Three cohort experiences for in-service teachers, aspiring educators, and college faculty, all designed by an educator, all built around classrooms you actually teach in.
Most certifications don’t change how you teach on Monday morning. Most workshops are designed by people who haven’t been in front of a classroom in years. Most professional development happens to teachers, not with them.
We’ve watched this from inside Indian classrooms for eight years. We built our cohorts to do the opposite.
Educator-led, classroom-anchored, and small enough to actually know each other.
A five-day residential certification programme for educators ready to bring creative thinking into their classrooms. Hankernest's first official educator credential.
For in-service school teachers and aspiring teachers who will run, manage, or join a school's Atal Tinkering Lab or Composite Skill Lab. Practical, classroom-ready, mandate-aligned.
A working-vacation cohort for educators and college students who want time, space, and other thoughtful people to explore making, design, and pedagogy. Open to teachers and students alike.
Not a slogan. A working framework you can apply to lesson planning, project design, and how you watch your students.
Specific facilitation techniques you can drop into the lesson you’ll teach next week. We design these together; you leave with your own version.
Most teachers stop reflecting on practice because there’s no time. We build you a lightweight reflection rhythm that fits inside an actual school week.
Maybe the most underrated part. The people you sit next to during the cohort become the people you message when something works or breaks at school.
The Founding Cohort and ATL & CSL Management Training both come with a Hankernest-issued certificate. Most CBSE-affiliated schools accept these as PD hours. We can also issue a customised letter for your school’s HR if needed. Write to us before you enrol if you want to confirm.
Both. Our cohorts deliberately mix in-service teachers, aspiring teachers, and the occasional college faculty. The conversations are richer when the room has a range of experience. We don’t run beginner-only or expert-only batches.
The pedagogy works regardless of board. The CBSE-specific elements (CSL preparation, ATL implementation, Skill Education frameworks) are most directly useful to CBSE teachers, but the underlying craft — creative thinking, classroom design, project facilitation — transfers to ICSE, IB, state board, and international schools.
Yes. Schools that sponsor three or more teachers on the same programme receive a 10% institutional discount. We’ve worked with schools that send a small group and then design follow-on classroom support around what their teachers brought back. Write to us if you’d like to do this.
The Founding Cohort is broader — it’s about you as a creative-education practitioner, regardless of the lab you teach in. The ATL & CSL Training is narrower and more operational — specifically how to run a tinkering or composite skill lab. Some educators do both. Most do one.
No pressure to enrol. Just a conversation about where you are in your teaching, and whether one of these programmes fits where you want to go next.
