As the Sri Sathya Sai Schools integrate the transformative and holistic curriculum, a natural inquiry arises: what progress has been made in cultivating human values and to what extent have the objectives been achieved. When a school adopts a new input in the curriculum, it is natural to be anxious to know what areas and to what extent has the curriculum achieved its objectives.
The underlying conviction of the Sri Sathya Sai Educare Curriculum is that good behavior in life is an Evidence of blossoming of human values within. The objective of Accreditation is to motivate all Sathya Sai Schools in India, to ensure that they promote a healthy and sacred environment which reflects the schools’ mission and develops leadership skills, knowledge, insight and attitude, to provide clear educational direction in order to promote value-based curriculum.
It is to be ensured that all those associated with the Sathya Sai schools – students, teachers, parents and the management, are attuned to the philosophy and practice of Sathya Sai Educare curriculum. Accreditation provides direction for the future, so that the schools satisfy the minimum requirements of standards through a normalized procedure of training, implementation and assessment. It formulates a Quality Assurance Benchmark.
The outcome of this Standardization, Assessment and Accreditation would provide enrichment inputs and guidelines for creative, intuitive and innovative practices in schools so that they become and remain models of excellence in India.
Accreditation is a process to strengthen, sustain and ensure quality enhancement at all levels of the school education by the combination of in-house and external assessment. It aims at evolving initiatives for continuous improvement and implementation of the goals and objectives of the school to its very best.
In the 6 th National Convention held in 2022, a decision was taken to form a structured process whereby Accreditation 2.0 schedule of the schools under Sri Sathya Sai National Council for Schools, would be implemented smoothly.
A revised document titled as Accreditation 2.0, after exhaustive review of the scheme, criteria, questionnaire and adding more content, was prepared and placed at the Lotus Feet of Bhagawan Baba. In pursuance thereof, accreditation is proposed to be carried out in all Sathya Sai Schools registered under Sri Sathya Sai National Council for Schools in a phased manner.
If any school shows interest in the Sathya Sai Schools system and in adopting the Sri Sathya Sai EHV curriculum, following procedure must be adopted:
Assessment of the school is directly dependent upon conviction of the Visiting Team that the Sathya Sai Education curriculum is leading to blossoming of excellence among the students of the school. This can be best achieved by integrating values in all dimensions of the school activities – scholastic, co-curricular and administrative.
The criteria selected for this purpose have been communicated to all the Sathya Sai Schools during the teacher training courses. They are reiterated below: