Sreehari Ravindranath

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Dr Sreehari Ravindranath is an education researcher working at the intersection of social and emotional learning, well-being, evidence use, and education policy in the Global Majority. He serves as the director for research and impact at Dream a Dream, where he leads large-scale research–policy collaborations that strengthen locally grounded evidence ecosystems. His work explores relational pedagogy and how evidence is interpreted and used within complex education systems.


Areas of expertise

Social and emotional learning (SEL) and well-being, mindset-informed educational systemic transformation, research-to-policy engagement and collaboration for evidence uptake, large-scale evaluation and evidence generation


Articles by Sreehari Ravindranath


a teacher looks on as a student writes on the blackboard--social and emotional learning

March 5, 2026
Social and emotional learning: The missing key to FLN
Classroom environments play a major role in how successful foundational literacy and numeracy (FLN) goals are. Here’s why.
A group of school boys hanging out-life skills

August 22, 2023
What is lacking in life skills assessments in India?
Understanding a community's context needs to be at the core of life skills interventions and assessments. Here's why.
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