In its bid to strengthen bilingual schools, the Directorate of State Educational Research and Training (DSERT) initiated a one-year state-level workshop with the Regional English Institute of South India (RIESI).The workshop focused on strengthening the implementation of bilingual education in government schools by equipping district resource team members with the necessary knowledge and skills to support teachers in this field. The sessions covered sharing experiences and addressing classroom challenges, core assessment, teaching English through textbook-based pedagogy, effective teacher talk and language in the classroom and familiarization with English, SVE, Mathematics and Kannada textbooks with special emphasis on identifying difficult learning areas and classroom strategies.The workshop marks the beginning of a one-year hands-on program for bilingual schools of the Department of School Education and Literacy, Government of Karnataka. After the state-level workshops, the trained district resource teams will conduct district-level workshops for Master Resource Persons (MRPs), who will then conduct cluster-level workshops for teachers. Together, DRTs and MRPs will implement a comprehensive year-long academic support program for around 65,000 teachers across Karnataka from July 2026 to March 2027 through face-to-face workshops, regular online follow-up sessions, classroom tutoring and ongoing academic support to strengthen bilingual teaching-learning practices in schools.Around 389 DRTs were trained on 21-21, 22 and 23 July 2026.