The Learning Leader Residency · Vega Schools
Children learning together in a bright classroom

Before you change a classroom, you have to change the adult in it.

Learning Leader Residency

8-Month Certification in Active Learning Pedagogies

Not just how to teach.
Who you are when you teach.

* FOR SCHOOLS * FOR TEACHERS * FOR PARENTS * FOR ASPIRING TEACHERS
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EARN A CALT

Certificate in Active Learning & Teaching

EARN A CALT

Certificate in Active Learning & Teaching

Live Classroom Immersion

Theory meets practice inside real Vega classrooms, with real children, in real time.

Certified Facilitator Coaching

Participants learn alongside certified coaches trained in Cognitive Coaching and HighScope practices, who model the craft as they teach it.

Collaborative, Immersive Cohort Design

Participants move through every module as a cohort, reflecting, building, and solving together, the way strong teaching teams function.

Pedagogy in Practice (Lab School Model)

This isn’t teacher training. It’s a model school experience—a 360-degree immersion in how a real learning environment runs, end to end.

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CALT Certificate

CALT

Certificate in Active Learning & Teaching

A teacher residency, not a teacher training course

The science of how children learn is settled. It just lives in journals, far from the people who raise a child and the people who teach one.

So we built one programme for both. Residents don't study children in the abstract. They learn beside them, in live classrooms, guided by mentors and a coaching cycle instead of a final exam.

The result is a credential you can't cram for and can't buy: the Certified Learning Leader, earned across eight months in front of real children.

One programme. Three doors.

Whoever you are when you arrive, you leave fluent in how children actually learn.

Door 01

Nurture

For parents

Understand your child's development and build a home that grows curiosity, not compliance.

Door 02

Pivot

For career changers

Bring your expertise. Leave with pedagogy, classroom craft, and a credential earned inside a real school.

Door 03

Launchpad

For emerging educators

You hold the qualification but lack the classroom. Leave with a portfolio of real, documented practice.

The eight-month journey

From watching to leading.

The curriculum

We begin with the educator, not the curriculum.

Who you are determines what you see. What you see determines howyou teach.

Learn

The Science of Development

How children grow and construct understanding: developmental theory, the learning sciences, and disciplined observation.

Think

The Child's Mind at the Centre

Inquiry, projects, and problems designed around how a child reasons: PBL, PrBL, and the iLEAD cycle.

Become

The Inner Work of the Adult

Growth mindset, emotional regulation, and cognitive coaching. Who we must be before we teach.

Assessment & the credential

No exams. Real evidence.

The certificate carries weight precisely because it cannot be bought. It can only be demonstrated, over eight months, in front of children.

The Three Evaluation Gates

01

Attendance

90% mandatory attendance across theory and residency modules.

02

Observation

Evaluated as Proficient or Leading across all intensive observation cycles.

03

Capstone

A comprehensive final capstone lesson verified by executive faculty.

Students engaging with an educator inside an active Indian classroom setting
Students engaging with an educator inside an active Indian classroom setting
Learn the Vega Way

Strong programmes exist. None build the teacher from the classroom out.

Discover our comprehensive core pillars designed to empower modern educators through practical, real-world experience.

Founding Cohort · August 2026

Become the adult
a child learns from.

Applications open for across both Gurugram campuses. Limited Seats.

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