreditation of CIE programmes.
- Apart from being Head of School worked as DP Coordinator as well as PYP Coordinator.
- Accredited Teacher for World Flat classroom projects of Julie Lindsay and Vicki Davis.
- We live in a world here accelerated change has become the norm. We have a data driven world and information is growing exponentially. The internet has become a utility which is essential for economic prosperity. Our privacy online has shifted to an open public environment and the digital tools we interact with and live by are embedded into our lives 24/7. We are dependent on sophisticated algorithms, smart software, digital devices and environments for both our professional and social lives. The digital world is a seamless part of our daily lives. The challenges and opportunities schools face with this digital narrative are complex and full of possibilities. Schools rely on the leadership to efficiency explore and harness the power of technology to maximise learning, improve teacher effectiveness and reinvent school-wide systems.
- LEARNING GOALS: How can a school principal best harness digital environments and fluency to improve learning for students and staff.
- The impact and role of Digital citizenship and Digital Literacy in schools and its impact on the curriculum.
- CASEL first introduced the term "Social Emotional Learning (SEL) to the educational world.
- Training incorporates all young people and apply the knowledge, skills and attitudes to develop healthy identities, manage emotions and achieve personal and collective goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain supportive relationships, and make responsible and caring decisions.
- Leadership with AI programme to uncover deep conceptual insights and real-world case-based approaches to help improve AI adoption in any business operations. From the boardroom to the sales office and classroom, this programme will shows how to leverage AI to address business needs and get an edge over the competition. From understanding technology to fostering an AI-first culture, this programme takes a data-driven approach to help identify and implement AI technologies to achieve successful results. As we burrow deeper into the era of AI, converge technology and leadership to capture its full value for business.
- The training helps in developing the essential for best self, becoming an outstanding leader, and building high-performance teams.
- Trained by Daniel Goleman, the author and pioneer of EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE.
- A course on social media and public relations from National University of Singapore.
- The social media landscape and where and how social media fits into business environment as well as some social media trends. The relationship between traditional and social media, in particular, the roles that engagement, interactivity and participation play in public relations. How social media can be applied in a particular context – that of crisis communication.
- Integrating Ethics and Empathy in an AI world.
- Leading an AI team.
- Developing Prompts to generate precise outputs from AI Models.
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Marketing in a Digital World and developing a strategy.
- Decision Making and Problem Solving in Organizations.
Head of School
Choithram International
October 2008
to October 2022
Indore
India
- Delegating and working along with PYP, MYP and DP Coordinators .
- Implemented the IBDP programme in the school.
- Set up a team for the Authorisation of the IBDP programme.
- Trained teacher's in the process of Authorisation of DP.
- Made a team to prepare all the documents and policies of the school
Language Policy, SEN policy, Academic Honesty Policy etc. - Trained the staff of PYP and MYP during the 5 year Review of both the programmes.
- Bought in workshop leaders into the school to conduct IBPYP and IBDP workshops.
- Conducted the schools 1st IBDP examination successfully .
- Introduced school into the World Flat Classroom projects across the world.
- Developed a New Boys as well as Girls hostel in the school to cater to demands of expat students.
- Created an ambience wherein we are able to get students from across the world .
- Introduced technology in school by making the whole school WI-Fi thus converting the whole school a tech lab .
- Introduced attendance , reporting etc online.
- Introduced IPads in school from grade 6 thus removing the text books from school.
- Assessments made online.
- Introduced online library concept.
- Produced world topper of IGCSE exams.
- Producing All India toppers in IGCSE and A-Level examinations every year.
- Recruited teachers from across the country to impart the best education possible for students.
- PYP exhibitions always at a different league. The documentary made by grade 5 students for exhibition adopted by CHILDLINE INDIA as its official documentary against Child Labour. It also won the best documentary award in the Bhopal International Film Festival 2012.
- Adopted a village around 20kms away from the school for improving Community service . Student of MYP and DP do lots of community service in the village.
- Tied up with WHO and distributed Solar Lamps in Villages where their is no electricity.
- Introduced Princeton Review in school for SAT trainings.
- Pearsons Testing Center in school to conduct all the test of pearson for all the competitive examinations.
- Set up a Network for all the IB schools in this region, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat.
