India has one of the world's largest education systems, yet millions of children still learn through textbooks, blackboards, and memorisation. Everyone knows it has to change. Changing it in every classroom is the hard part.

In this episode of the EdVance Podcast, Smita Deorah, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of LEAD Group, shares how her organisation built one of India's largest integrated school learning systems, partnering with around 9,000 schools and serving over four million students across India.

She explains why standardisation is not the answer to scaling quality, why teacher education needs a complete rethink, what schools are getting wrong about AI, and the leadership principles that have shaped one of the world's largest school learning systems.

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Education is one of the only sectors where a failed product doesn't cost money. It costs a child a year of learning they never get back.

In this episode of the EdVance Podcast, Hernan Carranza, Chief Innovation Officer at Intercorp, shares how he helped grow Innova Schools into the largest K–12 private school network in Spanish-speaking Latin America, and what it took to innovate inside a sector with almost no margin for error.

He built an AI tool in-house for teachers and tested a new personalised learning model in a smaller market before scaling it, choosing small experiments over big rollouts at every step. Hernan explains why strategy can never be handed off to outside consultants.

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China has over 13 million students sitting for the Gaokao every year - a university entrance exam so competitive that a single score can shape a student's future. Behind China's world-leading academic results is a system where parents, teachers, and school leaders work together to ensure every child succeeds. But that success often comes with immense pressure.

In this episode of the EdVance Podcast, Shiny Wang, Vice Principal of Beijing No. 4 High School, International Campus, shares how one of China's most prestigious schools is rethinking what success means. From future-focused learning and cross-disciplinary innovation to projects built around real-world challenges, he explains how schools can prepare students not only for exams, but for life.

Shiny reveals what the world often misunderstands about Chinese classrooms, how schools and families partner to support student achievement, and why helping young people overcome perfectionism may be one of the most important responsibilities teachers have today.

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