Vishal Talreja

Reimaging Education towards Thriving

About

Meet Vishal Talreja

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Vishal is an Educator and Social Entrepreneur based in India. He co-founded Dream a Dream (www.dreamadream.org) along with 11 others in 1999. Vishal has authored multiple research papers, reports, white papers, policy briefs and articles on Education. He has also co-authored a book, ‘When We Thrive, Our World Thrives’ along with with Dr Connie K Chung and Dream a Dream staff and participants. He has also published a book of poems called, ‘My Soul Stirring’.

He also mentors and advises a host of emerging social entrepreneurs and changemakers while contributing to global education narratives through participation in various steering committees and working groups with the likes of WISE, G20, Catalyst 2030, HundrED, Big Change and OECD.

Writing

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Articles
Sep 26, 2022

THE FUTURE WE WANT FOR EDUCATION

By Joann Mcpike, Alex Battison, Eva Keiffenheim. Vishal Talreja, Franco Mosso Cobian
Articles
Sep 23, 2022

“SHAKE THE WORLD” FOR A YOUNG LEARNER-FOC...

By Alex Battison. Eva Keiffenheim, Joann Mcpike. Franco Mosso Cobian, Shane Szarkowski, Vishal Talreja
ARTICLES
Sep 13, 2022

WHY WE NEED A GLOBAL EDUCATION VISION

By JOANNE MCEACHEN, VISHAL TALREJA, DR. PILVI TORSTI
Articles
Aug 2, 2022

The happy classroom: Insights from our sc...

By Esther Care, Vishal Talreja, Aynur Gul Sahin, and Sreehari Ravindranath
Articles
Aug 2, 2022

The 4 Pillars of Delhi's School Education...

By Vishal Talreja, Suchetha Bhat (The Bastion)
Articles
Aug 1, 2022

#WhatIf we write a #NewEducationStory?

Publications

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Book
May 20, 2022
My Soul Stirring - A Book of Poems
Authors: Vishal Talreja
Abstract: My name is Vishal Talreja (https://vishaltalreja.com/). I am a Social Entrepreneur and cofounder of a non-profit in Bangalore called Dream a Dream (https://dreamadream.org/). Over the last two decades, my life experiences and work has brought me to see many of life’s dualities, conflicts and challenges and I have found poetry to make meaning of my own emotions. My poems capture my own struggles with the challenges I see around us and reflections of my o...
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Research
Jun 13, 2022
Effectiveness of Life Skills Intervention for Children From Disadva...
Authors: Sreehari Ravindranath, Annie Jacob, Suchetha Bhat, Vishal Talreja
Abstract: The present study examines the effectiveness of an After-School Life Skills (ASLS) intervention to improve the life skills of 110 students from socially disadvantaged backgrounds at public schools of urban Bangalore in south India. These students completed ASLS intervention from 2014 to 2018 during which the life skills were assessed on a yearly interval and the data were analyzed using repeated measure ANOVA. The results show that ASLS intervention sig...

MEDIA

Video
Dec 19, 2022
Book Meet - When We Thrive,...
Life And More Plus
Video
Jan 28, 2011
Story of a Volunteer turned...
Ashoka India
Video
Aug 9, 2021
Leadership Conversations wi...
GoBarefoot

EVENTS

Catch Vishal live!

Apr
15
2020

KEYNOTE - EDUCATION DISRUPTED, EDUCATION REIMAGINED

WISE & Salzburg Global Seminar
11:30 IST
Oct
9
2020

THE HAPPINESS CURRICULUM - REIMAGINING EDUCATION TOWARDS WELLBEING: A DELHI GOVERNMENT INITIATIVE

InspirED2020 | Teach For India – Firki

Online

16:30 IST
Nov
5
2020

QUALITY EDUCATION FOR ALL: WHAT IF THE EDUCATION REVOLUTION COMES FROM THE MOST CHALLENGING LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS?

Panel Discussion- HundrED 2020 Innovation Summit

Online

18:30 IST