More than 45,000 elementary school teachers in Himachal Pradesh are trained every year by Samagra Shiksha. Because of the large number of teachers, the government follows a cascaded model of training, delivered manually by master trainers. However, due to sheer scale and size, this in-person training can only be delivered just once a year. Therefore, the government designed a programme, which can provide provide relevant, quality training to teachers on an ongoing basis. To this end, Samagra Shiksha created a Refresher Training programme, in collaboration with The TeacherApp, an online app-based training platform. Under this programme, Samagra Shiksha conducted a needs assessment survey of teachers which directly fed into the monthly training calendar of these 45,000+ teachers. Customized content is created every month by TheTeacherApp for teachers, without them having to travel for training sessions. Through the app a variety of content is being delivered to teachers every month, in the form of courses, teaching learning materials and the option of interacting directly with experts. At present, over 42,000 teachers have the app on their mobile, enabling them to upskill themselves and teach better.

Khaas Shiksha is an initiative to reward and recognize teachers on a monthly basis for undertaking diverse, exceptional initiatives of their own accord to make students learn better. This is a nomination-based process to identify and give due credit to well-performing teachers and boost their morale. It also inspires other teachers to improve their teaching methods, adopt innovative practices to make the teaching process student-centric so that learning outcomes of children improve. Selected teachers receive a signed letter of appreciation from the Director of Elementary Education and their achievement is shared through social media and communication platforms such as WhatsApp.

The Samarth team working with the Department of Education, Government of Himachal Pradesh developed and rolled out three technology products that will significantly change the way the state's education system operates. Developed exclusively for the Department of Education, these tech products were built using open source platforms, thus making the government less reliant on tech vendors. In its own way, each of the three products bridges the information gap in the education system which has traditionally made timely corrective action difficult to carry out. The three products are 1) a dashboard providing multi-layered analysis of the annual state-level assessment results of more than 5 lakh students allowing stakeholders at state, district and cluster level to make data-backed decisions; 2) a parent-involvement platform through which a teacher can send regular SMS updates to parents about their child’s attendance, homework completion status, assessment results, and information regarding important events in the school, and 3) a mobile application to track monitoring and mentoring visits by over 3,000 officials to schools.