Shaping the future of
Indian education.

The Acres Foundation is a social enterprise with a vision to transform K-12 schooling in India. Our team consists of individuals with exceptional qualifications, rich and diverse experiences in the field, and an unwavering passion for educational reform.

We leverage global evidence-based innovations in teaching, curriculum, professional development, and management; adapting and empirically-validating their efficacy in our schools to create the next generation of educational approaches that work for the Indian context.

Providing powerful, accessible education
that creates changemakers.

Our mission is to establish Acres Foundation (AF) schools as the most effective and efficient schools in the world for empowering students as Changemakers – individuals that are agents of positive change in the world.

A complete ecosystem to generate a research-based framework for 21st century schooling in India.

Decades worth of research studies from around the world are synthesized at the AF Research & Outreach Centre to design key inputs like curricula, teaching practices, and other essential school-level supports necessary for optimizing student engagement, student learning, and financial viability. These inputs are then implemented at AF Exemplar Schools, which are designed to be learning sites for the constantly-evolving AF Gold Standard Framework.
The schools in turn present the AF Research and Outreach Centre with feedback on what works and what it takes to make it work. The learning that is being generated during this process informs curriculum and pedagogy at the AF Centre for Teaching and Educational Leadership whose goal is to design a one-of-its kind professional development system for empowering school teachers and leaders in the use of evidence-based interventions.

Together, these three institutions generate a powerful synergy between theory, practice and research, by feeding each other with problems of practice as well as insights and scalable solutions which are eventually manifested in the AF Gold Standard Framework – a set of research-based indicators of effective schooling that measures the quality of inputs, processes, and outcomes.

Sharing the framework
to extend social impact.

The tremendous amount of learning being generated within the AF network ecosystem is being captured systematically and packaged in a way that can be shared with public and private educational institutions around our sub-continent, through two main avenues – Educational Partnerships and Outreach Projects.

Our values

Our values serve as a compass on the journey towards realizing the ambitious vision of the Acres Foundation. These values have been established through a series of appreciative inquiry interviews and collaborative discussions that involved all team members across all levels of the organization.

Do the right thing
We are transparent and honest with all stakeholders. We aim to do the right thing.
Collaborate
Our strength lies in our team’s social, cultural, and professional diversity. We engage stakeholders in consultation, to leverage unique perspectives before reaching conclusions. We work together because our work is better that way, and the consequences of decisions and actions affect us all.
Trust each other
We believe that all our team members are well-intentioned and capable. We accept responsibility and hold ourselves accountable to being timely and efficient.
Go the extra mile
We are not afraid to go the extra mile. We are a passionate, resilient, purpose driven and determined to undertake our audacious mission.
Be a changemaker
The world has never been better, sure, but there is still room for progress and we want to be a part of driving it. We take risks, think outside the box, and look for innovative solutions to complex problems. We wish to leave the world better than we found it. 
Keep improving
We strive to be better every day, we do not rest on our laurels. We use data to constantly reflect on action, and devise innovative and sustainable interventions to keep improving.