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Dr Vasanthi Vasudev – A Profile

Founder Director - Osmosys® Learning Products and Services- Chennai

Dr Vasanthi Vasudev is an educationist of long-standing repute. Spanning a long career of over 40  years in India and overseas, Dr Vasanthi has acquired multi-dimensional experience in K-12 education:

  • School Management – Principal-ship
  • Mentoring and developing School Leaders & Principals 
  • Teaching, Teacher Development Training & Training products development
  • Educational Products & Authoring Academic Books 
  • Fiction writing – Children’s Literature  
  • New generation Pedagogies & ‘Learning’ Specialization
  • Academic Quality Systems – development and audit
  • Institutional Design, Development and Improvement 
  • Designing and Implementing Education Research Projects
  • Student Counselling – brain-based profiling, personalized learning design and career counselling

    Dr Vasanthi’s brainchild, Osmosys Learning Products and Services is a pioneering venture in the field of education consultancy that provides complete learning solutions to individuals and organisations. Since its inception in 2004, Osmosys® has done substantial work on school design and in the setting of up schools; it has provided consultancy for reputed schools on institutional design, curriculum development and psycho-pedagogy, and has provided numerous professional development workshops for teachers. It has also developed learning materials in path-breaking pedagogies. Significant accomplishments to date are:

  • Osmosys® has worked with more than 500 schools and trained more than 30000 teachers across the length and breadth of the country, from Ladakh-Leh to the Kanya Kumari and from Nagaland to Gujarat on new generation pedagogies and differentiated teaching 
  • Osmosys® has developed over 100 books for Pearson Education, and designed specialized learning products for Aloha India.
  • Dr Vasanthi has authored a leading and very popular English Language Teaching Series called  Images- the current revised edition being called New Images Next.  The series has been in the market since 2008 and continues to be revised and greatly sought after in schools in India and the gulf regions. Images. which upon revision became New Images, has sold over7 a million copies in the last 13 years and another ELT series Magic Strokes has just hit the market.  
  • Osmosys has designed and set up a Multiple Intelligence Lab in the Chennai Corporation schools 
  • Dr Vasanthi co-founded, designed and led the academic core of APL Global School as Academic Director from its inception in 2008 until 2011 she incubated and developed a leading international school in Chennai. Osmosys®’s research strength and rich experience translated into APL Global School’s much acclaimed Instructional Design, Curriculum Delivery and Assessment Patterns, Student Monitoring & Reporting Systems and Teacher Training practices and the school’s unique pedagogy has been widely acclaimed and acknowledged. 
  • Dr Vasanthi trained and coached leaders of 30 plus MSB Dawit- e- Hadiyah schools across India and in the Gulf to lead and manage schools and hundreds of its teachers to develop and modernize them along the 21st-century pedagogies and Quality.

Education

  • Gold Medalist both in MA & in Masters in Education 
  • PhD in International Relations from JNU in collaboration with Nagpur University 
  • Masters in History and Political Science from Nagpur University 
  • Masters in Education from Madras University 

Significant Achievements

  • Best CBSE School and Best Principal Awards as Principal- Sivaswami Kalalaya Senior Sec School Chennai
  • Subject Expert – Social Science – CBSE 1996-2000.  Has moderated and set examination papers for CBSE
  • Designed and developed many schools and their curricula.
  • Co-Founder and Academic Director of APL Global School – Chennai 
  • Author – ELT series –New Images Next– and ELT series Magic Strokes for Pearson (Longman) India Pvt Ltd.  Vasanthi has authored over 100 individual books in the last 13 years and is a much-feted author of textbooks in the K-12 segment.
  • Lead auditor for ISO 2000 certification and sets up Quality Management systems for schools.
  • Secretary Rotary Club of Madras 
  • Published articles on education and poems in leading journals and newspapers 
  • A published anthology of poems: Suspended Animation- July 2020
  • Published stores for children in the academic book – New Images Next for Pearson Longman
  • Has a poetry website: www.versesbyvasanthi.com which hosts her large collection of poems on varied topics and moods

    Programmes Offered since 2022

    Mentoring of school leaders in  Holistic school development; in building a Quality based institution with enhanced performance, on modern pedagogies and technology integration.
    Longitudinal programmes for teachers and Heads of departments on modern child-friendly- brain-based pedagogies and student performance optimization based on differentiated teaching
    Motivational programmes for teachers on making a difference and inspiring learners
    Specific customized programmes based on the unique needs of an institution.