Children holding hands in a wide circle on the college lawn, palm trees behind them.

A child climbing through the red bars of the climbing dome on the grass.

Kadam is nurturing compassionate, courageous and capable children with real-world skills and a socially purposeful mindset.

We do this through a strictly held ratio of three adults to thirty children, a flexible curriculum rooted in Integral Education and anchored by facilitators, and project-based learning so children engage with their own context. We started small with pre-primary and aim to become, in time, a school up to Class 12 that turns out adults rooted in values, with real skills and a passion to create a beautiful world.

Our pedagogy

Skills, worked through projects, across the physical, the mental and the emotional. All three at once, every day.

Our name says it. क से काया, द से दिमाग, म से मन. Body, mind and heart.

काया · Physical

The vessel of thought, intent and action.

Running, hanging, jumping, balancing, catching and throwing, and the small movements: threading, cutting, buttoning a shirt. Every day starts with an hour of it.

दिमाग · Mental

The root of all innovation and all destruction.

Memory, understanding, thinking, creativity, language and numbers. It starts with what is this? and grows into what can I do with it?

मन · Emotional

How a child is with themselves, with others, and with the world around them.

Helping, sharing, waiting for a turn, looking after things, saying how you feel, minding how a friend feels. The three circles of the day live here.

Six children kneeling on the coloured mat, arranging leaves they have collected on brown trays. — The leaves, carried in from under the Ashok trees and laid out on the mat.

None of it is taught as a subject in a period. A skill is worked through a project, and the project has all three in it at once. The leaf hunt in July was a maths lesson about big and small. It was also thirty children moving their bodies for an hour, and also a child noticing that a friend had not found a small leaf yet.

The symbol arrives when a child has met the need for it. That holds across every block of every day.

How learning works here

Children and two adults digging in the sandpit under a tree.

A morning here

Children start arriving by half past eight, and we officially start at nine. Every day starts with an hour of physical activity, then a fruit break, a learning block, lunch in a circle, another learning block, and a closing circle where the children talk about the day.

जब भी सेण्डपिट के पास जाता है तो वहाँ अशोक के पेड़ पर लटकने के लिये बोलता है- “दीदी, इस प लटका दो”।

A facilitator's note in one child's progress report, Nursery, 2025–26. Every time he gets near the sandpit he asks to be hung from the Ashoka tree.

The whole day, and why each part is there

The people

Aditya Jain, crouching on a rooftop with hills behind him.

Bismay Ranjan Pradhan, standing at a railing beside a field.

Sunita, bending over the flooded paddy field with a rice seedling in her hand, smiling.

Ruby, standing in the classroom in front of the children's paper work on the wall.

Gulafsha Naaz, seated at a desk in the office.

Sakshi, writing in a notebook in the classroom, the children's work on the wall behind her.

Three of them live on the campus. Who they are, the Friends of Kadam, and the three Elders we go to

Children and parents in a loose circle on the college ground on a foggy winter morning, palm trees fading into the fog. — The college ground in the winter fog.

Since 2004

Babu Kamta Prasad Jain Mahavidyalaya has run a college on this land since 2004. Kadam's classes run inside its building. The ground behind it is where the school will be built, from 2027, from its own earth, around a kund that fills in the monsoon.

The land, and what is coming when

Three doors

Teach here

Join the collective exploration of nurturing a capable, compassionate and courageous generation. We recommend a minimum of two years of commitment, for anything to make sense.

What we ask, and what is provided

Come and see

Words fail to communicate the essence and the joy sparked on this campus. We welcome anyone who wishes to explore the Kadam way to schedule a visit. WhatsApp 9997900345.

Where we are

Support this

We take in a significant number of children from EWS families, because diversity is part of our pedagogy. Your contribution can help us reach more children. More details coming soon.

A wall in the classroom covered with photographs of the children and their drawings. — The photo wall in the classroom.

The newest note from school

3 July 2026

Teenagers summer camp 2026

Ten days. A horse built from cardboard, jute and bamboo. A mural that is still on the wall. Children who would not speak in front of a group and ended up on stage. And one line we heard more than any other: can we stay a little longer?

All notes from school