Before your visit

Before you choose: what will you compare?

Seventeen short questions, about nine minutes. They help us make your visit useful. There are no right answers. Please answer all seventeen.

About you

Your child's age
Which programme?
How are you choosing a school?

Your child's teachers

1. Think back to your own school. What stayed with you?

Why we ask: On reading and maths, RAND's summary of the research says teachers "are estimated to have two to three times the effect of any other school factor, including services, facilities, and even leadership." Source: RAND Corporation, Teachers Matter.

Here: The people Dr. Maruti Sharma trains most often are not his Fortune Global 500 clients. They are your child's teachers. Twice a day.

2. Your child will copy one adult for most of the day, the good habits and the bad. As you compare schools, what must that adult have?

Why we ask: Children copy what they see. In one study, four-year-olds who watched an adult sort objects by weight were more likely to sort them that way too, and "generalized to a novel set of objects with no further demonstration". Source: Wang, Williamson and Meltzoff, 2015, Frontiers in Psychology.

Here: Our teachers meditate, do yoga and read. During the day they take no sugar and use no screens.

3. If your child were upset in a full room, how long before an adult noticed? In the schools you are comparing, how many children share one teacher?

Why we ask: A 2014 review of the research found that "class size is an important determinant of a variety of student outcomes". Source: Schanzenbach, 2014, Does Class Size Matter?, National Education Policy Center.

Here: Five children to one teacher.

4. Would the person in charge know your child by name? At the schools you have visited, did you meet that person?

Why we ask: The Wallace Foundation's summary of a 2004 research review: "School leadership is second only to classroom instruction in school-related impacts on student learning." Source: Wallace Foundation, How Leadership Influences Student Learning.

Here: Shilpa Gupta is at UOL Kids every day. Dr. Maruti Sharma spends time with the children himself. More importantly, he gives at least an hour every day to training your child's teachers.

Your child's day

5. Besides you, whose face does your child see most on a weekday?

Why we ask: A review of the research on preschool found that "the most important aspects of quality in preschool education are stimulating and supportive interactions between teachers and children". Source: Yoshikawa and others, 2013.

Here: Our teachers train with Dr. Maruti Sharma twice every day.

6. Your child gets a fright. In the first second, what do they do?

Why we ask: Small children read the adults near them before they decide how to feel. In one study, "The toddlers showed increased fear and avoidance of the objects following negative reaction from their mothers than following positive maternal expression." Source: Dubi and others, 2008.

Here: Our teachers practise this every day: showing calm in small ways, many times, so that a child can copy it.

7. On a normal day, how much of your child's waking time goes to a screen?

Why we ask: For children aged 3 and 4, the World Health Organization advises: "Sedentary screen time should be no more than 1 hour; less is better." Source: World Health Organization, 2019.

Here: There is no screen in any room.

8. How often does your child have sweets, biscuits or sweet drinks?

Why we ask: The World Health Organization "recommends adults and children reduce their daily intake of free sugars to less than 10% of their total energy intake". Source: World Health Organization, 2015.

Here: Nothing we cook has added sugar.

9. How much of your child's day is spent moving: running, climbing, playing?

Why we ask: The World Health Organization's advice for children aged 3 and 4, each day: "Spend at least 180 minutes in a variety of types of physical activities at any intensity". Source: World Health Organization, 2019.

Here: The children do tai chi and yoga every day.

10. When your child plays, who is in the game?

Why we ask: A 2022 review of the research found that "Guided play had a greater positive effect than direct instruction on early maths skills". Source: Skene and others, 2022.

Here: Play is guided. A teacher plays alongside the children.

11. Has anyone ever shown your child how to become calm: how to breathe, how to be still?

Why we ask: The report of a trial with 68 preschool children opens: "Self-regulatory abilities are robust predictors of important outcomes across the life span, yet they are rarely taught explicitly in school." Source: Flook, Goldberg, Pinger and Davidson, 2015, Developmental Psychology.

Here: Every teacher is trained in mindfulness and self-regulation by Dr. Maruti Sharma himself: meditation, breathing, yoga, tai chi and qigong. A teacher guides the children's breathing and stillness practice.

12. Your child is asked to speak in front of a room. What happens?

Why we ask: Speaking is taught, not only picked up. Across 66 studies in the early years, "On average, children who are involved in communication and language approaches make seven months' additional progress over the course of a year." Source: Education Endowment Foundation, Early Years Toolkit, Communication and language approaches.

Here: Dr. Maruti Sharma trains Fortune Global 500 clients. He trains your child's teachers to speak. Listen to how they speak when you visit.

What you want for your child

13. When your child does something wrong, what do you find works best?

Why we ask: Researchers call it co-regulation. It "involves three types of caregiver support: a warm relationship, environmental structure, and skills instruction and coaching". Source: Rosanbalm and Murray, 2017.

Here: No one raises their voice at a child.

14. Picture your child at 25. What do you hope they learned first?

Why we ask: One study looked at children 13 to 19 years after kindergarten and found "statistically significant associations between measured social-emotional skills in kindergarten and key young adult outcomes". Source: Jones, Greenberg and Crowley, 2015.

Here: Our method, MARC, starts with three things: awareness, regulation and capacity.

15. When you compare schools, which report would tell you more about your child?

Why we ask: India's National Education Policy 2020 asks for a progress card that "reflects in great detail the progress as well as the uniqueness of each learner". Source: National Education Policy 2020, paragraph 4.35.

Here: There are no marks and no ranks. You meet your child's teacher every two weeks.

16. As you compare schools, how much do you want the school to involve you?

Why we ask: Across 94 studies in the early years, "On average, parental engagement programmes evaluated to date have led to a positive impact of five additional months' progress over the course of a year." Source: Education Endowment Foundation.

Here: There is a session for parents every month. Once a quarter, any family may book a private consultation with Dr. Maruti Sharma.

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Why we ask: "Our early experiences shape our brain architecture, which provides the foundation for all future learning, behavior, and health." Source: Center on the Developing Child, Harvard University.

Here: Each child has a plan of their own, and it changes as the child does.

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