Teachers as Learners
On 11 May, Raya opened its professional development series with Sugata Mitra — the "Hole in the Wall" researcher whose work shaped *Slumdog Millionaire* — and threw the doors open to teachers from other schools too.
The School Starts the Year by Teaching Its Teachers
Raya's PD series opened on 11 May with Sugata Mitra. His "Hole in the Wall" experiments - a computer embedded in a slum wall, and children who taught themselves to use it - reshaped how a generation thinks about self-directed learning, and inspired the story behind Slumdog Millionaire. He walked Raya's teachers through Self-Organised Learning Environments and where generative AI actually fits in a classroom.
The session wasn't kept in-house. Raya invited educators from other schools to sit in. A school two years old has no reason to hoard a speaker like this.
A library, opened the same week
Mitra also inaugurated the PYP library: 2,000-plus curated books, built for inquiry rather than silent rows - a room that doubles as a reading space for students and a working library for teachers.
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