In 2012, the Shiv Nadar Foundation made its foray into K12 urban private school education with a singular purpose – to breach and surpass the existing benchmarks in education, and bring the finest learning experiences to students. Swimming against the tide of conventional rote/textbook practices, we began with a handful of students and teachers in two schools (Noida and Gurgaon), and a carefully designed intent to be a space where holistic development was the norm, where lifelong learning was the ultimate goal, and where, through progressive, personalized learning methods, the student was the centre of all endeavours.