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An international FLN conference in Lucknow focused on foundational literacy, numeracy and practical education system change.
The Global Learning Lab 2027 is a three-day FLN event in India. It brings ministers, researchers, implementers and funders into one room to move foundational literacy and numeracy from policy commitment to classroom practice. Explore the conference programme, ALfA pedagogy and Rapid Results Initiatives.
The Lab is anchored by ALfA — the pedagogy Dignity Education has taken from 20 to 30,000+ government schools at about US$4 per child — and it is open to every evidence-based approach to foundational literacy and numeracy. Structured pedagogy, Teaching at the Right Level, mother-tongue, community-led and EdTech programmes are invited to present their evidence alongside ours. The question the Lab asks is not which method wins. It is what each ministry, district and NGO can put into a classroom next term.
In India the Lab sits inside the NIPUN Bharat mission and the National Education Policy 2020 goal of universal foundational literacy and numeracy by Grade 3. Uttar Pradesh — 240 million people — is running one of the world's largest FLN accelerations, and delegates can step from a plenary into a live government classroom in the same week.
Global Learning Lab — known as GLL — is an international summit series on foundational literacy and numeracy, run as an initiative of Dignity Education and hosted by City Montessori School (CMS), Lucknow. Each edition brings policymakers, researchers, teachers and funders together to turn FLN policy into classroom practice.
GLL 2027 takes place 8–10 February 2027 in Lucknow, India. The short name "GLL" is used across the programme, the ALfA pedagogy work and the Rapid Research Initiative.
Dignity Education Vision International is an educational not-for-profit registered in India and the United States. It has spent two decades developing and testing the ALfA pedagogy and partners with governments, organisations and NGOs worldwide.
dignityeducation.orgThe Global Education & Training Institute (GETI) supports teachers and education leaders through pedagogical campaigns, school events, PATH classroom transformation and the annual Ed Leadership Roundtable. It is part of the wider education ecosystem around the Lab.
getilearn.orgCity Montessori School (CMS) is the world's largest school by number of pupils (Guinness World Record), the sole school recipient of the UNESCO Prize for Peace Education, and host of the International Conference of Chief Justices of the World. CMS has served as a laboratory for ALfA.
cmseducation.orgAn initiative of Dignity Education Vision International and Global Education & Training Institute.
Hosted by City Montessori School (CMS), Lucknow — the world's largest school by enrolment (Guinness World Record) and the only school to receive the UNESCO Prize for Peace Education.
Meet the Global Council of Sages, or write to lab@dignityeducation.org.
