Topic: "Communicating with parents in Covid-19 times"
Veteran of 3 educational start-ups – is now a Founder of Agarkar Centre of Excellence, Fatema’s passion for teaching-learning and children defines the different roles she has crafted – as an edupreneur, educator and mentor.
Fatema who is a State and University topper as part of the prestigious Mumbai based Sydenham College of Commerce & Economics, holds a degree of Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from Birmingham (UK), apart from her B.ED and ECCE degrees amassed when she decided education was her calling.
Fatema has been awarded by Giants Group for her outstanding contribution to the field of education in 2012, the Young Achiever’s Award in the year 2017, Singapore based, Best of Asia’s, ‘Enterprising Educator in the year 2018 and as an entrepreneur ‘Best Edupreneur 2019 and Best Leadership’ by Progressive Academic Excellence India (Maharashtra 2019), one of the 10th finest inspirational educators in 2019 by TKR, India, Learning Leaders of Tomorrow by the 7th World Training Development Congress 2020 and the latest being recognised as One of The Top 50 Educators Who Can Revive Indian Education by the Education World 2020. Donning all the skills of an adroit speaker, addresses by her during conferences and summit are not just informative and concrete but also eye-opening. Being a social entrepreneur and educationist, she never turned blind to the quotient of altruism rather she has a dream of setting up foster care centers on a pan-India basis to enable the less fortunate with physical disabilities to receive assistance and will be executing this, in times to come.
Fatema is on the Advisory Board of several Trusts and organisations including EduTech India, School Wizard, Wockhardt Foundation, Ray Foundation, Teachers Help Teachers as well as a jury member, Education World Awards, a platform that recognises the efforts of educators pan India. Fatema is also the Vice President for Early Childhood Association (ECA) and the Mumbai Territory Head for Association for Primary Education & Research (APER) in India.