Meet Indu Singh
Indu Chugani Singh is the founder and principal consultant of Door 21 Consulting, LLC. She has served public and independent schools for more than twenty years as an educator, teacher leader, school administrator and leadership coach.
As a consultant, Indu designs growth and evaluation systems that meaningfully impact both faculty and student learning. She facilitates workshops for teachers and leadership teams, coaches a wide range of school leadership roles, and conducts curriculum audits and reviews. Through deliberate collaboration, commitment and flexibility, she enjoys the challenge of meeting the complex needs of each of her clients.
Prior to consulting, Indu served as the inaugural dean of teaching and learning at Milton Academy (MA), where she led professional learning for upper school faculty. While at Milton, Indu researched, designed and collaborated across multiple stakeholders to lead a comprehensive program for individual and collective faculty growth. Most notably, Indu championed the importance of cross-departmental collaboration, observation, and peer-to peer learning, creating a robust and cohesive culture of teaching and learning in the upper school.
Indu has also supported public school leaders as a consulting leadership coach with Lynch Leadership Academy of Boston College. She collaborated with district level leaders to identify professional development needs for principals, assistant principals and department chairs, whom Indu coached in multiple districts across the commonwealth of Massachusetts.
At every stage of her career, Indu has experienced first-hand the power of transformative adult learning on her own teaching and leadership. She has worked as a faculty associate at the Institute for Writing and Thinking at Bard College and at the Independent School Teaching Residency (ISTR) at the Penn Graduate School of Education. At the Harvard Graduate School of Education, she received training at Project Zero, the Instructional Rounds Institute, the Power of Teacher Teams and the Future of Learning.
Indu currently serves on the board of the Association of Independent Schools in New England (AISNE) and continues to contribute to the Independent School Teaching Residency (ISTR) at the Penn Graduation School of Education as an adjunct instructor.
Indu began her career teaching English at Centennial High School (GA), Phillips Exeter Academy (NH) and the Winsor School (MA), where she cultivated her passion and skills for leading teacher learning. She now resides outside of Boston with her husband and son, with whom she also shares her love for learning, growing, and finding our best selves in a complicated world.