Kavita Anand believes that every single child is unique and deserves an environment that enables each of them to engage in learning from experience and caring for themselves, for others and for the planet. Her conviction comes from her own schooling experience in Delhi’s The Air Force School, Subroto Park. After graduating from Lady Shri Ram College, she moved to Mumbai for post graduation. Her 2 year stint teaching Psychology at Mumbai's prestigious Elphinstone College led to a lifetime of investigation into schools as a site for learning, as a researcher with pre primary teachers, studying how children in the pre primary learn and as the Education and Arts&Culture portfolios manager at the Sir Ratan Tata Trust, finding and supporting innovations across India. Her immersion in the field of education and the success of my own play school, Kidz@Play, let to more opportunities to set up schools, the first of which was the well known Shishuvan School in Wadala, Mumbai of which I was the founder Director for 13 years. For four decades now as an educator, researcher, funder, school and system leader, and now social entrepreneur, she has worked to enable ‘a good school for every child’. As Co-founder of Adhyayan Quality Education Services and Adhyayan Quality Education Foundation, she catalyses a learning community of educators and school leaders across India. Her two organisations enable more than 450 private schools and more than 5000 government schools across the country, to adopt stakeholder-inclusive self-review for evidence-based improvement in 11 languages, benefitting around 6 lakh students. Both organisations create the space for professional learning communities of teachers and school leaders. Over the last two decades, along with her husband and co-founder, Spokey Wheeler, she has provided my expertise to The Open University, UK’s programmes in India, Bangladesh and Zimbabwe. Spokey and she was an integral part of the international delivery team for the School Leadership Development Programme curriculum with the National College of Teaching and Leadership, Nottingham and the National University for Education, Planning and Administration, which trained over 7000 government school leaders across five States of India. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, UK. She is also an Ashoka Fellow and the recipient of the Somnath Parikh Best Teacher Award and the prestigious Qimpro Gold Standard (Education). She has presented research papers with rich insights based on Adhyayan’s data at national and international conferences. Her Ted Talk “Education without boxes” is well known. She lives in the UK for 6 months of the year in a cottage near Cambridge, waking up very early to work online in India. When in India she travels across the country on work. She enjoys music, movies, rambles and cooking.