With a strength of several thousand teachers among its members, KSSP organises in-service teachers training to make them enjoy teaching; promotes pedagogic innovations to make learning an enjoyable activity for children; assesses curriculam and text books; organises massive children’s sceince festivals, teacher exchange programmes and talent festivals for children; publishes science journals and booksfor children and organises mass movement for quality improvement and mass literacy campaigns. KSSP played alead role in making Kerala totally literate. KSSP has established aseperate centre to do research and indepth studies in the field of education viz., Education Research Unit (ERU) with three campuses, at thiruvananthapuram, Thrissur and Kozhikkode.