Simple Education Foundation

Simple Education Foundation (SEF) is an education organisation that works with government school systems in India. It partners with government institutions, teachers, parents, students and communities to improve teaching and learning in public schools. The team describes itself as having over 50 years of combined experience teaching in classrooms and working inside government school systems. Its approach rests on long-term partnerships with state and municipal education bodies rather than standalone interventions. SEF currently runs programmes in Delhi, Punjab and Uttarakhand.

Headquarters: New Delhi, Delhi, India

Major Areas of Work

• Teacher education: preparing student-teachers and supporting serving teachers in government school systems.

• State system partnerships: working with state education bodies such as SCERTs to strengthen teaching and learning at scale.

• Foundational learning: strengthening primary-grade learning in government schools.

• Community engagement: building relationships with parents and communities around children's schooling.

• Education technology: building technology to support its programmes and partners.

Major Initiatives and Programmes

• Pre-Service Program: a teacher preparation programme run in Delhi with the State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT), Delhi.

• State Programs: partnerships with state education systems in Punjab and Uttarakhand, including SCERT Punjab and the Government of Uttarakhand.

• Sashakt Prathmik: a primary education programme in Uttarakhand.

• Pathshala Learning Centre: a learning centre run directly by SEF for children.

Partners

• Government: Municipal Corporation of Delhi, Government of Uttarakhand, SCERT Delhi, SCERT Punjab

• Funders: Wipro, Max India Foundation, Info Edge, BCG, Acumen, Forest Essentials, Sar-La Education Trust, Lalji Mehrotra Foundation, Padmini VNA, R.G. Scientific, Give, Benevity

• Programme partners: Teach For India, StoryWeaver, Saajha, Haqdarshak, SowGood, People's Archive of Rural India, Voices of Rural India, Adhyaapan, EdZola, Kizazi, Naga Ed

Leadership

• Mainak Roy, Co-founder

• Chandni Chopra, Co-founder and Chief Program Officer

Working at SEF means working closely with government schools, teacher training institutes and state education departments. Staff move between classrooms, government offices and communities, which gives direct exposure to how public education systems in India operate and change. Roles span programme delivery in specific states, teacher education, strategy, technology, communications and community engagement. It suits people who want to improve public schooling from within the system and who are comfortable with the slow, relationship-driven work of government partnerships.