Poorva Agarwal
Founder & Director, Institute of Applied Language Arts (IALA)
Poorva Agarwal is a literacy educator, writer, and curriculum designer with over a decade of experience in foundational literacy and language pedagogy. Her work spans classroom teaching, teacher training, curriculum development, and reflective writing facilitation across diverse educational contexts.
With a Master’s degree in Education and focus on Literacy and Social Science Pedagogy, she has worked extensively at both the grassroots and systemic levels — supporting teachers in instructional practice while designing language-learning frameworks rooted in real classroom realities. Her approach to applied language arts integrates expressive writing, reflective inquiry, and structured pedagogy, positioning language as a tool for self-understanding, articulation, and educational depth.
Alongside her work in literacy education, Poorva is the author of children’s books and a long-standing practitioner of reflective and narrative writing. She has designed and facilitated writing circles, teacher capacity-building programs, and literacy workshops that foreground clarity of expression, narrative agency, and thoughtful engagement with language.
Through the Institute of Applied Language Arts, she seeks to build structured programs that connect writing with lived experience, literacy with pedagogical rigor, and reflection with meaningful educational practice.