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Network & Advocacy
In this age of globalization, sharing of knowledge and technology has become essential and inevitable. Otherwise on individual or an organization becomes incompetent and dormant. Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences shares its education strategy with other schools through the education watch programme that networks schools across the country.
It proposes to undertake the following activities in the coming years.
Emerging rights based issues like “Education for tribal Children” will be addressed
through workshops at different level.
Training, advocacy, research and consultancy
Conventions and knowledge fairs with children
Education Watch
KISS shares its experience and knowledge with other NGO’s and GO’s working in similar areas. The organization facilitates the spread of its core competencies for the greater benefit of a large number of people. It aims at ensuring better management of programs that leads to a sustainable process of development of a large geographical area.
Extra Curricular Activities
Weekend Entertainment
Children go out of their classrooms in every weekend for a sight seeing to nearby places to enrich their knowledge.
Special classes
Specialization Classes inspires and encourages the children to express themselves freely. The plethora of activities provides unlimited opportunities to the children to explore their areas of interest. Intensive coaching is available through ‘specialization classes’ that can identity the aptitudes of the students to excel in their chosen discipline.
Sports
Separate play facilities and experienced trainers are available for outdoor games like Rugby, cricket, football, tennis, basketball, volleyball, kho-kho and badminton. Similar facilities are also extended to indoor games such as table tennis, carom, chess, etc.
Physical Exercise
School provides Gym for physical fitness to all the sports students with special diet in the morning and evening time.
Personality Development
Students compete in areas of self expression such as debates, quiz, elocution, mono-acting, science talk, essay writing, poetry recitation, ‘antakshari’, dumb charades, mock interview, bravery test, etc. for development of their personality.
Meditation Vedic Recitation and Yoga
Meditation and Vedic Recitation is done by the students in every evening and that emanates positive vibrations and activates the memory cells of the individual. Meditation helps in improving the powers of concentration and provides an opportunity for introspection.
Music
Besides the above, the students in KISS are also trained on music and yoga. Trained and experienced teachers have been assigned to teach yoga for development of the mind and body. Yoga helps in improving the powers of concentration and in relieves stress from mind and body. Music also provides entertainment and is a great source of enjoyment in the tribal world. Therefore, students find this class extremely fascinating and it is also found that, in the music there is ample of talent among the students.
Seminar
Seminar on farm and non-farm activities are organized in the school campus to upgrade the knowledge of students on different vocational activities.
Learner’s Park
The proposed learner’s park in the school will be an added attraction for its inmates and outsiders. The park will showcase various tribal heritage in the form of models,  replicating the village lifestyle of the tribal communities like the Bonda, Paraja and Juanga villages with respective tribal handicrafts, artifacts, herbarium of medical plants and other things unique to the tribal culture. ‘A home away from home’ will find a true expression in the proposed park.
Guardian Meet
Education demands the improvement of students and seeks strong parental cooperation. The school has arranges parents/guardians and teachers meeting in series to provide ample opportunity to interact freely and exchange views, opinions and suggestions for the improvement in the teaching-learning process of the school. Besides this, these meeting serve as good platforms for teachers and management members of the school to convince parents/guardians on the value of education, about the future perspective of the school and motivate parents/guardians to admit their children into the same.
Picnic, Excursion & other Entertainments
The school has always attached a lot of significance to exposure visits of the students. Picnic, excursions are the refreshment programmes which give freshness in the mind and body. The visits are intended to act as refreshment from the day to day classes in school and are an extension of the learning process that is based on their individual experience in the visit. It helps to understand the facts and figures those are normally not discussed in the classes. The students also tend to have an idea about the geography and the overall environment of the place. These exposure visits go a long way in enhancing the knowledge and skills of an individual.
Entertainment in the campus includes film shows on different educational programmes and subjects relating to national geography and cultural programmes those are held in the previous years of the school.
The School Day
The school has initiated a move to use ‘Child Book ’ for assessment of the child’s progress in the school. Largely, it is a monitoring tool and this card contains several information relating to the child.
 The card contains all personal information of the child, his/her family members, hobbies, preferences, future plans, observations of mentor, vocational activities, assistance, health support and capacity building support etc. This card is a complete database of the child and it is designed to fulfill the larger goals. It also helps in the selection of a course for higher education, career or profession.
Novel Features
- KISS us purely a residential tribal school, which houses about 7000 students and 375 teaching and non-teachibng staff.
- The school observes important occasions like Republic Day, Independence Day , Teachers’ Day, Saraswati Puja, Ganesh Puja, Holi & Diwali.
- Every year the Annual function provides a wide variety of colourful cultural programme presented by the students.
- The schools provides intercom facility in hostels, dispensary and offices to expedite matters.
- The school provides neat and clean toilets for boys and girls separately. 24 hours water and electricity supply facilities have been ensured in the campus.
- Mass physical exercise is held every Saturday morning from 7 am to 9 am.
- Every Sunday the school allows parents and guardians to meet their children from 10 am to 2 pm in the school premises.
- The school publishes wall magazines that contains the children’s write up, and other education related information.
- Students have close affinity with each other in the campus and extend a sense of fellow feeling which can be reflected by the activities like a hair cutting among boys and braiding among the girls.
Unique Features
Mentoring
As the students are largely  drawn from the various tribal communities the school has adopted innovative mechanisms to include them into the fold of kinship and fraternity by mentoring. Every tribal child has a distinct cultural affinity and it is therefore imperative for everyone to share one’s heritage and cultural values among her/his new friends in the school. This helps the integration of different identities in their new home at KISS and helps in the blossoming of new found kinship and friendship in the school campus. There by relegating nostalgia, apprehension and isolation within the new surrounding. This wonderful exercise has gone a long way in changing the tribal perspective to education in a new environment away from their homeland.
Living with Nature
The concept of living with nature manifests  itself in the premises of KISS. Each child has adopted a tree. The tree bears the name of the child. Gradually the child begins to take care of the tree with a great deal of love and care. He/She understands that the tree needs nurturing and is likely to fall ill if due care is not taken. The theory links the state of child health with that of the tree and a special bondage is created. The tribal child establishes the bond faster because of his roots in the forested tribal land.
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