While serving as consultant to SSA, Kerala, Anandan conceived an English proficiency development programme for classes 3, 4 and 5 deriving impetus from the practical models he had developed during the periods from 1995 to 2005. This was named as ACE 2006 and was launched in about 1200 schools covering 100 select Panchayats under the 100/100 initiatives of SSA Kerala. DOP was extended to include class 5 Hindi under the name Meetti Hindi. This too was launched in these schools with the support of grama panchayats. ACE was the first intervention in the state to institutionalize narratives and code-switching as pedagogic tools. The concept of an evolving textbook was retained in the ACE. The learner’s materials and the teacher support materials were evolved through a series of workshops organized under the academic leadership of Anandan.
The ACE 2006 model served as a tried out pedagogic model that gave guidelines to the designing of textbooks and handbooks that were produced as part of the curriculum revision that Kerala undertook in 2007 (cf. KCF 2007).