India's Largest Open Knowledge Sharing Initiative for Schools.
Share one idea. Inspire a thousand schools. Help every child flourish.
Bring your 5%. Take back everyone else's.
Every school has mastered something. No school has mastered everything. If every school openly shared just five percent of what it has learnt, the entire education ecosystem would become stronger.
That is the whole idea, and it is deliberately modest. We are not asking any school to reveal how it operates, or to hand over its advantage. We are asking for one practice. The five percent it has genuinely worked out.
Five percent is achievable in any school, at any budget, in any city. Alone it is quiet. Aggregated across hundreds of schools and made searchable, it becomes an education system that teaches itself.
A competition produces one winner and many losers, and losers do not return. An open knowledge initiative produces contributors, and contributors come back every year with something new.
| We don't say | We say | Because |
|---|---|---|
| Competition | Showcase | Nobody is competing |
| Entry | Contribution | They are giving, not applying |
| Winner | Selected for National Showcase | Selection, not victory |
| Judges | Selection Panel | They curate, they do not rank |
| Speakers | Founding Contributors | Permanent, not one day |
An open call to every school in India to share one practice that works. Submissions are free, the format is light, and everything shared enters a permanent, searchable, public library.
One practice, one submission. What the problem was, what they did, what changed.
Ten submissions are selected for the National Showcase. Every valid submission still enters the Library, selected or not.
Five minutes each. TED format. Problem, idea, implementation, results, takeaways. Travel and accommodation for presenting schools are covered by TSOI.
Each presentation becomes a case study, a website feature and a permanent Knowledge Library entry, distributed on TSOI's own channels.
Searchable by subject, by challenge, by school type. Free to every school in India, forever.
Broad enough that every school finds a home, specific enough that submissions are comparable. Category F exists because the best ideas rarely fit a box.
Anything that changes what happens for the child.
How the adults in the building work, lead and relate.
The unglamorous machinery that decides whether everything else works.
Tools genuinely in daily use, not pilots or plans.
What the school does beyond its own walls.
Something nobody has thought of.
Ten schools are selected each year. They are not winners, because nobody lost. They are the schools whose contribution the panel chose to put on the national stage.
Signed by the Advisory Council.
Main stage, in front of the full delegate room.
TSOI covers the cost of getting the presenting school to the Summit and putting them up for it, so selection is never limited by a school's ability to pay to attend.
'National Showcase School 2026' for the school's own website and admissions material.
A permanent, credited page — the long-term asset the whole initiative is building toward.
Included in the compendium of practices.
Website, YouTube, LinkedIn. The video asset is the edited Summit stage recording — there is no separate professional video shoot at each school.
TED format. No slide overload, no institutional preamble, no thanking the management. Five minutes, five beats, then off.
What was not working. Be specific and honest.
What you decided to try.
How you actually did it, including what went wrong.
What changed. Numbers if you have them, observation if you do not.
What another school should know before trying this.
Each presentation becomes a case study, a website feature and a permanent Knowledge Library entry, distributed on TSOI's own channels.
Downloadable, structured, citable.
The edited Summit stage recording.
Permanent page in the Knowledge Library.
Distributed where school leaders already are.
This is the part that matters most, and the part that nobody else can build. A free, public, searchable library of proven practice from real Indian schools. Not theory, not consultancy output, not a ministry framework. Practice that worked, documented by the people who ran it.
Full credit, permanently.
So schools can find comparable contexts.
The individual who built it, named.
So the conversation can continue directly.
Watch it in six minutes.
Take it into your next leadership meeting.
Complete the submission form. It takes under half an hour, and everything you share enters the free, public Knowledge Library.
Open the Submission Form →Seven criteria, applied by a selection panel drawn from the Advisory Council and category specialists. The panel curates; it does not rank.
| Criterion | What the panel looks for |
|---|---|
| Impact | Did something measurably change for children, teachers or the school? |
| Innovation | Is this a genuinely different way of doing it? |
| Replicability | Could another school actually do this, with the resources they have? |
| Evidence | Is there proof, in any form, that it worked? |
| Scalability | Does it hold up beyond one classroom or one year? |
| Presentation | Is it explained clearly enough to be useful to a stranger? |
| Originality | Is this the school's own work? |
Written plainly, because schools will read them and they need to trust what they are agreeing to.
| When | What happens |
|---|---|
| 12 September | Contributions open. Announcement across all channels and school networks. |
| 12 Sep – 3 Oct | Open window, roughly three weeks. Rolling promotion, category spotlights. |
| 3 October | Contributions close. |
| 4–10 October | Panel evaluation. Category specialists score, Advisory Council reviews. |
| 12 October | The ten National Showcase schools announced. Every contributor notified and credited. Travel and accommodation arranged for the ten selected. |
| 12–28 October | Selected schools briefed and rehearsed. |
| To be announced soon | The 5% Showcase at the Summit. Ten presentations, depending on a confirmed slot. |
| November | Knowledge Library goes live. All assets published on TSOI's own channels. |
That is the question this entire initiative rests on. A principal can answer it in one sentence, which is exactly why contributing feels small enough to actually do — and why, done well, this becomes something no consultant, ministry or conference can replicate: a library of what actually works in Indian classrooms, built by the people who made it work.
