Ms. Zakiya Kurrien has been a teacher and teacher educator both in India and abroad. She co-founded Centre for Learning Resources in 1984. Her professional work over 4 decades spans multiple areas in the development and education of marginalised children. As Co-director of CLR for almost 3 decades, she designed interventions and capacity-building programmes, and authored a wide range of materials for Early Holistic Child Care, Early Childhood Education, Foundational Literacy and Numeracy and the Teaching of English in multilingual contexts. The strengthening of teachers’ domain knowledge and developmentally appropriate pedagogy remains a strong focus in her work. She has served on national and state- level committees related to educational policy and provided consultancy to international organisations and Indian NGOs. Recently she has served on the National ECCE Task Force.