- Teachers of the school all the time encouraged to collaborate with other IB school teachers to develop and improve their skills.
- Member of SAIBSA, TAISI.
- School the winner of Global top 10 project on world environment day.
- Part of the Marketing and Admin team of the Management.
- Member of Global Education Conference.
- Member of Future of Education.
- British Council.
- Google Professional development team member.
- Foreign Exchange Programmes tie with AIESEC. every year since last 4 years.
- Part of the IB Virtual Community.
- Site Based Co-ordinator.
- Member of National High School Model United Nations, New York.
Send school students of a regular basis to New York UN Head Quarter's . - Apple Inc. Certifies the school as an Apple Distinguished School. There are only 4 ADS in India.
- Trained more than 600 school teachers across the country in conducting online classes during the last summer break. This helped the schools to get ready to start their new academic session online.
- Implemented Social Emotional Learning (SEL)
in the whole school. - Conducted Emotional Intelligence Modules workshop of Daniel Goleman in schools across the country for Teachers and Management level staff.
Head of School
Pailan World School
June 2006
to October 2008
Kolkata
India
- Head of School for the complete school.
- Implemented the IGCSE and A-level programmes as well as the Primary programmes of CIE across the school.
- Trained Teacher's in teaching Methodology.
- Was part of the selection of teachers.
- Had developed and complete system of management in teaching new concepts to teachers and students.
- Was taking care of the Admin. Dept. as well as the Hostel.
Head of Humanities (Business and Management)
Indus International School. Bangalore.
May 2005
to April 2006
- Taught Business and Management and Economics.
Headed the Extended Essay and Internal Assessment of the section.
IBDP examiner.
Co-ordinator
Jain International Residential School.
July 2004
to May 2005
Bangalore
India
- Taught Business studies and Economics for grade 9 , 10 , 11 and 12.
IGCSE and A-Levels. - Implemented the CIE programmes in the school right from authorisation to implementation.
- Trained teacher in implementing the CIE programmes.
- CIE coordinator.
- Worked in initiating the IBDP programme.
Teacher
Podar International School
June 2003
to May 2004
Mumbai
India
- Taught Business and Management for grade 9 and 10 (IGCSE)
and grade 11 and 12. - Was a part of the implementation of the IB Diploma Programme.
Teacher
RIMS International School
June 2000
to May 2003
Mumbai
India
- Taught Business and Management, Economics for Grade 9 and 10 (IGCSE) and also for A-Level students.
- HOD for Humanities Dept.
- Head for planning and developing new methods of teaching for new teacher's joining the school.
- Conducted many seminars in different schools across Mumbai to promote international education.
- Was Member of the teacher Assessment team.
LECTURER
Swamy Vivekanand College
August 1997
to April 2000
Mumbai
India
- Taught Business Studies and Accountancy for 1st year, 2nd year and 3rd year Bcom Students.
- Head of Cultural Dept. of the whole college.
- Member of University of Mumbai council handling Community services.
MA in Education from IGNOU
BEd, IGNOU
Communication in the 21st Century Workplace. University of California, Irvine.
Effective Problem Solving and Decision Making. University of California, Irvine.
Public Relations for Digital Media. National University of Singapore.
Digital Marketing. University of Illinois at the Urbana-Champaign.Academic English: Writing. University of California, Irvine.
THE SCIENCE OF WELL-BEING. Yale University
LEARNING HOW TO LEARN: POWERFUL Mental tools to help you master tough subjects. Deep learning solutions -Harvard.
Introduction to PERSONAL BRANDING, University of Virginia.
BEd, IGNOU
Communication in the 21st Century Workplace. University of California, Irvine.
Effective Problem Solving and Decision Making. University of California, Irvine.
Public Relations for Digital Media. National University of Singapore.
Digital Marketing. University of Illinois at the Urbana-Champaign.Academic English: Writing. University of California, Irvine.
THE SCIENCE OF WELL-BEING. Yale University
LEARNING HOW TO LEARN: POWERFUL Mental tools to help you master tough subjects. Deep learning solutions -Harvard.
Introduction to PERSONAL BRANDING, University of Virginia.
Specialised in Business and Management, Economics and Accountancy.
