School Group

School Group’s core features:

Peer-to-Peer Learning
In peer-to-peer learning, we connect students from schools in two different countries together. These students learn from each other by working collaboratively on a project throughout the semester under the supervision of teachers assigned by the schools. Peer-to-peer learning also helps students in cultures where hierarchical structures are strong and students feel discouraged to question their teachers. The interaction with peers gives them more freedom to explore topics of interest. This will also give students the opportunity to understand and experience each other's cultures and open a new door as they gain a global perspective.


Skills Development
School Group does not want to challenge the existing curriculum of any country or school. We respect and understand the role that governments have on the educational system of a nation. School Group’s goal is to offer courses outside of the students’ regular curriculum and to enable students and teachers to develop skills that may not be adequately addressed by the traditional curriculum. The collaborative course offered by School Group will be like an extracurricular activity or elective course.


Artificial Intelligence
School administrators and teachers will fill out surveys provided by School Group’s country coordinators. The data gathered from the surveys will be processed and the information will be used to rank schools utilizing artificial intelligence. This process will be conducted to match schools that will participate in collaborative projects. The use of artificial intelligence is important to continuously optimize how schools are ranked and matched. It also optimizes how resources are distributed since different schools will have varying levels of infrastructure and capabilities. For example: by matching two schools that have good laboratories for a biology project, students from both schools will be able to perform experiments, investigate and do research for their collaboration project.

School Collaboration
Schools can collaborate on three levels: equal, one up and one down. For example, if a school gets a 6th ranking, it can either collaborate with other 6th ranking schools or 7th ranking schools or 5th ranking schools. The system will be designed to eliminate the other level ranking schools from their list. The reason for enabling collaboration to equally-ranked schools is that when equal level schools collaborate, the chances of getting good results is high. We cannot allow one school which is ranked low because it does not have good English courses, like in a village of Nepal (ranked as low as 09 as compared to the schools in the USA where English is at the highest level as 02). This will provide no benefits. So we want collaboration on the same level, where students from both schools understand the English language.
The other benefit of ranking schools is that it gives us insight into what the school needs and what can be improved in order to achieve a better ranking. For example, if the school has a lower ranking because it does not have a good library, then SG will collect used books from partnering schools and send them to the most needy schools using Amazon Smile (our IT partner) for a low price. This will not only help build a library and improve rankings, but allow the school to collaborate with other schools. If one school has a low ranking because it does not have a good and practical lab, then SG will collaborate with other schools and buy lab equipment and send the equipment to the most needy schools, so that they can improve their ranking. Further, SG expert teachers will give training to teachers in other countries via courses designed especially for teachers. Once they complete these courses, they will officially be SG teachers and qualified to run the program in their school.

School Group will open branches in each country. These branches will be registered under local government laws and follow all local and international rules and regulations. The branch will be connected with the continent branch and function as per rules of the SG bylaws.

The primary objective of the branch will be to help local country schools to participate in SG projects and to help schools when they have any kind of issue. They will be the front line mission developer for SG in local countries. Since they will be the part of SGnetwork, any time help is needed (financial as compensation for teachers while running the projects or building infrastructure to schools), it will be provided by the SG local team. The local branch will develop country reports each year and submit them to the international office. These reports will have all of the details about the project.

eLearning module
School Group promotes peer learning. Our courses are designed to give students the collaborative experience that is lacking in traditional education systems. We also pay attention to students with intellectual disabilities, who will be guided and monitored by experts who will ensure equal opportunities for those individuals.

We have been developing our method since 2014. Our team has been doing constant global educational research and has visited over 1000 schools in 30 countries to develop School Group’s method. This concept has also been shaped by the advice of expert teachers around the world.