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Katha 300M

300 million children.
One movement to teach differently.

Katha teachers use stories to teach children to think, question, and read with confidence. They have done this for 36 years, in classrooms across India. The 300M Alliance takes it further — to every school, every state, every child who deserves better.

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10.4M+
children impacted
36 yrs
of StoryPedagogy
The reality
Half of India's school children read below grade level.

300 million children go to school in India. About 150 million cannot read with understanding — despite years in a classroom.

Most classrooms run on the same method: copy, memorise, reproduce. Children learn to answer questions. They do not learn to think.

The books exist. The teachers exist. What changes the classroom is how the teacher teaches — and that is what the 300M Alliance works on.

StoryPedagogy®

A Katha classroom looks different — and produces different results.

Katha Lab School has run on StoryPedagogy® since 1988. The method works in government schools, budget schools, and community learning spaces. Attendance rises. Reading improves. Children come back.

Most classrooms
[Photo: child copying from board, silent]

Copy, answer, move on

The teacher speaks. Children write. The lesson ends. Whether anything was understood — or felt — rarely enters the picture.

A Katha classroom
[Photo: children in active discussion, mid-expression]

A story opens. The class takes over.

The teacher reads a story, asks one question, and steps back. Children argue, change their minds, ask better questions. TADAA — Think, Ask, Discuss, Act, Achieve — in motion.

What stays
[Photo: child reading independently, confident]

A child who reads for meaning

Children trained in StoryPedagogy® read independently. They read books about Gender, Earth, Equity, Kindness — and they act on what they read. That is a Reader-Leader.

NEP 2020 and NCF 2022 describe this classroom. Katha has run it for 36 years. Read how →
Where to begin

Who comes to learn.katha.org

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Teachers

teach.katha.org has StoryPedagogy® courses in Hindi, Tamil, Kannada, English and seven more languages. Katha has open-sourced 36 years of classroom learning — because every teacher in India deserves access to what works. Used by 15,000+ teachers across India. KHELTE, the teachers' forum, runs alongside every course.

Go to teach.katha.org
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Schools and NGOs

The 300M Alliance connects schools, NGOs, and community organisations across 22 states. Partners get access to Katha's training, materials, and mentor network. Joining costs nothing. Leaving the classroom the same costs more.

About the 300M Alliance
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Funders and CSR partners

10.4 million children reached. 17,000 teachers trained. 22 states. The model is documented, the outcomes are measured, and the alignment with NEP 2020 is direct. The brief is one page. The conversation can start today.

See the impact
On teach.katha.org

How teachers begin.

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Pick a course in your language

teach.katha.org has courses in Hindi, Tamil, Kannada, English, Assamese, Marathi, Odiya, Bangla, Urdu, and Telugu. Self-paced. No installation. Works on a phone.

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Take one idea into Monday's class

Every course gives ready lesson flows — a story, a question, a discussion structure. Teachers use what they get the same week they learn it. The course is designed for that.

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Talk to other teachers in KHELTE

KHELTE is the teachers' own forum on teach.katha.org. Teachers ask questions, share what worked, and push back on what didn't. 15,000+ members. The conversation runs daily.

Go to teach.katha.org →
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From a Katha classroom
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My children used to sit and copy whatever I wrote on the board. After six months with StoryPedagogy, they argue about the characters. Last week, a child told me I was wrong about the story. She was right.

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Every child a Reader-Leader.

Katha books in 10 Indian languages — stories that children reach for
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